Mar Hicks
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit.
www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
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- @hoolier.bsky.social never misses
- Reposted by Mar HicksThere are well designed exams and poorly designed exams. "Exam" in the UK is a fairly predictable, and imo bad, format. The point of a good exam is to make you do the kind of studying at the end of the semester that causes you to revisit and synthesize the material and notice new patterns across it.
- Reposted by Mar HicksI don’t think people have internalized that even if we sign a deal with China tomorrow, we are in for a several months-long supply shock. The shelves are going to go bare. There is no way to avoid it at this point.
- Reposted by Mar Hickswww.blockpartyapp.com/blog/getting... @blockpartyapp.com is now available for Bluesky and I recommend it. I used it years back on Twitter and it really improved my user experience
- Reposted by Mar HicksThe state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
- If approved, SLC would have 4 flag designs. It's current, as well as one tied to Progress Pride, Juneteenth and Transgender designs as seen here #utpol:
- “Without HICPAC’s public meetings, there is no longer any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings. This further undermines safety for patients, nurses, and other health care workers.”
- Reposted by Mar HicksThis isn’t exactly correct. 2 MMR doses are 97% effective at preventing infection- enough to drive measles out of circulation if enough ppl are vaccinated due to HERD immunity. But if herd immunity is broken, you still have a small chance of becoming infected if it’s circulating widely. So mask up
- Reposted by Mar HicksProgram costing $32m (a rounding error of a rounding error in Federal Budget) and delivers $40b in annual savings to Americans, as well as being good for the environment, sure let’s eliminate that program. 🙄 The 2 F-18s we just deposited into the Red Sea would have paid for 2+ years of the program.
