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Mostly AI and weird audio

AI Fact Checker

Deep Background GPT Released – by Mike Caulfield

I just released a (largely) non-hallucinating1 rigorous AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. And I don’t say that lightly: I literally co-wrote the book on using the internet to verify things. All you do is log into ChatGPT, click the link below, and put in a sentence or paragraph for it to fact check.

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-684fa334fb0c8191910d50a70baad796-deep-background-fact-checks-and-context?model=o3

Radio is a Foreign Country

THE RADIO DIAL IS A COMPASS; THE ANTENNA A DIVINING ROD*
Welcome to RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY!, an endless stream of obscure (and mostly retro) global music and audio ephemera rarely heard outside their home region.

Curated by humans not algorithms, our livestream follows a unique mixtape format where just about anything can happen and features cut-ups of international radio broadcasts (am, fm & shortwave), field recordings, ethnographic film, vintage records & cassettes, and digital ephemera from the far reaches of the internet. Our mission is to explore forgotten and new ways of making radio and to facilitate greater access and exposure to sounds and music not sufficiently documented by the commercial music industry.

Radio is a Foreign Country

via restlesslens

Halloween is Coming

Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour on SoundCloud

I’ll be missing the halloween activity in school this year this year.

Pootle Playground

Introducing Pootle Playground — My Experimental WordPress Blueprint Builder – Pootlepress

Uses AI to build a WordPress site that opens in the playground

Wiki Radio

The thrilling sound of random Wikimedia
Inspired by WikiTok, I thought I’d make something to discover sounds uploaded to Wikimedia. From political speeches and bird noises to genuine bangers, it’s mostly wholesome, though I cant guarantee it won’t play you something horrible once in a while.

Wiki Radio 📻

Hot Pi

Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units • The Register

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A jay in the branches of a hawthorn bush
A little Egret in a field

A dull afternoon, breezy with the threat of drizzle. Walked round the short loop on the Kilpatrick braes. As I came back on the road by the cattle grid I heard a harsh call from the ‘hawthorn field’ next to the gate. It kept going and Merlin suggested a jay. I watched for a while and saw one, moving from bush to bush, looking and calling. I could hear a crow and buzzard too. I wonder if they were getting worked up at a cat or fox. Quite a good view through my camera, the distance and dull weather making for a blurry shot. I’ve not seen jays here very often and mostly retreating. Further down in the horse field, near the drainage ditch I saw a little egret! I’ve watched a few down the Clyde recently but always on the shore. Another blurry photo.

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After a few years of laying fairly fallow I’ve got a bit of time to work on ScotEduBlogs.

The site had chuntered on mostly under its own steam for a while. Mostly auto-updating, all I need to do was to keep the site & domain up and running.

ScotEduBlogs is a site that aggregates and shares posts from Scots Educational Blogs running since 2007. It also posts out links, for the original posts, to mastodon and bluesky.

I’ve retired from teaching this summer so hopefully have a bit more time to promote the site. I’ve just added a few sites into the mix:

I am hoping to find some more, these sites have certainly increased the diversity of posts aggregated.

Why

  • I think it is valuable to read the voices of educators at all levels.
  • I am doing this as a ‘hobby’ I like blogs and blogging.
  • It doesn’t cost much. I am not making any money from SEB. The domain, hosting and a bit of time I can manage.
  • I am fascinated by the technology, especially RSS aggregation and re-distribution.
  • I like reading blogs.

Can you help?

I’d like to add more voices to the site. If you know an educational site with a feed (Blogs or substacks for example) please let me know about it. If you blog about education send me your site. You can fill in the form or send me an email.

Please pass this on, I am a lot less networked than I was in the noughties.

One of the main problems with SEB that is run by me. Andrew McLaughlin pointed this out a while back.

this currently hinges on centralised moderators to update and organise the aggregator.

I cannot say I disagree. I’ve never turned down a request for addition other than sites that, don’t support RSS or ones that are not about education in Scotland. Having seem the number of spam pages that have been created on the teachMeet Wiki I don’t think automatic inclusion is an option. But there is a need for more involvement, I’ve had ideas about that, and am open to discussion.

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Likes Do you remember the books you read? • (Venkatram Harish Belvadi) by V.H. Belvadi .

I do not ‘remember’ most of the books I have read. I can recall which ones I liked and roughly why I liked them, but I cannot recount the plot minutely or repeat all the points made in a non-fiction work.

Quite please to read this! My wife has a great memory for books read. I do not.