Robert W Gehl @robertwgehl@mastodon.xyz
Associate Prof, Comm, U of Utah. www.socialmediaalternatives.org | robertwgehl.org
All posts CC BY NC, which means do what you will except make money off 'em
Please boost widely: Call for Proposals, "After Social Media: Alternatives, New Beginnings, and Socialized Media." It's a call for research/essays on alternative social media, including Mastodon, of course. http://robertwgehl.org/blog.php#2017-11-06_12:56
you can't teach an old god new tricks
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One of my favorite authors, Ursula K Le Guin, has died. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html
The phrase "early Internet" used to mean "the 1990s WWW." I'm starting to see it being used today to mean "the mid-2000s Web." No one ever seems to refer to the actual early Internet
2005 US: ha ha we have an Open Internet, unlike China and Australia
2018 US: here's my VPN for region-locked youtube, here's my VPN for sci-hub...
Susan Kare, graphic designer who created many familiar icons & fonts for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM.
Her creations include most of the iconography and fonts which shipped with the original Macintosh, and many icons which persisted in Windows from version 3 until XP.
#SusanKare #iconic #womenintech #design #designers #graphicdesign #Macintosh #NeXT #Windows #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing
Anyone know a way to export toots (to CSV or otherwise) by tag? There is this script (https://gist.github.com/aka-rin/5f0e6b90836cb998c11b9178d7d90bb5) which will do so by account, but not by tag.
TRIUMPH!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
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That is all.
Once again, we're putting out the call for diverse sci-fi writers that are:
- Disabled
- First Nations
- Marginalised sexes, genders, & identities
- Neurodivergent
- POC
- Scientists (research & comms)
New or established, we want your micro-scifi based on real science! Want to know more? We've written some thorough submission guidelines for this year, so go take a look! storyseedvault.com/submissions/
camelCaseIsTheFunkiestNamingConventionCuzItsGotHumps
copyedits to Weaving the Dark Web have been sent in... sneaking up on getting this book published
So... at what point do we land on another planet and paternalistically decide whether or not they're ready for the #federation?
goal for 2018: more brutal slams, vicious eviscerations, raw takedowns, blistering hot takes
You have eight beats. Please, 👏 on 2. Now 👏 again on 4. 👏 on 6. Get ready: 👏 8 👏 &
DISCO
i keep typing "buttle" instead of "button" when writing html and then giggling for five minutes thinking "press the submit buttle" what is wrong with me
It's time to grade college projects again. I'm reflecting on the balance of grading. I want grades to instill confidence in students -- a grade should mean "you did this! Be proud!" But they also have to signal ways in which a student can improve. I especially want to do this with beginning tech classes, where I want them to feel good about working with tech while pointing to ways they can get better. That's a balance I don't know if I will ever achieve.
Some of my least favorite phrases: "We've redesigned our website! Let's take a tour..."
women like the color pink because berries are pink and women used to collect berries, guess whats also looks like berries - thats right, breakpoints. irrefutable proof that women are biologically superior to men at programming and furthermore,
Google maps asking me for "human help" is the height of shameless exploitation of unpaid labor. No, Google, I will NOT help you train your AI for free, forget about it.
<<Billionaires like Bill Gates and Elon Musk assume that a superintelligent AI will stop at nothing to achieves its goals because that’s the attitude they adopted. (Of course, they saw nothing wrong with this strategy when they were the ones engaging in it; it’s only the possibility that someone else might be better at it than they were that gives them cause for concern.)>>
