Gemini: The greatest challenge you face is your own mind. Your brain is terrible and must be stopped.
Skagerock seems like a missed opportunity
Design thought of the day
CN: violence
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Today is the Disability Day of Mourning. The disability community will gather to remember disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers. https://ow.ly/Y9oG50Yn6ar
#DDofM2026 Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).
As a child, the library was the only space I felt like I belonged. They're magic.
My CFP experience has gotten much better since I started thinking of the talks I propose as "offerings" rather than "proposals" or "submissions".
It's never too late to learn about free software :)
Art is resistance
Maaaaaaaaybe
One of my takes on codes of conduct is that communities will eventually need to decide whether reacting to bad things after they happened is enough. Apparently paleontologists are breaking ground on that one
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
A bunch of people have sent me a screenshot of this post without any additional context. Conveniently, @esqueer.net, who is very legit, provided receipts in the thread
If someone is taking a work zoom meeting in a cafe: 1) other people should be allowed to participate and 2) they should get paid for their participation and time
When your enemies tell you not to do something, you know you are being effective. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
curious that a university that laid off over 1000 staff members due to financial crisis scrounged up nearly $10M to spend on ... social media posting to appeal to athletic recruits?
frontofficesports.com/college-athl...
Brightness in my day: reorganizing my books and deciding to classify The Locked Tomb as romantasy
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
I'm trying to tease out something from "knackered." I also want to reference "Autofac" or that Asimov story where the supercomputers shut themselves down for the good of humanity, but those feel like too deep cuts
Internet Archive also has a great collection! archive.org/details/movies
AI is part of what’s killing adobe but not in this sense. You can’t open Acrobat without it bugging you to use its AI. You can’t toggle it off. Everybody hates that shit. Nobody wants it. This will be the fate of every company trying to force AI
So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
If you're an academic, you might have Iranian colleagues, coworkers, and friends who are struggling with the violence and internet blackout in Iran. Check in with them and use your citizenship privilege if they aren't getting support they need from your university www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Waiting to hear back about a paper is like waiting for your situationship to text you back
Unhoused populations in cities and public health and hygiene, "fiber is the new protein"
I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread
It's almost like you can show people that you'll take care of them by taking care of them
