*for and they use other stuff besides Google.
You are right— so many scenarios. My company also has their own Google Domain— so I have a separate Google Drive form school at least.
So this is how my life is strange & synchronous— I’m grocery shopping now & I walk down the isle with limes thinking about the scene in Little Women— and Amy. And I run into a parent of a student I used to teach— she starts to share some of her frustrations over staff changes. A good reminder that the beginning of a new school year is a sensitive time for many reasons. Anyway— I have nice encounters with parents at the grocery store. We have a Starbucks inside— a mom treated me to an expresso once. I’m still here — need to finish up!
Sometimes I wonder if this is what my company’s IT staff really want to say to us during our beginning of the year lecture. But on a more serious note— a few years back, we were advised not to check our work email on our personal phones. If an “incident” happened— authorities could possibly have the legal right to seize our phones. So I only do school work on company computers and phones. It is a serious problem.
Still waiting to see the movie… I’m curious & will keep your review in mind. I saw Barbie first (Loved it) because I’m a fan of Greta Getwig— she remade Little Women years ago. Always loved the book & 90’s movie — but her remake was stellar.
“The teacher points at a desk at the back of the classroom and interrogates the new pupil from her podium:
'What are you doing, Carrington?
'Drawing horses!
She is immediately moved to the front row, where a strict eye is kept on her.
'Why do you insist upon being different?' the Mother Superior reprimands her.
'It's just that I am different.
The teacher complains: She forgets everything and is distracted by anything, as much at play as at work.” #Leonora by Elena Poniatowska #bookstr 
Fair warning— I loved watching the film growing up— but as an adult, I find myself viewing it with a whole new perspective (those Hollywood scripts at the time—there are a few scenes that make me cringe. But I enjoy old movies!
Nero — burning everything— is also in this movie. https://youtu.be/_KTJfWC_4Mw
Old movies feel like the present (sometimes) — that’s why they are classic. Movie Night!
“Indeed, I sometimes can’t help lying awake at night, fully insecure in the knowledge that somewhere in the bowels of the internet exist several articles I wrote for my college newspaper. But despite our growing online record of cultural mediocrity, artists have been destroying their work for at least as long as people have been buying it. Audiences like the idea of a fully formed genius at least as much as the artists themselves. But the artist who seems to have simply arrived one day intact is often a disguise: In 1957, before her arrival in New York from Taos, N.M., as a Minimalist master of canvases in stark gray, the Canadian artist Agnes Martin had burned many of her early landscape paintings, erasing much of that history, and thus becoming herself.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/t-magazine/artists-destroy-past-work.html?unlocked_article_code=gh8NequPpb15C4_VW-xdyvoQecgU4RI37i06woGyDWJnCVOYfeveExelvBz3bjwuB5aVseMZG3MZ7kKE3mmQepamSSxEqAglizI9JehpGt-OPyKs3XR4a5afuytaW8_JeL4FxPKoNI8KkT1VHIeVeUvoPCCqyTbFHAGR0m_05W58aUEcVIk4SGfaW2KTNnlTq3Cq3cHvXSk12IScwa9k_KtXfOhf6wFaliwqcyMHRZs9CIk9F7TJb-W8SlG1oRxz4VNGZeKfuEcQJpc4HlmZl12dKlSjaf1h5Exjf8L6-3pf8seRuSRB2K8aRVlOFHpTmxuEDeIIW83DI5b95N32QrZxte3SmQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“ONE OF THE EARLIEST known instances of an artist attempting to destroy his work comes from the 16th century, when Michelangelo partially defaced a marble Pietà. For reasons now lost to history, he hammered into Christ’s left leg and arm, destroying them before walking away from the work unfinished. (Theories for this range from Michelangelo’s frustration with the quality of marble to his fear of being exposed as a Protestant sympathizer in the midst of the Roman Inquisition.)”
“Indeed, I sometimes can’t help lying awake at night, fully insecure in the knowledge that somewhere in the bowels of the internet exist several articles I wrote for my college newspaper. But despite our growing online record of cultural mediocrity, artists have been destroying their work for at least as long as people have been buying it. Audiences like the idea of a fully formed genius at least as much as the artists themselves. But the artist who seems to have simply arrived one day intact is often a disguise: In 1957, before her arrival in New York from Taos, N.M., as a Minimalist master of canvases in stark gray, the Canadian artist Agnes Martin had burned many of her early landscape paintings, erasing much of that history, and thus becoming herself.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/t-magazine/artists-destroy-past-work.html?unlocked_article_code=gh8NequPpb15C4_VW-xdyvoQecgU4RI37i06woGyDWJnCVOYfeveExelvBz3bjwuB5aVseMZG3MZ7kKE3mmQepamSSxEqAglizI9JehpGt-OPyKs3XR4a5afuytaW8_JeL4FxPKoNI8KkT1VHIeVeUvoPCCqyTbFHAGR0m_05W58aUEcVIk4SGfaW2KTNnlTq3Cq3cHvXSk12IScwa9k_KtXfOhf6wFaliwqcyMHRZs9CIk9F7TJb-W8SlG1oRxz4VNGZeKfuEcQJpc4HlmZl12dKlSjaf1h5Exjf8L6-3pf8seRuSRB2K8aRVlOFHpTmxuEDeIIW83DI5b95N32QrZxte3SmQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I was talking about “tech training” in general— kids learning to code so Nostr & other tech such as the kind Bitcoin needs— so it keeps flourishing in safe ways —
And I’m sure you are more savy than me!
A quote from one of my favorite reading researchers: “ Most teachers (a full 82 percent) have never been given training in the best uses of technology for children from kindergarten to grade four, much less how to teach good online reading skills to different kinds of learners. Third, from my perspective as a citizen, we must confront the access gaps that exist in our society and the world and work to eliminate them.“ ~Dr. Maryanne Wolf
out of context a little— but teachers are used to “training” themselves— good & bad depending on time/skill/interest level.
I removed my lightening address for now— until I understand & feel a sense of personal agency & knowledge about Nostr in general & the tools such as Alby that are being offered for “free.” I’ve been a teacher for over 20 years— I know all about things getting pushed into the “classroom.” The classroom & Nostr is a marketplace like anywhere else. Somethings are adopted too soon. But thank you— I’ll take a rain check!
I have no idea what the Mullvad Browser is but now I know what to check out. Thank you.
The essays offer a nuanced perspective on language in a particular context/format that I learned from— so yes.