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Negroponte really boofed up with the One-Laptop-Per-Child project. It had a lot of good intentions, but it's such a textbook example of misguided tech folks ins
by acbart 7y ago
Negroponte really boofed up with the One-Laptop-Per-Child project. It had a lot of good intentions, but it's such a textbook example of misguided tech folks inserting themselves into an education setting. From this article, sounds like another strike for him.
- Gibbon1 7y agoTalking to teachers I know, no one, especially tech people believes they know what they are doing.
- vnchr 7y agoEpstein’s One-Lap-Per-Child project was far more misguided. The standard demonstrated here for accepting of donations is disgusting.
- scruple 7y agoI would normally never tell someone this because it's generally very unimportant... But, in this case I think it's probably warranted, so that you know for the future. The word "boof" [0] has come to mean something very different in recent times. [0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boof#Verb_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boof#Verb_2
- liability 7y agoIs this sort of slang not similar to 'fucked up' or 'screwed the pooch'?
- scruple 7y agoSlang as in the definitions given in the link I provided? No, that slang and the common usage of the word you see associated with it today online and in younger generations is not at all similar to 'fucked up' or 'screwed the pooch.'
- jacobolus 7y agoWhere by “younger generations” you mean “people younger than 60” (source: Supreme Court Justice Boofing Bart O'Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook)
- scruple 7y agoIm thinking more of how the citations on the Wiktionary link start referencing _this_ usage of the word as happening around the turn of the century, but, sure. Though, I had no idea that (_this_ usage of the word or the apparent reference from his yearbook) was a thing, either, and I'm a Xenial. edit/ Read an article about the yearbook. I don't know how I missed that when all of that was going down. Thanks for pointing that out!
- basq 7y agoIndeed it is not, as the definition given for the word is not even it's colloquial usage anymore, although the new usage is related: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Boof&=true https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=Boof&=t...