Choosing not to do business with someone isn’t an assault on free speech—it’s the very definition of the marketplace of ideas.

Yessssss! I grew up watching the version with this song and was really confused when I watched it with my kid and the song was missing.

Someone’s paying the price for the convenience of shopping on Amazon.

Josh is doing important work here—the kind of work that edtech researchers often don’t consider as being in their purview. Glad to see this getting coverage.

Republicans’ reaction to this just makes the story more and more tragic. We have a real problem on our hands, and while I don’t believe all Republicans are this far gone, I’d like to see more from them condemning this behavior instead of trying to keep the party together and ahead.

Just sickening.

McDaniel can say what she wants—and its true that not all criticism of Pelosi is violent in nature—but in my mind, there’s no denying that two decades of GOP demonization has had a role to play in this terrible attack.

Content moderation is a good thing, and not all viewpoints deserve a seat at a table.

Interesting read here from Masnick. I’m not familiar with everything he writes about here, but I always appreciate his perspective.

Some neat data analysis here—both in terms of methods and in findings. Hat tip to Jana Riess for bringing my attention to this in today’s column.

Noooo! I was just blogging about wanting to get into this once my kid’s a bit older!

Glad that my colleagues’ interesting work is getting recognition from our university.

I fall victim to this despite being a Mastodon fan. Appreciate the reminder to be more careful with language.

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I’d skipped over the story when the Markup reported it, but seeing local coverage of how it plays out locally makes it even worse. Municipal broadband ought to be more common!

Fantastic post here. One of the first calm moments for me in a very messy faith transition was leaving the Louisville Temple and thinking about how central Adam and Eve’s “disobedience” is in Latter-day Saint theology.

I don’t like Paxton, and I can’t imagine this is much more than performative railing against a strawman version of Big Tech, but this is a real issue, so I’m interested to see where it goes.

Insightful speculation by Masnick. Ye’s said some horrible things recently, but that doesn’t mean Parlement can’t be taking advantage of him.

See, I get the impression that it’s increasingly district, school, and legislative priorities that are driving tech choices. I agree that teachers ought to have the agency, but I don’t know that’s the case.

I’ve been worrying about 2024, but 2022 is going to be bad enough. GOP needs to do something about this.

We’ve had it better than some states, so it’s disappointing to hear all of this.

Oh no. This can’t be good.

Enilda is great, and I appreciate her thoughts here.

Really important story here, and glad to see George Veletsianos quoted. I’ve long been an advocate for developing assessments that are impossible to cheat at, but I don’t know if that’s the entire (or even a practical) response to GPT-3. We are continuing to develop technologies whose societal effects we are not prepares for.

I love this theme tune, so this video was a delight to watch.