Let's end the week together! I'll be at this event, bright & early 9AM EST on Friday. " Immersive and experiential: designing a virtual reality classroom experience" with colleagues from the University of Arts London.
Free & online. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/del-in-between-practice-sharing-in-arts-and-design-higher-education-registration-424264896727
#virtualreality #vr #del23 #delinbetween #delconference #webinar #pedagogy #teaching #learning #artedu #designedu
Those of you with terraqueous or watery interests, historical or contemporary, might like to know about our interdisciplinary #CoastalStudies Zotero library, up to almost 500 items now. https://www.zotero.org/groups/2503094/coastal_studies/library You can share this link and anyone can see/use the contents; if you would like editing privileges, @GParrinello is the person to ask.
I wrote a little thing about FTC consent decrees, and Twitter, and how all the people who were facing potential criminal charges for not complying with the FTC consent decree quit Twitter last night... and why Elon's not caring about the FTC doesn't much matter if the FTC cares about him... (which it likely does) https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/10/does-twitter-have-any-employees-left-who-remember-that-the-company-is-under-a-strict-consent-decree-with-the-ftc/
@briannawu I genuinely fear for journalists and their sources. A lot of people don't use PGP and this is a very dangerous moment.
hot birdsite take, % seriousness uncertain
A #BuyTwitter crowdfunding campaign to purchase Twitter out of bankruptcy and convert it into a cooperative fediverse instance? ![]()
I would be very interested in any answers to this question. I have posted a number of #aiart pieces either to spread good cheer or to illustrate a point about the climate emergency.
Also, here are English translations of some of Sappho's surviving poems.
https://uh.edu/~cldue/texts/sappho.html
PixelFed experiment
What happens when I do this?
Fediverse newb question
So I am sort of confused by #PixelFed ? Do I just set up a brand-new account there and follow it from this one? Will it be confusing to have two different Fediverse identities (one for Mastodon and one for Pixelfed I guess?)? Or is that the normal thing? Or etc?
Dear Mastodonites(?), does anyone know of a way to get photos from #Pixelfed to show up on here? The two systems seem to be linked, but I can find a way to get them to speak to each other.
I meant to share this earlier, #Mastodon peeps, you can mute words on #Mastodon too; if you're tired of hearing slurs and they're coming from too many instances, you can use the mute words feature. (I personally recommend not doing this, and either muting instances that seem to have racist folks and no bad apples, or just muting bad actors because racist folks won't always use slurs all the time, and hiding the posts with the slurs can make them hard to find. I mute racist folks after seeing them use slurs but hey that's just how I use the platform, you do you!)
I have a basic etiquette question that I haven't been able to find an answer to. My apology for any redundancy.
As an AI artist, which I know is a bit controversial itself, I do like to share pieces I've created. I've been doing this on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/shadowsonawall/ if content would affect the answer) and wonder if sharing here might not be the better long-term option.
The question then: is it rude to use the server's hard drive space for my art? Is there a limit of images that is considered polite/tolerable? Is this a bad idea from the outset?
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
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pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.