Commenters on Hacker News are saying this is being done by China in order to get them to remove some software they don’t like. Specifically, this organization, Great Fire, who develops software to get around the Great Firewall of China, and this repo which provides a list of mirrors for the New York Times, which, as you probably know, is banned in China. This has been going on since Thursday, and I’m surprised I haven’t seen more coverage for it elsewhere.

I can’t even express how amazing this is. Never let anyone tell you vitriol online is just something we have to accept, like there’s nothing we can do about it. It takes work, it takes effort, but we can make our spaces safe. We have proof that pushing back works.

His writing can be dense and very heavy on the math and statistics, but this is why understanding what that data is actually saying is so important:

It is, for example, difficult to think of anything more unfair and destructive than closing schools, or even just labeling them as “failing,” when they are actually effective in serving the most disadvantaged student populations. But that’s exactly what’s happening in New York, and in a very high-profile manner, due in large part to misunderstanding of basic concepts of data interpretation and causal inference

Just a small reminder that the Internet was built by Americans, for Americans.

With the pile of philosophical, conceptual, and empirical evidence showing the social nature of learning and the importance of human relationships (particularly the relationship between teacher and student) in learning and wellbeing, why are we working so hard to automate away any opportunity for these relationships to exist?

Twitter has always been pretty bad for traffic, no matter how much time journalists spend on it.