Links (21 October 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨”
- “Claims that ‘AI can replace teachers’ betray a very poor understanding of teachers’ work”. “All the hype around ‘AI will replace teachers’ is as unfounded as with any other profession, and the teachers in our research project are well justified in being unswayed – if not bemused – by such statements. ”
- “You Need More Enough — Mule Design”. “The 2024 Mule Books edition of Just Enough Research is here!” One of my favourite books has a new edition.
- “The Anatomy of a Bad Idea – Paul Taylor”. “The notion that good ideas automatically win out is a myth. Bad ideas, especially those that tap into our desire for quick fixes, can easily gain traction and crowd out more nuanced solutions.”
- “Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates”. Automerge is one the more interesting projects in the local-first web software scene. (Yjs would be the other one.)
- “revealing the fediverse’s gifts”
- “You Might Not Recover from Burnout. Ever. - Devon Price”. “Among the exploited and overworked, the compulsion to sleep and stare off into space can feel similarly uncontrollable. And yet, it is also a blessing, a ravenous hungering for more life.”
- “CSS min() All The Things — Smashing Magazine”. This is clever
- “Accountability sinks | A Working Library”
- “Analysis: Aviation could consume a quarter of 1.5C carbon budget by 2050 - Carbon Brief”. “While it is true that aviation may be a small slice of a large pie at the moment, as other sectors seek to reduce their emissions in line with the carbon budgets, aviation will come to occupy an increasingly large share, if it continues to grow.”
- “the secret ingredient to coming up with good ideas for a story | by Doc Burford | Oct, 2024 | Medium”. “So, look, you wanna be creative? Well, it might seem scary until you actually practice it enough, but the answer is: figure out what you’re writing, figure out what kind of story it is, strip away the things that don’t matter, and build up from there.”
- “the secret ingredient to coming up with good ideas for a story | by Doc Burford | Oct, 2024 | Medium”. “The exercise of take an idea, now strip out the common tropes until you get to the basics, now try to put the basics in another kind of setting or with a different sort of character is a great way to be creative.”