by Bernie Goldbach, content wrangler.Finishing up one of the happiest Media Writing sessions on campus with the help of an enthusiastic pastry chef. The session with digital animators was fueled by red velvet cupcakes and playful characters baked as green biscuit treats.#creativity #irishart …

Dealing with a smart car

We just bought a three year old car that is smarter than its drivers. During our first attempt to back out of our driveway, the emergency brake suddenly stopped the car because of imminent collision. With the 3m long whips of our neighbour’s weeping willow tree. We have some pruning to do …

Test Drive Your Tech #protip

I’m a fan of the Ricoh Theta 360 camera range and we have several on campus. Yesterday, I discovered the Theta V I planned to use needed recharging, resetting (uses the SIM pin I carry), and a 669 MB firmware upgrade. So it pays to test drive the tech you need to use before you need to use it.

Recommending my animation students take the free LinkedIn+GitHub course “CSS Animation” before it requires an enrollment fee. Details: www.searchenginejournal.com/linkedin-…

Clappboard of Abbi O'Brien Kiely

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Bernie's Mobile Obsidian Folders

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Happy with Obsidian.md

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Manage your social media.

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Start by turning off your phone.      Related StoriesElon Musk is Bad at ThisThe Birds EscapedPresentation Secrets of Steve Jobs 

We cannot make social media good because it is fundamentally bad, deep in its very structure. Ian Bogost in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technolog…

Hoping to hear and see PSAs urging people not to use Twitter DMs as customer service points. The scammers are impersonating airline ticket counters, service providers, and HMOs.

Sure, Elon might have vaporised millions of bots since he let the sink in, but I reckon more than 1m real people have stopped tweeting. www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/0…

Happy with Obsidian Publish #pkm

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.

I have to work with a very restrictive tech admin policy with campus desktops and staff laptops. So it was very nice to see ObsidianMD installed its vault inside my laptop’s Document folder without any sort of IT Admin Permissions. Win! #ObsidianMD

Thinking about doubling the size of our aquarium now that the Axolotls are walking to the top of the tank.

End of the Trump Crazy Train

I’m an American voting from Ireland via paper ballot. I enjoy watching elections. It looks like good Republicans today can blame Donald Trump for pushing wacky candidates and for using his jumbotrons to promote his own presidential asperations. Trump’s self-indulgent rallies don’t …

I need to find how to link from either my MB account or from my mastodon account to my ORCID ID. Doing that would improve reference longevity.

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 …

I learned the word sympolymasey today from Chris Krycho. He wrote some killer block-related journaling ideas and also made a screencast

Youth Media Team meets MA students

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DX by Lichel Art

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AltSpace in Dublin

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Where we learned about COVID-19 while displaced from classrooms.       

Samantha Chery in WaPo: About one in eight voters overall were under 30 and more than half supported Democratic candidates in the midterm elections, according to early exit polling and AP VoteCast. But support for Democrats among young voters, while still running well ahead of their support for …

Contributing to the Irish Mastodon Tip Jar at https://opencollective.com/mastodonie

Beware of the Embrace/Extend/Extinguish Playbook. You know someone is toying with how to inject a billion instances via Gmail.