@blamb @dnorman Brian introduced me to this restaurant during my recent visit to Kamloops, and it was awesome.

CONGRATULATIONS CORY DOCTOROW @pluralistic 🥳

"2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

"The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit" - Tressie McMillan Cottom in NYT. Paywalled, but few a gift reads available https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/claudine-gay-resignation-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU0.Xu0c.PBH6cCi38Cpg&smid=url-share

@dynode @nic 💥

@nic When you feed a bananafrog to a restipulated frapulator, you will then see a remarkable heliotropic transmogrification take place, including a complete magulificent inversion of the unknown universe. Stars will explode. Suns will implode. Mushrooms will talk and undertake wondrous deeds. .

@KenJeffery My kind of university!

@danberger @pivic Excellent!

@Strandjunker Knavery

I suspect there’s an endless circuit of regifted boxes of liquor-filled chocolates circling the globe, re-emerging Christmas after Christmas to horrify new victims, who then store them for regifting the following year.

Universities: why are you still on Twitter/X?

As I have explained before, I left the platform formerly known as Twitter at the end of August 2023 and haven't looked back. Many of my friends and colleagues have quit too, most of them setting up accounts on Bluesky and/or Mastodon. In recent months, a number of big companies have also stopped advertising on Twitter/X too. It's not just the systematic amplification of hateful tweets from a variety of antisocial bigots,…

http://telescoper.blog/2023/12/20/universities-why-are-you-still-on-twitter-x/

“…if humans were a manufactured part of the Autopilot system, its designers would have taken into account a well-known defect of ours: when we get bored we stop paying attention.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-crash-1234930544/

@scerruti @researchfairy Couldn’t think up a better example of the complexity of grading and the challenges it presents.

@dnorman New guy “…has shown he understands and respects the values-driven mission that defines Moodle while bringing the seasoned commercial leadership that Moodle needs for its sustainability” - Moodle. Easy to say and hard (impossible?) to do both at the same time. OpenAI redux.

@dnorman Sadly, all too often, the hens aren’t paying attention.

December micro conferences (the last one of 2023) is Today at 3 PM Eastern U.S. time. Registration is open until one hour before the event. Reach out to registrar@apereo.org for assistance.

Wayne Mackintosh, UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources and Managing Director, OER Foundation Ltd., for a presentation and Q&A on "Reflecting on anomalies in OER: Is ‘Open’ broken, and if so, can education fix it?"

#opensource #oer #education

https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=248&reset=1

You should really, really consider using Firefox to check the status of every USPS package you have on the way.

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/

W3C has posted that we are no longer active on X/Twitter and have directed all our followers here to Mastodon.

We are encouraging all W3C-related accounts to do the same.

Encourage your friends to follow us here!

@ncweaver @clive @wndlb I can’t locate it at the moment but a number of years ago I saw a study that showed how vehicle owners in North America hugely overestimate their vehicle feature needs - i.e. power, size, load and towing capacity, seating and more - when compared with actual use.

@Snowshadow Unfortunate survey design problems.