I had another walk round the Finlas Water Loop on Monday. Beautiful November day.

Read: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan ★★★ 📚 We had witnessed all of this unfold, quiet onlookers, none of us stepping in to teach him a lesson or reaching out to help the pregnant woman. At most there were some words of comfort offered to her. We each had our own pressures […]

A response to Knowember, get to know your blogger a prompt by Robert Birming.

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Doing a masters in computer science and AI has been a surprisingly soul searching endeavour. My memories of enjoying tech as a kid were usurped by this ugly reality of spying and grasping and selling. I do still love technology, just not the industry it has become. I enjoyed the list of the way she […]

Had a nice walk round the Finlas Water loop on Monday, sparkling day.

Read Exit Party Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★

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Links I've collects, fun fascinating & frightening

As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an ideal of “learning.” Education implies a teacher, a subject, and a purpose; learning is something an individual does. What Biesta termed “learnification” meant that the transmission and application of knowledge became a priority […]

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I like geotagging & mapping photos. This wee AppleScript finds the location of a photo in the finder & opens OpenStreetMap showing where it was taken. Easily changed for other map webpages. Needs the wonderful exiftool. I run it from FastScripts, also wonderful.

Read: Stations by Louise Kennedy ★★★★★ 📚 Broken Irish kids escaping to 80's London squat. Emotional misunderstanding last for decades. Great 'period' detail. Brilliant story with no easy endings.

Read: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚 Great fun as the author plays with the conventions of the country house mystery. The characters in the big house are particularly awful and often laugh out loud funny.

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No algorithm, no timeline, no engagement bait. Just feeds you chose. Here’s the whole ecosystem — readers, feed generators, monitoring, directories, and the standards that hold it together. Great looking set of RSS tools. Via Joe and Alan.

Read: Ashland & Vine by John Burnside ★★★★ 📚 Now I was beginning to wonder if she had just been bluffing. Maybe there wasn't even a Wes, though I'm not sure about that. She'd had a look in her eye, a mix of apprehension and pride, like you see in certain types of pit-bull owners, […]

I am also not exactly sure which models I should be using. From that perspective, it was a useful reminder to be clear about what my purpose is. Ironically, having waited an hour for a response to a task associated with a series of documents, I was left wonder if this is what it felt […]

Read: When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚 A complicated multithreaded mystery. A delightful, unbelievable young girl mixed with characters from previous Jackson Brodie novels weave stories that somehow come together. Unlikely coincidences mostly. Great fun on lots of levels.

Read: The Ghost of the Mountains by Kulbhushansing Suryawanshi ★★★★ 📚 Our review of the world's studies on snow leopard populations had found that less than 10,000 of the estimated 3 million square kilometres of the snow leopard distribution range had been surveyed by researchers using rigorous scientific methods. The total snow leopard habitat in […]

Read: Ubik by Philip K. Dick ★★★ 📚 Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed drip coffee.Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed. I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I […]

Park Pond, two young dabchicks with one or two parents. Never saw the parents at the same time. Fishing & feeding the wee ones. About 10 metres along another adult & young one. Was surprised as I've not seen many about over the summer. Nesting in the space between Islands out of sight I guess?

Lots of the ivy was alive with hoverflies wasps & bees on Tuesday. Lots of buzzing!

Blustery afternoon on path to Greenside, mostly blue sky. Despite the wind a few butterflies, peacocks, painted lady, red admiral & a few speckled woods. Goldfinch in the meadowsweet. A raven circled high in the blue. The news reported less speckled woods this year, but I’ve seem more than ever.

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I am experimenting with gathering links with rss.chat here. I am pulling a rough post together for some of the links gathered there. Education This looks like a very interesting book. As important as her deep reporting on the tech industry’s ruthlessness are Singer’s profiles of the inspiring cadre of academics, educators, and activists who […]

I've a new page: River of News an rss reader for some of my favourite feeds.

I've been testing Scott Hanson's plugin that pulls in a River of News from Feedland River Embed for FeedLand, for a while. It is now available on WordPress.org so easy to install. It pulls in news from a set of blogs on a Feedland server.

Just has an email telling me telex has been retired. Telex was built onto of WordPress playground and allowed you to crate with A.I. plugins and themes. I experimented and made a few.

The free event brought the H5P community together for a day of practical examples, product updates, thoughtful discussion and networking. Across the sessions, one message came through clearly: effective digital learning is not about adding more technology. It is about using the right tools with clear learning intentions. H5P is one of the features of […]