{"id":3546,"date":"2024-10-13T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:05:10","slug":"href-weekly-oct-6-oct-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Oct 6 \u2013 Oct 12 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A journalist asked him, \u201cProfessor Feynman, can you explain \u2014 in just a couple of minutes \u2014 what you won the #nobelprize<\/a> for?\u201d Feynman apparently replied, \u201cListen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn\u2019t be worth the Nobel Prize.\u201d https:\/\/archive.ph\/iD1Tn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 #OpenEd24<\/a> https:\/\/www.oerknowledgecloud.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written #AI<\/a> generated content on #Wikipedia<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound & Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

… join the car crash set … #remix<\/a> #wfmu<\/a> https:\/\/wfmu.org\/archiveplayer\/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attended a wicked #nobro<\/a> show with my daughter in #halifax<\/a> this weekend https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.6514062<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#podcast<\/a> #audiodrama<\/a> Inspired by Sinclair Lewis\u2019 dystopian novel, It Can\u2019t 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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics & Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. #climatechange<\/a> invites a game of weighted choices.
3. #climatechange<\/a> 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 #climate<\/a> crisis grows exponentially.
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Bits A journalist asked him, \u201cProfessor Feynman, can you explain \u2014 in just a couple of minutes \u2014 what you won the #nobelprize for?\u201d Feynman apparently replied, \u201cListen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn\u2019t be worth the Nobel Prize.\u201d https:\/\/archive.ph\/iD1Tn The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[127,270,229,187,376,374,375,377,197,41,196,91],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","tag-ai","tag-audiodrama","tag-climate","tag-climatechange","tag-halifax","tag-nobelprize","tag-nobro","tag-opened24","tag-podcast","tag-remix","tag-wfmu","tag-wikipedia","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100213,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/100213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}