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How to keep sea-monkeys alive

From Mike Monteiro’s Good News:

  “And before you write your “well, actually” response… you can’t get mad at people for conflating all the different types of AI, when you purposely threw them all together to build your hype cycle. You did this to yourselves.”

Source: How to keep sea-monkeys alive

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📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

  The Fediverse explained in 4 minutes: watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.

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Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

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Here are three new apps building out the open social web

The open web continues to grow.

  Bonfire Social, Channel.org, and Bounce are creating new ways to move around the open web.

Source: Here are three new apps building out the open social web

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H2R Layouts: Designed for ATEM SuperSource and vMix

Quick shoutout to John Barker at Here to Record for his new app for creating “Super Source” layouts for the ATEM Extreme switchers…

  Simplify building layouts. Create SuperSource macros or vMix virtual sets in seconds. With the H2R Layouts app you can directly connect to a Blackmagic Design ATEM switcher and directly control it’s SuperSource layout.

Source: H2R Layouts: Designed for ATEM SuperSource and vMix

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Bridgy Fed Config & Patreon

Somehow I missed the details on this, but better late than never – bridging your account is getting easier…

Today, we’re launching two projects we’ve been excited to unveil for a while: a settings page for Bridgy Fed and a Patreon for all the folks who have asked us how they can support our work.Let’s dive in!Bridgy Fed ConfigUntil now, if you wanted to bridge your

Source: Bridgy Fed Config & Patreon

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DaVinci Resolve 20 final release!

DaVinci Resolve 20 final release now available! Massive update with over 100 new features including DaVinci AI tools such as IntelliScript, music editor, and multi-cam SmartSwitch plus keyframe editing, voice over palette, multi-layer compositing and more! Download now from http://bmd.link/9athbN

Source: DaVinci Resolve – What’s New | Blackmagic Design

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CleanShot X for Mac Goes to 4.8

Just yesterday I had to cancel my SetApp subscription – can’t justify the cost for the one or two apps I mostly use – CleanShot X and Downie. So I went ahead and purchased the apps from the corresponding developer’s websites. As for Downie, it does what it does so well.

However, CleanShot X also continues to amaze! I started to use it way back in November of 2021 and they update the app quite regularly. I wasn’t expecting that, after purchasing it, the next day they would release some new features. Hello version 4.8! Just a solid screenshot program that is just so useful and worth every penny (there is a student/educator discount as well).

  Capture your Mac’s screen like a pro.

Source: CleanShot X for Mac

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How Convenience Kills Curiosity

I’ve been thinking about our time saving, efficiency oriented gadgets and software – Joan Westenberg nails it…

We don’t need more information. We have oceans of it. What we need are tools that reintroduce friction in thoughtful ways.

Photo by Justin Peterson on Unsplash

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Greetings From Wordland

This is a quick (somewhat geeky) post about using a service called Wordland, a writing tool that provides a proper text editor for writing posts instead of “tiny little boxes”. Dave has a little more on the idea behind Wordland at his site. It connects to your WordPress.com account and lets you post to whatever blogs you have set up. Mine is at andyrush.wordpress.com.

I had some difficulty using it in the Safari browser. I couldn’t get links to work which is pretty crucial on the web! Also, attempting to add an image resulted in, well, nothing. I’m using the Brave browser to write this.

Anyway, quick diversion. Back to our regular microblogging

#Fediblog

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Fediwall: Social media wall for the Fediverse

Does anyone remember TwitterCamp? I was an Adobe Air apllication that displayed tweets of a specific parameter, like a user name or hashtag. We used it on a big screen in the lobby for Faculty Academy at the University of mary Washington all the way back in 2008. Anyone who tweeted using the hashtag #FacultyAcademy would get their posts included on the big screen.

Well, I recently discovered Fediwall which seems to be something that looks very similar to TwitterCamp, only for the Fediverse. I’ve just started playing with it but it could serve conferences who want to move to federated social media, as way to encourage attendees to share their Fediverse findings.

GitHub – defnull/fediwall: Social media wall for the Fediverse

TwitterCamp flickr photo by stevegarfield shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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The National Weather Service is a lifesaving public resource. We must save it. – DAMWeather

The National Weather Service (NWS) is the most important federal agency you benefit from on a daily basis.

Source: The National Weather Service is a lifesaving public resource. We must save it. – DAMWeather

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Daring Fireball: Golfo del Gringo Loco

I think John Gruber has the right take on a relatively unimportant topic (or perhaps I should say, not the uppermost priority) that also serves as one of Trump’s classic examples of distraction.

Daring Fireball: Golfo del Gringo Loco

There are other places around the world where Apple and Google show downright crazy or incorrect things on maps. The latter have one thing in common: they are to comply with the demands of countries governed by thin-skinned autocratic men who surround themselves with sycophants.

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Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture | Internet Archive Blogs

Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture | Internet Archive Blogs

“This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear.” 

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An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) | EDUCAUSE Review

An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) | EDUCAUSE Review

Just supporting students to get jobs that replicate the society we already have is setting us on a path toward global failure.

Photo from ChatGPT “create an image of an a.i. graduate”

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Content Creation 2.0 – Empowering Learning Through Digital Agility, Equity, and Educational Technology – CIRT | Knowledge Base

I wrote a thing for our CIRT News (blog);

Content Creation 2.0 – Empowering Learning Through Digital Agility, Equity, and Educational Technology

Anything with references to Tressie McMillan Cottom and Gardner Campbell is worth checking out, right?

Digital agility is the ability to navigate and make meaning amid an abundance of information in an ever-present, ever-shifting digital landscape.

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The Facebook Files – WSJ

A new view of the The Facebook Files documents

  The Facebook Files – WSJ

Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.

h/t @twwoodward

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Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital

Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow:

“Shatter those locks”