This feels like a different sort of COVID album, written while traversing around Australia.
Place between Courtney Barnett and Megan Washington
My world on the web
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This feels like a different sort of COVID album, written while traversing around Australia.
Place between Courtney Barnett and Megan Washington
Prettymapp is a webapp to create beautiful maps from OpenStreetMap data (based on prettymaps)
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Enter the Muse Will of the People Experience
However, this reference to the past comes across as somewhat problematic at times. As Paolo Ragusa touches on:
Whereas Arcade Fire’s return to the past seems somewhat comforting, I am not exactly sure how I feel about Will of the People.
Place between Queen and Rage Against the Machine.
Well-meaning messages meant to keep teens safe can backfire. The key is to focus on judgment and agency, not rigid rules for screen time.
Although I agree with all this, I still think the challenge is how to actually encorporate some of these practices into the day-to-day classroom. I once wondered of a school social space, but fear that such a space probably carries with it too much risk.
Take those first prints for what they are: learning experiences. With practice will eventually come mastery, at which point the upgrades and bells and whistles will make more sense and bring you greater satisfaction and reward. Learn the fundamentals—what speeds your printer and filament extruder enjoy, what types of plastics work best at your elevation and ambient temperature, and where you can improve on your creation and modeling inside the CAD software—before jumping ahead.
Above all, remember, it is a hobby at this level. Enjoy the journey and its many rewards.
– Know Why You’re Buying
– Choosing a Type of Printer
– Beware the Upgrade Spiral
– Don’t Set and Forget
“We’re here mainly by chance,” says Bertrand. “The asteroid could have missed Earth, it could have fallen in another area of the planet in the ocean and it would have made a difference in terms of which species were selected. The whole thing when I think about it – it’s crazy.”
Brusatte agrees. “It could have just whizzed right past, it could have just ruffled the upper layers of the atmosphere, it could have disintegrated as it got closer to Earth. It could have done anything, but just by dumb luck it made a beeline for the Earth.”
For the mammals alive today, perhaps it’s a good thing it did.
triple j headed along to UNSW’s Roundhouse to hear a hypnotic live show from Jake Webb and his white jumpsuit wearing band.
Recorded for Live At The Wireless in April, the show is a trip through their fourth album Are You Haunted? and their complex pop oeuvre.
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse, Sydney
Recorded:
First broadcast: Monday 30th May 2022
On the Work front, I feel like I have spent much of my time trying to get to the bottom of a range of new defects that have come with a recent upgrade. I am always intrigued how aspects of the application that have not been fixed or improved are impacted.
Personally, I binged quite a bit this month, including The 100, Stranger Things, Birdman, Moon Knight and The Gray Man. I also listened to Tom Tilley’s memoir Speaking in Tongues. In regards to music, I enjoyed listening to Sam Prekop and John McEntire’s modular album Sons Of.
Here then are some of the posts that have had me thinking:
Wouter Groeneveld discusses his development of the Creative Programming Problem Solving Test (CPPST), a self-assessment test for programmers that measures more than just divergent thinking.
Troy Hunt posits that sometimes we are simply consuming goodwill.
Jon Dron shares his thoughts on how to help the edtech community find its soul again.
Kieran Hebden discusses his epic Spotify playlist, an artefact for listeners to explore.
Clive Thompson thinks about the idea of monocropping and the impact of rewilding beyond just nature.
So that was July for me, how about you? As always, hope you are safe and well.
Background image via “Lego Stranger Things (fx)” by decypher the code is licensed under CC BY-SA
Amid taxi strikes and riots in Paris, Kalanick ordered French executives to retaliate by encouraging Uber drivers to stage a counter-protest with mass civil disobedience.
Warned that doing so risked putting Uber drivers at risk of attacks from “extreme right thugs” who had infiltrated the taxi protests and were “spoiling for a fight”, Kalanick appeared to urge his team to press ahead regardless. “I think it’s worth it,” he said. “Violence guarantee[s] success. And these guys must be resisted, no? Agreed that right place and time must be thought out.”
We’ve monocropped streets — so they’re used almost exclusively for cars. Time to rewild
This reminds me of a piece that I wrote a few years ago about ‘they propose replacing the freeway, a ‘baron wasteland’, with bushland. Of course, this is really a comical reference to the tendency to build on top of existing sacred sites.
‘. Also, the suggestion of replacing roads had me thinking about the scene in Babakiueria whereThe web version of the Inspiral app. Written in TypeScript, using D3.js.
Edtech is learning from that model, replicating it, amplifying it. ‘Content’ made of bite-size video lectures and pop quizzes, reinforced by adaptive models, vie for pole position in charts of online learning products. These are not the products of a diseased imagination. They are the products of one that has atrophied.
This is not what we intended. This is not what we imagined. This is not what we wanted. Sucked into a bigger machine, scaled up, our inventions turned against us. Willingly, half-wittedly, we became what we are not. We became parts in someone else’s machine.
Dron’s list of dot-points are a useful provocation. I feel it also fits within the wider discussion of the small web.
The cloud is a largely invisible, background presence in education, despite playing an increasingly significant role in many technical and institutional processes and practices. As recent relevant scholarship on the cloud has indicated, cloud computing arrangements are significantly affecting and reshaping a range of industries and sectors. The cloud represents an expansion of corporate big tech power into sectors like education, introducing new economic models, platform ecosystem arrangements, and AIOps capacities of automated governance.