Interesting Links for 12-01-2018
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andrewducker- Ocado developing robot to help with maintenance - handing technicians tools, and moving ladders for them
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- When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind
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- Black pudding saves butcher trapped in freezer
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- A petition to stop demanding rigorous science in Star Wars
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- Bryan Fuller Lestat-us Update: He's Working on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles Show
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- "I am not here to inspire you."
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- School creates playground 'rich and poor zones' separating kids whose parents didn't pay £6 donation for new equipment
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- Hobbit Houses Glamping Perthshire Scotland
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- Ecuador asked London to recognize Assange as a diplomat (and was refused)
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- I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter (amazing writing
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- A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace
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- Teenager dies after catching flu virus
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- Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom
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- The Steven Pinker backlash shows how social media is being misused to mislead us
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- "Why Chicken Run might be the most feminist film I have ever seen."
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- Mueller’s obstruction of justice case against Trump looks damning
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Black pudding saves butcher trapped in freezer
Date: 2018-01-12 02:42 pm (UTC)Re: Black pudding saves butcher trapped in freezer
Date: 2018-01-12 03:16 pm (UTC)School creates playground 'rich and poor zones' separating kids whose parents didn't pay £6 donatio
Date: 2018-01-12 02:43 pm (UTC)Re: School creates playground 'rich and poor zones' separating kids whose parents didn't pay £6 don
Date: 2018-01-13 04:39 pm (UTC)There's a general rule of "Consider how it would look if what you just did/said appeared on the front page of the daily papers" that people should really follow.
A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace
Date: 2018-01-12 02:43 pm (UTC)The Steven Pinker backlash shows how social media is being misused to mislead us
Date: 2018-01-12 02:55 pm (UTC)I seem to remember some *other* time PZ Myers laid into Pinker for something out of context, I guess there's some history there?
I feel really awful about this sort of thing. My instinct is that "actively promoting racist views" is really bad, and "saying something that can possibly be taken out of context" isn't. But the more people pressure me to treat them as equivalent, the more I question myself.
I've heard so many rants about "apologising by explaining that you didn't mean it like that isn't ok" and strategically, even if it's true you may not want to say that. But I also feel like somewhere there must be a cut-off where you really *are* not saying it.
Re: The Steven Pinker backlash shows how social media is being misused to mislead us
Date: 2018-01-13 04:38 pm (UTC)Mueller’s obstruction of justice case against Trump looks damning
Date: 2018-01-12 02:56 pm (UTC)Re: Mueller’s obstruction of justice case against Trump looks damning
Date: 2018-01-13 04:38 pm (UTC)Re: cinnamon rolls
Date: 2018-01-12 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: cinnamon rolls
Date: 2018-01-13 01:10 pm (UTC)Re: cinnamon rolls
Date: 2018-01-13 04:37 pm (UTC)Ocado Helper Robots and the Disappearing Apprenticeships.
Date: 2018-01-13 11:40 pm (UTC)Yes, I know the story talks about "engineers" for maintenance, but they mean power engineering, which is a trade requiring a lengthy apprenticeship:
http://www.absa.ca/certifications/power-engineers/fourth-class/
https://www.bcit.ca/study/programs/2430dipma
If the helper role in a workplace is taken by a robot, then there isn't any place for an apprentice to learn on the go and meet new situations under guidance.
So, without apprenticeships, there will be no new power engineering tradesmen[1]. And then Business will moan that education is offering too many useless options like art and music, when Business needs trained trades persons, and Education will jump and reconfigure school so that every child, right down to kindergarten, will be taking trades-friendly subjects without any of that artsy-fartsy fluff - BUT WITHOUT APPRENTICESHIPS IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH ART[3] IS CUT.[2]
[1] - don't toy with me - women are welcome into classroom training, but are rarely(less confrontational version of: never) taken on as apprentices.
[2] - ahem - this lack of apprenticeships has been a hot button for me all of my academic advisor career. The Moaning of business and the Gutting of education and the Absence of apprenticeships has not changed. Robots just means a new way of avoiding offering apprenticeships.
[3] - this includes design, and game theory, and animation, and film, and, y'know, all those skill sets that lead to game generation and app generation and robotics and ... [4]
[4] - so why aren't those industries so whiny to education about lack of people with skills in those areas? Answer in another rant another day.