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stevefoerster

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org

Writer, technologist, educator.

President, https://pioneeruniversity.org

#OER, #MOOC, #CBE, #mlearning, #EdTech, #stackability, #southsouth, #GlobalEd, #EduTooter

Other interests: #Dominica, #vegan, #ttrpg, #econdev, #startups, #choir, #llap, #defi, #linux, #FOSS, #seasteading, #thorium

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stevefoerster, to classicalmusic
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Western Music Isn't What You Think

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/western-music-isnt-what-you-think

I don't know enough to agree or disagree with this, but either way it's fascinating.

@classicalmusic

strypey, (edited ) to random
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$2.59 trillion sitting uninvested in bank accounts...

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/private-equity-firms-face-pressure-as-dry-powder-hits-record-2-59-trillion-79762227

... while many workers struggle to afford the basics of life, let alone "luxuries" like a night out. This hurts them, but also the businesses who sell those things. The grocery stores throwing out unsold food. The cinemas screening films to 2 people per session.

This is what happens when economies don't redistribute enough money to workers. Living standards of drop, and productive businesses suffer.

stevefoerster,
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@strypey Just steal it and mail people cheques. No possible drawback, right?

stevefoerster, to superbowl
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I get Paramount+ so that I can watch @startrek, which means my girlfriend's daughter has access to watch the -- not for the game, nor even for the ads, but so she can keep a lookout for Tay-Tay.

stevefoerster, to bookstodon
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I will do this later. @bookstodon

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stevefoerster,
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@SFAutor @bookstodon Neat! Is there a linknto your work?

ElleGray, to random
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    stevefoerster,
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    @ElleGray Not waiting for ?

    chiefgyk3d, to random
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    That awkward moment when you’re a Tiktok creator suggesting we may want to block it from being installed on corporate devices, and possibly the whole network.
    Just another fun day in Cybersecurity am I right?

    stevefoerster,
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    @chiefgyk3d "I strongly urge you in the strongest terms to quit smoking... but if you don't, then consider my brand of smooth, aged tobacco, now also in menthol!"

    stevefoerster, to startrek
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    @startrek

    flexghost, to random
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    Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by the estate of the mentally disturbed man Rittenhouse shot four times and killed.

    Rittenhouse’s response:

    “These lawsuits are making it harder and harder for me to move on with my life”

    The amount of cope white men feel after doing something horrible could power a city

    Do you know what else makes it hard to move on with your life?

    Being murdered

    stevefoerster,
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    @flexghost Rittenhouse was an incredibly fucked up kid who bought into all that thin blue line MAGA crap and made stupid decisions accordingly. I totally get why he's an unsympathetic figure.

    But it's not like he was wandering around taking potshots at random people. The guy he killed was beating him with a skateboard and trying to grab his rifle. What Rittenhouse did was self defense, not murder, even though he was an idiot to have put himself in that position.

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    stevefoerster,
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    @Jey_snow @SerhatTutkal @sociology @edutooters @politicalscience @communicationscholars No, but it will be pretty ironic if there turns out not to be one. 🤔

    stevefoerster, to wordpress
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    I've stayed with the Classic editor on all this time, and today I'm installing a new site and thought, okay, I'll try this block editor that is supposed to be the future of WP and holy shit, it's an inscrutable train wreck.

    It wouldn't matter, except that themes are apparently starting to require it. Seriously, it's so unintuitive that I could see it driving me away from WP altogether.

    stevefoerster, to allstartrek
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    Seriously, Paramount+? Did you really raise your price the same week you cancelled Prodigy and are removing it from the platform? @allstartrek

    machias, to random
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    It's weird to me that Apple is sunsetting Macs made as recently as 2017. If you are buying a new Mac to stay on the latest and greatest software, please don't landfill your current Mac. Donate it to a FreeGeek or similar organization. An "unsupported Mac" can continue as a valued computer running Linux for many more years beyond "the sunset".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek

    stevefoerster,
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    @machias I've been meaning to put Linux on my MacBook Air for a long time, but have been too busy. And it's almost that old. 🤔

    JonChevreau, to random
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    Gay Floridians Are Leaving in Droves, Says Pride Organizer https://www.thedailybeast.com/gay-floridians-are-leaving-in-droves-says-pride-organizer?via=ios

    stevefoerster,
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    @GreenFire @JonChevreau I've never understand why so many on the right think a constitutional convention would get them what they want. It's like they think they can hold one and just not tell anyone on the left, or something.

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    @GreenFire @ReallyBlue2 @JonChevreau Okay, for the sake of argument let's assume a convention is a populist shitshow that emits a bunch of reactionary amendment proposals. They'd still have to be ratified by 37 states to go into effect.

    evan, to random
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    This pretty tulip came up unexpectedly in our backyard. Nobody remembers putting bulbs in, yet here it is.

    stevefoerster,
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    @evan My fiancée refers to these as "volunteers".

    randynose, to random
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    🤔 Wait.
    What?
    🕵️
    What?
    What's that about?
    😯

    stevefoerster,
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    @randynose They should have called it Yo Mama.

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    Do you post here for work?

    stevefoerster,
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    @evan Qualified no because I haven't, but we will as an organisation once we get around to it.

    stevefoerster, to economics
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    Rents in Scotland rise at the highest rate in the UK, despite Scotland having rent controls

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65148719

    @economics

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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    Sadly, @arstechnica is embarrassing themselves with their innumeracy here.

    The average time-to-failure of HDDs is not less than three years, and the study in question does not claim that they do.

    So what went wrong....?

    https://fediscience.org/@arstechnica@mastodon.social/110310597119922958 h/t @waldok

    stevefoerster,
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    @ct_bergstrom @waldok @arstechnica Moreover, those were only the drives the company received, not all drives anywhere that failed.

    Edent, to random
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    I found a bot which was hammering my site. So I asked the author if they could make it opt-in.

    Apparently consent doesn't matter if it's for the greater good.

    The brainworms are strong!

    https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293

    stevefoerster,
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    @Edent Sounds like the author is Bing.

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