"Digital Learning: Exploring Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Open Educational Resources"
#OpenIrony
One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/
The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …
'New' consumer energy resources like EVs, heat pumps, batteries can help support the local grid - if we allow them to.
Lowering minimum bid sizes, allowing aggregation and using standard platforms increases participation. The more participating network users – including consumers – the more liquid the market, and the more effective the deployment can be at lower costs.
#Flexibility
I purposely made my “Entry to Left‑Wing Anarchist Reading” page look almost exactly like a Google Doc, just so the normies wouldn’t freak out and bounce the second they open it.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html
I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The way he’s threading the needle of talking about the ICE / local police interactions is fascinating: his line is that Mpls Police being called to deal with ICE (e.g. “there’s an abductee’s abandoned car” or 911 call “omg ICE is at my door”) is an unlawful federal commandeering of local police resources.
I say fascinating because that line of argument has legs regardless of whether police helped ICE or pushed back against ICE, whether the police did the right thing or the wrong thing in any given encounter.
None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…
For an upcoming newsletter post I am looking for the best
👉 online resources on reproducible research 👈️
What are yours, and why?
We urgently need to overcome the capitalist law of value and democratise our economy, so that we can organise production around urgent social and ecological priorities. After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose.
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
🎉 Today marks the release of Resources 1.10, here are some highlights:
• Added support for AMD NPUs
• Added support for detecting apps managed by appimaged and Portable
• Improved app detection in some cases
• Improved accessibility for screen reader users and keyboard users
• Resources’ CPU usage has been cut down significantly
Enjoy! :)
− Get it via Flathub:
"AI" skills are basically just documentation and it says something about how documentation only gets resources and respect if it is framed as "technology". Which has gender bias all over it.
Short-term survival of #tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in #martian #regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2 -> ‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/water-bears-reveal-potential-adapting-protecting-martian-resources - microscopic tardigrades help inform how simulated Martian soil might support plant life and mitigate contaminants shedding from human explorers, researchers report -> Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-found-something-tardigrades-cant-survive-2000728358 - tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.
Have You Ever Thought About Drones in MISP?
To better support the documentation and analysis of drone-related incidents, several new resources have been integrated into MISP.
#drone #drones #intelligence
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
The most frustrating part of contributing to software #documentation is when the reviewer does not understand the improvement and asks for elaboration a dozen times and you keep explaining it over and over again. 🧘
And then states that they are lacking resources for reviews, but still find the time to meticulously explain how they do not see a benefit and thus hold back.
Alice Ball | National Women's History Museum https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-ball
"An American chemist who, at the age of 23, developed the only effective treatment for leprosy until antibiotics were developed …
“Love thy neighbor*”
– USian Christians
* Unless they have natural resources. In which case, bomb the shit out of them, invade them, kidnap their presidents… anything, really, until we can steal what they have. After all, we built our whole damn country on stealing from and enslaving others (amen, etc.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116198551587107672
Net and cloud people, this imay be worth a look? Some hard-coded net resources, temp server listeners, and DNS juju going on here it looks like.
Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/
One thing I've noticed in recent years, not solely from government, is the assumption that processes are naturally parallelizable - ie they can be scaled with resources - whereas in reality this can take significant amounts of work to make true.
There's a lot of pre-cloud business processes - and licensing arrangements - that still work with the assumption of "one big computer".
Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/ch…
Oops! Missed the anniversary!
Posted 20 years ago last Friday: New Bottom Line Volume 5.3 – "From Life Cycle Assessment to Life Cycle Thinking"
https://natlogic.com/resources/publications/new-bottom-line/vol5/3-life-cycle-asse…
Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran
It's wild hearing Canadian journalists chuckle about the US attacking a neighbouring country over natural resources.
It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.
Who shall we blame for this travesty? Trump or Tulsi Gabbard? The CIA World Factbook was one of the first major resources available on the world wide web, long before there was a wikipedia.
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-…
AgentCgroup: Understanding and Controlling OS Resources of AI Agents
Yusheng Zheng, Jiakun Fan, Quanzhi Fu, Yiwei Yang, Wei Zhang, Andi Quinn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09345 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.09345
arXiv:2602.09345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant cloud environments, where they execute diverse tool calls within sandboxed containers, each call with distinct resource demands and rapid fluctuations. We present a systematic characterization of OS-level resource dynamics in sandboxed AI coding agents, analyzing 144 software engineering tasks from the SWE-rebench benchmark across two LLM models. Our measurements reveal that (1) OS-level execution (tool calls, container and agent initialization) accounts for 56-74% of end-to-end task latency; (2) memory, not CPU, is the concurrency bottleneck; (3) memory spikes are tool-call-driven with a up to 15.4x peak-to-average ratio; and (4) resource demands are highly unpredictable across tasks, runs, and models. Comparing these characteristics against serverless, microservice, and batch workloads, we identify three mismatches in existing resource controls: a granularity mismatch (container-level policies vs. tool-call-level dynamics), a responsiveness mismatch (user-space reaction vs. sub-second unpredictable bursts), and an adaptability mismatch (history-based prediction vs. non-deterministic stateful execution). We propose AgentCgroup , an eBPF-based resource controller that addresses these mismatches through hierarchical cgroup structures aligned with tool-call boundaries, in-kernel enforcement via sched_ext and memcg_bpf_ops, and runtime-adaptive policies driven by in-kernel monitoring. Preliminary evaluation demonstrates improved multi-tenant isolation and reduced resource waste.
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I have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:
I just recovered the project information of the atusb IEEE 802.15.4 USB adapter since qi-hardware is now defunct. The page and all other resources/binaries/... (full backup) now live at https://people.osmocom.org/werner/wpan/web/ and a git repo with compiling tools can be found at
Does it make sense to create a Bundle for loading into OpenPolicyAgent which contains a data.json file with a /giant/ list of both Principals (fediverse handles, email addresses) and Resources (documents, meetings) they Own (can modify)?
Document-ownership kinda sounds Dynamic. But there's no numbers for size/freq (just "medium") in #askfedi #opa #OpenPolicyAgent
I've seen so many excited (or annoyed) notices about the changes to the 60m #HamRadio band in the US. Many of them seemed to think that they were in effect already (wrong) and those that didn't make that mistake would just say "soon" (not helpful).
It turns out that 13 February 2026 is the day that you can use the additional band allocation on you…
Rep. Khanna's Super Bowl Emergency Constituent Services
Sunday, February 8th between 3:00pm -7:00pm PT Rep. Ro Khanna's district office will hold virtual office hours to offer resources and emergency casework for constituents after reports that ICE could be present at the Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
Office hours will be hosted by Tom Pyke, District Director and Simeone Chien, Director of Constituent Services. To register please email: CA17@ma…
On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017) - Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal
Do you have a device with an AMD Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that you actively use? I could use your help testing support for monitoring AMD NPUs in Resources!
I'd really appreciate it if you'd check out the amdxdna-support branch of Resources' GitHub repository and check if NPU utilization correctly shows up in Resources.
You can find more info in this GitHub issue:
Meta aims to introduce
facial recognition to its
smart glasses
while its biggest critics are distracted,
according to a report from The New York Times.
In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will
💥launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
The document is from last May and reportedly describes …
On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/
Good Morning #Canada
If you are tuning in for Canadian trivia and bad puns.... prepare to be disappointed. I'm once again hijacking my morning post to ask all Canadian Mastodonians for input.
Question for all MastoCanucks - how would you convince a politician or government dept/agency to join Mastodon? What are the key points that should be made to motivate our government accounts to make a move?
There will be lots of repetitive answers but feel free to expand on those. Also chime in on what questions or resources government accounts might need to successfully launch a Mastodon account (overcoming resistance). If you volunteer to help contact government individuals, what resources do you need to help support your efforts (enabling scale and shared purpose)?
Respond to this post and please boost for reach into all corners of Canada. Follow #MastoCanadaGOV for future updates. Remember, there are no bad ideas, just bad puns by yours truly.
cc: @…
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp #MastodonCanada
If you've looked at recent US government websites, and wondered why you don't see UK government sites covered with photos of British cabinet members, it's not entirely a design choice.
Central government resources aren't allowed to be used to promote party political content - and for websites that can include raising the public profile of politicians.
There is, in essence, a civil servant who can reject website update requests made by the Prime Minister if they fe…
Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday,
the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.
The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages,
health benefits and more resources for special needs students.
The San FranciscoUnified School District closed all its 120 schools
and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.
Corridors are a government priority, and the necessary resources have been allocated for the north-south and east-west routes (Imam Khomeini/Khamenei.ir)
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/12037/Corridors-are-a-government-priority-and-the-necessary-resources
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p34#a251227p34
They should measure AI-generated movies by natural resources used and extrapolate to Bambis consumed per second
It's probably worth bumping https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/ again. There are some interesting resources on that site. I was impressed with their mutual aid section.
New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…
Tesla will end production of its two flagship models, the Model S and Model X, which have long carried the company's prestige.
According to statements by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the fundamental reason behind this decision is the company's desire to shift its resources and production infrastructure toward autonomous driving and robotics.
Planned to take effect from the next quarter, this production halt has generated significant reverberations throughout the automotive indus…
“Belligerent” was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House adviser #Stephen #Miller on CNN Monday evening regarding the Trump administration’s right to take over Venezuela — or any other country — if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US.
To Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), howev…
Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html
FBI deploys more resources to
‘dismantle fraud schemes’
in Minnesota
Cash Patel said the FBI believes
“this is just the tip of a very large iceberg”.
Some of those involved in the alleged scheme are being
“referred to immigrations officials for possible further #denaturalization and deportation proceedings where eligible”.
The Trump administration has por…
So far in Russia's hybrid war in Europe, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage
— nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.
But officials say each act
— from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires
— sucks up valuable security resources.
The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’…
Guatemala has opted out of renewing a lease agreement
on a 7,000-acre oil field in order to use the land for better protection of the surrounding Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve.
An 830,000-acre component of the greater Mayan Biosphere Reserve
which allows Mesoamerican wildlife to roam freely between the country and neighboring Belize and Mexico,
it’s one of the world’s most important protected areas.
As such, the presence of an oil field inside its borders wa…