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.
Wondering why a fresh blue wave failed to wake up America–it looks like Donald Trump will never need to leave the White House. What I’m seeing at sunrise after the 2024 US elections is a big win for Russia, a loss for Ukraine, win for big business, loss for the environment, big win for …
I’m planning a hands-on AI workshop for OEB.global at the end of November, sharing some of the contents of my sling sack. #OEB24 The workshop is billed as a “Hands-on Practical Workflows with AI Tools”. I need to make videos in square format, based on how this content pushed out to …
While using NotebookLM, I discovered that each source can have up to 500,000 words. So I compiled a collection of snippets that I’ve saved inside Readwise into a single notebook. I have more than 5000 quotes in a single notebook.I capture hundreds of quotes every year by highlighting passages …
Elon Musk, enemy of “open borders,” launched his career working illegally, according to Maria Sacchetti, Faiz Siddiqui, and Nick Miroff in the Washington Post. Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. …
Irish women are among the most-educated in the world–especially compared to American women. According to the OECD, “Secondary attainment improved across most OECD countries. Educational and labour-market outcomes have improved for the young adults most at risk of falling behind. Girls …
We’re using three different AIs in a action-packed session with young teens today. Otter.ai is recording thoughts about problems and the link takes you to an unedited transcript. Meta.ai is taking photos with Ray-Ban smart glasses and you can see some of those photos inside the Meta View album …
I’m a big fan of personal knowledge management (PKM) and I have a dog-eared copy of Building a Second Brain as proof that I’m deep into the idea. I teach the fundamentals of keeping a vault on a laptop, syncing core materials to a handset, and maintaining a public view of a PKM online. …
Since late 2022, while using AI toolsets nearly every day, I have noticed it is easy for me to think I am productive just because I am running ChatGPT prompts. And after sharing examples of my workflow with more than 200 people during AI training sessions, I realise I am not alone in challenging …
Laura van den Berg shares a story and recalls the joy of walking Oscar, a mixed Lab. “When Oscar was younger, I would sometimes grow impatient with how much time he could spend smelling one little spot. Then a dog trainer told me, ‘Imagine someone says, ‘I’m going to take you to an …
One of my go-to collaborators is Perplexity, my virtual assistant. I ask her questions several times a day, often to check facts or to memoralise notes to self. Today, while toggling between Mairead Pratschke’s excellent new work and some course notes for UX students, I asked Perplexity to go …
I’m reading a report in The Sunday Times of Ireland about a swingers' site that published a profile of an Irish politician. The account has been taken down but the presence of the profile has raised concerns in some circles. “Senator feared for her safety over fake profile on swingers …