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Why would Berkeley budget for captioning on a series of videos that they're giving to the public for free? Expecting them to accommodate everyone for loss-maki
by strken 1mo ago
Why would Berkeley budget for captioning on a series of videos that they're giving to the public for free?
Expecting them to accommodate everyone for loss-making global educational philanthropy is a ridiculous overreach. It has made the world poorer and entrenched the disadvantage of everyone not in the US. Thanks, disability advocates.
- galleywest200 1mo agoCounter point is captions are also really cheap. I presume the lecturer read from a script, just use that.
- strken 1mo agoThey were archival footage of old lectures. But also, "really cheap" is only cheap when something is done for profit. When it's done as a charitable side gig then pretty much any expense is expensive.
- galleywest200 1mo agoMy response to that would be “Hey intern/grad student, enjoy your new assignment”
- kube-system 1mo agoFor many charitable activities it may be, but also, the University of California system has a 53.6 billion dollar budget. They could pay some people to caption them if they cared to do so.
- strken 1mo agoThey could have, but they didn't, then they got sued, and now kids in Kenya can't watch world-class lectures. Thanks, disability advocates! Thanks, UC!
- kube-system 1mo agoIt was solely UC's decision to pull the lectures rather than comply with the 36 year old law that they were already well aware of but decided of their own accord to ignore. They never cared about being charitable, they cared about the ROI on their marketing stunt to make themselves look charitable.
- strken 1mo agoGood thing we all had the ADA to protect us from free educational material distributed for cynical reasons.
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- kube-system 1mo agoUnironically, yes. They are a government land-grant public institution that is supposed to provide services equitably to their citizens. They shouldn’t be pinching pennies to enrich their administrators. They should be held accountable for following the law and their obligations in the work they are required to do. If anyone should be setting an example for equity, or at the least following its own damn laws, it should be our government itself.
- yodon 1mo ago>I presume the lecturer read from a script. You presume wrong. No college professor will waste the amount of time required to fully write out everything they will say in class in advance. Notes, yes. Detailed notes, not unlikely. Full script to be read verbatim, nope.
- gus_massa 29d agoWe made a few videos 14 minute for math for the first year of the university. It was similar to stand-up, the speaker has a clear ideas of she was going to say, we took like 1 or 2 hours to pick the best examples and discus the path,. Anyway most of the details were improvised on the spot, with many sentences skipped or added or changed. We made a few takes of each 2-3 minute part, and glued the best. Also we had to fix a lot of typos in the blackboard of the talk. I remember a "one plus zero is zero" that I had to fix. The hard part is finding a "one" that comes after a word that ends with an "s" because otherwise it sounds horrible.
- kube-system 1mo agoThe same reason the free sidewalks in front of Berkeley can fit a wheelchair. Because it is illegal to make one that discriminates against people who use one. Even if it's free.