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Summit Learning

mardi 30 juin 2020 à 02:00

Some US schools have installed Summit Learning, Facebook-sponsored proprietary software which sends students' data to a servers so as to give them "customized" lessons.

Students say it is tiresome and they don't learn much.

The company's PR chief says, “I want to make clear to you that we are in no way misusing student data.” Whatever it does with the data is, apparently, just fine in the organization's view.

My view is that none of that data should ever leave the school itself.

Shift to zero emissions and jobs

mardi 30 juin 2020 à 02:00

*Australia could create hundreds of thousands of jobs by accelerating shift to zero emissions.*

Support for democracy

mardi 30 juin 2020 à 02:00

In Brazil, a campaign to show support for democracy and teach young people what dictatorship was really like.

Never mind Covid-19

mardi 30 juin 2020 à 02:00

30% of Americans have decided, never mind if we catch Covid-19 and never mind if we transmit it to other people. The result is a swelling outbreak.

Republican politicians are pushing this, and surely they can't be unaware of where things are going. Therefore, they want that, and it is surely for the sake of their power. But what is their strategy?

We are what we eat

mardi 30 juin 2020 à 02:00

*We are what we eat, so we’re right not to trust what goes into American food.*