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Aide or Answer – Learning with Artificial Intelligence – Read Write Respond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this in mind, for me I feel that AI tools are useful as an aide, but I am circumspect about using them as the answer. I guess time will tell.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Walk to Auld Wives Lifts<\/a> I need to have a wee walk to the Auld Wives Lifts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Coates on how Threads will integrate with the Fediverse<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who knows? Maybe we\u2019ll get the interoperable shared, open social web that many of us have wanted for the last twenty plus years? Wilder things have happened. Fingers crossed?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A less positive view of Meta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meet \u2018Link History,\u2019 Facebook\u2019s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As lawmakers introduce tech regulations and Apple and Google beef up privacy restrictions, Meta is doubling down and searching for new ways to preserve its data harvesting empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company pitches Link History as a useful tool for consumers \u201cwith your browsing activity saved in one place,\u201d rather than another way to keep tabs on your behavior.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Scripting News: Friday, January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s the thing we really need to escape from, being monetized. The only respectful way to be monetized is to pay for something worth paying for, roughly what it costs, plus a reasonable margin of profit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marlon James on Bob Dylan\u2019s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews \u2039 Literary Hub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the thing about Led Zeppelin and the Stones is that they dig music\u2013particularly black music\u2013after the fact. The difference between them and Dylan is that Dylan digs culture as it\u2019s happening. And I think that\u2019s a big difference. It\u2019s why Talking Heads sound like Talking Heads, you know?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Top 100 Tunes from Scotland 2023 (25\u20131): Young Fathers to Jesus & Mary Chain | The Herald<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11<\/strong> Michael Timmons & Yoker Moon – Practice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded mostly live and apparently musically improvised with Glasgow electronic musician Yoker Moon, the East Kilbride songwriter Michael Timmons has placed an evocative and fragile lyrical hook within a tense computer generated soundscape.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My son-in-law at number 11<\/p>\n\n\n