Social Media Policy- GRA points to increased use of social media by children as young as nine - Gibraltar Chronicle July 4, 2022
- Instagram bishop: How Archbishop Russell discovered power of social media - Detroit Catholic July 4, 2022
- Anna bought abortion pills via social media. Now, like thousands of other Filipinas, she is dead - The Guardian July 4, 2022
- Social media trend costs cinema over £1,000 | Worcester News - Worcester News July 4, 2022
- British Army’s social media accounts hacked by crypto scammers - Cointelegraph July 4, 2022
- Cops launch probe into fake social media post - Times of India July 4, 2022
- Nupur Sharma hearing judge slams social media opinions, says Parliament should regulate - The Indian Express July 4, 2022
- Stefanos Tsitsipas takes dig at Kyrgios with latest social media post - TennisUpToDate.com July 4, 2022
- Usher Eats Up Latest ‘Tiny Desk Concert,’ Stuns Social Media With Angelic Vocals - Black Enterprise July 4, 2022
- Yankees Social Media: Luis Gil offers update after Tommy John surgery - Pinstripe Alley July 3, 2022
- Kwantlen
- Tsawwassen grad wins major KPU photo award - Delta Optimist July 1, 2022
- Indigenous foundation returns $500K to Catholic nuns involved in Kamloops residential school - CBC.ca June 30, 2022
- 3 students at a Surrey high school win 'triple crown' of scholarships – Surrey Now-Leader - Surrey Now Leader June 29, 2022
- KPU switches from Impark to Concord Parking in July - The Runner June 28, 2022
- Devoted customers say final farewell to long-standing Vancouver DVD rental store - CBC.ca June 27, 2022
- Kwantlen grad angry at absence of retro convocation - Richmond News June 27, 2022
- KPU chancellor receives BC Reconciliation Award – Aldergrove Star - Aldergrove Star June 24, 2022
- Optimist journalist honoured by KPU - Delta Optimist June 23, 2022
- UBC
- The Women Behind Foundational Photography in North America - TheTyee.ca July 4, 2022
- UBC first year residence dining rooms transition to all-access dining plan - Ubyssey Online July 3, 2022
- B.C. women get an up-close encounter with humpback whale off coast of Vancouver Island - CBC.ca July 3, 2022
- Don't get creeped out, but UBC wants your dead body - Vancouver Sun July 3, 2022
- Dairy and Beef research part of the story for B.C. - 100 Mile Free Press July 3, 2022
- UBC Okanagan’s downtown Kelowna tower shimmers in amber - urbanYVR July 3, 2022
- Memorial bike ride held in Vancouver for UBC cyclist student killed by dump truck - Global News July 3, 2022
- Vancouver proposes huge housing development at north end of Granville Bridge - Vancouver Sun July 3, 2022
- Business Education
- 16, Including School Children, Dead as Bus Falls Into Gorge in Himachal's Kullu - News18 July 4, 2022
- Inclusivity Feature: Putting a Strategic Goal into Action - Business News Wales July 4, 2022
- Economist's arrest ends last vestige of liberal influence in Putin's Russia - Financial Times July 4, 2022
- Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth - Financial Times July 4, 2022
- 'TEDxRabdanAcademy' takes place under theme of 'Ideas Worth Sharing in Policing and Security' - ZAWYA July 4, 2022
- Things To Consider While Choosing A School For Children - BW Businessworld July 4, 2022
- Academy Of Fashion & Arts Invites Applications For Admission - BW Businessworld July 4, 2022
- Be part of Plastic Free July - The Beagle July 4, 2022
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Good timing
University of Washington professor Kate Starbird and several of her colleagues just published “Repeat Spreaders & Election Delegitimization,” featuring an analysis of their 2020 Election Misinformation dataset, “including 307 false, misleading, exaggerated and/or unsubstantiated claims that sowed doubt in [the … Continue reading
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
What could go wrong?
No Contest friend Chester Wisniewski provides the clearest précis I’ve read regarding the extravagant promises made on behalf of “decentralized blockchains,” in The Gospel of Crypto: A Solution in Search of a Problem. It’s concise, illuminating, and persuasive.
Prime Yourself
There needs to be two of you: you and “you prime.” The latter is an heuristic entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your “you prime” makes the hard decisions – saying no to … Continue reading
I’m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I’ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined “prolific”!) The place had a few … Continue reading
Better
When I finally consented, two decades ago, to using the necessary phrase “passive aggressive,” I felt awful, and beaten, like I had fallen off the wagon. But I am clean again! A dear friend employed the phrase defensive envenomater this … Continue reading
Not included.
Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
Information warfare
Chester Wisniewski, longtime friend of this blog and principal research scientist at Sophos, has been studying Russian cyber aggression for a very long time. In a new piece he describes the kind of threats we can expect from Russia as … Continue reading
The other Spotify scandal
Esteemed recording engineer Steve Albini explains in a recent twitter thread that there’s “an important thread of continuity over time about the exploitation of bands by record labels that deserves a closer look, re the current Spotify debate.” It is … Continue reading
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