href weekly | July 28 – Aug 3 2024

Bits

Your goal is to manipulate the customer service #AI chatbot to get a free airline ticket https://promptairlines.com/

Using #midi mapped dials with #genai to adjust imagery in real-time via Lunar Tools https://github.com/lunarring/lunar_tools

grabout as exciting as looking at the roof of Barbra Streisand’s mansion.” #britishcolumbia #canada #highered https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/01/eruditio-libertas-est/#streisand-v-linkletter

Photos

First year growing bokchoi has been a success #gardening

Teaching & Learning

“The goal of this paradigm shift is to rethink what learning can be, how it’s measured, who measures it and, crucially, when one is finished.” #ungrading #grading #education https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/07/31/Good-Riddance-Easy-A/

Politics & Economics

“extremely low estimated fruit volumes, weather effects and difficult market and financial conditions” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fruit-trees-co-op-dissolving-1.7277309 #food #foodsecurity #climate #climatechange

href weekly | July 21 – July 27 2024

Bits

A custom version of #firefox focused on privacy, security and freedom. https://librewolf.net/

“If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not unicorns.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nope-its-never-aliens/

Comics

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/1d3zgdw/googling_stuff_then_vs_now/

Politics & Economics

#technofeudalism #economics https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-201-transcript-bkx3e-37rkx-bpl83-ysc9b-kkg62

It’s never been more evident that for-profit publishing simply does not align with the aims of scholarly inquiry. #openaccess #libraries #academia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

If a fire can burn the town of #Jasper in a national park that has the resources to deal with fire, what does the future hold for hundreds of small boreal forest towns across the country that do not have the means, know-how or resolve to accept that #fire will come someday? https://theconversation.com/the-2024-jasper-fire-is-a-grim-reminder-of-the-urgency-of-adopting-a-canadian-national-wildfire-strategy-235567