Linda Steer

Sounds like a good summer read!

Life in the attention economy…

Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.

Ugh. Week’s!! When is that edit button coming?

A photograph of a green book cover with the title “The Parameters of our Cage.” The green photograph depicts a pond with lily pads framed by trees and shrubs.

This weeks reading: a fascinating little book of letters between C. Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth about photography, poetry, incarceration, imagination, contemporary culture and politics, friendship and more.

I find this fascinating / terrifying.

So, what’s everyone reading this summer? Any suggestions? I’m looking for good novels.

I made pesto without pine nuts yesterday. Not by desire, but by default (burnt the pine nuts while toasting them).

The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

This.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Ducklings learning to chase bugs. You’re welcome.

Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific A retrospective of the Duch Golden Age painter has been organized by the Toledo Museum of Art, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the MFA Boston.

Rachel Ruysch’s Still Lifes, from the Dutch Golden Age, Are Both Sensuous and Scientific
By Kelly Presutti for Art in America

www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Amazing!

How beautiful!

If I won the lottery, I’d open a free university!

And it’s rather good!

A picture by one person, for one person: Las Meninas, 1656. It doesn't get any better than this. Some paintings by me on the back wall (thank you Diego), but they are not the stars of this show! Diego Velazquez, born OTD 1599.

Signs of hope.

Thanks for this! It’s useful as I figure out how to talk to my students about AI.

We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

A photo of two cats snuggled on a couch. One is black and the other is fluffy and grey with a white patch on her chest.

Happy Caturday from these two. #caturday

Interesting video on the rhetoric around generative AI and universities.

A lot to think about in this thread.

It’s totally fine to say, “hey I don’t accept the convenience costs of AI’s economic and ecological disruptions and I value the inefficiency of human creativity so we will pass on collaborations that accept that trade off!”

Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me

A photograph of a large book sitting on a black stone countertop. The book has a clear acetate dust jacket on which the name “Mickalene” is printed in large sans serif bronze-gold letters. The name is broken into three parts of three letters and spread over three lines. The words “ALL ABOUT LOVE” are cut out of the letter A. Behind the cover, an image of a collage of a beautiful, luminescent Black woman’s face covers the book. Her eyes are taken from and black and white photograph. Her hair, jacket, nose and lips sparkle with sequins.

Today’s reading: Mickalene Thomas - All About Love. What a gorgeous book.

Exhausted from trying to make sense of the news. I think I’ll just pet my cats and make soup instead.

a simple tutorial on how to draw a medieval cat. step 1 shows a basic “normal cat" with no details. step 2 shows the same cat but with a "human face" added, featuring a straight mouth and serious eyes. the final drawing combines both elements — a cat with a human-like face, surrounded by sparkles ✨

how to draw a medieval cat in two easy steps

I’m sorry, what?!?