Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 FBI arrests Twitter user who sent seizure-inducing GIF | CNET → This is terrifying: Kurt Eichenwald, a journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Newsweek, tweeted Friday that the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposefully sending him a GIF that triggered an epileptic seizure.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. Via Buzzfeed : “After Reporting Abuse , Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse.” The social-collaboration-software-for-schools startup has previously raised $1 million. ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” ” (Also from Hill : “Timeline of e-Literate Coverage of Blackboard Learn Ultra.”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” More on this from Education Week’s Ben Herold.

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MARCH 16, 2018

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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JUNE 2, 2017

Incidentally, I saw lots of harassment online this week from these predatory journal folks , but as Bill Fitzgerald notes, Twitter still does little to address abuse on its platform.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 .” The librarian in question is Jeffrey Beall. advertising!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The Business of Student Loans. .”

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