Garry Knight: “Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid…” – Toot.CatI got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I’d been missing for some years! The way […]
ProsePlayh/t Alan Levine Bot or not? How to tell when you’re reading something written by AI – CNN.comID bot writing by . . . very carefully researching the facts of the article and elevating your bar for internet writing. My A.I. Writing Robot | The New YorkerWhereas a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is “trained” on […]
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman WorldFor the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and […]
House Republicans walk out, block bond bill over Seaford charter amendment | Delaware First MediaSeaford is not the first Delaware municipality to consider extending voting rights to artificial entities. Roughly a dozen already allow some types of artificial entities — often trusts — to vote in certain municipal elections. Rehoboth, for instance, allows LLCs and […]
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated – YouTubeDigital madness. Making a pinhole camera in Blender. MakerStudioPeda: Materiality, Maker Practices and Design Studio Pedagogy at the Digital Age, 2020–24 — EmpiricaMakerStudioPeda will examine the design studio pedagogy for design and craft teacher students’ at two different levels. First, micro-level investigations will focus on students’ creative working and […]
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human – The VergeThe anthropologist David Graeber defines “bullshit jobs” as employment without meaning or purpose, work that should be automated but for reasons of bureaucracy or status or inertia is not. These AI jobs are their bizarro twin: work that people want to automate, […]
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Ever since Google turned off direct access to the JSON data from Google Sheets, I’ve used a couple of App Script workarounds. They were a bit clumsy for what I was doing but better than re-writing the entire page. I find going through the whole oAuth and Google project process to be more hassle than […]
Adam Kotsko on Twitter: “What’s your favorite tech innovation?” / TwitterPretty much sums it up. The Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump has been turned off | Hacker News backspace: make your website carbon neutralBACKSPACE measures your website’s emissions and helps reduce them, making your website greener, faster & better for your visitors. h/t Hibbitts […]
Here’s a quick example of how to alter the contextual help menu in WordPress. It’s up there on the top right when you are in the admin view. Shannon asked a question about it in the Reclaim Discord server and I figured I’d start off my morning with a tiny programming exploration. There a few […]