Peter Thomas

Director of FORWARD, The Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

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Valdis KrebsValdis
2022-12-28

Old saying amongst ... "The best is the one you have with you"

Waiting for a friend in a café in Riga, Latvia. I reached into my jacket, retrieved my and took a few snaps of what was outside the window.

Street scene in Riga, Latvia. Looking outside the window onto the street (cars, people, ads), waiting to meet a friend. © Valdis Krebs
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2022-12-28

During this holiday season.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes. ~ Misquote of Sigmund Freud which I like

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David Weinbergerdweinberger
2022-12-28

Photographer treats photos of a model as a dataset so can generate new photos without the model or the photographer. We're going through quantum leap in the plausibility of science fiction. petapixel.com/2022/12/21/photo

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2022-12-26

“Showing people that you don’t care what they think, regardless of what you actually believe, can always be a flex, and has become the standard in tech. Dressing poorly or uniformly in Silicon Valley may be Too Big To Fail…. ‘Non-clothes,’ more so than Sam Bankman-Fried’s extreme studied slovenliness, characterize Silicon Valley fashion above all. Pieces designed for function, comfort, and to show the world that you dropped out of Stanford.” dirt.substack.com/p/dirt-the-d

A screenshot of a Dirt newsletter, article titled: “the death of Silicon Valley style,” 
with a photo of Sam Bankman Fried, wearing a stretched out black T-shirt
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Cole Haddoncolehaddon
2022-12-25

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.” - Harlan Ellison

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wakest ⁂liaizon@wake.st
2022-12-21

@mozilla just announced they are joining the #fediverse :fediverse:

"In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social"

they will start with Mastodon, but are "looking forward to working on the challenges that crosscut the Fediverse"

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo #FediNews

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Surgeons' Hall Museumssurgeonshall@mastodon.world
2022-12-20

In the 3rd edition of ‘Origin of Species’, Charles Darwin listed no less than 37 previous individuals who had described evolution. Fourteen of those listed were European, confirming that evolution was a hot topic throughout Europe long before Darwin seriously thought about it. One of its chief proponents in the UK was Dr. Robert Knox.
You can read more in our latest blog from our Senior Research Fellow, Professor Ken Donaldson.

surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.

#evolution #charlesdarwin #histmed #blog

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2022-12-20
2022-12-20

“We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” ~ John F. Kennedy. Seems to me that lots of people confuse opinion with facts, or with ideas, without ever thinking about them at all.

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ya ya yaninayanina@zirk.us
2022-12-15

“Landscape is all that greets the most enormous desires, even if only the landscape of a face.”

—Fanny Howe, The Deep North

2022-12-15

“No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.” ~ bell hooks.

2022-12-05

”We recommend breaching experiments as fascinating #sociological methods and fruitful pedagogic interventions […] breaching experiments can afford profitable ways of simultaneously doing and teaching #sociology with nothing; or, rather, very little, and perhaps not much more than a creative, mischievous or anarchic spirit.” I always loved teaching using Garfinkel’s original breach experiments.

2022-12-05

An interesting ethnomethologically-inspired paper on doing ‘doing nothing’: “We analyse how members encounter and negotiate people apparently ‘doing nothing’ and provide a granular description of the bodily practices (gesture, gaze, modes of walking) employed in noticing, and adopting what we call an ‘audiencing’ stance towards people momentarily standing motionless.”journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/
#ethnomethodology

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2022-12-01

I love this orange Selectric. In high school yearbook we used these machines — clad in a comparatively boring beige — to type our final copy on triplicate forms

A bright orange IBM Selectric typewriter
2022-11-18

Amsterdam ❤️

Bottles in the Cafe De Ysbreeker bar Amsterdam
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eileen chengyin chowchowleen@zirk.us
2022-11-18

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
#twitter

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ya ya yaninayanina@zirk.us
2022-11-18

Mac Low

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ya ya yaninayanina@zirk.us
2022-11-13

I am therefore I map.
My cyanotype maps of Los Angeles.

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2022-11-13

Digging into my family history, I found that my Great Grandfather never coming home from the Great War (losing the family breadwinner, sending his eldest out to work early) affected every opportunity and decision in my family from that point on, right up to and including me. War can cast a shadow for generations. It’s not just about faded photos of forgotten soldiers, it’s about the scars you find if you dig below the surface of your family, like craters under grass. #RemembraceDay

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2022-11-13

📢The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparenfy and Ethics in AI) group at Microsoft Research Montreal is hiring interns for 2023! Looking for candidates with broad FATE interests including responsible NLP/NLG, human-centered AI, AI transparency and explainability, and future of work. Apply here: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/jo
#FATE #HCI #AI #NLP

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