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🤔 About My Email

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2024/05/26

A site for testing email. ᔥ “Jay” in Jay: “TIL https://aboutmy.email Thi…” – Mastodon (05/26/2024 17:04:04) The post 🤔 About My Email first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Advancing

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2024/05/26

Alan Jacobs extends upon Elle Griffin’s discussion around the hard-truths associated with publishing and getting an advance: Anyway, let’s imagine that I receive a $100,000 advance for a future book. Not impossible by any means. The thing is, and this is the point I think Griffin should lean on more heavily: “advance” is a misleading … Continue reading "🤔 Advancing" The post 🤔 Advancing first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎧 Breaking With the Speed of the Internet (Team Human)

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2024/05/26

Coming at the problem of social media, algorithms and the internet from the perspective of the creator, Douglas Rushkoff worries about the ever increasing speed and pressures placed by platforms that is creating a “perspective abundance.” He wonders if one of the challenges we face in being more “disciplined” is in choosing not to add … Continue reading "🎧 Breaking With the Speed of the Internet (Team Human)" The post 🎧 Breaking With the Speed of the Internet (Team Human) first

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🤔 An e-Book of One’s Own

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2024/05/25

The use of PressBooks to create “An e-Book of One’s Own” to document a learning journey. The post 🤔 An e-Book of One’s Own first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 You were promised a jetpack by liars

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2024/05/25

As a society, we have vested an alarming amount of power in the hands of tech billionaires who profess to be embittered science fiction fans who merely want to realize the “promises” of our Golden Age stfnal dreams. These bros insist that they can overcome both the technical hurdles and the absolutely insurmountable privation involved … Continue reading "🤔 You were promised a jetpack by liars" The post 🤔 You were promised a jetpack by liars first appeared on Read Write

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🤔 Accountability

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2024/05/25

You can assign reading to students; but if you don’t develop strategies for holding them accountable, then it doesn’t really matter what you assign. They’re Self-Deceived Rational Utility Maximizers after all, and if there’s one thing you can never change about them it’s that. https://blog.ayjay.org/accountability/ The post 🤔 Accountability first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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👍 My Own Little Patch

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2024/05/25

If the web is now a metaphorical barren wasteland, pillaged by commercial interests and growth-at-all-costs management consultants, then I’m all the more motivated to keep my little patch of land lush, and green, and filled with rainbow flowers. So, feel free to stop by any time and stay as long as you like. I won’t … Continue reading "👍 My Own Little Patch" The post 👍 My Own Little Patch first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Moving beyond ‘solving’ problems as meaningful...

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2024/05/25

Dave Cormier describes how, according to Herbert Simon, there are well-structured problems and the rest that is left over. Cormier explians why he prefers to focus on the “left overs”. A well-structured problem almost never happens to me in real life. At work, as a parent, as a partner, as a citizen I am almost … Continue reading "📑 Moving beyond ‘solving’ problems as meaningful learning- a conference #ShrugCon" The post 📑 Moving beyond ‘solving’ problems as meaningful learning-

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📑 Most Big Ideas Have Loud Critics

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2024/05/25

In Digitally Literate newsletter 395, Ian O’Byrne reflects upon the promotion of AI platforms being ‘open-sourced’ even when they are keeping some parts for themselves: “Open source” is supposed to mean that everyone can see and use all the parts of the AI model, just like sharing games where everyone can see, use, and understand … Continue reading "📑 Most Big Ideas Have Loud Critics" The post 📑 Most Big Ideas Have Loud Critics first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📆 Kate Miller-Heidke (The Round)

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2024/05/15

Kate will be playing her greatest hits and most beloved pop songs, as well as performing tracks from her original musicals Muriel’s Wedding the Musical and the new Bananaland, some unexpected covers, taking requests, and telling stories from across her varied career. Excitingly, she’ll also be debuting new material from her forthcoming 6th studio album, … Continue reading "📆 Kate Miller-Heidke (The Round)" The post 📆 Kate Miller-Heidke (The Round) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎵 All Born Screaming (St. Vincent)

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2024/05/07

“You’re either alive or you’re dead,” she tells Double J. “And if you’re alive you better live life to the fullest.” Source: St. Vincent – All Born Screaming) by Al Newstead I remember when Daddy’s Home was released reading a passing comment from St. Vincent about nearly making a Tool-inspired album, but instead going all … Continue reading "🎵 All Born Screaming (St. Vincent)" The post 🎵 All Born Screaming (St. Vincent) first appeared on

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📚 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

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2024/05/06

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican “Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)”) guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack … Continue reading "📚 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)" The post 📚 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 Copying all Pocket highlights with a bookmarklet

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2024/05/04

I do not use Highlights with Pocket as I was not sure how they would fit with my workflow. However, after finding this bookmarklet from Phil Newton, I am thinking that maybe I could. to_clipboard = "#+TITLE: " + document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0].innerHTML + "\n\n"; all_highlights = document.getElementsByClassName('highlight'); for (highlight in all_highlights) { highlight_text = all_highlights[highlight].innerHTML; if (typeof … Continue reading "📑 Copying all Pocket highlights with a

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📺 Washed Out – The Hardest Part (Official Video)

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2024/05/04

This video is being promoted as OpenAI’s first officially commissioned Sora collaboration with a musician as well as a filmmaker. Beyond the uncanny nature of the video, I found it strangely off putting the speed in which everything moved. It was interesting to compare this with something like Michel Gondry’s work with The Chemical Brothers. The post 📺 Washed Out – The Hardest Part (Official Video) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📆 Adam Fraser on the Challenges of Change

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2024/05/03

A recent staff seminar day ended with a presentation by Dr. Adam Fraser. Here are my notes. Dr. Adam Fraser. is involved in work around topic of wellbeing. Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance researcher who helps people strive to achieve better performance in everything they do. In his time he has worked with … Continue reading "📆 Adam Fraser on the Challenges of Change" The post 📆 Adam Fraser on the Challenges of Change first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

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2024/05/02

All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ’In the West, nothing new’) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many … Continue reading "📚 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)" The post 📚 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque) first appeared on Read

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📚 The Unknown Terrorist (Richard Flanagan)

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2024/04/26

After spending a night with an attractive stranger, Gina Davies becomes a prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three unexploded bombs at a stadium, Gina goes on the run and witnesses every truth of her life turned into a betrayal. A devastating picture of a world where the ceaseless drumbeat of … Continue reading "📚 The Unknown Terrorist (Richard Flanagan)" The post 📚 The Unknown Terrorist (Richard Flanagan) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton)

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2024/04/25

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. They’ve found themselves a home inside a van with four flat tyres parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River. The girl has … Continue reading "📚 Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton)" The post 📚 Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📚 Cat’s Crade (Kurt Vonnegut)

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2024/04/24

Cat’s Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut’s fourth novel, it was first published in 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle I had never read any of Kurt … Continue reading "📚 Cat’s Crade (Kurt Vonnegut)" The post 📚 Cat’s Crade (Kurt Vonnegut) first

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📚 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)

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2024/04/17

Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. The novel, set in 1900, is about a group of female students at an Australian girls’ boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine’s Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The … Continue reading "📚 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay)"The post 📚 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Joan Lindsay) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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