Liked: The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn
This is a really interesting & powerful post. Problems from the tech giants, algorithms & AI, suggesting learning and anger as possible ways to fight back.
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Somewhat inspired by other colophons and in particular Arron Davis. The Blog This blog run on WordPress using the indieweb friendly SemPress theme. I use a child theme to allow me to make mistakes. I host with blacknight.co.uk. Originally because it used macs and allowed me to play with Flamethrower, a cgi engine based on […]
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Here are few really interesting posts I’ve found on Mastodon. The Really Dark Truth About Bots – YouTube via rg4w (@FourthWorld@mastodon.online) – Mastodon is a tangled web indeed. Worth a listen unless you are overwhelmed by recent news. Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors – […]
Scottish Ai: Mini Teachmeet
My class joined in the ‘ AI Wonderland: Unleash Creativity with Make it hAPPen (P4-P7)’ webinar on Monday. It was a useful introduction for their age group on a topic we had not explored in class. In Teams I noticed this TeachMeet too. I finally signed up for it on Wednesday. Given it started at […]
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The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard – Mondo 2000 One of the more bizarre HyperCard Links I’ve collected. HyperCard was a precurser to the first web browser, except chained to a hard drive before the worldwide web. Six years later Mosaic was introduced, influenced by some of the ideas in HyperCard, and indirectly by an inspiring […]
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Some links and interesting things I’ve noticed over the last couple of weeks Cardboard I like using cardboard in school, some inspiration. Tech Media Worrying The featured images is a montage of screenshots of some of the links. I’ve done that twice, so made an AppleScript.
iMac-less in the classroom
I’ve been lucky, imo, to have been using an old 27 inch iMac as my computer in school since I started 8 years ago. Despite its age it has been a wonderful machine for me. Returning to my classroom last week I found it will no longer start up at all. No response to the […]
tag
jdberry/tag: A command line tool to do tags on Mac files. I don’t use tags much, mainly to quickly mark a set of files going down a list with quicklook. I’ve now got an applescript that will simply tag the selection in the finder blue. Keyboard shortcut via FastScripts.
Drummer to WordPress!
Frank’s technique works. This is my second test. The possibilities for using Drummer just opened up for me. The script looks as if it is going to open my eyes a bit. I’ve only really scripted posting to WordPress via XML-RPC using AppleScript. I am guess tags and categories could be handles in the same […]
Liked: Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex by Walter Vannini (Aeon) Coding is seen as fun and glamorous, but that’s a sales pitch. In reality, it’s complicated, both technically and ethically It’s better to admit that coding is complicated, technically and ethically. Computers, at the moment, can only execute orders, to varying degrees […]