I read a lot about twitter being a ‘toxic stew’ but I don’t see that in my stream much. My reasons for exploring other options are more around gaining a feeling of ownership, a wish to be a little more thoughtful & free myself from dopamine kicks perhaps. Still tweeting too.
Year: 2017
@douglane Micro.blog photo challenge 7 “shadow” not enough sun today to get one outside. Micro.blog noir filter.
@douglane Micro.blog photo challenge 6 “seasonal” a few apples cling on after the leaves have gone
Microcast 12: Podcatching Thoughts
A few thought about my listening habits.
Some microcasts mentioned:
featured image screenshots of Castro edited with Workflow and Snapseed. Spot the guilty secret.
@douglane micro.blog photo challenge 5 #liquid Gunpowder Tea
Morning Banton.
@douglane micro.blog photo challenge day 4 Close Up. Glaze Gaze. Chrome filter.
@douglane Micro.blog photo challenge 3 “on the move”
Life in Links 12-11-17
Some of the things I’ve pinned to the board this week.
- Home – Minetest
A free, open source voxel game engine and game. Fully extendable. You are in control.
I installed that on a few PCs in school. Testing it in a lunchtime club. Looks like a free minecraft. Lots of possibilities. I have it running on one pc as a server and the class can connect from different PCs (WE have tested and got it working on mac & windows).
- Let’s Enhance
Neural network hallucinates missing details to make image look natural.
hallucinates is an interesting choice of words.
- How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met
Behind the Facebook profile you’ve built for yourself is another one, a shadow profile, built from the inboxes and smartphones of other Facebook users. Contact information you’ve never given the network gets associated with your account, making it easier for Facebook to more completely map your social connections.
Not sure if this is incredibly creepy, just the way things are heading or both.
- That IoT Thing: Bitty Data Logger 3.0
Bitty Data Logger is an application which can capture and chart data from a BBC micro:bit’s internal accelerometer, magnetometer and temperature sensors. It’s available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets and for Chromebook as well. Data is, of course, transmitted from the micro:bit to your smartphone over Bluetooth so you can be some distance away from the micro:bit and…. whatever you have connected to it.
I had a quick test with an earlier version. Lots of possibilities for the classroom, wonder when I’ll get it fitted in.
- Something is wrong on the internet
one of the traditional roles of branded content is that it is a trusted source. Whether it’s Peppa Pig on children’s TV or a Disney movie, whatever one’s feelings about the industrial model of entertainment production, they are carefully produced and monitored so that kids are essentially safe watching them, and can be trusted as such. This no longer applies when brand and content are disassociated by the platform, and so known and trusted content provides a seamless gateway to unverified and potentially harmful content.
There seems to be a myriad of weird videos, automatically or semi-automatically created, earning money. Google have now said they will restrict videos that are flagged: YouTube to restrict ‘disturbing’ children’s videos, if flagged – BBC News. It seems unlikely that will deal with the problem.
Featured image, a bit of processing slit-scanning strangness, guess the source.
@douglane Today’s micro.blog photo challenge arrive after the light had gone. #tasty