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📑 The Coprophagic AI crisis

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2024/03/17

A key requirement for being a science fiction writer without losing your mind is the ability to distinguish between science fiction (futuristic thought experiments) and predictions. SF writers who lack this trait come to fancy themselves fortune-tellers who SEE! THE! FUTURE! The thing is, sf writers cheat. We palm cards in order to set up … Continue reading "📑 The Coprophagic AI crisis" The post 📑 The Coprophagic AI crisis first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Switching To Linux Full-Time: My Thoughts Two...

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2024/03/17

My Linux journey has not been all sunshine and rainbows, but I think I’m getting the hang of it. A few thoughts. @readtedium Linux Lessons (So Far) — I really should tinker more with Linux, but after finding that running music software would be a challenge, I have parked it for now. The post 🤔 Switching To Linux Full-Time: My Thoughts Two Months Later first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 The Great American Novels

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2024/03/17

In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one … Continue reading "📑 The Great American Novels" The post 📑 The Great American Novels first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 I Told You So

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2024/03/15

As I argued in my book Teaching Machines the entire history of education technology, from the first decades of the twentieth century, has been bound up in this quest to automate education. And much of the early history of artificial intelligence too, ever since folks cleverly rebranded it from “cybernetics,” was deeply intertwined with the … Continue reading "🤔 I Told You So" The post 🤔 I Told You So first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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👍 Publishing an Obsidian vault with Hugo

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2024/03/14

Here’s one way I figured out to publish an Obsidian vault as a static website using Hugo. This is a hard way: the easy way is to spend $100/yr on Obsidian Publish. https://jacobian.org/til/hugo-obsidian/ The post 👍 Publishing an Obsidian vault with Hugo first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 David Shanske’s Mobile Setup

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2024/03/14

I remember during lockdown when people were sharing their home setups, such as this from Ian O’Byrne. I am however really intrigued by your mobile setup David. Personally, in the new normal of working in and out of the office, I often find myself living off my laptop, but am interested in adding pieces to … Continue reading "💬 David Shanske’s Mobile Setup" The post 💬 David Shanske’s Mobile Setup first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance...

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2024/03/13

Cars are enshittified. The dozens of chips that auto makers have shoveled into their car design are only incidentally related to delivering a better product. The primary use for those chips is autoenshittification – access to legal strictures (“IP”) that allows them to block modifications and repairs that would interfere with the unfettered abuse of … Continue reading "🤔 Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companies" The post 🤔 Your car spies on you and rats you

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💬 Your Blog Should Have an About Page

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2024/03/13

What to put on that /about page? Just your professional history, making it more like a boring résumé, hoping the blog will help you land a job? Your hobbies and coordinates? Your martial status? A complete summary of the technical tools wielded and endless prowess showcased when building your custom blog engine? A list of … Continue reading "💬 Your Blog Should Have an About Page" The post 💬 Your Blog Should Have an About Page first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Job vs Career

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2024/03/12

A career contains a multitude of jobs. Some of them are the ones you get paid for, but many of them aren’t. And that’s often where the confusion comes into play. The paid job begins to bleed into other areas, and you associate the paid job with all the other jobs. They get lumped together … Continue reading "📑 Job vs Career" The post 📑 Job vs Career first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 ISSUE #181 (The Red Hand Files)

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2024/03/11

Apply yourself fully to the task, let go of the outcome, and your true voice will appear. You’ll see. It can be no other way. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/voices-of-all-your-influences/ by Nick Cave The post 🤔 ISSUE #181 (The Red Hand Files) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎵 Respect All Lifeforms (Custard)

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2024/03/09

Respect All Lifeforms is the eighth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Custard “Custard (band)”), released on 22 May 2020 by ABC Music.[1] The album was preceded by the release of the single “Funky Again”, which was accompanied by a video directed by longtime collaborator Andrew Lancaster.[2] Source: Respect All Lifeforms by Wikipedia Gone … Continue reading "🎵 Respect All Lifeforms (Custard)" The post 🎵 Respect All Lifeforms (Custard) first appeared on

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🤔 Message in a bottle

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2024/03/09

Today, the internet lets us toss our message into a cyber ocean. As I write this, I have an idea of some of the people who will see it, but I also know that it has the potential to be picked up by some random person somewhere far away, opened up and read at random, … Continue reading "🤔 Message in a bottle" The post 🤔 Message in a bottle first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Losing the Imitation Game

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2024/03/08

AI cannot develop software for you, but that’s not going to stop people from trying to make it happen anyway. And that is going to turn all of the easy software development problems into hard problems. Losing the Imitation Game/ by Jennifer Moore — Jennifer Moore goes beyond the hype around so-called artificial intelligence to … Continue reading "📑 Losing the Imitation Game" The post 📑 Losing the Imitation Game first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Where are the crescents in AI?

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2024/03/08

For me, being critical goes beyond critique and scepticism: it includes subscribing to critical theory and critical pedagogy – developing awareness of social justice issues and cultivating in learners a disposition to redress them. The elements of critical AI literacy in my view are: Understanding how GenAI works Recognising inequalities and biases within GenAI Examining … Continue reading "📑 Where are the crescents in AI?" The post 📑 Where are the crescents in AI? first appeared on Read

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📑 Un-watching, Un-tracking: Healing and Bad Data

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2024/03/07

I wore my watch for the first few days of not running, still using it to record the morning walks with the dog. But as the messages about my activity level started to exacerbate my anxiety – I was already feeling shitty enough, thank you very much – I took the watch off. “The body … Continue reading "📑 Un-watching, Un-tracking: Healing and Bad Data" The post 📑 Un-watching, Un-tracking: Healing and Bad Data first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 Loosening the Shackles: Empowering Growth and...

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2024/03/03

School leaders must be empowered to take the reins and drive meaningful change in the realm of PL. They need the autonomy to design PL experiences that are tailored to the unique needs and context of their school community. This may involve fostering a culture of collaboration, leveraging technology to facilitate ongoing learning, or creating … Continue reading "💬 Loosening the Shackles: Empowering Growth and Innovation"The post 💬 Loosening the Shackles: Empowering Growth and Innovation

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📑 Pluralistic: The majority of censorship is...

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2024/03/03

Censors have always done – and still do – their work not by wielding power, but by projecting it. Even the most powerful state actors are not powerful enough to truly censor, in the sense of confiscating every work expressing an idea and punishing everyone who creates such a work. Instead, they rely on self-censorship, … Continue reading "📑 Pluralistic: The majority of censorship is self-censorship (22 Feb 2024)" The post 📑 Pluralistic: The majority of censorship is self-censorship (22 Feb

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📑 Steal Strategies

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2024/03/03

Austin Kleon has created a site of ‘steal strategies’ to support creativity, which was inspired by Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. ᔥ “Austin Kleon” in What’s in the cards – Austin Kleon (03/03/2024 14:17:50) The post 📑 Steal Strategies first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 The Red Hand Files No. 275

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2024/03/03

I appreciate the fact that you acknowledged those of us that work in jobs that are so necessary that nobody really ever thinks about it (Issue #274). I worked in the sewer system for over 35 years cleaning up everybody’s crap. The wealthy and the poor. I went to work every day and night and … Continue reading "📑 The Red Hand Files No. 275" The post 📑 The Red Hand Files No. 275 first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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👍 Create For Yourself

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2024/03/03

While the internet struggles with collective action, every movement starts from a single action. If you’re a creative person, one of the most important actions you can take, full stop, is to take some ownership over your work. Maybe, if you want to have a financial upside, you can’t own all of it. Maybe you … Continue reading "👍 Create For Yourself" The post 👍 Create For Yourself first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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