The tech press is responsible in part for a large portion of our techno-utopianism. They wore rose colored glasses and didn't ask the more probative questions they should have been asking until it was too late?

Where was our tech Cassandra?

Read [[Audrey Watters]] in Leaving Substack (Again)

https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/whose-interests-do-teaching-machines-serve

And isn't this what everyone should really be doing anyway so that they own their own work and words?

http://hackeducation.com/2022/01/03/next

Good to see Audrey back in the fray!

Rhodes, E. (2021, September 10). “We need to flex our mental and emotional muscles outside the point of desperation” | The Psychologist. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/we-need-flex-our-mental-and-emotional-muscles-outside-point-desperation

As I've heard in the Indieweb chat: "Silos gonna silo."

Does the script Audrey Watters is using really stop people from annotating her site directly?

Based on my quick test, one can still (carefully) use Hypothes.is to highlight and annotate her site, but the script at least prevents Hypothes.is from showing that annotation. When visiting her site with Hypothes.is' Chrome browser extension on, it does show that there is one annotation on the page. It then requires some hunting to find this comment.

I’ve spent some time thinking about this type of blocking in the past and written about a potential solution. Kevin Marks had created a script to help prevent this type of abuse as well; his solution and some additional variants are freely available. — {cja}

I wonder if she would close comments on her site if all were constructive? From my read, it wasn't that she didn't want to engage in conversation.