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Comment Standard practice in Canada sadly (Score 4, Informative) 155

by Adambomb (#63274151) Attached to: Maryland Motor Vehicles Agency Wants To Know About Your Sleep Apnea

I had my license suspended for 4 months after being diagnosed with pretty bad sleep apnea. My own family doctor reported it to the ministry of transportation.

Took that long for follow up sleep studies and to finally get my CPAP machine.

Sucked but at least now I am rested after sleeping, but they still get remote reports of my CPAP usage.

Submission + - SPAM: NHL Job Fair's Inclusiveness Mixed Messaging is Pervasive in CS+STEM Education

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: FloridaPolitics.com reports that exclusionary language promoting a "Pathway to Hockey Summit" job fair to be held during the NHL's All-Star Weekend has been removed after the original wording in a now-deleted LinkedIn post (under a banner proclaiming 'Hockey is for Everyone') raised the ire of the (FL Governor Ron) DeSantis administration. "Participants must be 18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend," read the previous event description. The revised posting eliminates any reference to ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and veteran status. The NHL distanced itself from the previous language as "not accurate," suggesting that the intent was really to reach out to people unfamiliar with hockey.

Interestingly, similar exclusionary language is not only found in the world of computer science and STEM education, it's even been codified into U.S. K-12 CS+STEM education funding law, thanks to lobbying from the nation's Tech Giants. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) calls for "programming and activities to improve instruction and student engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including computer science, (referred to in this section as 'STEM subjects') such as — (i) increasing access for students through grade 12 who are members of groups underrepresented in such subject fields, such as female students, minority students, English learners, children with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students, to high-quality courses."

Taking credit for "pressing lawmakers to include these provisions" was tech-bankrolled nonprofit Code.org, whose mission statement — "Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups" — echoes ESSA's and the NHL's simultaneously inclusive and exclusive mixed messaging.

Comment Re:There may not be a heaven. But we engineered he (Score 1) 246

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

- Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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