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Our Best Defence Against Misinformation? Public Libraries. Australia’s most trusted public institutions are already delivering frontline media literacy support. With funding, they could transform…

I have just published a blog about the essential role Public Libraries play in building media literacy skills at the local level in Australia. Would love to hear how you are seeing media literacy needs evolve in your library janecowell8.medium.com/our-best-def...

For the record, I don’t support a social media age ban.

Leaving aside that it won’t work, and it will cause negative externalities by having kids hide illegal activities and being less likely to talk to parents about such, not to mention impacting queer kids more, it’s a sop for real regulation.

A pair of pale pink handmade pottery bowls made from dark brown clay.

A teal handmade pottery bowl made from dark brown clay.

A drippy cream-colored handmade pottery bowl made from dark brown clay.

By popular demand, I added a few bowls to the shop: littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #ceramics #art #bsnm #handmade

Fuck it lets use wingdings so every official statement issued looks like a zodiac letter

All I want is for every single software provider whose product I pay for to write me personally clarifying why their product is more useful than an Excel workbook.

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Oh no I have to learn a software tool and apparently there's an online boot camp 😱

Maybe don't make software so hard to use that you have to send your users to BOOT CAMP.

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This sounds like two people trying to have sex and neither is willing to admit to the other they don’t know what sex is.

This is excellent and you should give it a read.

Woke up too early.

Torn between getting dressed and starting my day with some trimming and trying to fall back asleep.

This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development

The most important political fault line of our time is over whether children are people or property.

Oh noooooo 😱

Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.

Leaving aside the claim that NZers take 10 weeks leave (it's false) the idea that taking leave is bad because somehow it is a drain on the economy is pretty much the opposite of what our society should value

Work is not some unalloyed good. Neither is profit nor GDP. People's health & happiness are

Been saying for years that reviving the freedom schools at scale is a viable strategy.

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Working on double walled forms today--ant proof honey jars!

Seems to me that the rise of Russian aggression, combined with the collapse of US power, would have led Norway to have a stronger army than just these two dudes on troll patrol.

Who is resurfacing this question give me names I just wanna talk

We can’t regulate businesses so apparently we have to regulate people. So says the party of personal responsibility

Thank you!

Thank you! It grows very well down here.

OK, time to go make pots . . . but first--today's new video from Florian Gadsby is great, but, like, we have to stop being weird about making light pots.

He apparently fills the ones in his home with sand to keep them toppling over 😂

Vases and candlestick holders SHOULD be heavy!

Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) in Aotreaoa New Zealand.

like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Agreed! They are such stunning flowers. And useful if you ever need to take care of unwanted company.