Owen @OwenKelly@scholar.social

"I’ve got a really good feeling about what these kids are going to do when we finally do get them back into buildings full-time. I don’t really care how much work they got done this year. I don’t.

We always confused work with learning anyway. We always confused a lot of things with learning anyway."

The "we confuse work with learning" is something that we should talk about.

https://mrtomrad.medium.com/

Mastodon works by aggregating people in distinct servers that are connected in a horizontal network, where people can interact freely.

In research, scientists usually work in research centers and collaborate worldwide in a distributed network.

The two things overlap nicely and could be potentially synergic. If we concentrated our efforts on building a Mastodon instance in every big research institution, we may grow a federated scientific network that is free from commercial apps.

my life is just a series of bad decisions that seemed like a good idea at the time, except for all the decisions i’m making now which are great

What do Mars and Texas tell us about technology?

A prompt:

https://bryanalexander.org/technology/what-does-mars-and-texas-tell-us-about-technology/

#Texas
#mars2021

on the birdsite, Kamal Munir on yoga:
"Movements often use the market mechanism to scale up. However, countercultural movements oppose the ideological underpinnings of markets. How are such movts made syncretic with markets?"

"We show how, before such a movement can be commodified, it must be de-essentialized, a process that requires stripping away key aspects of its history, context, and religious commitments and transforming collective goals into individual ones."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0001839221993475

Odd happenings at Google, Meg Mitchell (lead of the Ethical AI team) has been locked out of her corporate email account for 5 weeks, and was just fired by email to her personal email address.

One really good episode with side questions like why cancel culture and de-platforming are bad, Trump phenomenon and what's wrong with politics and so on.

[The Portal] 42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions #thePortal
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/118509518 via @PodcastAddict

if you want to make a blockchain powered thing i recommend designing it, and then just removing the blockchain part. it will still be a cool project i promise you

New Code for Thought #podcast episode out, this time focusing on the team at AfricarXiV who do great work making African #science more visible https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/7709281-making-african-science-visible

#OpenScience #OpenAccess

Interesting article with much more to say than its title (Librarians vs. QAnon) suggests. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/02/how-librarians-can-fight-qanon/618047/ Many thoughts related to info literacy E.g. "We are experiencing a moment that is exposing a schism between two groups: those who have faith that there is a way to arrive at truth using epistemological practices that originated during the Enlightenment, and those who believe that events and experiences are portents to be interpreted in ways that align with their personal values."

Things to know about Peertube 3.0 and the Fediverse at large

https://peertube.stream/videos/watch/8ee04654-431b-4b08-990b-f12de68047c5

#peertube #fediverse

Looking to migrate away from Google but still looking for free/affordable replacements without the hassle of hosting them yourself?

There are many choices, take your pick:)

https://tromland.org/

https://disroot.org/en

https://framasoft.org/en/

https://weho.st/

https://nomagic.uk/services/

Feel free to add to this list if I've missed any good ones:)

PLEASE BOOST SO OTHERS WILL SEE IT!

#framasoft #disroot #nomagic.uk #nextcloud #email #foss #trom #gafam #fuckgoogle

finally deleted myself off the bird app. for reasons of affectation I held on to the username, as it is clearly an early adopters one.

TOOT! Hi,

today is another kind of #anniversary. So far I posted 250 toots here, and it's just a beginning. Thank you #all for your interest, favs, boosts, and replies.

I'd like to stress that all of my #photos are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. You can find more info at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

I've just set up #liberapay account, so you can support my work in case you like it. It is at https://liberapay.com/dogsleg/

😉

#introduction #reintroduction #skyofmywindow #sky_of_my_window