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@cdarwin@c.im
2024-05-05 23:40:41

There are commercial reasons why some newsrooms focus on spectacle and confrontation
– the old journalism adage of “if it bleeds, it leads” still prevails in many newsroom decisions.
For the initial weeks of the campus protests, this penchant for sensationalism has shown up in the focus on chaos, clashes and arrests.
But it is a decision that delegitimizes protest aims.
This delegitimization is aided by the sourcing routines journalists often fall back on to tell stor…

Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2024-05-04 22:20:38

As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging (Rina Diane Caballar/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught

Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills

@jgkoomey@mastodon.energy
2024-03-05 17:44:59

End daylight savings time! https://universeodon.com/@SaveStandard/112044169263963236

Save Standard Time (@SaveStandard@universeodon.com)
“Daylight Saving Time affects health immediately after clock change, and for the nearly eight months that Americans remain on DST.” #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime https://theconversation.com/could-the-days-of-springing-forward-be-numbered-a-neurologist-and-sleep-expert-explains-the-downside-to-that-borrowed-hour-of-daylight-224597