My main concern is the long-term cost of compute and storage. These instances aren't going to be free, and hopefully we can build a funding model that works.
Originally it was "Reddit Gold" -- you could pay $30 a year to get all the benefits of Gold membership, without waiting for somebody to award you Gold.
At some point they renamed it to Premium, but they didn't raise the price for existing subscribers. I've got 13 years on Reddit & I've been paying for Gold/Premium since nearly the moment it was announced.
I had my first attempt at a relationship scammer on Mastodon. Exchanged some banal chat about science streams on Twitch, then she (if she was a she) dropped the "I'd like to get to know you better, let's take this to telegram or email".
Sure thing. I'm a 53 year old married father of two, I'm sure I'm a real catch
Yeah, I was never a fan of Scrubs, but several years into the show I heard Lazlo Bane's "Superman" in the show titles and I was like... huh, they got that from MP3.com? Turns out Zach Braff was friends with the band members.
I still have lots of MP3.com stuff in my music archive, including folks who never made the transition to Youtube and pretty much don't exist on the Internet at all anymore.
And there's no reason urban and rural schools need to run on exactly the same schedule. Urban districts have been experimenting with things like year-round school for decades.
Well, you assess knowledge by using simplified electronic quizzes to take the busy work out of it, then dive into the "show your work" for those students who are struggling. And students who have mastered the material can work with those who are struggling and serve as a force multiplier. Tutoring others makes them even better students, and those tutored will have more 1:1 time than they could possibly get with a teacher.
Khan Academy has been working with schools in the Bay Area for more than a decade and the results are pretty astounding. Salman Khan's TED Talk in 2011 is an exciting glimpse of the possible, and by all accounts those who use Khan Academy software and methods are reaping the benefits.
So, I was in my 30s when O'Connor did her thing on SNL, and I definitely remember the context being discussed here in the US. There was a (brief) national conversation at the time about why she would do this, and a fair amount of attention on the 19th and early 20th century abuses by the church's schools and workhouses, where "women of questionable virtue" were held against their will and forced into labor. When O'Connor was interviewed about it, she talked about the abuse of women and girls.
I do agree that what the church calls "the crisis" -- the revelation that active pedophiles had been using their positions in the church to cover up their extensive crimes -- was not well known until the 2000s.
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