perkinsy

NarrelleMHarris, 13 hours ago to movies

Coming events: Bendigo Writers Council, 29 May 2024, 7-9pm: What does an editor do?

Next Wednesday, I'll be at the Bendigo Library talking about the role of the editor for the BWC. Tickets are $10 - and you can book via their website:

https://allevents.in/bendigo/bwc-writers-explore-may-%E2%80%93-what-does-an-editor-do-with-narrelle-m-harris/200026473366719

#editing #librarytalk #Bendigo #bendigowriterscouncil #bendigolibrary

arstechnica, 1 day ago to random

Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89

Bell architected DEC's VAX minicomputers, championed computer history, mentored at Microsoft.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

molly0xfff, 1 day ago to ai

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

arstechnica, 2 days ago to random

Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

xahteiwi, 2 days ago to random

To call a subset of humans "creatives" makes about as much sense as calling a subset of humans "bipeds" or "oxygen breathers".

BHO, 2 days ago to history

New #OpenAccess article:

A Community of Consent: Conscientious Objectors on the North Yorkshire Moors and the North East Coast During the First World War, by Angus Wallace

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2272833

#History #c20th #FirstWorldWar

perkinsy, 2 days ago to melbourne

Someone has stolen the salvia that was thriving in our street garden and covered in flowers for months. It has been carefully dug out.

One of our neighbours has given up on a nice front garden because of people stealing his plants. This is why I stick to nasturtiums and geraniums - free and easy to grow from cuttings or seeds. No-one wants to steal them.

#fuming

#Melbourne #GardeningAU

bbsmooth, 3 days ago to gardening

I built this "Little Free Art Gallery" for my wife a few years ago. She's turned into a prolific artist over the years and creates way more art than our house can handle, and she's run out of friends to gift them to. So now she can give her art away to the neighborhood.

#gardening #art

richrollgardener, 3 days ago to gardening

A neighbor very kindly offered me the contents of his compost pile which I gladly accepted and used to finish off mulching around the tomato plants. I gave him a head of lettuce in return for two carts of compost. What a deal! 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening
#compost

RustyBertrand, 3 days ago to random

Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent.

There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women; Henry Miller writing to Anaïs Nin that her stories were garbage and should be disregarded, only for her to discover whole sections copied word for word in his novels years later, all while she financed his existence.

Francoise Gilot finally gets an exhibition after this hack successfully ruined her chances of success as an artist while she lived, and her name is still omitted.

Rebecca Solnit suggests that the fact that the question "what is your mother's maiden name?" is often used for security measures is a meaningful indicator of the extent of women's erasure. What's in a name? A lot. If one's claim of one's own name meant nothing then colonisers wouldn't need to strip them from the colonised, and men wouldn't need to erase them in marriage, from history books and from reportage.

via Freyja Howls

mvyrmnd, 4 days ago to random

If you're in Naarm/Melbourne you can now drop your unwanted IT gear/phones/tablets/consoles to Core Roasters at 14 Barkly Street, Brunswick East (and grab yourself some excellent coffee and pastries while you're there)
https://aus.social/@mvyrmnd/112461337522433908

grimalkina, 5 days ago to random

A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

adamsteer, 5 days ago to random

It's job application weekend again with 5 weeks on the current clock. It is painful. there's nothing that really "fits" skills or location (Bendigo, Victoria, Australia). No permanent roles, all short term.

If you want to headhunt a highly trained, super experienced, skilled researcher and geospatial data analyst, who can lead teams and develop concepts from dream to strategy to reality to results, and is trusted to get remote work done - reach out! Save me and my referees a pile of effort.

mvyrmnd, 5 days ago to random

Some of you may know that I'm elbow deep in raising money for the Cancer Council via the Shitbox Rally. I've started a new fundraiser called "Computers for a Cause" where my sons and I will take old donated computer equipment, clean it and fill it with FOSS goodness and sell it for a very reasonable price with all money raised being donated to the Cancer Council.

It will keep perfectly serviceable equipment out of landfill, and raise money for a worthy cause.

No one on here will be local to me, but if you have old equipment you'd like to donate, please PM me and we can work something out.

Retoots are very welcome. Thanks all!

ernie, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

How I fixed Google so it doesn’t shove AI into my face anymore.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

new @tedium

EDIT: Nobody cares if you use DuckDuckGo, you do you

siftinsand, 5 days ago to cycling

I lead a club ride today, only 10km
But.

• It was my first ride as a leader since I broke my arm 6 months ago
• It was the first ride for another member in 2 years following knee surgery
• It was the first ride back for another member after surgery for a life altering condition
  So yes it was quite a ride and the sun shone on us
  Cycling is amazing no matter how, where and why you do it ❤️🚲
  #cycling #bike #Melbourne #Naarm

arstechnica, 6 days ago to random

Google Search adds “web” filter as it pivots to AI-focused search results

Google Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

pbinkley, 8 days ago to random

Lovely to see: a diamond open access journal launching as the successor to a non-open journal, with mostly the same editorial team https://www.openlibhums.org/news/702/

CatherineFlick, 9 days ago to LLMs

Just FYI, if you have older parents or other family members, set up some sort of shibboleth with them so they know what to ask you if you ever call them asking for something. These new generative models are going to be extremely convincing, and the idiots in charge of these companies think they can use guardrails to stop it being used inappropriately. They can't. #genAI #LLMs #chatgpt

nnye, 10 days ago to random

@AusSocialMods Thank you for all that you collectively do.
I have never seen you in action, which I reckon means that you’re very good at your role!
I appreciate you, each and every one.

siftinsand, 11 days ago to melbourne

Today I feel emotionally exhausted. I feel like my life is going to be pre 11 May Aurora and post 11 May. I've been planning for the solar maximum for at least 6 years - would I go to Canada? Finland? spend 6 months in southern New Zealand?
In the end I spent 4 hours on a beach an hour's drive from my home. It was more than I ever dared hope for.
As the beams shot over my head with awesome power I was overwhelmingly grateful to my mother earth, whose magnetic field and atmosphere keep me safe every single second of my life.
Sigh.
I think I need to get a rail replacement bus or something to ground me again.
#Aurora #Melbourne #Australia

kensingtoncomposthub, 11 days ago to melbourne

Hoop House Number One now up and running thanks to our hardworking #KensingtonTownHallCompost volunteers. Made entirely from the surplus urban and industrial materials thrown up and thrown away by the population of #Melbourne. Our latest cool season seedlings have moved into their new home

#ICAW2024 #compost #naturesClimateChampion #Kensington3031 #KensingtonVic #KensingtonCompost #CommunityComposting #EarthDayEveryDay #betterSoilBetterLifeBetterFuture #CircularEconomy #ReduceReuseRepurpose

A low steel shelf with a couple of seed trays full of newly germinated seedlings

mtchl, 11 days ago to random

An excellent digital feature on Archie Moore’s Kith and Kin, at the Venice Biennale.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/archie-moore-venice-biennale-up-close/103789292?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=safari

Nice to see ABC Story Lab using these #scrollytelling techniques used for “arts” content - perhaps the first time? And an incredible candidate for this treatment. Clever use of map-tile image presentation

perkinsy, 12 days ago to random

Australian children are missing out on learning music at school and out of school. Parents are cutting back as cost of living rises.

Learning to play music as a child is so important for people's well-being and enriches society.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-11/families-cutting-back-music-cost-of-living/103823896

perkinsy, 12 days ago to melbourne

This morning our gardening group gave away a lot of cuttings to a family nearby. We had been nurturing the plants over summer. We also gave away plants that my mother no longer wants.

Gardening can be an incredibly cheap hobby if you know a bit about plants. Many gardeners have piles of black plastic pots they no longer want and some plants like pelargoniums (geraniums) are easy to grow from cuttings. I pick up cheap potting soil from a supermarket as the easy to grow plants don't really care about what they grow in.

#GardeningAU #Melbourne