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 line and why. As with The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, there’s always a hierarchy, and letting those hierarchies stay hidden means letting power escape scrutiny.
Source: mhoye: “One of the most important thin…” – ds106 Social
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 Using Your Instagram Images in A.I. – The New York Times
Glitchlet is a lightweight, browser-based creative-coding environment (HTML/CSS/JS only). Think “Glitch-lite” for shared hosting: students edit multi-file projects in the browser with instant preview, save locally via IndexedDB, and later publish to a class projects folder.
Source: samplereality/glitchlet: A Glitch-lite/Glitch-like creative coding workbench
h/t Brian B.
A desktop app that helps you make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development.
Source: judell/bram
When an interface relies solely on conversation, it imposes a dual burden: a linguistic challenge for input and a cognitive challenge for output. We’ll examine both separately below.
Source: Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface — Smashing Magazine
America’s national parks are surging in popularity between America250 celebrations and the increasing demand for domestic travel. Our guide on 16 popular national parks from across the US is here to help you find ways around the crowds.
Source: Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Zion: When to Visit US National Parks
Meet Callback 8020: the perfect blend of functionality and privacy in a Flip-Phone, no social media or browser allowed.
“We acknowledge the approach taken in this particular exercise was not appropriate, and we sincerely apologize to employees, physicians, and union representatives,” said Ron Johnson, interim CEO at NL Health Services.
Source: Canadian health board sorry after ‘tasteless’ phishing test
HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free. Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments. And don’t write a single line of JavaScript in the process. Unless you really want to.
Source: Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM