@adrianhon my Zoom H5 has treated me very well over the years. If you don't need any XLR or 1/4" jacks, the H1 would be just fine, I'd think.

Just watched the new openAI demo of the flirty personal assistant that will do emotional labor and tell you a bed time story.

I'm feeling better and better about my pornetariat theory: The ultimate goal of tech is to create a fully automated world where one class of people own everything, and the rest of us have every single human desire met by consuming digital simulacra of meaningful lives on platforms optimized to harvest our attention.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/the-underclass

28 Years Later Will Infect the World in June 2025 https://gizmodo.com/28-years-later-release-date-june-2025-sony-pictures-1851471063?utm_source=vip

As we all know by now, Stack Overflow has alienated their primary contributors by letting OpenAI train on SO's (CC-protected) content, and forcefully preventing countermeasures. Therefore, SO content will likely become worse and even more outdated as time goes on.

So, time to migrate. What's the preferred open source, community-run alternative to SO for everyone to migrate to? Here's one list of alternative software to run such sites:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/are-there-any-clones-alternatives-for-running-a-stack-exchange-style-qa-site

Which site(s) are gaining traction? If none, who wants to start one?

#stackOverflow #stackOverthrow #stackOverflowFree #stackOverflowIsToxic #enshittification

The sky burrito is a strange choice for a featured image without the story's context. 😂🌯🌇

@andresmh right?!

I feel like people who unequivocally hate bagpipes have never listened to Afro Celt Sound System or the Peatbog Faeries.

It's that time once again. #commencement

We did a thing, and it's out now! -- ‘Lines of Flight: The Digital Fragmenting of Educational Networks’, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024(1), Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.850.

Also, a big thank you to JIME and the editors of the special issue for their feedback :-)

Very happy to have collaborated with such awesome folks :-)

Supporting ‘democracy’ is hard for many who feel government and the economy are failing them

https://theconversation.com/supporting-democracy-is-hard-for-many-who-feel-government-and-the-economy-are-failing-them-225541

> One-third of Americans think that “rule by a strong leader or the military would be a good way of governing their country.” Are they losing faith in democracy?

Jeeze, okay, Spotify. No need to get snippy. #PassiveAggressiveDesign

"Mike, my beloved husband of 40 years died two weeks ago and I used #AI to write his eulogy. I inputted a few biographical details, which were then transformed into a lengthy, heartfelt tribute. I had no idea, however, that he'd also been an electrical device for amplifying sound. He'd kept that to himself. A humble man. I'm so proud."

In 24 hours, typst output from {emphatic} has gone from nothing to "pretty ok" !!

Very satisfying!

#RStats #typst

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.

I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.

I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

{emphatic} typst support: added!

Good news: It works!

Bad news: I can't work out how to disable text wrapping and/or set overflow in a block to be hidden.

Large tables make 'typst' want to reflow the text which I expressly do *NOT* want to do.

I've added a 'font_size' option to help deal with this, but being able to control reflow/overflow would be better!

https://github.com/coolbutuseless/emphatic

#RStats

My feelings towards the research grant system can be best summarised as ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH

Don't let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It's only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.

The #PositConf2024** **schedule is out! I'll be presenting on using Sverto and other ways to make animated web graphics in** **#QuartoPub, and my colleague Andrew Bray will be presenting Closeread, a Quarto scrollytelling extension that we've been cooking up!

➡️ Sverto: https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf24/publiccatalog/page/publiccatalog/session/1712004520411001rz6v
➡️ Closeread: https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf24/publiccatalog/page/publiccatalog/session/1712004041983001s1h4

As a woman, I just want the same rights as a rattlesnake.