A Swarm of Blood Robots — by Craig Mod I dumped into Claude my huge document containing all I knew about my adoption. I added stories and notes I had about family members on both maternal and paternal sides. And then I said: OK, you have access to my Ancestry account (via the Chrome plugin), […]
I went with my mom to spread my dad’s ashes in South Carolina. He grew up there and the Woodward family has been in the area since white people first came around. We’ve still got a lot of relatives in the area. I lived in Columbia S.C. when I was in 4th-6th grade before I […]
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick – Krebs on Security “An operator can drag blocks together in their Blockly editor, to define each fraud routine, given a task type,” reads Bitsight’s report. “Once the routine is saved, it gets exported as JavaScript and uploaded to the S3 buckets. An operator doesn’t need […]
I admit to struggling mightily with my patience using Power Automate. I can do all of the things I’m attempting in Google Script or with Gravity Forms in WordPress . . . and yet. Some of it is certainly me. Some of it, I would swear, is Power Automate/Microsoft. Anyway, the goal here is to […]
PDF for print publishing We’ve got a poetry book, Doves Born of Flames, that was created in PressBooks. Doves Born of Flames is a multilingual poetry anthology with poems in 18 different languages (translated into English) from poets around the world, focused on peace, justice, and healing. “With love and care, and deepest respect for […]
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout In that video, he said he’s starting a “bail fund” in case he’s arrested and goes to jail. Collectively, these posts and videos have hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views. But the cease-and-desist is not real; it is a wholesale fabrication […]
mhoye: “One of the most important thin…” – ds106 Social One of the most important things I learned at Mozilla was the idea of an explicit “priority of constituencies”; that is, if you have responsibilities to different groups for different reasons, being clear and honest up front about who is at the front of the […]
How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I. – The New York Times Here’s how it works: On the Meta AI app, a user can tag a public Instagram account and direct the chatbot to create new A.I. photos based on photos from that person’s account. Source: How to Prevent Meta From […]
As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings.1 The courses were in Canvas and they used Badgr/Parchment to award badges.2 Of course Instructure ended up changing the rules around using Badgr/Parchment half way through and so, absent money, it stopped working. Pro-tip folks, don’t use any freemium stuff for […]
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We camped at Dingmans Campground in PA’s Deleware Water Gap Recreational area. The trip from VA through PA led to some new roadside views. At the actual place, we did some hiking and two of us opted to swim in the pool created by this waterfall (which was much larger and cooler than it appears […]