Marc Schnau @Marc_Schnau@mastodon.cloud
Family man working in the fields of Instructional Design, Learning and Education
"Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance"
It's a long read, worth every single moment one spend reading and trying to understand. And it might be perfect, if one starts acting responsible instead of feeding the monster.
Some days ago I finished reading William Gibson's wonderful "The Peripheral". It needed me some time because even if I'm somewhat able to handle the English language with care, to get me through the first part, learning all the slang he uses, it helps a lot to read "The Peripheral" in ones mother tongue.
Huge recommendation for anyone interested in near future #sciencefiction
The Register about why it might be a very good idea to use Firefox and even the IE.
I've to use a huge variety of browser at work (testiung purposes), tried Chrome in depth and stay with the fox.
Quote:
"The dream of a single rendering engine is the dream of someone who fails to understand the most fundamental thing about the web – it's a mess, but it's a beautiful, flexible, powerful mess."
And so it shall, no, must stay.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/firefox_a_call_to_freedom/
Another one for the #internetofshit files:
"Bose headphones spy on listeners"
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN17L2BT
So Google like to point a loaded gun on the online-business, yelling "Pay or die!"?
The only answer I can think about is, that we need somekind of a completely different internet. The actual one is broken in far too many ways.
But that might need a completely different way of thinking, behaving and usage.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233
Hmmm, tried #tusky yesterday afternoon. Installation? No problem as always. Login? It opened up an instance of the firefox and asked me for a mail adress to log in to mastodon. Firefox told me that I have to eccept cookies before it was willing to go on. So I changed the settings to let the fox accept cookies. The login still refused to work. Do I really have to accept third party cookies too? Finally I gave up.
Over there at G+ I've posted #musicfortheweekend on a more or less regular base. Maybe it's an idea to try this at #mastodon
So let there be some #musciforinbetween (a fork of the #musicoftheweekend file ;) )
It's a dark one:
*Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46u_Ggsub1A
At the moment there are three #android #apps for #mastodon avaliable. But they are all looking like they are still in a very beta state.
Tusky - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky
11t - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jeroensmeets.mastodon
TootyFruity - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.kevinegli.tootyfruity221258 (unreleased at the moment)
Topics of interest:
#elearning
#training
#vocationaltraining
#teaching
#knowledgemanagement
#learningtechnology
#hr
#music (lots of genres but no charts stuff)
#art
#traditionallongbows
#education
#fantasy
#sciencefiction
#history
#roleplaying (pen & paper; computer)
and lots of more stuff
Now that we have #mastodon as a #twitter alternative, could someone please built a G+ alternative too? Because it looks like #googleisn't able to develop G+ into something sustainable and long lasting.
Posit: Ideas are interfaces.
The mental models we construct define the bounds, nature, state, inputs, outputs, future, and past, of the phenomena we percieve or consider.
Donald Hoffman's theme here (hat and bar) is one instance of this.
Neverever underestimate even the Youngest!
"Children bit their lips, wrinkled their nose or wiggled in their chair when the protagonist came back, as if they anticipated the bewilderment and disappointment he was about to experience. Importantly, children showed no such reactions and remained calm when the protagonist had seen the events himself and thus knew what to expect."
http://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/children-understand-more-other-minds-believed/
