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Pasture Shrooms

Mushrooms after the rains.

Ryan Boren Nature, Plants Leave a comment November 11, 2013 0 Minutes

Homegrown Heat

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Ryan Boren Food, Photos, Plants, Vegan 2 Comments June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 0 Minutes

There Ain’t No Saguaro in Texas

But we sure got a lot of prickly pear.

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Ryan Boren Music, Photos, Plants, Wildflowers 2 Comments May 16, 2013 0 Minutes

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For this reason, I would suggest a renewed focus on MESH education, which stands for Media Literacy, Ethics, Sociology, and History. Because if these are not given equal attention, we could end up with incredibly bright and technically proficient people who lack all capacity for democratic citizenship. The future of the nation and the world […]

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“Move fast and break things” is an abomination if your goal is to create a healthy society. Taking shortcuts may be financially profitable in the short-term, but the cost to society is too great to be justified. In a healthy society, we accommodate differently abled people through accessibility standards, not because it’s financially prudent but […]

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We must work not only toward providing better security around student data but also toward _educating _students about the need to critically evaluate how their data is used and how to participate in shaping data privacy practices and policies. These policies and practices will affect them for the rest of their lives, as individuals with personal […]

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To be a certified instructor in “Therapeutic Options,” one needs four days of training. That’s it. Four days to learn how to teach people maneuvers that kill and traumatize autistic kids. Not once did anyone mention that maybe children shouldn’t be subjected to compliance training. It was a joke, and people like me were the […]

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…flawed terminology, measurement and theory have all contributed to the mischaracterisation of autistic people as lacking empathy, to severely negative effect. The myth of an empathy deficit in autism is now so well ingrained, that for an autistic volunteer to report they do not lack empathy is either to question the views of the large […]

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When we develop and use educational technologies that monitor a student’s every moment in school and online, we groom that student for a lifetime of surveillance Source: Grooming Students for A Lifetime of Surveillance by Jessy Irwin | Model View Culture

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I updated “Bring the backchannel forward. Written communication is the great social equalizer.” with selections from “NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea by Judy Singer”. Computers as the essential prosthetic device for autistics? Despite a common history of what can, with the wisdom of hindsight, be termed “oppression”, the limited social, networking, and organisational skills […]

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It seems as if the Open Space principles and the Law of Two Feet have been designed specifically for autistic communication and collaboration needs. Even the way of initiating conversations in Open Space feels highly intuitive from an autistic perspective: write down and briefly explain a problem statement, listen to other problem statements, and then […]

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Autistic social motivation is deeply rooted in the desire to share knowledge and in the desire to learn, and this has big implications for the protocols that are used in autistic communication. In contrast, the societies we grow up in and live in value abstract social status symbols more than developing a shared understanding, and […]

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The distributed model can be a boon to folks who have difficulty working in an office, but ultimately it’s up to the people who create and design work environments — distributed or co-located — to recognize that there isn’t a normal employee or a normal mode of work. There are no abnormal employees with abnormal […]

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