@ebrandom Right. They'll take care of work and relationships so that I can read more books.

Pretty soon life is just going to be computers talking to each other. #AI

Calling this phenomenon “loon fallout” certainly makes it sound worse than it is (although I am still concerned for the birds). https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/04/22/loon-fallout-weather-causing-birds-fall-sky-wisconsin/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=ksfy

I need to find an #artist who can create covers for Kindle Shorts books, science fiction, in a style that evokes the pulps of the 1930s/40s/50s. Will have to be relatively inexpensive, as (hopefully) there will be a lot of them. Does anyone have any recommendations before I spin the roulette wheel on Fiverr?
#bookcovers

“This would be far more reliable than Twitter’s current pay-for-a-checkmark system. Because the CBC’s Mastodon server would be connected to the larger fediverse, the CBC would both enjoy global reach and local autonomy. And no billionaire could ever take that away.”
#Fediverse #Autonomy #Mastodon #CBC #Media
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/04/20/why-the-cbc-should-quit-twitter-and-run-its-own-mastodon-server.html?rf

I don’t know when, but someday I just know I’m gonna find use for this image in a lecture slide. #singapore

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

I love the fact that multilingual film/tv and subtitles have become normalized in the English-speaking world. Watching so much stuff that might not have surfaced 10 years ago.

Filtering online product reviews to only show posts from before the public release of chatGPT like im scavenging shipwrecks for pre-1945 steel

You know FAQs aren’t lists sorted by frequency of asking because the first entry is almost never “Why me?”

You aren't paying $8 for Twitter.

You are paying $8 for a picture of a blue check mark and a few marginal features.

How would paying for a blue check mark get me 1 new "fan"?

Twitter is worse without actual verification and paying $8 won't make it come back.

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

An early taste of the weekend: enjoying a piece of the Bergamot Tarte I baked last night together with a classic Earl Grey before I return to the book review. 🫖 ☀️ #AcademicChatter

I'm gonna have to read The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn aren't I

Apparently, ChatGPT is telling students I published articles entitled "The Problem with Rich Kids" and "I'm a Black Teacher in a Mostly White School and I See How Racially Segregated Our Education System Is" in the Washington Post.

That latter one would have likely been a banger but sadly, I've written neither but I look forward to getting angry emails about this.

Great to see Ed Yong back with another critical piece about why some are so invested in minimizing #LongCOVID and the people who are being most impacted by this pandemic.

"The people who still live with #COVID are being ignored so that everyone else can live with ignoring it."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/long-covid-symptoms-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/

I felt stressed out just reading this article about #HigherEd #admissions professionals and the stress they experience. Bonus is that it includes quotes from someone who used to work with me... https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-profession-on-the-edge?cid=gen_sign_in

I really hope somebody’s writing something about the Teixeira leak, documents and granite countertops, digital and geologic unique identifiers, and methods of supply chain and digital forensics

Governor #NedLamont has a proposal to boost the “tree canopy” in CT cities by 5% by 2040. This is so important as temperatures rise — the goal is admirable considering ongoing loss in every US city, but should be much higher

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/state_promises_new_haven_more_trees #urbanforestry #publichealth #Connecticut

@design_law You laugh, but this was a whole thing after WWII, during 'Atoms for Peace'. Super seeds for your atomic garden, anyone?