The recent Tumblr announcement made me think of this.
Big time
rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???
Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her boss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE
Prof says he’ll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As
Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and everyone else is graded accordingly.
Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted the exam, they’d all get As.
So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas to come and sit the exam.
Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/hang-together-or-hang-separate-2.html
Who will ride or die with me this hard
I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”
He told a bunch of PROGRAMMING students that he was going to grade on a curve.
PROGRAMING.
Like half of programming is looking at sorting algorithms and asking “what could break this?” They looked at the grading algorithm (curve grading) and noticed “if every grade is the same, everything is at the top of the list” and “the easiest way to get all the grades to be the same is to set them all to zero.”
Of course the professor praised them. He may have taught them the exact type of logic that had them organize the boycott in the first place. They found a bug in his grading system and loudly exploited it.
Reminder that the Australian Government okayed the destruction of two 46'000 year old Aboriginal caves for iron ore.
One of the world's earliest human settlements destroyed forever for a profit.
finally i can wear a miniskirt without showing the whole world my big fat ass 😭😭
35 to 70 bucks per skirt. damn...
yes, our prices are higher than you would find in fast fashion. i'd just like to preface that the following doesn't come from a place of anger or anything like that, i just want to provide some education.
our prices are higher because we are a small business working on a small scale and because we use a factory that has extensive certifications that ensure both ethical labor practices and the usage of high quality materials, i.e. materials that are not hazardous.
this includes certifications up the supply chain, which is extremely difficult and costly to do, as things like dyes and fixings (buttons, zippers, etc) are some of the most difficult to track and some of the most likely to be made with hazardous chemicals or with unethical labor.
fast fashion prices come with bad labor practices (sweatshops, labor camps, etc) and often use materials that are harmful to humans (lead, PFAS, formaldehyde, etc) and those chemicals are still present when you receive and wear those garments.
all clothing is made by humans. cheap clothing comes with a price. it's just not one you know you're paying. and that's normal because the companies that use these practices do not want you to know.
I'd so like to point out Maya's skirts are great quality! Fast fashion breaks down SO quickly, whereas I've had Maya's skirts for years and they still look brand new
aw thank you i’m so happy to hear it 🥰🥰
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