The Birds Escaped
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Let that sink in. Related StoriesElon Musk is Bad at ThisGood Old DaysAmazon has figured out flywheels of commerce
The birds escaped. Let that sink in. -- Anne Handler
Wondering if @runcertain@mastodon.ie can see an image of my Rode Wireless updating.
Hoping we can take @eolai@mastodon.social for tea at Creed in Celbridge before Christmas. Dylan is the official hot chocolate tester there.
It’s hard for me to tell if our Axolotls can see me smile.
Talking to clever creatives in Clonmel about establishing a presence on Mastodon. First up @designerofmotions@metalhead.club
‘Mastodon’ didn’t make the Top 20 Google searches on 7 November. @klillington@mastodon.ie
From @klillington@mastodon.ie The Irish instance now approaching 9k users when fewer than 500 at start of last week.
Saving dozen of Old Skool methods of reading without trackers: rsapkf.org/weblog/q2…
Quick Sketch of ET
Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Inspired by Marshall O'Connor during a Zoom session with Kathryn Cormican.
Good Old Days
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I think there were more benevolent billionaires last century.
Loving the colorful image of the fediverse I spotted on Esther Schindler’s timeline.
Prepping my course notes for UX students. Planning to discuss accessible water fountains with contributions from tedothedo
Irish employment law and tech sector slowdow
Ireland’s Department of Enterprise expects companies to respect legal requirements when laying off staff. Irish employment law requires a company that wishes to engage in collective redundancy to inform the Minister for Employment 30 days before any dismissals take place. There are big …
Postcard from Achill Island
When a house on Achill Island is abandoned, it isn’t demolished. It’s just left: net curtains in the windows, wooden chairs and a table in the kitchen with plates on it, and a rusting turf-fueled stove. Removing anything is frowned upon. It’s as if the lost soul might return at any …
I really like Tara’s well-written list of Fediverse resources
According to Debirdify 2.5% of the people I follow on Twitter have Fediverse accounts. Most of the people I follow are using scholar.social.
Calling odd.blog
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AI Art at a Watershed
Eric Bellefeuille, art director for Ubisoft in Montreal, shared some of his text-to-art spaceship blueprints created by the Midjourney AI.The game art designers I teach have dramatically increased their outputs by using AI with their artwork. You can sketch ideas that in the past would have required …
I see a Confused Elephant a lot nowadays. It’s been months since I’ve seen a Fail Whale but I suspect that image will start reappearing on Twitter before Christmas.
It’s been 50 hours since I asked Twitter for an archive of my tweets, stretching back to 2006. I wonder if the Archive Team has been laid off.
Just before Twitter Memory Fails
It’s late Friday in an Irish data centre where a RAID server owned by Twitter is running its backups. The server used to be monitored by a Twitter employee who was just laid off by email. Before the end of the weekend, the server memory will be over capacity and when that happens, European …
If you do not listen to this powerful and forceful generation, you won’t survive as a company. Rachel Ruggeri, Starbucks CFO