The Storm Before the Calm
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The News, Weakly
Apologies, I'm a day late to my weekly round-up of education/technology news. I've been a bit under the weather this week. Is it a cold? The flu? COVID? Or perhaps just that generalized depression and overwhelming sense of doom – I do not know. But I
Mad Maxxing
Snow Day
I'm working on a longer essay that I hope to finish up this weekend, but in the meantime, I wanted to send out a list of links to other important stories, essays, podcasts. I say "that I hope to finish up this weekend," but my weekend
The Ruffled Mind
There's a scene in the 1927 film Metropolis in which Freder, the son of the city's mayor, is playing in the "pleasure garden" when a young woman named Maria brings the children of the working class up to see how their wealthy brethren live.