Found my stash of rubber ducks for next Monday.
(I give them to any graduating seniors in my tech-related classes, inducting them into the Right Noble Order of the Rubber Duck.)
Whew, it's just pithy quote day, I tell you what.
"... the mega-platforms themselves, at the core of which are machines for turning human action and feeling into saleable data objects." -- @Erin Kissane
"Today we donβt have a manufacturing model of software development; we have a literary model, where everyone gets to make up their own version of what we often already have." -- @Wendy Nather
OH DANG will I ever be quoting that in class.
fluffy gripper socks are the best thing in the universe when you've biked home from work through a driving rain and are therefore tired and cold and wet
So I last-minute threw together a talk for INFOCon (https://www.ischools.org/infocon) today, and it was a little scattered but not too bad (attendee questions were AWESOME), so.
Taking Arms Against a Sea of Chatbot Sludge
ugh, this is my day for asking questions apparently
I remember the Cat&Girl webcomic... but there was another site (home tips and similar, I think?) that talked openly about chatbot-generated web sludge eating its lunch vis-a-vis advertising.
Who was this?
All conferences who still use a two-column whatever-flavor-of-TeX template:
STOP. STOP IT. PEOPLE READ THOSE PDFS ONSCREEN. Two-column sucks for that.
One column (plus marginalia if you like; that's a great way to handle notes or citations), please.
Looking at you today, [@PET_Symposium](
