While there have always been gullible adults, as a parent and educator, the real issue here is with young people.
I had never considered people would use AI as a therapist, prophet or guru!
While there have always been gullible adults, as a parent and educator, the real issue here is with young people.
I had never considered people would use AI as a therapist, prophet or guru!
This article by the World Resources Institute shows how important it is that there is an infrastructure that enables individual decision-making to take place. For example, I’ve been vegetarian now for eight years, and it’s much easier to remove meat from your diet these days even than when I started to so in 2017. Likewise, because of investment in EV infrastructure, these days it’s unproblematic to own or lease an EV.
The idea of supportive infrastructure, policies or incentives rings true. My own situation makes an EV difficult: cost of an EV & charging when tenement living. My current job needs a 40 minute commute by car, or a couple of hours each way by public transport. I hope that is offset by not having a car till I was 49.
The page lined by Doug is a great read too: The Most Impactful Things You Can Do for the Climate | World Resources Institute
Recently I saw a post on Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel pointing to a nice 3 column layout for a blog.
Doug wondered :
If you’re reading this and know of a similar blog theme, on any platform, could you let me know?
I thought it would be possible to use the Site Editor on a WordPress block theme and left a comment.
I’ve been watching quite a few WordPress videos from Jamie WP. I especially like his Remaking Famous Websites playlist. So I thought it might be possible to make a WordPress site that looked a bit like garry.net.
Jamie does these in 30 minutes. This took me longer, but I’ve not a whole lot of experience with the site editor. I decided to use Glow Blogs. It is free and easy for me to set up a site there. I serve as part time product owner so this is good practise. The disadvantage is that I can’t install any extra plug-ins or add any custom css1. Glow Blogs also runs a version or so behind WordPress.org.
I only did enough to see where I could go easily. I didn’t attempt to match styles or other features.
I got as far as Three Columns, this is not finished or polised but I managed:
To do this I created three page templates2. All are inside columns. All have the same first column. So I made that one as a pattern3. The second column is used twice, so I made another pattern for that. This stopped me having to fix the same thing in different places. I think this is the right approach.
I’ve ignored mobile and other possible pages. I didn’t touch archive, views for categories and tags for example . My aim was to spend a couple of hours on this.
I had trouble with a few things.
Hi Doug,
Thanks for this link, I’d not heard Vinay Gupta before. A good listen although some of the verbal style grated a bit. I’d heard the idea of fair shares, in relation to air miles, before and liked it. Possibly because I very seldom fly;-)
In this microcast, I go through three interesting links from my saved list on Pocket.
Nice to hear Doug again particularly in micro format. I do love a microcast. Lots of podcasts, especially 2 or 3 hosts chatting I find a bit long. I’d rather queueup a few shorter ones for a commute.
On the other end, this makes me feel a bit uncomfortable listening to some podcasts. I used to listen to quite a few popular mac/tech podcasts, but the feeling that I knew these folk was somehow quite unpleasant. 1. I don’t & 2. I live in a very different world. They are often over long with a lot of friendly, between presenters, chat. I now keep an eye and dip in occasionally when the topic looks good thank to Castro’s triage.
Tide, I very much enjoyed because I had met irl Doug and virtually Dai. My own broadcasting/podcasting efforts were mostly aimed at folk just like me. I’d guess I knew many of our audience.
68k.news: Headlines From the Future
Website address
http://68k.news
Description
Basic HTML Google News for vintage computers
Hi Doug,
I was wondering what was going on, the old feed was behaving strangely in my reader. The new one works really nicely in inoreader.
I do get different behaviour in different browsers. Firefox, where I’ve an RSS extension, shows the RSS; Safari offers to open the feed in NetNewsWire RSS reader; Chrome shows the webpage.
Alan’s comment about pinboard is interesting, I used to have a sort of tumble blog running off the rss from my delicious links.
Hi Doug,
looks like a great project, I’ve subscribed to the feed. Great set of links in this intro too, thanks.
Learning does not work for me like that either Doug, serendipity, excitement, rabbit holes & fascination are usually the drivers for me.
something kicks in
& then I am lost in it. I often believe this will change lots of things and emerge blinking to reality.