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href weekly | Oct 6 – Oct 12 2024

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A journalist asked him, “Professor Feynman, can you explain — in just a couple of minutes — what you won the for?” Feynman apparently replied, “Listen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize.” https://archive.ph/iD1Tn

The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2807 published records by 4731 authors from 990 sources https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/

a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written generated content on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

Sound & Music

… join the car crash set … https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36

Attended a wicked show with my daughter in this weekend https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514062

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom. https://www.ithappenedhere2024.com/2402472/about

Politics & Economics

“Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up.” https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments

1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. invites a game of weighted choices.
3. wields the energy of atomic bombs.
5. Our slowness to adapt incurs tremendous future costs.
4. Extreme storms kill slowly.
6. Every event reveals another fragility.
7. The crisis grows exponentially.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/07/Future-Named-Helene/

href weekly | June25-July1 2023

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Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart

Gold rushes always finish ugly, and this AI rush is another one of those. It will resemble that glamorous Atomic Age transition from “energy too cheap to meter” to “garbage too expensive to bury.” https://www.newsweek.com/2023/07/21/ai-scariest-beast-ever-created-says-sci-fi-writer-bruce-sterling-1809439.html

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Utilizing a technique called “Adversarial Patch” that induces false recognition by adding a specific pattern to an image or video. This method lets AI cause misrecognition, miss objects or recognize objects as different. https://unlabeled.jp/en/camouflage

Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

Comics

Goodnight Phone https://www.theverge.com/c/23558791/goodnight-phone-comic-interactive-gina-wynbrandt

Sound & Music

It’s a haven for Centrist Dad and people who say ‘It’s Wine ‘o’Clock’ https://flashbak.com/the-battle-of-the-beanfield-1-june-1985-461713/

Public Enemy’s Chuck D … We Wreck Stadiums pays homage and salute to some of the baseball greats and the undeniable impact they’ve had on the game and the world .. https://chuckdasmistachuck.bandcamp.com/album/we-wreck-stadiums

Millions of songs on Spotify have been forgotten. Let’s give them new life in new ears – yours. http://www.forgotify.com

Photos

July 1 2023 Annapolis Royal Glass Blossoms

July 1 2023 East Coast Binary Suns

Politics & Economics

Climate Parables is a series of short, speculative stories from some of the most talented climate-fiction writers. We ask them what life could be like after technological and societal shifts have actually mitigated climate change—and we’ve adapted to chronic environmental stresses. https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/category/climate-parables/

Rest in Power Sue Johanson .. I remember seeing her bits on zed.cbc.ca in the early 2000’s .. fearless, funny, and direct .. a gifted educator https://youtu.be/kDs2tIrBfEo

Gaucher said he’s not totally opposed to LNG Canada and Coastal GasLink but he doesn’t stand for colonial violence against Indigenous people. Speaking out publicly alienated him from much of his community, he said, who he described as “too afraid to speak.”

“What’s crazy is being classified as one of those ‘crazy anti-pipeline people’ because not once did I say I was against it,” he said, his fists clenched on the table. #canada
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-kitimat-boom/