Every day on my fantasy #neovictorian interplanetary cruiser features glowing green ether fireworks to celebrate the United States of Britannia. #Blender3D #blender3dart #Unity3D

In the backstory for the interactive bedtime stories I told my kids from about 2007-2012, a young Benjamin Franklin discovered glowing green aether (which expands & glows when exposed to radiation), used it to power his printing press and light the streets of Philadelphia. When he threatened to share it with France, King George reluctantly…

Shakaar #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 3, Episode 20) Winn asks Kira to reclaim macguffins from the leader of her former resistance cell

Rewatching ST:DS9 After losing to O’Brien at darts, Sisko visits Kira in her quarters (where she is praying before a memorial for Bareil) to report that the scheming Kai Winn, already the spiritual leader of Bajor, has been elevated to First Minister. During a routine meeting with Odo, a distracted Kira vents about her recent…

"No, no, the drink, the drink,–O my dear Hamlet,– The drink, the drink! I am poison'd." She got applause for her death scene tonight.

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The exposition officer needs instant access to a pencil case, logbook and mission-critical reference texts. (Hair can wait.) #Blender3D #design #aesthetics #blender3dart #neovictorian #steampunk

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On my fantasy #steampunk cruiser, every uniform is a parade dress uniform. #Blender3D #blender3dart #aesthetics #design

The first few weeks of June were very busy for me. I spent a week leveling up my skill in ChoiceScript, I pivoted to marking AP English papers for a week, then I prepped a workshop for the Computers and Writing 2023 conference, which I attended remotely last weekend. The other day I returned to…

Wall display by the talented Jess Lohr, interpreting an infographic by Norton (textbook publisher).

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Getting ready to run a ChoiceScript workshop for Computers and Writing 2023. #cwcon #cwcon23

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Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’

How is AI going to change individuals and society in the not-too-distant future? AI will obviously make it easier to produce disinformation—from fake images to deepfakes to fake news. That will affect people’s sense of trust as they’re scrolling on social media. AI can also allow someone to imitate your loved ones, which further erodes people’s…

Who's ready for some free outdoor Hamlet?

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It appears there may be some audience participation in this outdoor production of Richard III.

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Influencers overtaking journalists as news source: report

TikTok influencers and celebrities are increasingly taking over from journalists as the main source of news for young people, according to a report published Wednesday by the Britain-based Reuters Institute. The figures were based on interviews with some 94,000 people across 46 countries, conducted for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, part of…

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

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Proofreading matters. (For the record, Blanche actually said, “We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty.”)

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How to promote your laser skin clinic effectively

I rather miss teaching HTML and doing my own web design on the side. These days, when my students propose to make a web page, they have already decided to use Google Sites or Wix. Sometimes I can talk them into using WordPress, but there just isn’t room in my curriculum to teach them everything…

‘Anti-dopamine parenting’ can curb a kid’s craving for screens or sweets

A good article about kids and dopamine. Apps and sweets can hijack the neural pathways we need to survive, triggering tantrums and aggression. The problem describes plenty of adults, too! It’s not actually happiness we feel when we fulfill that craving. While she’s staring into the technicolor images, her brain experiences spikes in dopamine, over and…

We ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?

Great story about the art of photographing theatre performances. Given that the choreographers and lighting designers and set designer and costume, hair and make-up people have already done a lot of work, not to mention the contributions of performers themselves, I just love grabbing 1000 or more shots during a show, and culling them down…

The ChatGPT Lawyer Explains Himself

As Mike Edwards notes, “AI doomers will eagerly tweet this article, unaware that it’s not about the dangers of LLMs: it’s about *information literacy*”

In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.

A support sloop on deck and in the landing bay. #steampunk #neovictorian #aesthetics #design #Blender3D #Unity3D

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Long Live the LARPers — My daughter plays the antagonist in this award-winning 48 Hour Film Project. (It’s a musical!)

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