The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions narrowly approved the nomination of Betsy DeVos Tuesday for secretary of the United States Department of Education (ED). The committee voted 12-11 to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to head the ED, splitting along party lines. via ED Secretary Nominee Narrowly Wins Committee Vote — Campus…

Now is the time to keep 2 sets of “books”. One is the source of record, and the other you give out to the Steel-heeled thugs (purged of all the elements they seek). Good luck sorting out that Big Data. random data from a tumored head @todmassa@SCHEVResearch Not sure if this was your intent but…

A few million (mostly) women in the U.S. and abroad marched yesterday. They marched to protest various forms of oppression, symbolized in a new presidential platform that involved explicit racism, … Source: A Few Notes on Gaslighting – tressiemc Gaslight is a movie where a husband tries to convince his wife she is crazy. He…

ProtonMail launched its own .onion address to fight censorship and DDoS attacks, as well as to increase its users’ security and privacy. via ProtonMail Over Tor Can Now Increase Privacy, Security, And Censorship Resilience — News Tom’s Hardwar I cannot wait to try out the free version of ProtonMail over Tor using their .onion address. This…

Fifteen months after Minnesota-based TCF Financial revealed it could face legal action from federal regulators related to alleged unfair and deceptive overdraft practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finally taken legal action against the bank. The CFPB on Thursday announced its latest effort to rein in financial institutions using illegal and abusive overdraft policies to……

I originally created and published A Little Bird Told Me: Maximizing Your Learning on Twitter in 2015. The one page list of strategies was my first ever pinned tweet. It has been one of my more successful online endeavors, capturing thousands of views and hundreds (maybe close to a thousand if you count across platforms)…

Connie Kuhns’s spotlight on revolutionary female musicians who creates Vancouver’s underground music scene was a National Magazine Award finalist. via Strange Women: Vancouver’s Female Punk Visionaries — Longreads

MyDigitalSSD shows Boost and claims it as the world’s fastest portable SSD. The drive ships with two Samsung mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 and delivers a fast, flash-based backup destination for any USB-enabled device. via Meet Boost, MyDigitalSSD’s Fastest Portable SSD From CES 2017 — News Tom’s Hardware I’m seeing a trend now that started back…

Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen The book “Urban Myths about Learning and Education” by Pedro de Bruyckere, Paul A. Kirschner, and Casper Hulshof ends with a section on why myths in education are so pervasive and stubborn. One of the most remarkable examples was drawn from Farhad Manjoo’s book True enough: Learning to live […]…

The original documentary ‘808: The Movie’ which covers the history and broad influence of Roland’s TR-808 drum machine is now available for Apple Music subscribers. more…Filed under: Apple via Apple’s first original documentary ‘808: The Movie’ now available for Apple Music subscribers — 9to5Mac Excellent News! I had heard this documentary was coming for a while.…