Sonya McChristie @sonya@scholar.social

Instructure, they of Canvas VLE / LMS, sold to private equity firm for 2 beellion dollars. Curse this sudden but inevitable betrayal!

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-12-04-new-ownership-for-an-lms-giant-private-equity-firm-to-buy-instructure-for-2-billion

Got a .org domain? You might have to pay a lot more to renew it in future so that rich arseholes can get richer. What a shameless sellout.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

Reasons to be hopeful for the future - 10 emerging technologies which could change our lives and society:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2019/

I hereby propose that cookbooks shall henceforth be known as “nom fiction”. All those in favour say “aye”.

Ah yes, the three genders

“When you haven’t been to the gym in 6 weeks but get your key code right first time”

Thor: “I’m still worthy”

More mystery cables are being unearthed here in the land of the Mackems! This one has ‘SS’ written on one side so we know it’s evil.

@dajbelshaw aaaaahhhh... 10 points 😁

Mystery cable found in office box of cables. What is it? Nobody knows!

Petition to stop the proroguing of Parliament - up to nearly 1.5 million signatures at time of posting

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157

"A fork of #GIMP, which is exactly the same as GIMP but with a less stupid name."

Not before time @glimpse

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/28/gimp_open_source_image_editor_forked_to_fix_problematic_name/

Also, since when did Mastodon have a 'Delete and Re-Draft' option? That is well nice that is.

This is a really interest project designed to map the intersections between books on College curricula. It's US only, and content warning because all the most cited works are depressingly male and white.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/can-mapping-curricula-shed-light-teaching-and-academic-impact

The actual map is at https://galaxy.opensyllabus.org if you don't have access to THE.

@claudiuscluever oh I’m sorted, thank you. Combination of iCloud and my own web hosting