The reasons I've encountered range from philosophy ("Students don't retain knowledge as well if they rely on recordings") to environment ("I want students to be able to ask questions and be wrong without being recorded") to petty ("I don't like lecturing to a half-empty room").

How come those aren't arguments against recording by students with disability?

This. They're basically two languages sitting on top of each other. It's fascinating seeing students who have been taught using the tidyverse try to switch gears.

In the process, we lose both the ability to accommodate students, or ask questions that take longer than the test period to answer.

All for a calculator that can lie.

Similar experience talking to people who worked for a nursing home supported by a tribal community. They were able to deliver top quality care because that was their mission - Take Care of Our Elders - not increasing shareholder value.

I've never been able to bring myself to put stickers on my laptop - not since the Titanium PowerBook came out.

Everything else in my life? Covered in them. But my laptops are always pristine. This has always made me faintly sad.

You know what to do!

Was going to say this - making shit up is currently driving most of the S&P 500's growth.

They're disrupting the bagel market, leveraging their unique vision. Think of them as a DoorDash for people who want to come into their bakery.

I loved buying booster packs and trying to make decks from the janky cards in them, until people taking it all Very Seriously came along.

Using "culture fit" to justify mass layoffs is, in fairness, probably a sign of a company's culture. Just not in the way they intended.

Indeed. It seems like splitting hairs. It says that their upper level management made a lot of bad calls about headcount growth. And, as always, it's the people below the decision makers who pay the price.

If this follows the "with vs. of COVID" thing, we're going to get "No, it's not climate change, it's change that which is climatic" here pretty soon.

Are you saying with vs of covid was not a significant distinction?