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  1. Jan 2018
    1. Night having arrived, the rival, for greater security, snatches some winks of sleep without leaving hold of the wheelbarrow

      That was your first mistake

    2. The monks hearing a great noise behind them, are very uneasy, and cry out for help with all their might.

      Why is their first thought to just yell like their trying to signal the other monks

    3. Mr. Oldbuck's foot slipping, the wheelbarrow passes over him, and rushes down the hill with the speed of lightning.

      Is this Flat Stanley's origin story?

    4. When it is deep enough, Mr. Oldbuck slips gently out of the carriage, pushes the monks into the hole, and throws the earth upon them.

      This man is a menace to society.

    5. Mr. Oldbuck hesitates not to plunge into the river to swim in pursuit of his beloved.

      I think we've already established that he has absolutely no self-preservation so...

    6. Excessive rage of Mr. Oldbuck, who, on reaching the banks of the river, sees his rival in possession of the carriage.

      Why he looking like he bout to drop a mixtape

  2. Feb 2017
    1. That’s because all of the actual change, the actual effects, are at the interface between me as an educator, my students, and the learning experiences I design for them.

      The change is not within the industry itself but within the people that make the industry what it is.

    2. But you can also think about coding as eliciting a specific, desired set of behaviors from computing devices.

      Unpacking coding and making it something more than some analytical field is a good way to fix anxieties about it.

    3. The problem is the idea that the alternative to making is usually not doing nothing—it’s almost always doing things for and with other people, from the barista to the Facebook community moderator to the social worker to the surgeon.

      It is not often that people are allowed to make simply to make. There is typically a capitalist purpose behind creating.

    4. I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity ("maker," rather than "someone who makes things").

      American culture promotes being one thing and not someone of many.

    1. learning to code”, the way computer science is currently taught in high school tends to throw students into the programming deep end, reinforcing the notion that code is just for coders, not artists or doctors or librarians.

      Interesting. The obstacle is how people are taught. Not that they should be.

    2. That is, we should support learners in understanding the concepts that form the foundation of computer science. Not simply the code. The thinking. The problem solving.  

      We can't simply be told to code. You can't just do it as easily as breathing. It's a process.

    3. To understand the operation of a computer — hardware, software, networks — requires more than an act of translation from human language into the computer’s.

      You have to truly understand what you're getting into. It's not simply flipping a switch.

    4. To provide "everyone" with access to a technical education means starting earlier (before college, that is) and explicitly supporting girls and under-represented youth in these efforts.

      Diversity is a real issue. The hard sciences and IT have always been male dominated fields.

    5. We are (increasingly, almost all) consumers of computer technology; everyone should have the opportunity to learn to be creators of that technology as well. Moreover, focusing on "everyone" is particularly important if you look at the technology industry’s woeful lack of diversity.

      It makes sense to completely understand something that we use all the time.

    1. It requires calling into question, not simply computational practices, but dominant models of intellectual development and the rarely challenged assumption that rules and logic are the highest form of reason.

      Being conscious of a problem helps bring about solutions for it

    2. Its hard methods are expected to involve "demolishing" an argument and "knocking it down" to size. Here the object of the blows is not a female nature but a male scientific opponent. If science is first a rape, it is then a duel.

      This kind of discourse alienates women and keeps them from ever gaining a foothold in a "male" field

    3. From its very foundations, objectivity in science was metaphorically engaged with the language of male domination and female submission.

      The patriarchy is one such a thing that is hidden in everything

    4. Theorists who look at intellectual development as the acquisition of increasingly sophisticated rules would say that children run into problems if the rules they have built are not yet good enough.19 But armed with the idea of "closeness to objects," we can consider a different kind of theory.

      there will always be people who think something is wrong when it's just fine

    5. "Thinking like a painter" does not prevent Anne from making a significant technical innovation in the context of her fourth-grade computer culture.

      coding comes in many forms

    6. Such casualties are unnecessary. The computer can be a partner in a great diversity of relationships. The computer is an expressive medium that different people can make their own in their own way.

      That's true. A computer offers a kind of flexibility that is unique to itself. You can build and craft things any way you want.

    7. When she writes poetry, Lisa experiences language as transparent; she knows where all the elements are at every point in the development of her ideas. She wants her relationship to computer language to be similarly transparent.

      I get that. Writing has more fluidity and flexibility than computer language does. It's stiff and more concrete.

    8. Here we address sources of exclusion determined not by rules that keep women out, but by ways of thinking that make them reluctant to join in

      That's interesting. I never really thought that women would feel reluctant or unwilling to go into certain fields of work or industry.

  3. Jan 2017
    1. When you see people of color, again they are often viewed through the lens of a white male. What would a picture look like if a Black mother took the picture, versus a single white male?

      Just as the true, unbiased image of a woman is erased by men and the way they see them, black men and women are viewed and warped to be seen a specific way by the dominate power in society. It's like within the novel Binti where the titular character is seen oddly through the eyes of her peers.

    2. I looked at it through the lens of “who is my customer?”. But I started to see that I couldn’t find images that look like my customers, because my customer is diverse and that’s the problem.

      The issue presented to this company was the idea that society doesn't think that black people can afford to buy certain things so stock photos are prefaced towards people society "knows" buys products.

  4. Mar 2016
    1. Several solutions have been proposed, including proud ownership of our ignorance and dilettantism.

      Sounds like politicians should take note of this.

    2. We might say that all such systems rely on an act of faith

      This is a pretty good explaination for search engines. I mean, type something in and have at it. Who knows if you'll get the results you want. All hail the Google.