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href weekly | Aug27-Sep2 2023

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Plugin that provides a shortcode to easily integrate mastodon feeds into wordpress pages. https://wordpress.org/plugins/include-mastodon-feed/

Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-chatbots

What’s called for .. is not a ban on but rather a reassessment of what are expected to do. https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/chatgpt-ai-cheating-revolutionizing-university-education/

Notice how after you consumed the Cake, the Cake is no longer in your inventory. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/common-proverbs-as-video-game-tutorials

Politics & Economics

It requires us to stop equating an with preparation for the workforce. It requires us to recognize that encouraging everyone to get a four-year degree as a substitute for serious labor policy was doomed from the beginning. Perhaps hardest of all, it requires us to recognize that the true value of an education should not and cannot be quantified by its economic return alone. https://newrepublic.com/article/175277/college-debt-biden-rethink-higher-education

This tool should take approximately 10 to 20 minutes to complete. It depends on how much of an earful you want to give the Department of Education. We encourage you to take the time to write more, but you don’t have to. https://tools.debtcollective.org/run/student/#/1

href weekly | Aug6-Aug12 2023

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To write well, you need the specificity of perspective that comes from communicating critically with others over an extended time. might make writing faster, but figuring out who we are in relation to others cannot be accelerated. https://www.noemamag.com/what-ai-teaches-us-about-good-writing/

this is a garden of all the different places you might discover where “the computer is a feeling.” https://arbesman.net/computationaldelights/

Comics

The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down .. they are making all 15 issues of their Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. That’s more than 1,600 pages of comics, including out of print Secrets, Nature, Food, and Color issues. https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads

Sound & Music

Love this Listening Parties idea from https://bandcamp.com/about_listening_parties

Hank Williams Sings Straight Outta Compton .. say what you will about .. but this is incredibly well executed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jh7Jk3aSlo

the design is communicative of the piano’s rich identity and successively more expressive by revealing its inner workings https://whipsaw.com/2023/06/05/unveiling-ravenchord-a-radical-piano-redesign-from-dan-harden/

Politics & Economics

Student residences built in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom over the past 20 years prioritize privacy and risk isolation to accommodate perceived student preferences. This trend is to the detriment of students’ social spaces, and should be questioned. https://theconversation.com/why-old-shared-dorms-are-better-than-new-private-student-residences-207567

A system that serves all but one group is not in a state of crisis; it is one based on structural inequality and economic exploitation. https://thewalrus.ca/there-is-no-housing-crisis/