Some things I might have posted to Twitter… if Twitter wasn’t run by this guy. So yes. Elon Musk picked a fight with a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular distrophy on a public twitter thread, hoping to humiliate a parasitic do-nothing employee, and instead revealed the damage done as he continues to smash his $44 […]
Read more "Hits, misses and runs"Today, in “blog posts that probably should have been a Tweet”… Reading Adam Johnson’s “People ‘Feel Unsafe’ Because Visible Poverty Is Everywhere” last night hit me hard, and I haven’t been able to shake it. A few key excerpts: Homelessness is used interchangeably with crime despite it not being one—beyond a social one inflicted upon […]
Read more "When the wheels come off, inhumanity reigns"I have been wanting to write an “update” post for some time, but with so much going down, I didn’t know where to begin. So when Anne-Marie Scott suggested we do a follow-up on our OER20 conversations from last March about the OpenETC, I was grateful. It’s always fun, stimulating and rewarding to talk with […]
Read more "Temperature Check"This film is less than six minutes long. It’s very well made, with a dark hypnotic beauty. I barely made it through. Filmmaker Josh Begley captures the 280 (reported) concussions in this year’s NFL season. Field of Vision – Concussion Protocol from Field of Vision on Vimeo. Made as a collaboration between Field of Vision […]
Read more "It’s the Abject Super Bowl Spectacular! Picks and prop bets! (“What time does the Super Bowl start?”)"We learn via an email from BCNet that the online video company MediaCore has been acquired (by Workday, who seem to be quite the behemoth in the making) and the platform is shutting down. As a result BCNet’s “MSO with MediaCore will no longer be operational.” Bummer. MediaCore looked like a promising option. Particularly because […]
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