The Rapid Rise of Radio in the 1920s

From Bernie Goldbach's photostream: Wondering if AI is rising as fast in the 2020s Reshaping Education with AI Listening AssistanceStart at the experience and work back toward the techSeven New Rules of Digital Transformation by Red Hat 

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 …

Continued growth in Fediverse

From @donncha@mastodon.ie I saw mind-boggling Fediverse stats Mastodon has the most users of any Fediverse sw. There are more Fediverse servers in EU than in the US.

When ActivityPub marries RSS

Anyway, when ActivityPub and RSS merge we will have a fantastic social network along with the news reader of the world, as an open system that the Bigs will never break. We will have the online system we’ve been waiting for. Now we just have to do everything right. 😄 Dave Winer …

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.

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 …