Reports of Jack Ma’s impending retirement are greatly exaggerated, it seems. Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, has pushed back on claims that he is on the cusp of leaving the $420 billion Chinese e-commerce firm. The New York Times first reported that the entrepreneur plans to announce that he will leave the firm to pursue […]
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Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit
For the nearly 20% percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out of the work that Honeywell, a security specialist, had […]
View More Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefitNew technology can see your body through walls
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has created a system that can see your body through walls, recreating your poses when you walk, sit, or simply stand still. It uses RF waves to sense where you are and then recreates your body as a simple stick figure. It’s called RF-Pose. From the release: The […]
View More New technology can see your body through wallsThis dad’s letter to a teacher defending his son deserves a massive A+
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There was nothing sweeter at school than the surprise of having your parents take your side over the side of your teacher.
But if they actually confronted them it was even better.
On Tuesday, comedian Seann Walsh shared an old letter he said his father wrote to his teacher after he got in trouble back in his school days.
A letter from my dad to a teacher during my school years. I think the appropriate emojis are 😂 and 🙈. “Life’s hard enough” 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/CouOv26etw
— Seann Walsh (@seannwalsh) April 17, 2018
That final line is the real killer: “Isn’t this just a little bit petty? Life’s hard enough.” Read more…
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The world has been a tense place as of late, especially for teachers caught up in gun debates.
But one good teacher in Austin, Texas, is bringing us some goodness that we so desperately need.
On Twitter, user Sophie Vershbow shared an image of her friend’s boyfriend, an AP English teacher.
My friend’s boyfriend is an AP English teacher in Austin. He brings his dog Banjo to school every day. Less teachers with guns, more teachers with corgispic.twitter.com/BZdYUZjK8o
— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) March 5, 2018
This proud teacher apparently brings his corgi, Banjo, to school every day. He proudly holds the noble doggo for picture day in this particular photo. Read more…
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This art student’s response to being told to ‘dial back the feminism’ is bang-on
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Which of us hasn’t fantasised of having the perfect comeback to a teacher?
Art student Alex Ruth Bertulis-Fernandes‘ piece in response to her teacher telling her to “dial back the feminism” has gone viral, with over 42,000 retweets at time of writing.
Last week one of my art teachers suggested I ‘dial down the feminism.’ Today I showed him my newest piece: pic.twitter.com/VrnB4oJ8Cz
— AlexBertulisFernande (@alexbertanades) February 7, 2018
The piece struck a chord with many.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE. Does it go to 11, because 100% down for that!
— kt (@k_to_the_t) February 8, 2018 Read more…
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Kids may say some spectacularly funny things at times, but every now and then they can be impressively wise too.
On Tuesday, teacher Bret Turner tweeted about a recent puzzle he’d set for his first grade class.
“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere,” reads the riddle. “I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space.
“What am I?”
The first response he got, while ultimately wrong, was pretty deep.
The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment pic.twitter.com/7sYFxHNcZk
— Bret Turner (@bretjturner) January 2, 2018 Read more…
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