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Someone on Facebook (redacted for privacy) writes this about the Canvas Shinyhunters hack:
"I know the Canvas ransomware attack is terribly inconvenient for many people, and sorry if that means you. I, however, am finding it farcically amusing.
For years and years faculty have been pushed to use Canvas. All courses get a homogenized and flattened interface and everything is presented as an easy consumer experience in a one-stop shop and it doesn’t matter if you object to any of that or don’t want to spend 50 hours dealing with an annoying tech product that doesn’t fit your pedagogy. Even communicating with students has been shunted through Canvas. And if you resist any of this, woe betide you. In fact you can’t print syllabi any more even if you wanted to—unless you pay for your own paper, ink, and printer (which I do).
Now Canvas has been taken down by ransomware, tomorrow is the last day of finals week, and YOU are supposed to scramble and solve this problem, using magic. That includes adjuncts who are not even paid a livable wage and faculty who might have hundreds of students.
This is a failure of a tech platform that was forced on us, and the university administrations nationwide who expect you to move heaven and earth are the same ones who are actively undermining their own institutions’ degrees by leaping into bed with AI companies before they even get their pants all the way off. These administrations (and this includes almost all of them) are not *ignoring* the destruction of education and academic integrity by AI—they are actively participating in it by forcibly inserting AI into student life, university email systems, etc. They are literally giving students software designed for cheating and cognitive dependency for free and applauding its use. And they think you are supposed to materialize a magical solution to this Canvas mess to ensure grades are in? Like between dinner and breakfast you are supposed to recreate everything you had to put in Camvas for an entire semester in some nonexistent other platform?
We just got an email telling us to “communicate directly with your students via email or other available tools for any immediate course needs.” How? Also, we should “Consider alternate methods of submitting assignments digitally or completing assignments in person on Friday” LOL what? So, individual faculty member, grab some No-Doz from the truck stop because in the next 12 hours or so, you must materialize a way for your students to take an online exam! Hope you own a server! Oh also you will have to rewrite the exam because you wrote it in Canvas and you don’t even have the questions anymore! Or just tell the students show up on campus tomorrow for an in-person exam—I hope you brought your personal printer!—and I hope nobody else scheduled anything at the same time, with no coordination! Then sit back and listen to the students tell you they already went home to Wyoming or Guam two days ago.
This is ludicrous. It is a problem created by overpaid administrators who have never had an idea that wasn’t sold to them by a software company and who now expect you to abracadabra a solution even as they are pushing chatbot accounts onto the same students so they can learn as little as possible through the degree.
Think about it this way: thousands of US colleges and universities with millions of students are paralyzed by this Canvas takedown. That means that the presentation of course material has been homogenized at thousands of universities for millions of students, all by U administrators whose inflated salaries are rationalized by their “leadership” skills despite doggedly insisting on doing everything like everyone else does. And they think the solution to a problem of this scale is for alll the individual instructors involved—some of whom they don’t even provide offices or computers!—to literally overnight recreate 16 weeks of records, rewrite assignments, contact dozens or hundreds of students, and set up on-the-fly alternative examinations. It’s stunning, really. Their judgment about AI is just as solid."
This is what happens when Universities outsource staff labor onto private sector companies. Rather than one homogenized learning management system (LMS), each University could have their own customized system based on an open source LMS, like Moodle. But that customization would require employing more staff members and, god forbid, paying for their health insurance.
Whether it's coding or tree-trimming, management prefers to contract out staff work.
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Me, stepping off the bus: *waves to the driver* Thank you! The person behind me: Thank you! Me, internally: I am an influencer.
Does anybody else think about the three year period when major Hollywood releases were falling over themselves to uphold Stevie Wonder as the elder statesman of American song?
When he wheeled out at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards, I assumed he was near death.
He was 49 years old.
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I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.
Truly my worst nightmare.
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Not Katy from Some More News trying to give Graham Platner the benefit of doubt for his past as a PMC for Blackwater, his pride in being former US military and for his fucking Nazi tattoo. White woman gonna white I guess 🤡
And Emma Vigeland as well, jfc...
Emma, you do know that working class people also consist of Black and Brown people, Muslims, Jews, people with disabilities, lgbtqa+ people? You know, people who might not be so comfortable with someone who has a Nazi tattoo and killed Brown people overseas right?
In going to need the pundit class on the American Left to shut the fuck up about Graham Platner becos it really shows how little they actually care about marginalised peoples.
Okay, Krystal Ball has always been a clown. This isn't surprising.
But yeah, the white women of the Pundit Left are jokes. Too willing like their white male counterparts to throw people more marginalised than them under the bus.
"Do we want an authentically working class party or not?" And it's for a man who was born to a lawyer and a restaurant owner, the grandson of a high profile architect, a man who literally attended Hotchkiss School, a private prep and boarding school where school fees range from $60k - 70k a year. Working class? Sure 🤡
Emma, to quote Ta Nehisi Coates, was silence not an option?
During the 2020 US presidential elections, the leftist pundit class were gunning to be on Joe Rogan's podcast trying to turn him left after he hosted Bernie Sanders. The idea was that Rogan, with his affable bro vibes and popular podcast, was just what the Left needed to bring the white working class (men) to our side. And of course, that didn't work becos this plan was stupid to begin with since it did not take into account Rogan's history of platforming reactionaries and bigots (whether they be in academia or writers or pundits or comedians) and making racist, islamophobic, transphobic comments himself.
And since Rogan revealed himself to be a Trumpie, these leftist pundits are looking for the next mascot to attract the ever elusive white working class and I think that's why they are going hard for Graham Platner.
And the fucking double standard, a lot of white leftists react so weirdly to Black liberals to the point of antiblackness. But the moment one of their own is in politics and is revealed to be a war criminal with a Nazi tattoo, they all start fucking competing for a gold medal in mental gymnastics to maintain his innocence.
the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.
alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:
We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]
since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.
in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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