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href weekly | Nov 10 – Nov 16 2024

Bits

my evergreen resource exploring with students https://archive.org/details/remix4_2023-h264

oeglobal24 “taken together, it’s clear why sharing pretrained models but restricting access to the data required to build them makes good business sense … but it does smack of companies trying to have their cake & eat it too .. and if the strategy helps entrench the already dominant positions of large tech companies, it’s hard to see how that fits with the underlying ethos of https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/25/1090111/tech-industry-open-source-ai-definition-problem/

Great work from @timklapdor articulating frameworks https://learning-types.com/

The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

oeglobal24 Great media from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research https://www.wehi.edu.au/tv-content-type/gifs/

Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/openedaustralasia/

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. https://plants.jstor.org/

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums/

https://bionomia.net/how-it-works a web service dedicated to enhancing the attribution and recognition of collectors and identifiers in natural history collections

Sound & Music

It’s the psychedelic height of the 1960s, and BBC Radiophonics veteran Delia Derbyshire meets an American hippie guy that she has a hankering for, and Delia loses her composure https://youtu.be/2jLa7eEaFjk?si=CGJhmK8u99xV4ZA9

Photos

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href weekly | Oct 6 – Oct 12 2024

Bits

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/