I’m not too sure how different this is from the status quo, except maybe it technically removes some discretion from school in cases of assault — though I think schools would suspend kids for gross misconduct in those circumstances anyway, which they are already empowered to do.

I think ACT has really just found a way to bang the law and order drum, while appealing to their voters who think that the education system is woke and useless, and slipping in the dog-whistle of schools being full of misbehaving ‘little shits’: guess who they mean by that.

You make interesting points about self-inspection. I don’t trust it. The leaky homes situation from the ‘90s shows that people will cut corners when they think they can.

In an ideal world, housing costs would be more predictable so that ordinary people can plan around them and get on with their lives. We purchased in the last few years and are not badly off, but could have done without the $100k haircut in our bank equity. Sure, doesn’t affect us too much, but makes renovations harder.

Embarrassing for BMW.

This looks like the business. With that much customisation they’re taking on Origin Effects and that sort of thing.

This is interesting news. I hope it’s a positive mood. Even before our current tariff-filled economy I felt that Source Audio found it a tad difficult to get the attention that its products deserved, because the core sounds that they produce are top notch.

Source Audio puts themselves up against Strymon, which is some tough competition. Source Audio can make a compelling claim that its algorithms are slightly better and that its pedals are better value, but Strymon has some slick UI and aesthetics. The UI in particular is an important aspect for musicians wanting to dial in a sound quickly.

I’ve wanted a Source Audio Artifakt since it came out but it’s hard to justify with the recent birth of my daughter.

Seems like granular processing’s having a moment. I’m glad to see there’s commercial potential in it — there must be, or they wouldn’t be bringing this pedal back.

I wonder which musicians are buying it, though? Guitar pedals sit at a fun intersection of technical innovation and musical creativity.

MXR’s doing some great stuff lately.

I find most kids quite receptive to a discussion about the effect that phone use has on cognition and social aspects (eg. cyber bullying, stranger danger). There’s hope yet!

Ah, the ‘are we there yet?’ problem. I suspect parents will always do what they have to do in that situation. It also sounds like you’re teaching healthy phone usage.

The big difference between phones and TVs is that phones serve up short-form content on the TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube type apps that kids just flick through. There is no need to watch them for a sustained amount of time to figure out what’s interesting about each piece of media, and they’re addictive: people choose to spend time on these apps rather than doing other things. I believe that kids these days have a shorter attention span as a result of the increased consumption of short-form media vs traditional tv shows and movies.

The gold standard would be to make each student do an oral defense of their work. Hand-written exams are good too. Both of these approaches are time-consuming to mark, though.

Assessment design can require students to perform analysis of rare and obscure source material, so that there are no published materials for AI to draw on (which can make it struggle). Similarly, asking for a good bibliography that lists the sources used in the text and formats it correctly would show up the hallucinatory tendencies of AI, I think — though I haven’t tried the latest models.

I can’t be the only one who actively tries to reduce the number of subscriptions I have. It’s terrible for the monthly budget. Gamepass lasted only a few months for me before I decided that I didn’t get sufficient value out of it. Something about paying monthly to retain access to a game that I can otherwise buy rubbed me the wrong way.

I’m a teacher so I guess I’m on the front lines here. The thing that worries me most is that some parents use phones and tablets to replace parenting for their babies and younger children. In high school, I don’t see many kids these days choosing to read books for fun anymore. It’s really sad, and it all definitely affects the way that our kids function (or don’t) in schools.

Governments will tinker with the educational system to try and fix the growing problem of student academic underachievement, but will shy away from the real problem, which is that the level of parental involvement in and support of their child’s learning has decreased. Parents are addicted to their phones too, after all. It’s made me determined as a parent not to let phone use come between me and my own child as she grows up.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in 50 years people react in shock to the idea that people allowed their babies and children to have free access to smartphones. There is lots of evidence to show that smartphones are harmful to our young ones.

Our reo Māori kaiako are champions.

I haven’t posted on Reddit since they killed third-party apps. Funny thing is, I was a paid subscriber for years before they did that.

Here to be the change I want to see in the world. Go Lemmy.

You’d think that there ought to be a teal voter: conservative, both in terms of conserving economic resources and in terms of conserving our natural resources. But I guess there are not many big businesses lobbying for these types of policies, whereas the fossil fuel industry goes hard with lobbying.

They have managed to work with Labour before. I’d be intrigued by what a ‘teal’ coalition between the Greens and National could possibly look like in NZ: I think both parties would have to swallow some bitter pills when it comes to negotiating a coalition agreement, and I suspect many Green supporters would see it as a betrayal.

To be fair, they have to aim to be in government or they’re not doing their jobs, so she’s stating the obvious. They’re not a protest party that only wants to make noise.

Aside from the fact that he hasn’t met his obligations to his tenant, by the sounds of it, what sort of processes were followed in the failed development of the section? Sounds bizarre.