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Jun 19, 2021

@marcoarment @nickheer I humbly propose that whichever  executive is ultimately (if not proximally) responsible for these “hidden UI” travesties has their profile on apple.com moved to a page that’s only reachable via a tiny, low-contrast “ellipsis” menu.

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2:28 PM · Jun 18, 2021

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A bunch more interface elements are going to be hidden within "..." overflows in the upcoming versions of iOS and MacOS. Most notably, they’re hiding the refresh button. Here's a short article about it if you're interested.

The First Amendment@USConst_Amend_I

Please don’t pretend to be a nazi to show how much you support the First Amendment. You have the right to do it, of course, but it still makes you look like a fucking nazi. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

8:22 PM · Jun 18, 2021

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Or, more colorfully, there's Popehat's rule of goats.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion

“I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself,” writes @MsAlmagor, a public charter school teacher in Washington, D.C.

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Opinion | I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace.

10:33 AM · Jun 16, 2021

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If the pandemic had turned out to have different characteristics, maybe our actions would have made sense. But our handling of schooling was clearly a mistake.

Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

It is not as fun to yell about as history curriculum choices but the stakes in the phonics debate seem a lot a higher.

apmreports.org

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers