We haven’t done this in Colorado yet, have we?
Perhaps they determined that a similar law would be unenforceable?
Medical
Marijuana Users ‘Have 30 Days’ To Turn In Their Guns, Honolulu
Police Say
The Honolulu Police Department is ordering legal
cannabis patients to “voluntarily surrender” any guns they own
because pot is still considered an illegal drug under federal law.
The initiative continues three months after
Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened for business.
“Your medical marijuana use disqualifies you
from ownership of firearms and ammunition,” Honolulu police Chief
Susan Ballard wrote in a Nov. 13 letter to one medical marijuana card
holder. “If you currently own or have any firearms, you have 30
days upon receipt of this letter to voluntarily surrender your
firearms, permit and ammunition to the Honolulu Police Department or
otherwise transfer ownership.”
Seems consistent with how Americans vote on
anything.
New Study
Finds That Most Redditors Don’t Actually Read the Articles They
Vote On
It’s probably not at all surprising that most
content posted to Reddit is voted on more or less blindly. I’ll
cop to liking articles that friends have shared on Facebook without
reading, let alone evaluating them. I’d say there’s
even sort of an aggregation myth that pervades our view of social
media, that buried within discussions of fake news and social media
corporate responsibility is this assumption that people are actually
reading the articles, or at least that a lot of them are.
The data, however, suggests that they aren’t.
According to a
paper published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social
Systems by researchers at Notre Dame University, some 73 percent
of posts on Reddit are voted on by users that haven’t actually
clicked through to view the content being rated. This is according
to a newly
released dataset consisting of all Reddit activity of 309 site
users for a one year period.
This is interesting. Will anyone else do this?
Neil
Young’s Massive Online Archive Is Open
Earlier this year, Neil
Young announced that he was preparing to launch a massive
online archive, featuring all his music, released and unreleased,
for free in high
quality audio via his new XStream
Music streaming service. Today, on the release date of his new
album The
Visitor, he has launched the site. Indeed, the new Neil
Young Archives include a filing cabinet and timeline listing all
of his albums up through The Visitor, including several
unreleased items like Chrome Dreams, Homegrown, and
Toast (which are not yet available to stream). Also listed
are his film projects and books. Explore for yourself here,
and watch a tutorial video narrated by Young below. “Don’t
forget to have a good time,” he instructs users. “And try not to
get lost.”
Could this help my International students? (Or
help me read their papers?)
Rewordify -
A Tool to Help Students Understand Complex Texts
Rewordify
is a free site that can help students understand complex passages of
text. At its most basic level Rewordify takes a complex passage and
rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's
settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words
to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when
they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply
highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced. Watch the
video below for a complete overview of how Rewordify works.
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