Bits
Winter is my time to hunker down during cold nights and enjoy some #videogames .. been loving Rollerdrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mns9HMvREA
“felony contempt of business model” #righttorepair https://archive.ph/GCyFI
“Did you know that the Internet Archive now has a Canadian edition? And that they have an amazing space in downtown Vancouver that supports everything from servers to socials?” https://lu.ma/van-dweb-social via: @bmann
“Whether you’re into #AI or not, it’s worth spending some time honoring what is not machine-like in you.” https://austinkleon.com/2023/01/12/ai-cant-kill-anything-worth-preserving/
Sound & Music
a short story with a “playable” cover – set the beat sequencer, twiddle some knobs, and enjoy your track while reading. #webaudio https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/
“Dreaming, dreaming is free ..” https://saysueme.bandcamp.com/track/dreaming
The mighty #wfmu is now upon the #fediverse https://mastodon.social/@WFMU@c.im
Great chat between @efd & Gavin Butt on #wfmu https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/123614
“If you see a box of pine
With a name that looks like mine
Just say I drowned in a barrel of wine
When I got to the border”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEk-wjil1rA
Cause if one of us unplugs, everybody dies …
You gotta switch the thing off from the inside …
https://chadvangaalen.bandcamp.com/track/blood-machine
“Wrote a song for everyone
Wrote a song for truth
Wrote a song for everyone
And I couldn’t even talk to you”
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/john_fogerty_regains_control_of_creedence_clearwater_revival_catalogue
Comics
“Beaton’s memoir is a political and social triumph, a subtle knife that cuts at our carefully cultivated blind-spots about industry, labor, energy, gender, and the climate.” https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/14/hark-an-oilpatch/#kate-beaton
Teaching & Learning
This document contains patterns of text for academic syllabi in an era of AI tools. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O1_uUvF8OYbleru5QyjjuNP_On7h5vaVQC2GaSQ315U/edit#
Whither Comes the Data: Current Uses of AI and Data Set Training in Higher Ed https://digitaldetox.trubox.ca/whither-comes-the-data-current-uses-of-ai-and-data-set-training-in-higher-ed/
The issue is not so much around “[e]ducating students and educators on the ethical use of AI technology, including #chatgpt in academic settings”, it’s around educating students on what the point of assessment is: to provide some sort of levelling feedback on how well they understand a particular topic or can perform a particular task based on their performance on a contrived activity and according to a particular evaluation scheme. https://blog.ouseful.info/2023/01/12/idle-thoughts-chatgpt-etc-in-education/
“Libraries are the last place in every town and city that people can simply exist … every building one enters today comes with some expectation of spending money.” https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/cultural-cross-sections/last-free-space-linda-stack-nelson
“Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library – and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.” https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/jessamyn-west
Politics & Economics
“Populism is useful to elite libertarians because applying centrifugal force to the political system creates exit opportunities. But for whom?” https://archive.ph/fLcCr
First season I’ve managed to grow, store, and local source all of my Winter food needs .. it is very difficult to separate oneself from supermarket chains https://mastodon.social/@grantpotter/109688204716269925
“delays in action aided by Exxon had “profound implications” because earlier investments in wind and solar could have averted current and future climate disasters.” #climatechange https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research