The Wehead Pro allows you to video call your friends in 3D. #ceslasvegas2023 #apnews – YouTubeonly $4500 for “less loneliness” Fake Signals and American Insurance: How a Dark Fleet Moves Russian Oil – The New York Times Emmett’s Life To Date – Google Sheets Snack – React Native in the browser An Anti-Porn App Put […]
Google Sheets JSON the Long Way
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 […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-06-04
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 […]
Alter the contextual help in WordPress
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 […]
Tarot Card Futures for the Surveillance Observatory
We ran a session on trying to figure out what we should do with the Surveillance Observatory site. What it is now The site is basically designed for the community to submit news, research, and personal stories. I think it’s pretty easy to do technically. I even added a bookmarklet a while back in an […]
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Reclaim Open “Your website is a slow, bloated, carbon-belching monstrosity” presentation details
This was a 15 minute presentation at Reclaim Open. I botched the timing because I didn’t put in enough timed practice. I would have been better off reading the blog post that generated the presentation and led to the creation of this page for our environmentally-focused Digital Detox. Why work on energy-efficient websites? I wanted […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-05-21
Gandalf | Lakera – Prompt InjectionYour goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf will level up each time you guess the password, and will try harder not to give it away. Can you beat level 7? (There is a bonus level 8) USC Optical Sound Effects Library : […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-05-14
Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars TechnicaSpotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of “tens of thousands” of songs, according to a person familiar with the matter. Recording giant Universal Music had […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-05-07
Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game KumuKumu makes it easy to organize complex data into relationship maps that are beautiful to look at and a pleasure to use. h/t Downes Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes — ProPublica Designing for (Realistic) Attention – Christopher ButlerWhen I advise that a webpage?—?like a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-04-30
CodeAnalogies | CSS,JavaScript Tutorials Critical AI — Cybernetic Forests.Critical Topics: AI Images was an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It was an overview of the emerging contexts of AI art making tools that connected media studies and histories of new media art, with data ethics and critical data studies. Through this […]