Yes, Duolingo is free and I’ve learned a lot. No, I don’t like the psychological manipulation. I’m still using it but I changed my user name. Similar:Power Play (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 15) Troi, Data and O'Brien Take Host…Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise foll…CultureThis image of Mark Zuckerberg says so much about our futureA…
“Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.” — Michigan-based meteorologist Katie Nickolaou. A wide range of misinformation has been spread as Helene and then Milton gathered pace in the Gulf of Mexico, such as claims spread by Trump that Fema had run out of cash for hurricane survivors…
It’s so heartbreaking seeing the amount of disinformation being spread by elected officials and partisan agitators with lots of followers. FEMA is not out of money, it’s not confiscating damaged property, and it’s not biased for against any ethnic groups or political affiliations. Similar:What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong [T]o improve as writers, student…AcademiaFake…
My mother-in-law invited me to try out the 60- year-old tape machine that belonged to my father-in-law. When I worked in radio news in the late 1980s, we were still loading reels and splicing tape, so it all came back to me pretty quickly. Similar:Volunteering at our local food bankEthicsThe Neutral Zone (ST:TNG Rewatch:…
My job is often to help students understand things that they aren’t good at doing yet. If a student arrives in my classroom with a solid ability to construct clear sentences and summarize difficult readings, using an AI tool that helps them spot grammar mistakes with less effort and capture the gist of a reading…
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Touched up and created an infographic for a web page that I first posted in Nov 2000. Similar:Log Off, You Losers! Electronic Flatulence Must Cease!”Put your hands in your laps. Close your…AcademiaI just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999.I just dusted off a #textadventure proje…Cyberculture10 journalism resources for PR prosFrom…
A healthy respect for the free press and the institution of journalism is absolutely crucial for a healthy democracy. Media literacy matters, while a jaded “I don’t trust journalists, I do my own research” DIY attitude is easily co-opted. A false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in a June 2011 hit-and-run incident…
What is this? I do not like this change, @duolingo (For some reason I can’t practice to recover from an error.) Similar:Slash: Not Just a Punctuation Mark AnymoreI will have to watch for these uses of “…AcademiaEco-critical Code Studies: Reconfigurations of nature in the born-digital artifact “Coloss… Video game history is colliding:…Academia'Atari Dump' Will Be…
About 30 years after I first saw John Speed’s 1676 map of York, today I was working on a region labeled “Z.” Or is that a “2“? There’s both an X and a 3 nearby… confusing context! A glance at the legend shows how brilliantly Speed handled the ambiguity. #usability #ux #ui #design #medieval #cartography…
Added an overhead minimap to my #medievalyork #unity3d simulation. #mysteryplay Similar:Nested (procedurally generated game of expanding drop-down lists)A text game that you play by opening fol…AwesomeHermann Zapf, the font designer behind Palatino and Zapf Dingbats, has died at 96Hermann Zapf, the designer of fonts such…AestheticsAI-generated essays are nothing to worry about (opinion)After reviewing 22 AI essays…
Talkback session after the matinee and my brother and faculty colleagues after the evening performance. Audiences were gasping, laughing nervously, exclaiming sotto voce about “fingerprints!” and “the key!“ and “Was that *supposed* to happen?” and “This is *good*!” @thepublicpgh #dialm #understudy (We knew well in advance Carolyn would be performing yesterday.) My daughter informed me…
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She’s on her way to the @thepublicpgh for two shows today as Margot in Dial M for Murder. Similar:A 10-page paper? Are you serious? The running you do in a 100-yard das…AcademiaAfter purchase of latest accessory, I can no longer close my camera bag. #ConspicuousConsu… With the money I saved by working on…PersonalI'm just getting…
My simulated city has 1000 capsule inhabitants that are just smart enough to gather around markers and wait. In May, I had nothing. I‘m learning. #medievalyork #mysteryplay #unity3d Similar:Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship EverI’ve felt a bit like this guy the last f…CultureBound Together by an Historic Moment I was a…
I’ve had a lot of fun in this new ensemble audio storytelling series. Did I do a good job convincing my friends I really saw a time-traveling elephant? Similar:Lysistrata live.Current_EventsIrony in Blakes7 Reboot?RT @Laroquod: @DennisJerz If #Blakes7 tu…BusinessThings are not going well when the other king and queen stop by for such an intimate visit…AmusingFree…
That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. Gotta work on that! #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Come see Carolyn as “The Girl” in The Fantasticks, Oct 18-27. CultureAdobe steals your colorWhat a horrible situation. The Adobe mon…AestheticsScience Fair VictoryIn this photo from the front page of tod…ArtHelp! I may be…
How exactly do bridges bridge? How do rivers rive? How much detail does my model of #medievalyork need? My first try will be my worst try. #mysteryplay #blender3d Similar:I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. AI has transformed my experience of ed…BooksDesigning Cabinets in Blender3D — ExperimentsI designed these simple 3D cabinets in…
My project starts to get clunky while managing 1000 NPCs but I think if I split them up into groups of about 10, and only give instructions to the group leader, that will help. Not bad for my first weekend simulating crowds. #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:On Office Hours and Student Contact at the Small Liberal…
My virtual army of grey capsules is just barely smart enough to follow my avatar around. #unity3d Similar:I really enjoyed powering through Wilson’s Century Cycle during winter term.AwesomeAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dartAestheticsAnother day, another 10 square centimeters of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blende…AestheticsAnother section of a #steampunk control panel. Useful…