Before I verbalize a few resolutions, I’m reading a little bit of James Clear.
Mia, Harry, and Dylan
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Christmas Eve 2022
My relatives always get me socks for Christmas. I wish for wool but I get cheap socks. I’m thinking about holiday conversation starters involving woolen pleasures. The screencap is from a Documentally Newsletter.
Getting 100 Mbps WiFi from our quiet canteen with free coffee, donuts, and mince pies.
I will always remember a magnificent Christmas Caroling Session in church that occurred during the same time as the extended World Cup Final 2022. That global sporting event rewrote history.
Elon Musk rendered via Stable Diffusion
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Work by Clark McGillis using Stable Diffusion.
Welcome to Hotel Elsevier
Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without writers' consent. Data can be used to “extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life.” Over 20,000 researchers now refuse to publish, review, or edit for …
You can donate directly to the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine: u24.gov.ua Donations towards medical aid or rebuilding (but not defense and demining) could be tax deductible in some jurisdictions.
Onerous legal minefields ahead if you run an instance: www.wired.com/story/mas…
Irish Rail Desktop
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: On the well-worn Limerick commuter train.
One Minute Christmas Caroling
Bernie Goldbach posted a video: Recorded in St Mary's Catholic Church, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, ireland
When I was young, I was in charge of the Hoover and back then, our Hoover did not come with a network camera. www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/1…
One of my on-going things is using online polls.
I hope tantrum capitalism has a half life. www.insideview.ie/2022/12/t…
I subscribe to flight safety videos (car crashes in the air) so that suggests I’m entertained by the Blue Bird Car Crash. Twitter is proving that people who have enjoyed financial success inflate their self-worth and often they can’t see the real world because they are surrounded by …
I didn’t understand the monetary value of a retiree being presented a high quality watch until I noticed some of those watches could double in value within 10 years.
The Sick Mind of Qelon
One of the most mind-numbing facets of the Trump Era was listening to well-schooled journalists who spent the countless hours staring into the unfathomable abyss of his words and actions and trying to extract meaning from them. Now some of the same A-list journos feel they need to analyse the poor …
Power User Tips from Digital Nomads. Several of the ideas are relevant for us hot deskers: pca.st/episode/f…
Many of the aspiring marketers taking digital marketing degrees today have no clue how to inject their messages into a federated social network. I tell them not to worry because things like Jaiku and Google Plus are easily restarted, complete with tools for paid promotion.
Since you cannot link to instances directly anymore on Birdsite, you can link it via your own domain name (if you have one). Create a sub-folder called ‘@’ and within there, create a .htaccess file that redirects you to your mastodon instance and link that in your profile. – …
Anybody noticing how Mastodon links that are cross-posted to bird site gets labeled as harmful content?
My AI may earn my PhD
Hoping Big Tech is held responsible for implementation of conversational technology because language models are making stuff up. In 2023, I will use AI and cognitive services as core creation tools in my development of course materials. I am trying to get AI approved as a reader for my PhD by …
Arrived in Cork for a day-long focus group session like youtu.be/yGsHq-mZI…
Wrapping up another semester with a Joy Snack. Explained: pca.st/episode/f…
Recovering from Winter Cold. Day Two.