Research from San Diego State University shows American teenagers are less likely to have tried alcohol, had sex, acquired a driver’s license, had a job, or gone on dates than teenagers twenty years ago. Today’s teens are pushing those “firsts” into their twenties more and more, making modern-day …
Although I haven’t written down any Resolutions for 2025, I have taken some steps to clean up my routines so that during every increment of time, I’m aware of what I’m prioritising at the moment. I’ve been helped along in this Quest by the screen that welcomes me on my mobile phone. That screen is …
I started playing with the Substack app during the Christmas break, trying to see if it is strong enough to let me publish thoughts with my thumbs. I am podskills.substack.com because I like the networking effect inside the Stacks. I am sharing a photo that shows five tools on a table in front of …
It seems that most of my friends have tuned out of the discussions concerning the rise of fascism in America. They don’t see the pro-fascist sentiment because they don’t hear Project 2025. In 2015, 67% of Americans were very interested in the news. Today, the number is at 49%, down …
Sandra O’Connell covers the clever rise of the AI Institute as she interviews Maryrose Lyons in today’s Sunday Times in Ireland. Twelve months ago Maryrose Lyons launched a new business, the AI Institute. As a digital marketing expert with decades of experience, her decision to go …
Experimenting with a Metaview workflow. The goal is to use the glasses to record shareable audio.
I'm with Cheyenne Macdonald, "In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever. These days, it feels like every gathering place on the internet is so crowded with content that’s competing for — and successfully grabbing — our attention or trying to sell us something that there’s barely any room for …
This is a post by Dylan. I want to show him how to use the Brydge 7.9 keyboard as he learns how to join the world as a young blogger. This is an extinct job title for a GenZ cub reporter but if he learns the skill, he will be able to continue the legacy of his dad, an elder blogger. The strategy, if …
It’s quiet time during a Christmas holiday break and I’m delighted to be able to remember people who shared ideas about productivity with me that helped me become more productive. Several of those ideas are in the photo acompanying this post. In 2016, Greg Dickson in Alberta recommended …
I believe we will feel massive shocks about Spotify Payola in early 2025. www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugl…
I started using ChatGPT regularly in mid-2023. Back then, I tried to see if OpenAI believed in a “transparency” principle because I wanted to know more about the source of data used by OpenAI to develop its systems. I’m still looking for that answer because using scraped data for …
I coasted down off the Rosslare ferry with my left hand drive BMW in mid-December 1994 and have celebrated nearly every Christmas since then in Ireland. I think I have negatives and slides in my attic from last century that might capture some of the earliest Christmases I enjoyed in …
For all who want to really disconnect from office work during this holiday period, just get a new phone and discover you can’t reauthenticate into your network until you return to the office.
Like many others, I let the cloud pull my photos up into storage locations. Three locations actually. The most irregular uploads happen with OneDrive and that’s the image at the top of this post. It’s from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland on a table a few days before Christmas 2014. We …
The special sheen of MAGA comes from its well-known pedophile ring. A House Report provides context. Here is the AI-generated summary from Acrobat: The document is a report from the Committee on Ethics regarding allegations relating to Representative Matt Gaetz, including findings of sexual …
I’m spending part of my last day on campus this year looking at training material I can use to help graduates start their own businesses, help the Irish Innovation Skillnet show companies how they can get ahead with AI, and how I can activate some processes that automate my End Of Tour Report. …
I’m looking at several standards for verifying ages, including the IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification I asked my resident AI to determine the most onerous burden faced by ISPs when implementing these proposed standards. The most onerous consideration for Internet Service Providers …
Here in Ireland we can see how US media simply lets politicians lie directly to viewers and listeners. In his 16 December press briefing, Trump claimed that because Biden allowed the use of US-made ATACMS inside Russia, North Korea deployed troops to fight in Ukraine alongside Russian forces. But …
I’m at an education conference where a dozen of the Twitter Edtech OGs lament the enschittification of the Bird Site. Extremist Elon eviscerated Twitter and he has grown bolder in public and insecure in private. Now he has Access All Areas to the White House–with no pat downs and he will …
I’m running a hands-on AI training workshop for educators with educatefran at DEC24 on 10 Dec and hope we can claw back the increased productivity we get from AI by either getting more free time or getting paid more for getting more results during the normal business day. We have walked into a …
After a day-long workshop and another day listening to educators share their best ideas, I walked into a celebration of the 30th birthday with OEB in Berlin. #EduSky
I have a 5yo phone that continues to be smarter than me. My biggest discovery is realising that when I gamify my daily workflow, I become significantly more productive. I screencapped part of my Obsidian daily page to see what happens when I post to my microblog and then push the post into my …
I’m impressed by Printful after learning about the wide range of brands using its clever user-friendly platform–more importantly, its appeal is not having to maintain inventory. On-demand production with no inventory: Printful allows you to create and sell custom products without the …
by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel IF YOU LIVE and work online, you’re creating electronic selfies all the time. It’s worth you time to see what those selfies show about you. Google forms a profile about you in order to show you relevant advertising. I look at what Google thinks I like by …
I am trying to deal with mental health issues following the tumultuous US election. I don’t know if my 5yo Samsung phone will let me show the approach I’m taking.