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Linkblog - 2026-08-09

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:43:58 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Aug 3 - Aug 9, 2026

I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

nytimes.com

Do none of these things not because they are unethical. Writing with A.I. is unethical when it’s a deception: when you pass off words, ideas and information as your own when they aren’t. An acknowledgment can largely address the problem. Do none of these things, either, not because you might be able to learn to write better than an A.I. can. Pretty soon, if not already, you won’t, just as you can’t outrun a car or outplay a chess app.

#NYTimes #person:BretStephens #AI #writing

Dark Hours - dark sky & astrophotography planner

darkhours.app

Most of us only get a handful of clear, dark hours each month to do what we love. I built DarkHours because I needed a highly precise predictive tool for my own landscape astrophotography. It’s open-source, free, and designed to help make the most of every dark hour.

(bookmark updated to point to the real website and not the scammy AI-generated crapware that cloned it. yeesh)

#astronomy #via:JohnGruber

Customer Spotlight: Designing Interactive Learning Experiences in Brightspace - Brightspace

community.d2l.com

Course Overview Brightspace does more than host files. When you know where to put content and why it matters, you can turn the materials you already use into something learners actually engage with. Designing Interactive Learning Experiences in Brightspace is a practical, hands-on guide to building interactive HTML Topics.…

#D2L #Brightspace #onlinelearning #coursedesign #MountRoyalUniversity #person:KumarChandrasekhar

What Should Education Look Like in the Age of AI? - Teaching@Sydney

educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au

Accelerating a University-wide conversation about learning, graduate capability and the student experience Universities often talk about preparing students for the future. The challenge with…

#person:DannyLiu #UniversityofSydney #AI #highereducation

Design The Meeting

pointc.co

Title: Design The Meeting

Design The Meeting serves as a high-leverage leadership mantra that encourages leaders to treat meetings as intentional culture-building tools rather than defaulting to unstructured routines. By auditing the seven core elements of a meeting, leaders can ensure that every session has a defined purpose and mode of collaboration to maximize organizational efficiency.

#via:BenWerdmuller #meetings #leadership

The Professional Toolkit

heartsoulmachine.com

Can you just roll up your tools and leave any more? Some thoughts on the nature of labour and higher education.

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The professional staff member – and I’m talking about myself here – often owns neither. What they own is deep knowledge of a specific machine in a specific place. That has real value, but it’s value that mostly accrues to the institution rather than to the person. And it puts the person in a more precarious position than the income we get paid might suggest.

#person:TimKlapdor #career #highereducation

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Assessments | Resource Library | Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning | University of Calgary

taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca

A guide for instructors considering artificial intelligence in their assessments.Authors: Lorelei Anselmo, MEd; Ali Mikaeili, EdD (Student)*Adapted from the original resource developed by: Lorelei Anselmo, MEd & Tyson Kendon, PhDLast modified: July 29, 2026

#TaylorInstitute #AI #person:AliMikhaeili #person:LoreleiAnselmo #resource

Generative AI in Assessment: Approaches for Your Courses

taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca

Generative AI is now part of everyday teaching and learning. This guide helps instructors and teaching teams make clear, intentional decisions about assessment, integrity, feedback, privacy, and equity.

#TaylorInstitute #AI #person:AliMikhaeili #person:LoreleiAnselmo #resource

Critical Perspectives on AI, Digitalisation, and Human-Centred Learning: Towards Reclaiming Digital Education Futures | Springer Nature Link

link.springer.com

This open access book examines digitalisation, AI, and automation in education, with a particular focus on their implications for human agency

#via:StephenDownes #onlinelearning #AI #digitaltransformation

IDG Central Repository | OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS | Provost and Vice-President (Academic) | University of Calgary

ucalgary.ca

The IDG Central Repository contains resources in support of the Institutional Data Governance Practice at the University of Calgary. Information Stewards and subject matter experts can use the site to access data governance assets (such as reports, tools, processes, and templates) useful in carrying out their data governance responsibilities.

#UCalgary #data #governance #OIA

Meso and macro-level impacts from implementing open badges and microcredentials—A scoping review | Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education

ojs.uni-oldenburg.de

Abstract

In this scoping review, we discuss the impacts of open recognition technologies reported in 83 studies, focusing on observed impacts at the meso levels (effects on institutions and groups), and macro levels (effects on society). We found that open badging/microcredentialing practices can improve student engagement, facilitate shifts in faculty and institutional policies and practices, align with employer needs and skills frameworks, and promote stronger communities of practice/learning. Most of the research has been in primary/secondary education, despite the initial promise of open credentialing technology as a democratizing agent of education that could spread the burden of lifelong learning across traditional educational/non-educational entities. Fewer studies considered impacts at the meso-level outside of education, and even fewer discussed findings at the macro level of society. These findings derived from a review of all articles published in ERIC, Scopus, and Proquest on microcredentials/open badges, screening for effects at the meso and macro levels of impact, since the initiation of open badges in 2012.

#badges #microcredentials #article #via:StephenDownes

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com

An AI-supervised remote entrance exam at UNAM resulted in a cheating scandal, forcing 58,000 applicants to retake the test in person. The university initiated this control exam to ensure academic integrity after a suspicious surge in top scores.

#onlinelearning #examproctoring #academicintegrity

UPCEA Hallmarks of Excellence in Digital Learning Enterprises - UPCEA

upcea.edu

The Hallmarks of Excellence in Digital Learning Enterprises are a practical framework to help higher education leaders assess, strengthen, and advance institution-wide digital learning.

they make you sign up to access the full PDF, which, yuk, but still interesting.

#person:YakutGazi #digitallearningstrategy

Linkblog - 2026-08-02

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:37:52 -0600

August?!? WHAT?

Bookmarks: Week of Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2026

Generated on August 2, 2026

Everything is Lonely - by JA Westenberg - WESTENBERG

joanwestenberg.com

Social media and doom scrolling are bad, sure, but we’ve designed ourselves into loneliness.

Bring Back the Cringe and Reconnect

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We’re building cities optimized for a Nash equilibrium of privacy. Every individual is either consciously or subconsciously minimizing their exposure to strangers and chance encounters; micro-apartments and co-living spaces are nominally designed to be millennial-friendly communes, but in practice they’re little more than hyper-efficient storage units for isolated individuals who sleep and work in safely demarcated boxes.

The aggregate result is a worsening social desert.

#person:JoanWestenberg #socialmedia #socialpresence #community

How I Grow an Engineer Into a Manager

poletto.dev

Promoting your best engineer into management as a reward is how you lose a great engineer and gain a struggling manager in one move.

#leadership #management

GitHub - mason517/personal-db: A personal data lake that ingests your entire digital life (iMessages, email, writing, notes) into a local SQLite database and lets you query it with AI. Runs 100% on your machine. Never touches the cloud. · GitHub

github.com

A personal data lake that ingests your entire digital life (iMessages, email, writing, notes) into a local SQLite database and lets you query it with AI. Runs 100% on your machine. Never touches the cloud. - mason517/personal-db

something like this could be amazing - like Spotlight that actually works? - to index all of the files and data that I have. Not sure what the UI is on top of the index though…

#software #database

ScreenWall | Reuse old phones as synced displays

screenwall.app

Turn old phones, tablets, and spare displays into synced widgets, dashboards, signage, and ambient screen setups with ScreenWall.

#via:KagiSmallWeb #software

TI Resource Navigator

m365.cloud.microsoft

A prototype MS Copilot Agent that uses the TI’s resource library and some good prompting to help instructors design courses etc.

#UCalgary #AI #LTDT #project #Copilot #TaylorInstitute

Talent for Tomorrow: UCalgary People Plan 2026-2028

ucalgary.ca

Talent for Tomorrow, UCalgary’s first institution-wide People Plan (2026–2028), sets out how People and Culture will support faculty, staff, and leaders in delivering Ahead of Tomorrow. Three objectives (a high-performing People and Culture function, an empowered work environment, and enabling university transformation and growth) break down into nine priorities: service model clarity, HR business partner capacity, surge capacity, streamlined HR processes, MaPS salary framework renewal, mandatory people leader orientation, recruitment support, professional development, and performance enablement. A three-phase roadmap runs Capability (2026), Competency (2027), Continuity (2028), front-loading the function’s own foundations. Signed by the full executive leadership team, it frames People and Culture as the first of several administrative functions to be reworked.

#UCalgary #HR #professionaldevelopment #via:StephanieSenakovicz

Professional Development Hub

ucalgary.ca

The Professional Development Hub at the University of Calgary provides a comprehensive ecosystem for faculty and staff to enhance their skills, shape their careers, and elevate their professional impact. The platform organizes learning opportunities through the UCalgary Continuous Learning Model, which integrates formal training, peer collaboration, and self-directed resources. Employees can access dedicated support for leadership development, onboarding, and teaching or research enhancement. The hub also facilitates career pathing through tools like Individual Development Plans, coaching, and mentoring programs. Beyond core professional skills, the site offers information on tuition support and practical workplace effectiveness. Users can browse an events calendar for workshops ranging from academic exhibitions to sexual and gender-based violence response training. The university emphasizes that learning is an ongoing, daily process that extends into real-world application. New employees are welcomed through interactive sessions designed to familiarize them with the institution’s values and community. Multiple departments and faculties manage these diverse resources to ensure tailored growth opportunities for all roles. Ultimately, the hub fosters a culture of continuous reflection and development to strengthen the university as a whole.

#UCalgary #HR #professionaldevelopment #via:StephanieSenakovicz

Brightspace | Vanderbilt University

vanderbilt.edu

Vanderbilt’s Brightspace support website

#Vanderbilt #Brightspace #support

What is the New Content Experience? | Brightspace | Vanderbilt University

vanderbilt.edu

Brightspace Content is Getting UpgradedBeginning with the Fall 2027 semester, Brightspace courses will begin using the New Content Experience by default. Additionally, Instructors now have the ability to enable or disable the New Content Experience in their own courses

#Vanderbilt #Brightspace #newcontentexperience

Pedagogical Engagement Myths

allthingspedagogical.blogspot.com

This week’s blog, the third in a series about embodiment, the senses, and accessible pedagogy, is going to focus on engagement and the many …

A good reminder that “engagement” doesn’t mean “camera on” or “clicked on a thing to display some hidden text”. In Stephen’s link to this post, he mentions backchannels. I still have the framed print speaker’s gift from our BCEdOnline 2006 keynote as a reminder of that backchannel session.

(the blogger is just “Ann” so I’m not going to add a Person tag)

#engagement #via:StephenDownes

Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together

bonfirenetworks.org

Groups and topics, community rules and decision-making, events, organisation profiles, federated comments, custom themes: built with the communities who needed them, ready to use as-is, or to shape into a flavour of your community’s own.

Looks similar to some of the ideas we kicked around when we tried to set up Social Learning as a platform…

#via:StephenDownes #community #software

Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts

franktisellano.github.io

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

#infovis #font #via:JasonKottke

How to Make Something People (Actually) Give a Shit About

joanwestenberg.com

5 Rules for Creating Work That Leaves a Mark

this is good advice.

#person:JAWestenberg

D2L Fusion Conference Notes 2026

onedtech.philhillaa.com

While we were starting to see coherence last year, this year the thread was unmistakable. D2L now describes its product strategy in four pillars—generative AI transforming teaching and learning, high-quality content creation (native tools along with Creator+, H5P, and the new CreateSpace), product-market fit for employee and compliance training, and continuous reinvestment in core Brightspace—with trust positioned as the foundation underneath. The real strategy is in how the first two pillars combine: D2L is going after scaling engaging course content as its sweet spot, with AI as the accelerant rather than the headline. The implied customer is one that skews towards coordinated course design and top-down decision-making—institutions and systems that deliberately are looking to scale course redesigns and impact—more than laissez-faire institutions. The development investment lines up with the strategy, and my conclusion coming out of conference season is that D2L currently has the most strategic product and services plan of the major LMS vendors, period.

#via:YakutGazi #D2L #Brightspace #Lumi #strategy

Linkblog - 2026-07-26

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:08:30 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2026

Generated on July 26, 2026

Understanding How University Guidelines Address Privacy and Security Issues of Generative AI in Academic Settings

petsymposium.org

Abstract

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming the educational landscape by augmenting learning paradigms. However, state-of-the-art GenAI systems driving this transformation are predominantly developed and controlled by a small number of private companies; there is little clarity about their data retention practices and limited user control over inputs and outputs. In the context of education, end-users lack the awareness of how to safely adopt GenAI in learning. This raises significant concerns, particularly when proprietary or personally identifiable educational information may be shared with external GenAI platforms. In response to these concerns, universities are developing their own usage guidelines and policies to balance innovation with academic integrity, privacy, and security. Our research seeks to understand these emerging guidelines, with a particular focus on the privacy and security implications of integrating GenAI tools into academic environments – an area that has received little attention to date. We conducted an in-depth qualitative analysis of GenAI-usage guidelines from 43 universities across 12 countries. Our findings reveal several key challenges, including barriers faced by universities in deploying privacy measures and adopting existing security frameworks. These insights lay the groundwork for designing more robust, privacy-aware GenAI guidelines for higher education.

#AI #policy #article #privacy #security #via:LeanneWu #via:TysonKendon

Frozen 2 should be rated R

interconnected.org

Frozen 2 should be rated R because modern cinema exhibits harmful jeopardy inflation, where mass destruction and death are treated as lazy, emotionless plot points. By increasing ratings for films featuring collective catastrophe, society can prevent the normalization of existential threats and restore necessary emotional weight to portrayals of calamity.

When we are all exposed to media that normalises death and mass threat, there is something in the psyche that kicks in: when something built into your sense of reality isn’t happening, you work to make it happen.

#via:KagiSmallWeb #person:MattWebb #jeopardy #movies

What Are We Buying When We Buy an AI Tutor?

nickpotkalitsky.substack.com

Instructional vehicles need properly-trained drivers and a properly-designed institutional and pedagogical highway system.

#AI #pedagogy #via:StephenDownes

Eradicating the “Hero” Culture: The Real Work of Crossing the Finish Line

donjross.substack.com

Eradicating the Hero Culture is a guide for C-suite leaders on replacing individual reactive heroics with systemic discipline in IT departments. Relying on last-minute rescues creates an unsustainable environment that masks operational failures. To move toward predictable success, organizations must implement rigorous project delivery frameworks and standardized IT operations. Implementing a PMO and clear stage-gate governance ensures projects are properly scoped, authorized, and tested before completion. Signed charters and requirements documents prevent scope creep by making every change a visible, approved decision. Formalizing operational handovers ensures support teams are fully prepared, preventing the need for late-stage interventions. Maturing IT operations involves using service catalogs and Service Level Agreements to eliminate shadow IT requests. By measuring objective KPIs rather than relying on adrenaline, leaders can address project health issues before crises erupt. Ultimately, the goal is to shift the organizational culture from valuing fire-fighters to rewarding fire-marshals. This transition fosters boring, predictable, and scalable operations essential for long-term business transformation.

#person:DonRoss #strategy #leadership

Linkblog - 2026-07-19

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:36:51 -0600

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking · Radically Ethical Data Consulting

hermit-tech.com

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

and

Often enough, though, it’s an actual failure in what LLMs can accomplish. The most common version of this, being rolled out across businesses around the world, is the internally-facing chatbot, or for the more daring company, the customer-facing chatbot. The story is always the same. For the former, I’ve never seen substantial internal uptake from inside a business. Employees don’t use internal chatbots because companies tend to have low-quality documentation and an LLM is not psychic – it can only know things that have been written down and made accessible. For the latter customer-facing applications, I have rarely had a pleasant experience as a consumer, with perhaps the exception of live transcription during medical appointments – hardly something worth pivoting an entire organisation around. In both cases, project leaders are very careful to avoid tracking basic metrics, such as whether the tools are being used at all, or they track metrics that are easily gamed.

#AI #productivity #via:TimBray #person:NikhilSuresh

When faculty ask, ‘what’s the point of teaching?’: GenAI as identity crisis, not skills gap

tandfonline.com

Laidlaw, P. (2026). When faculty ask, ‘what’s the point of teaching?’: GenAI as identity crisis, not skills gap. International Journal for Academic Development, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2026.2680432

“GenAI integration is not a technical challenge requiring policy solutions. It is profound ontological transformation challenging core assumptions about knowledge, learning, and professional identity. My own threshold crossing taught me that transformation requires holding grief and excitement, confusion and clarity simultaneously.”

#via:NatashaKenny #AI #IJAD #person:PrueLaidlaw

Re: the wasted photos on your phone - Maira Martins

mairamartins.com

A good old-fashioned personal blog from an insomniac, programmer, photographer, day trader, dog-mother, bread baker, piano student, wannabe artist.

This tracks - I have something like 55,000+ photos on my phone. So many that I get to pay for the full Apple One™ subscription so they all fit inside The Cloud. And I can’t/won’t bring myself to delete any of them because they’re basically my memory.

#via:KagiSmallWeb #photography

Kurzgesagt - How are memories stored inside your brain?

youtube.com

we’re all anthropomorphizing AI, saying LLMs work just like our brains. do they?

Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Your brain uses an incredibly complex biological system to preserve moments from your past that no longer exist, allowing you to revisit experiences from years ago. But memories are not always recordings of reality. In fact, every time a memory comes under the spotlight of your attention, it can melt and change a tiny bit.

#memory #Kerzgesagt #via:JasonKottke #video

A History of Large Language Models

gregorygundersen.com

A History of Large Language Models traces the evolution of LLMs from early distributed representations to the transformative transformer architecture. It demonstrates how attention mechanisms and massive-scale generative pre-training enable these models to exhibit complex linguistic regularities and emergent intelligence.

#LLM #AI #via:StephenDownes #person:GregoryGundersen #history

glm-ocr multimodal OCR model

ollama.com

GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding, built on the GLM-V encoder–decoder architecture.

#Ollama #LLM #OCR

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

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The problem is not simply that AI is being deployed so widely or quickly. Other computer technologies have seen similarly massive growth without triggering such a large spike in electricity or a shortage of computer components: Video and music are now streamed around the globe, accounting for many terabytes of internet traffic daily; the smartphone boom required the manufacturing of billions of devices that are now transferring huge amounts of data; billions of household devices are also now part of the Internet of Things; and whole industries have moved their operations to cloud software, which is hosted not in the sky but in, yes, data centers.

#AI #datacentre #economics

Designing a Course Students Want to Screenshot - Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning

facultyfocus.com

Learn how intentional course design and branding can improve accessibility, student engagement, and the online learning experience in Canvas.

#coursedesign #graphicdesign #layout #template #LMS #onlinelearning

Linkblog - 2026-07-12

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:34:53 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jul 6 - Jul 12, 2026

Stacks — run classic HyperCard stacks on modern macOS

morphing.cloud

Stacks runs classic HyperCard stacks natively on modern macOS — sound, faithful typography, and limited HyperTalk support. Free download.

My old stacks are on floppy disks that have been long lost to time, but this is awesome.

#Hypercard #software #macOS #via:JasonKottke #via:TylerHellard

Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

zeldman.com

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.

This is why I was so drawn to Hippie Hosting Co-op, why I maintain ancient.darcynorman.net, why I still run my own domain and post everything to it before notifying using other platforms. And, even this will all disappear one day, after I’m gone (or infirm or whatever) and my domain registration lapses or my web hosting lapses. It’s only a matter of time before my best efforts suffer bit rot before the domain gets picked up by a damned online casino spammer or something.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

#via:StephenDownes #person:JeffreyZeldman #archive #www

Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead | Life and style | The Guardian

theguardian.com

Whether its our careers, health or relationships, we often set the bar too high and end up feeling disappointed when it doesn’t work out. Try this new way of thinking … and you may just see some real results

#via:JasonKottke #goals #planning

ReCalendar - personalized calendar PDFs for ReMarkable tablets

recalendar.me

Create your personalized calendar PDF for ReMarkable tablets

#Remarkable #calendar

‘Knowledge is knowledge’: UCalgary gathering charts a new path in education | News | University of Calgary

ucalgary.ca

Drawing on Indigenous teachings and community partnership, UCalgary is creating space for multiple knowledge systems to meet with respect

a great writeup, but my big dumb head was in the way for the photo of Dr. Little Bear’s keynote…

#person:GillianEdwards #TaylorInstitute #indigenous

Linkblog - 2026-07-05

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:12:55 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jun 29 - Jul 5, 2026

Generated on July 5, 2026

GitHub - alfredang/markdownapp: Native SwiftUI Markdown vault editor (macOS/iPadOS/iOS) — Obsidian-compatible, with a VS Code-style desktop workspace, embedded terminals, an extension marketplace, and an LLM-maintained wiki. · GitHub

github.com

Native SwiftUI Markdown vault editor (macOS/iPadOS/iOS) — Obsidian-compatible, with a VS Code-style desktop workspace, embedded terminals, an extension marketplace, and an LLM-maintained wiki. - alfredang/markdownapp

Obsidian is great, but Electron sucks up so. much. ram. etc. a native app would be amazing.

#Markdown #editor #software #macOS

TI 0699 D2L Discovery | University of Calgary Continuing Education

conted.ucalgary.ca

D2L Discovery is an online, asynchronous introduction to D2L Brightspace, the University of Calgary’s learning management system. Designed for sessional and new instructors, this non-graded course helps participants build foundational skills for setting up, managing, and supporting courses.

#Brightspace #resource #person:AlexisHandford #TaylorInstitute #UCalgary

When Developing an AI Strategy, Beware the Urgency Trap

hbr.org

There’s a consistent pattern in failed or underperforming AI initiatives. Business leaders tend to frame AI through the lens of what they see as the most urgent problems—bottlenecks in productivity, rising costs, slow decision-making, or inefficiencies in workflows. This focus on urgent and immediate challenges may be why AI initiatives start fast and generate excitement, but ultimately fail to transform organizations in meaningful or lasting ways. To avoid this “urgency trap,” leaders can take three actions to avoid employing AI as a quick fix and instead use it as a tool for long-term value creation: 1) prioritize clarity of purpose, 2) resist the urgency bias, and 3) focus on advancing the company’s vision.

#via:NatashaKenny #AI #strategy #HBR

Google’s New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

reclaimthenet.org

The same company that monetizes everything you do online would like to switch on your camera.

#Google #captcha #privacy #reCAPTCHA

I’m Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-taker at Home

joanwestenberg.com

Stop Bringing Your AI to Coffee

But in 2026, there seems to be no way to say “yes, actually, I do fucking mind” without sounding like a paranoid luddite, or like someone with something to hide. So I wind up saying, “No, totally fine.” But my walls go up. And from that second on, even subconsciously, I’m giving a deposition - weighing up each sentence before it leaves my lips, wondering where the transcript ends up once we shake hands and go our separate ways…

and

I suspect we’re losing the capacity for play. Serious thinking happens in serious environments, but we need lower-stakes environments too, where we can try out shitty ideas and see how they fit. If every conversation is being synthesized into a “Summary and Action Items” list by a GPT-4o instance, it pressures every conversation to be “productive,” and gone are the meanderings, the non-sequitors, and the comfortable silences that humans use to build rapport.

#person:JAWestenberg #AI #privacy

They See Your Photos

theyseeyourphotos.com

Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees.

#via:GrantPotter #AI #privacy #computervision

Custom-BBS — telnet in

bbs.custom-bbs.com

Custom-BBS: a restored 1980s Amiga bulletin board. Connect from your browser or telnet in directly.

#Amiga #BBS #emulation

How to Hustle Like a Tech Founder - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

mcsweeneys.net

“You can’t hustle alone. Move to a city where founders thrive and get to work. Head to Miami if you want to scam people with crypto, or San Francisco if you …

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Remember, it’s not white-collar crime if you’re wearing a hoodie.

#via:BenWerdmuller #McSweeney’s

BCCampus Enabling Collaborative Initiatives Toolkit

sert.bccampus.ca

This toolkit is for anyone who:

Wants to bring together multiple institutions to create, adapt, or use an educational resource or educational technology and sustain it long term Is unsure about next steps, sustainability, intellectual property, or decision making in the context of multi-institutional initiatives

#BCCampus #via:StephenDownes #collaboration #institutions #edtech

Linkblog - 2026-06-28

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:47:15 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2026

Generated on June 28, 2026

Cogniti Software-as-a-Service

marketplace.microsoft.com

Cogniti, a multiple international and national award-winning solution developed at the University of Sydney, is a generative AI platform that empowers educators to create, control, and deploy AI “agents” tailored to their students’ learning needs without needing technical expertise.

Educators build agents and mini apps they and their students can trust, using plain-language instructions, and can ground AI’s knowledge in course content. With full visibility and control of students’ conversations and interactions, educators can gain insights into their misconceptions and identify teaching needs.

Integration into popular learning management systems (like Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace) allows students seamless access to agents and mini apps built with care and understanding by their educators.

#AI #Cogniti #Microsoft #UniversityofSydney

Cogniti - Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

teaching.utoronto.ca

Cogniti enables the authoring of generative AI virtual tutors tailored for students to engage with course content and facilitate their learning. Cogniti incorporates key educational features designed for instructors to gain insight into students’ engagement with the platform. Cogniti integrates with Quercus to fit into your existing course workflow. Cogniti is easy to use, accessible, and practical for instructors across all disciplines.

Unlike general-purpose generative AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot, Cogniti is configured to respond based on the content, context, and learning goals you define.

#UniversityofToronto #Cogniti #AI

Purple Complete User Guide - UW-IT

uwconnect.uw.edu

Documentation for using University of Washington’s AI platform

#AI #UniversityofWashington

Purple - UW’s AI For All platform

uwconnect.uw.edu

University of Washington’s AI platform, including tools for teaching and learning. Built on MS infrastructure.

#AI #UniversityofWashington #via:ToddConaway

Assessment Principles Studio

assessmentprinciples.studio

Built by Soroush Sabbaghan to help instructors design assessments to align with the UCalgary Assessment Principles.

This AI-powered online tool helps you explore how your assessment tasks align with UCalgary’s Assessment Principles and generates a personalized feedback report with practical recommendations. The output from this tool is intended to offer an opportunity to reflect on your assessment design, purpose, and effectiveness.

#AI #person:SoroushSabbaghan #assessment

Cogniti – AI agents designed by teachers

cogniti.ai

Higher Ed AI platform developed by USydney. Integrates with LMS (including Brightspace) and lets instructors and students build tools (including agents and interactive applications) with various LLMs. Available as SAAS or deployed on Microsoft Fabric etc. for self-managed software.

#AI #UniversityofSydney #software #Cogniti

Ed Tech Pilot Opportunities | Centre for Teaching and Learning

queensu.ca

Educational Technology Pilots at the CTL Innovation in teaching and learning begins with experimentation. Educational technology pilots allow instructors to explore emerging tools in authentic course settings, generating evidence about their pedagogical value, accessibility, and impact on student learning.

#via:GavanWatson #Queen’sUniversity #edtech #pilot

dsebastien/obsidian-transcriber plugin

github.com

Transcriber converts images in your Obsidian vault to Markdown using Ollama vision models running locally on your machine. - dsebastien/obsidian-transcriber

I tried it on my M2 MacBook Air and holy hell it’s SLOOOOW. MINUTES to transcribe a simple image of some notes into markdown. The markdown wasn’t anywhere near as good as what Claude does just out of the box, either…

#GitHub #Obsidian #plugin #OCR #LLM #Ollama

Zeno Solar Panel Installation

livezeno.com

the solar company that did a neighbour’s house.

#solar

Linkblog - 2026-06-21

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:31:47 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2026

Generated on June 21, 2026

IN THE WEIGHTS (LLM name lookup tool)

intheweights.com

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI

Search for a name and it calculates a “score” using a bunch of LLMs, and pulls together a brief bio blurb. Hilarity ensues.

#via:ResearchBuzz #LLM #AI

Websites and portals are down as Mount Royal University responds to a cyber security incident - Calgary Journal

calgaryjournal.ca

A cyberattack has left most of Mount Royal University’s main website, telephone services, and the MyMRU portal offline since Wednesday, leaving students and faculty unable to access most of the uni…

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This incident has also been reported to law enforcement.

#MountRoyalUniversity #cybersecurity

Mount Royal University responding to cyber attack, website down | CBC News

cbc.ca

Mount Royal University says it’s investigating a cyber attack that disrupted its systems on Wednesday.

#cybersecurity #MountRoyalUniversity

Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com

AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

and

The near future is very likely to involve more frequent, and more severe, outages and hacks just like those affecting Canvas, Meta, and Amazon. “We will see more of these disruptions,” Vigna said. “I think it’s inevitable in the short term.” Smaller but crucial companies and organizations that are not web-native—think power plants, municipal-government agencies, credit unions—are especially vulnerable. They may be running all sorts of clunky legacy code, and lack the IT capacity or financial resources to make the necessary upgrades.

#via:JasonKottke #person:MatteoWong #TheAtlantic #cybersecurity

Amiga Graphics Archive

amiga.lychesis.net

Launched in 1985 the Commodore Amiga boasted graphics capabilities that were unsurpassed for it’s time. It featured an intricate collection of custom chips that enabled it to do things that, until then, had been impossible to achieve with other personal computers. This site is dedicated to graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer.

#Amiga #graphics #screenshots

Who Finds the Flaws First

onedtech.philhillaa.com

The Canvas breach looks like a story about one vendor’s bad month. It is really about a calculation that has changed for all of EdTech.

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There is already evidence that the increased focus on EdTech is happening. ShinyHunters has spent roughly the last year and a half working through education and the technology it depends on, with Instructure multiple times, McGraw Hill, Infinite Campus, and individual universities among the confirmed victims. Just last week, Google said a ShinyHunters-linked campaign had exploited a zero-day in Oracle’s PeopleSoft enterprise software, with higher education making up the majority of U.S.-based targets. This is the pattern of EdTech that is increasingly becoming worth the trouble.

#cybersecurity #edtech #person:PhilHill

Wifi | Information Technologies | University of Calgary

it.ucalgary.ca

IT is upgrading wifi across campus. Schedule and info about changes.

#UCalgary #IT #wifi

A Card is worth a thousand questions: a clinical resource to support Canadian medical students and their preceptors

academic.oup.com

Article published by Mike paget and his team in medicine.

Having developed a national paediatric undergraduate curriculum, canuc-paeds, our group identified a need for active learning resources aligned with it to support Canadian medical students and preceptors. We developed a formative e-learning resource, called Cards, that enables students to self-test, supplement their clinical experiences, and develop their clinical decision-making skills in paediatrics. … Cards, based on paediatric clinical vignettes that reflect clinical practice, is a tool that may help learners develop clinical decision-making skills. Cards have demonstrated a high rate of return on authors’ investment, as the technology generates thousands of unique vignettes from a single template. High-usage rates support Cards as a valuable open-access resource.

#person:MikePaget #simulation #article #OpenLabyrinth

FTP Calculator – Estimate From 20-Min, 8-Min, or Ramp Test

cyclingregimen.com

Calculate cycling FTP from 20-minute, 2x8-minute, 5-minute, and ramp tests. Get W/kg context, Sweet Spot watts, and NP-based IF/TSS guidance.

#cycling #fitness #FTP #calculator

Same Same but Different: The Anatomy of AI Design Sameness | Sascha Becker

saschb2b.com

An obviously / PAINFULLY OBVIOUSLY / AI-written article, but, regardless, it has some good points.

Hand an agent your art direction and it still builds the page everyone else got. That is not a taste problem, it is a statistics problem. A look at the history of design convergence, the research that explains why prompts cannot escape it, and the levers that actually steer back toward identity.

Yes, AI-generated websites/software/images/whatever seem similar and homogeneous. But convergence is a thing for many reasons, and AI may only be making it more obvious because we’re looking for it?

#via:KagiSmallWeb #AI #vibecoding

Privacy Management Program | University Legal Services | University of Calgary

ucalgary.ca

The Government of Alberta has updated Alberta’s public-sector access to information and privacy legislation by repealing the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) and replacing it with two new pieces of legislation. These changes took effect on June 11, 2025. The new legislation separates access to information and privacy into two distinct frameworks: the Access to Information Act (ATIA) and the Protection of Privacy Act (POPA).

Under POPA, all Alberta public bodies—including UCalgary—are required to establish and maintain a comprehensive Privacy Management Program (PMP). UCalgary’s PMP is an institution‑wide framework designed to ensure that UCalgary is prepared to meet its legal responsibilities under POPA, including protecting privacy, providing appropriate access to personal information, and supporting accountability, transparency, and fairness. It outlines the documented policies, procedures and standards that guide how personal information may be managed across all faculties, departments, and administrative units, and reflects UCalgary’s commitment to protecting personal privacy and maintaining public trust.

#UCalgary #privacy #policy

Dr. Leroy Little Bear: Redefining Indigenous Education, Law, and Knowledge Systems

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Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a renowned Blackfoot scholar, legal thinker, and Professor Emeritus whose lifelong work has redefined Indigenous education, law, and knowledge systems in North America. A founding architect of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department at the University of Lethbridge and a key contributor to Section 35 of Canada’s Constitution Act, he has advanced Indigenous rights globally.

Transcending Boundaries is a podcast hosted by Reeta Roy, President and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, which features intimate conversations with exceptional leaders. Each episode explores value-based leadership by diving deep into the lives of extraordinary people who have changed their communities, their countries, and the world for the better.

#person:LeroyLittleBear #indigenous #video

Linkblog - 2026-06-14

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:19:04 -0600

Bookmarks: Week of Jun 8 - Jun 14, 2026

Generated on June 14, 2026

Why I think we need a learning model (for AI) for the whole institution and not just a single course – Dave’s Educational Blog

davecormier.com

I needed a model that I could bring across the whole university. One that folks in student services, quality assurance and a faculty council could all see themselves in. The university is a vast ecosystem and each one of those groups is a part of the discussion of how we are adapting for AI. If you make a change in a classroom in how you call good writing done it really helps if someone tells the student advisors or the writing centre that is helping those students do their assignments. If you are making changes to your online course it really helps if you are using the same language as the folks who are helping you translate your ideas to the LMS.

#person:DaveCormier #AI #models

oMLX — LLM inference, optimized for your Mac

omlx.ai

this claims to be much faster than Ollama for coding - my main use-case for local LLM is for generating “relatedness” scores for my Obsidian notes using an embedding model. Might have to test this out to see if it’s worth switching…

A native macOS inference server built on MLX. Paged SSD KV caching drops agent TTFT from 30-90s to under 5s. OpenAI & Anthropic compatible API for Apple Silicon.

#AI #macOS #software #LLM

ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit | Google Cloud Blog

cloud.google.com

An active compromise and extortion campaign attributed to ShinyHunters targeting Oracle PeopleSoft with a zero-day exploit.

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Verified propagation success by running remote checks for the defacement marker file README-IF-YOU-SEE-THIS-YOUVE-BEEN-HACKED.TXT

#cybersecurity #PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com

Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.

We know higher ed platforms are only going to be more under attack post-Canvas-ransomware, but I’d figured it’d have been the other LMSs and related platforms to be next, not something from Oracle. Crossing fingers that our campus peoplesoft/oracle stuff was properly secured…

#cybersecurity #PeopleSoft

AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

mcsweeneys.net

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi…

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Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit.

#AI #McSweeny’s

People of ACM - Sheelagh Carpendale

acm.org

An interview with Sheelagh about her approach to infovis and how art and creativity are essential in science.

Sheelagh Carpendale emphasizes that creativity and personal data empowerment are essential for navigating the complexities of modern data visualization. By focusing on human-centric design, she advocates for technologies that prioritize individual agency over the interests of Data Barons.

#via:LeanneWu #infovis #person:SheelaghCarpendale #ACM #computerscience #creativity

The Turing Gradient

abacusnoir.com

The article reads as though it was AI-generated. Maybe it was. Who knows anymore?

Whether AI ‘passes’ the Turing Test is the wrong question. The right one is which judges it passes for… and what that reveals about the rest of us.

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“Good enough” is the real threshold

AI does not need to be smarter than a person to take part of that person’s job. It only needs to clear the local bar for “good enough.” … and that bar is lower than we like to admit across a lot of paid knowledge work.

Much of what knowledge work produces is not brilliant insight. It is plausible output: the competent memo, the standard summary, the first-draft code, the meeting recap, the answer that sounds like the answer.

That layer of work is exactly what language models are built to produce. They are machines for generating plausible artifacts. When that becomes cheap, the old bundle of knowledge work starts to come apart.

Fluency, formatting, and generic synthesis move to one side. They become abundant, almost free. Judgment, taste, context, and responsibility move to the other side. Those remain scarce. And suddenly you can see which people were mostly supplying which.

#via:KagiSmallWeb #AI

idle.news — On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness

idle.news

Why the wellness industry loves rest, fears idleness, and has spent a great deal of money to keep you from noticing the difference.

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Some time should be wasted. That is the claim. Not all of it, not most of it, but some, deliberately, as a matter of principle.

Because a life in which every hour serves work, including the hours of rest that serve work by restoring you for more work, is a life that belongs entirely to work, even in its leisure, even in its sleep. Such a life has no outside. It is productive all the way down, optimized in its very relaxation, and a person living it has never once, not for a single hour, simply been alive without being also, somehow, useful. The idle hour is the one hour that has an outside. It is the one hour that does not belong to the project of your own improvement. It is, in the most literal sense, free time: not time freed up for other tasks, but time that is genuinely free, owned by no purpose, answerable to no return.

#via:GrantPotter #rest #burnout

Orion Browser by Kagi

orionbrowser.com

Orion — a web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, full extension compatibility, and absolute privacy is finally together in one browser that respects you.

I’m trying to switch to Orion for a bit. Seems to work well on macOS and iOS. Passwords integration is slightly clunky, but works.

#Kagi #software #macOS #browser

Linkblog - 2026-06-07

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:38:50 -0600

Week of Jun 1 - Jun 7, 2026

Modes of Course Delivery: Definitions and Characteristics | Office of Teaching and Learning — otl.uoguelph.ca

In addition to in-person courses, the University of Guelph offers some courses and/or course components in alternative formats. The following definitions are offered to clarify the differences between in-person, blended, hyflex, online synchronous, and online asynchronous courses.

#UOGuelph #modalities #definitions

Queen’s Principles of Assessment — queensu.ca

The following principles were developed by a cross-University working group of the Senate

Committee on Academic Development and Procedures (SCADP):

Assessment is a relational practice that supports learning and growth, grounded in Indigenous perspectives of knowledge sharing that emphasize respect, relevance, reciprocity, and shared responsibility.

Assessments respect diverse ways of knowing.

Assessments are intellectually challenging and support the progressive development of learning.

Assessments generate trustworthy evidence of learning.

Assessment expectations are clear, and learners are evaluated consistently, transparently, and fairly.

Assessment feedback is actionable and supports student learning and recognition.

Assessments are connected across courses and reflect professional, disciplinary, and civic contexts.

#Queen’sUniversity #via:GavanWatson #assessment

Stanford Online Launches Immersive Learning Studio – Campus Technology — campustechnology.com

Stanford Online recently marked its 30th anniversary with the announcement of a new immersive learning studio, according to a university news release. The studio takes advantage of AI-powered and immersive learning technologies to continue delivering personalized and faculty-led education.

(sounds like a magical place that combines VR, AR, AI, and maybe ponies?)

#Stanford #VR #AR #studio #AI

Stanford Online — online.stanford.edu

Credentialed online programs. Master’s degrees, graduate certificates, professional education, enterprise education (WTF is enterprise education, and how does it differ from professional education?)

#Stanford #onlinelearning

Charting a Path Forward for Ontario Universities in the Age of AI - Ontario’s Universities — ontariosuniversities.ca

As AI rapidly reshapes how we live, work, learn and innovate, it is creating both significant opportunities and complex challenges across our economy, labour market, education, research and governance.

Some recommendations for universities, starting at page 23.

#AI #Ontario #via:NipaChakravarti #highereducation

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic — theatlantic.com

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.

and

Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars.

#person:TedChiang #AI #AGI #via:JasonKottke

Road to WWDC 2026: What’s a developer? – Six Colors — sixcolors.com

Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends

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Whatever you call it, whether it’s being a producer or product manager or something else that isn’t a programmer, creating good software in the AI era still requires the power of a human brain: being creative, solving problems, and making decisions. Some people will be better at it than others. It’s a skill, and a bit of an art. I’m excited that modern coding tools have given people with vision and desire the ability to make software.

#person:JasonSnell #vibecoding

Double Ender - Sync podcast files — theincomparable.com

Podcasts are frequently recorded over VOIP apps, with each participant using a local recording to ensure the highest quality. But nobody presses record at the same time, meaning you’ve got to spend time lining everyone up to a reference file (one containing all the voices together) before you can get to editing. What’s worse, different audio devices can record at slightly different speeds, causing audio to drift out of sync over time. Double Ender is a free utility that syncs local audio recordings to a reference file so they all start at the same moment and stay in sync, without drift.

#podcasting #audio #macOS #software #vibecoding #person:JasonSnell

Liberating Structures | 43 Methods to Include & Unleash Everyone — liberatingstructures.com

Liberating Structures is a collection of simple interaction methods that include and unleash everyone in shaping next steps, solving complex challenges, and generating practical innovations.

#person:NancyWhite #community #patterns

Redefining Educational Technology: A Critical Collaborative Inquiry | Open Praxis — openpraxis.org

we propose a new definition: Educational technology, as a field of inquiry and practice, encompasses the research, understanding, design, orchestration, and evaluation of entangled human-technological systems — spanning analog, digital, organizational, social, and agentic dimensions — through which learning and meaning-making are enabled, mediated, supported, and transformed. The field brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, communities, and institutions in ongoing efforts to study and improve educational experiences across formal, non-formal, and informal contexts. The field holds as a core commitment that its theory, research and practice should be ethically grounded and critically reflexive — attending to the societal implications of technological integration, with particular concern for equity and the distribution of agency among all participants in educational processes. These commitments describe what the field aspires to, not a guarantee of how all its practice is enacted. This definition is offered not as a resolution but as a basis for ongoing discussion, as it is best understood as a living definition. The field’s task is not to settle on a definition, but to keep it constantly evolving.

#person:JonDron #edtech #paper

How to Quickly Test Your DSLR for Autofocus Issues — photographylife.com

This test can be used to detect front or back focus issues with a particular lens or a camera body. Why would you want to test your camera for autofocus issues? Because if your camera or your lenses are defective or have a calibration problem, then you will not be able to obtain critically sharp images.

#camera #focus #photography

Linkblog - 2026-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2026 10:43:45 -0600

Week of May 25 - May 31, 2026

Converting physical spaces into learning spaces: Integrating universal design and universal design for learning — frontiersin.org

The school building comprises various physical spaces such as classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, staircases, etc. that can be transformed into learning spaces to promote subconscious learning in learners and ensure a school-wide implementation of UDL. Transforming the school environment would ensure learners an equitable, inclusive, and accessible environments that address learner variability, and reduce barriers to their learning. This involves a focus on various components, namely, transforming physical spaces (universal design) into learning spaces (universal design for learning), identifying different elements in each learning space to maximize their learning value, and general accessibility of the school infrastructure. The chapter aims to provide a framework to design inclusive learning spaces by deriving insights from the work of various groups of architects in India, Ireland, and the United States that have explored the relationship between physical spaces and UDL.

#UDL #learningspaces

Open eLearning – E-LEARNING AUTHORING TOOL — openelearning.org

looks janky as hell, but maybe an alternative to Articulate?

#html5 #authoring #software #macOS #opensource

Tumult Hype — tumult.com

Tumult Hype is the HTML5 creation app for macOS. Animations and interactive content made with Tumult Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.

It’s a good HTML5 editor (websites, animations, etc.) - I wonder how well this would work for a less-expensive alternative to Articulate…

#html5 #authoring #software #macOS

Adapt Learning — adaptlearning.org

Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, multi-device, HTML5 e-learning content using the award-winning Adapt developer framework.

(the examples and last project blog post are over 5 years old, so maybe not super active?)

#via:StephenHarlow #authoring #html5 #elearning #software

DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI — datacenter.fm

Experience the real-world sounds of AI with this interactive audio generator.

One part ambient soundtrack from the inner circles of hell, one part AI infrastructure simulator.

#via:TylerHellard #AI #soundtrack #ambient #simulation

Distributed Storage and Compute Grid — alliancecan.ca

The Distributed Storage and Compute Grid (the Grid), enabled by a national investment, will establish Canada’s first nationally operated distributed storage and compute service. As Alliance-owned AI infrastructure, it will provide a shared national layer of scalable, secure resources designed to support large-scale, data-intensive research while meeting strict data residency and operational requirements.

Alberta Cluster

University of Calgary
University of Alberta
Red Deer Polytechnic

Quebec Cluster

McGill University
University of Laval
Sherbrooke University

Ontario Cluster

Western University

#AI #via:PennyPexman #grid

Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map — brockovichdatacenter.com

Interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States — operational and under construction. Learn about energy use, water consumption, e-waste, and report concerns in your community.

#AI #person:ErinBrockovich

How research informs educational technology decision-making in higher education: the role of external research versus internal research | Educational technology research and development | Springer Nature Link — link.springer.com

Abstract

Research use in educational decision-making has been encouraged and well documented at the K-12 education level in the United States but not in higher education, or more specifically for educational technology. We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the role of research in decisions about acquiring and using educational technology for teaching and learning in higher education. Results from 45 interviews of decision-makers in higher education show that they engage in different types of research activities throughout the decision-making process, but that in most cases the research is lacking in methodological rigor. Externally-produced, scientifically-rigorous research was mentioned in less than 20% of interviews. Decision-makers often conduct their own internal investigations on educational technology products and strategies producing locally-relevant, but usually less-than rigorous, evidence to inform decisions about continuing use of the technology or scaling up.

#person:FionaHollands #person:MayaEscuata #edtech #research #article

Principles for Promoting Positive Learning Environments — taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca

A new guide from our team in the TI - a collection of principles and practical strategies

#person:LoreleiAnselmo #person:PatriciaCamposDíaz #person:SreyasiBiswas #TaylorInstitute #resource #onlinelearning

Walking Through the Future in the Present: Teaching Practices in Postdigital Learning Spaces | Postdigital Science and Education | Springer Nature Link — link.springer.com

Learning spaces with integrated technology are often heralded as transformative, yet the sociotechnical imaginaries underpinning these spaces rarely manife

#article #via:StephenDownes #learningspaces #learningtechnologies #postdigital

Zulip — organized team chat — zulip.com

Zulip is an organized team chat app for distributed teams of all sizes.

Kind of like a Discord/Mattermost/Teams thing. Free for academic research projects.

#community #software

Linkblog - 2026-05-24

Sun, 24 May 2026 19:51:07 -0600

Week of May 18 - May 24, 2026

This is not Utopia: Surviving an Outage - LTIC

When I took this job I thought about whether it would be a stressful job. And I came to the conclusion that it would have its moments, but it’s not like Canvas is ever going to go down…

Tags: UBC, Canvas, LMS, person:Elisa Baniassad

Added: 2026-05-24 10:53

Models.dev — An open-source database of AI models

Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and features.

Tags: via:ResearchBuzz, AI, models, LLM

Added: 2026-05-23 20:42

Duke University says data center will boost ‘environmental responsibility and sustainability’ • NC Newsline

Duke University plans to build a small data center at Central Campus, potentially the first of several similar-size projects, which has raised questions among some faculty about whether the energy- and water-intensive endeavors could derail the institution’s climate commitments.

Tags: via:ResearchBuzz, Duke, datacentre

Added: 2026-05-23 08:43

Danielle Smith Offers a Delusional TV Defence of Her Referendum | The Tyee

This is wordy, ambiguous and possibly intentionally confusing. How will the answer be composed? We were not told. It cannot be a simple yes or no.

and

Alas for Smith, this is unlikely to mollify the separatists who now dominate her party and have threatened to eject her as leader if she doesn’t use their question, which faces hurdles put in place by a series of court judgments.

It’s crazy-town, when the best possible outcome is for the separatists to fully (or maybe just openly) take over the UCP and force an election, giving grownups a chance to course-correct this province (again).

Tags: UCP, person:Danielle Smith, Alberta, person:David Climenhaga, The Tyee

Added: 2026-05-22 09:06

On machine unintelligence and ethical principles: A critical appraisal of Downes (2026)

Abstract

This commentary presents a critical evaluation of Stephen Downes’s (2026) paper entitled “On ethical AI principles” published in this issue of The Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education, focusing on aspects regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and its definitional background, critical AI, and ethical principles. The case is made for an understanding of the unintelligence of machines, a concern when the role of ethics in the life cycle of AI-related products is devalued, a similar one when ethics or ethical behaviour is adjudicated to them, as well as how tricks into fomenting unethical behaviour and eroding academic integrity have overflown the educational field for years. The main goal is to clarify many of those topics through a critical appraisal of Downes’s paper. Present and future generations may need to wake up from the impasse that technologists’ illusions have moved us towards.

Tags: person:Dagmar Monett, JODDE, article, AI, ethics

Added: 2026-05-22 08:56

A matter of principle: A response to Stephen Downes’s “On ethical AI principles”

Abstract

This paper is written as a response to Stephen Downes’s “On ethical AI principles”, that we recommend should be read in advance. Though framed as a critique, it builds on Downes’s work, filling in gaps and arguments that we believe to be missing from the original and challenging some assumptions, while acknowledging the soundness of the underlying messages. Our central point of disagreement stems from Downes’s implied definition of the word “principle”. We extend the argument from Downes’s generic concerns about principles to a more specific educational context, highlight fuzziness in definitions, and reframe Downes’s concerns that principles are political as more general issues of power.

Tags: person:Jon Dron, person:Stella George, article, JODDE, AI, ethics

Added: 2026-05-22 08:55

On ethical AI principles

Stephen Downes’ article in JODDE.

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a set of digital tools that can perform functions traditionally limited to human capability, for example, reviewing, summarizing, translating, and composing. In the last few years, there has been widespread discussion and experimentation for its application in education. Consequently, a contentious ethical debate has arisen around its appropriateness for educational functions and how such functionality may be ethically applied. Some argue that the ethical use of artificial intelligence in education can be defined through the use of a set of commonly held principles, such as sustainability, accountability, and fairness. This article challenges that presumption. A list of nine such principles is offered. Each principle is considered in detail and analysed to identify underlying assumptions, points of conflict, and other ethical considerations. It is argued that much of what is offered as a set of ethical considerations reflects, in fact, a political argument and perspective. There is thus no set of ethical principles that can be regarded as a consensus opinion on the ethics of the use of artificial intelligence in education.

Tags: person:Stephen Downes, JODDE, article, AI, ethics

Added: 2026-05-22 08:54

Building Ai Companions That Prioritise Learning Over Performance

This paper addresses the question of how artificial in- telligence should be designed and used to support learning rather than merely improve immediate outputs. We introduce the concept of AI learning companions, defined as adaptive, pedagogically informed, LLM-powered agents designed for integration into learning environments. We propose a framework for their design built on three interrelated foundations: a pedagogical foundation focused on how students learn with AI, an adaptive foundation focused on how AI learns about students, and a responsible design foundation ensuring systems remain transparent, accountable, inclusive, and secure.

Tags: via:Stephen Downes, AI, article

Added: 2026-05-21 12:57

Linkblog - 2026-05-17

Sun, 17 May 2026 20:56:44 -0600

Week of May 11 - May 17, 2026

Use of artificial intelligence in the Ontario government

A report from Ontario’s auditor general.

Of the 400 AI websites that OPS staff accessed between April 2025 and August 2025, 244, or about 60%, were deemed unsafe and unsecured according to the security score given by Microsoft’s Defender cybersecurity tool.

Tags: AI, Ontario, via:Alessandro Corazza

Added: 2026-05-16 14:14

Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

Saving this in case I ever need to do something similar in my 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid…

Tags: via:Bill Fitzgerald, Toyota, RAV4, surveillance

Added: 2026-05-15 20:00

What Does AI Do? | AAUP

The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.

Tags: AI, via:Audrey Watters, via:John Maxwell, higher education

Added: 2026-05-15 15:07

Security pros doubt Canvas attackers really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

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“The FBI says don’t pay,” Thompson told The Register. “But the operational reality at 3 a.m. during finals week or enrollment season can push institutions toward a very different calculation. Until that incentive structure changes, education is likely to remain unusually vulnerable to extortion pressure.”

Tags: Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-15 12:23

Closeup old machine control hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Find the perfect closeup old machine control stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing.

Tags: photos

Added: 2026-05-14 21:49

Klack — Satisfying sound with every keystroke

Satisfying sound with every keystroke

This is dumb, and I’m enjoying it entirely too much.

Tags: macOS, app, keyboard, via:John Gruber

Added: 2026-05-14 15:52

Bubbles - blog directory

Independent blog posts, ranked by the community. Good stuff bubbles up. The rest pops.

Tags: via:Tyler Hellard, blogs, blogosphere

Added: 2026-05-14 15:01

The Canvas Hack Confirmed Some Professors’ Fears. It Likely Won’t Change Anything.

Posner said one of her students hoped the hack would serve as a call to action for universities to look more carefully at tech platforms. Another student, she recalled, questioned whether the hackers were really doing anything worse with personal data than what third-party vendors were already doing — the details of which aren’t known.

Tags: Chronical, person:Bryan Alexander, Canvas, Instructure, cybersecurity, LMS, edupunk, Reclaim

Added: 2026-05-14 10:12

Senate to vote on controversial update to Academic Integrity Policy – Martlet

If approved, the changes to the policy will be effective September 2026. If not, it will be the second time in two months that Senate voted against the updates.

Tags: academic integrity, UVictoria, via:Grant Potter, AI

Added: 2026-05-14 09:52

PHOTOS: The 2026 Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching | News | University of Calgary

More than 400 educators attend three-day teaching and learning conference exploring the importance of human connection in an era of digital transformation

Tags: UCalgary, conference, photos

Added: 2026-05-14 09:43

How Higher Education Is Responding to the Canvas LMS Incident and Preparing for What’s Next | EDUCAUSE Review

A recent ransomware attack on Instructure’s Canvas LMS has raised concerns across the higher education community about cybersecurity, data privacy, th

Tags: EDUCAUSE, via:Yakut Gazi, Canvas, LMS, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-13 15:01

Why Teaching and Learning Centres Matter — Now More Than Ever – STLHE

Teaching and learning centres are not a luxury. They are among the most efficient, evidence-based investments postsecondary institutions can make to strengthen the quality of teaching and learning. If you lead or work in a TLC, continue to document your impact, share your stories, and make the evidence of your influence visible. If you are a faculty member: engage your TLC as a scholarly partner, share your stories of connection, and celebrate the transformative power of teaching. If you are an academic leader: don’t ask whether you can afford to sustain your TLC, but whether you can afford not to.

Tags: person:Natasha Kenny, person:Ann Braithwaite, STLHE, TLCs

Added: 2026-05-12 20:50

How are Canadian postsecondary students using generative AI today? — Academica Forum

Generative AI tools have become popular on postsecondary campuses across the country. In this article, Rachel and Candace discuss the results of a survey on how Canadian postsecondary students use and perceive generative AI tools.

Tags: AI, via:Paul Pival

Added: 2026-05-12 10:08

GitHub - DatanoiseTV/tinyice: Streaming server for Audio and Video (icecast compatible) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support and a lot more. · GitHub

This showed up in brew update as a new formula - looks like a potentially interesting self-hostable internet radio streaming server kind of thing…

Streaming server for Audio and Video (icecast compatible) written in Go with multiple mountpoint, multi-source, and relaying support and a lot more. - DatanoiseTV/tinyice

Tags: internet radio, streaming, server

Added: 2026-05-12 09:03

Linkblog - 2026-05-10

Sun, 10 May 2026 10:53:27 -0600

Week of May 4 - May 10, 2026

Why the Canvas hack was inevitable

While the news focuses on the hack, I wish we’d talk about the decision-making that made this thing an inevitability.

Tags: person:Tim Klapdor, Canvas, LMS, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-10 09:36

Alternative Course Hosting - LTIC

wow. WOW. UBC is positioning their WordPress service as a safer and more reliable option than Canvas while the dust settles from the Great Instructure Hack of ‘26.

This kind of Institutional Plan B is brilliant.

This page covers options for hosting courses outside of the primary Learning Management System (LMS). Note to Summer 1 Instructors You will have received a Piazza Sign Up Link — Please sign up using the link in your email! Upcoming Workshops Available Tools While the primary LMS is unavailable, the following tools are available through […]

Tags: via:Ian Linkletter, UBC, WordPress, LMS, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-09 21:42

The Worlds Left To Conquer — Ludicity

So when I kicked off the company, some traitorous part of me was hoping that it would be difficult, as horrible as that would be for me personally. If it was hard, yes, perhaps I’d have to go back to some miserable office and be beset on all sides by smiling imbeciles talking about innovation, but it would make sense. It simply can’t be that easy to be free of those structures. Surely there’s a reason for it that isn’t simply “Wow, we’re systematically producing people that are terrible at their jobs and they can’t even see it.”

Unfortunately, that really is most of the explanation.

Tags: person:Nikhil Suresh, consulting, technology

Added: 2026-05-09 21:07

Canvas is open source, but its cloud services ransomware attack really hurts

It’s “the biggest student data privacy disaster in history” - even though the core platform is open source.

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It’s also not clear that self-hosted infrastructure would be more resilient: a university could be subject to a ransomware attack with very little recourse. At the same time, the centralized nature of Canvas’s core offering means every institution that uses it, including over half of all US higher education institutions, were in a hard place right in the middle of final exam season. Access is coming back, but at the time of writing, it hasn’t been fully restored. It’s a hard lesson about the dangers of putting everything in the cloud.

Tags: person:Ben Werdmuller, Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-09 21:05

Update on the Instructure (Canvas) Cybersecurity Incident | Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

official statements from UAlberta’s Provost regarding the Canvas hack.

Tags: UAlberta, Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-09 13:46

What is reasoning anyway? A closer look at reasoning in LLMs

There is a remarkable degree of polarisation in current debate about the capacities of Large Language Models (LLMs). One example of this is the debate about reasoning. Some researchers see ample evidence of reasoning in these systems, while others maintain that these systems do not reason at all. This paper seeks to shed light on this debate by examining the divergent uses of the term reasoning across different disciplines. It provides a simple clarificatory framework for talking about behaviour that highlights key dimensions of variation in how ‘reasoning’ is used across psychology, philosophy and AI. This highlights not just the extent to which researchers are talking past each other, but also that common inferences about model capability that accompany classification decisions are, in fact, far less compelling than they might seem.

Tags: via:Tyson Kendon, AI, LLM, article

Added: 2026-05-09 10:31

(PDF) The case of Canvas: Longitudinal datafication through learning management systems

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The Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) is used in thousands of universities across the United States and internationally, with a strong and growing presence in K-12 and higher education markets. Analyzing the development of the Canvas LMS, we examine 1) ‘frictionless’ data transitions that bridge K12, higher education, and workforce data 2) integration of third party applications and interoperability or data-sharing across platforms 3) privacy and security vulnerabilities, and 4) predictive analytics and dataveillance. We conclude that institutions of higher education are currently ill-equipped to protect students and faculty required to use the Canvas Instructure LMS from data harvesting or exploitation. We challenge inevitability narratives and call for greater public awareness concerning the use of predictive analytics, impacts of algorithmic bias, need for algorithmic transparency, and enactment of ethical and legal protections for users who are required to use such software platforms.

Tags: via:Grant Potter, Instructure, Canvas, data, LMS, article

Added: 2026-05-09 08:23

taken. — Since You Arrived Vol. IV

What the page already knows about you, revealed as you read it. No input. No permission. No exception.

Tags: privacy, web, browser

Added: 2026-05-08 18:47

Several Canadian universities face security breach, student data leaked | Globalnews.ca

The U of T, UBC and U of A are amongst the major Canadian post-secondary institutions dealing with fallout from a cybersecurity incident involving a popular platform called Canvas.

Tags: Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 18:20

On Responses to Instructure’s Value - D’Arcy Norman, PhD

I wrote this over 6 years ago…

There would be crowds of people with pitchforks and torches if they tried to repurpose data in a way that violated privacy of students. I hope.

Tags: Instructure, Canvas, person:D’Arcy Norman

Added: 2026-05-08 16:35

Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals - Ars Technica

Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.

Tags: Ars Technica, Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 12:58

Security | Trust Center | Instructure

Explore the Trust Center Security page to understand the measures and practices in place to protect your data and ensure the security of our services.

Tags: Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 11:41

Security & Privacy Compliance | D2L

We take your data seriously, which is why we have several security certifications, audited by third parties. Find out more about our certifications.

Tags: D2L, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 11:41

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

This latest attack and the disruption it’s caused for schools across the country, however, are all too real—and represent a significant escalation from this particular ransomware gang. “It’s noteworthy that a tiny number of repeat offenders can escalate for years to reach this point,” says Nixon. “It speaks to the systemic international issue of cybercrime and the need for governments around the world to set geopolitics aside and cooperate to stop those who extort money and prey on kids.”

Tags: Wired, Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 11:32

‘The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History’: Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech

Messages could include “medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations,” and more.

Tags: person:Ian Linkletter, Instructure, Canvas, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-08 11:17

2026 Canvas security incident - Wikipedia

Despite Instructure’s claim that the situation had been resolved, on May 7, 2026, Canvas was hacked, having their web page replaced with a message by ShinyHunters—a criminal hacking group. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure and Canvas, threatening to release sensitive data unless ransom payment demands are fulfilled by May 12, 2026.

Tags: Wikipedia, via:Ian Linkletter, Instructure, cybersecurity, eep

Added: 2026-05-07 20:42

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | The Verge

Instructure’s learning management platform Canvas is down, after recently confirming a data breach and a ransom message from the ShinyHunters hacking group.

I downloaded the list of institutions - almost 9,000 schools (basically everyone that uses Canvas) with their data compromised. And the hackers are using the Internet Archive’s Wayback snapshot of a page with their PGP keys and what I assume are payment links - maybe as a way to get around IT firewalls that block sketchy domains etc. (I’m not going to link to that from here)

I’m curious about our vendor partners’ responses to this - Canvas got hit this time (and they kind of put a big target on their back with the ‘WE HAVE SOOO MUCH DATA ABOUT EVERYONE THIS IS AWESOME’ marketing), but there’s nothing preventing them from trying to hit other big platforms…

Tags: via:Ian Linkletter, cybersecurity, Canvas

Added: 2026-05-07 16:28

AI, Education, and What Comes Next · NAIT Engage 2026

Companion resource for AI, Education, and What Comes Next, Dr. Alec Couros’s keynote at NAIT Engage 2026. Built to extend the conversation past the closing slide

Tags: person:Alec Couros, AI, NAIT, keynote

Added: 2026-05-06 20:27

A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.

Ain’t nothing more productive than tweaking my .zshrc file…

Tags: Terminal, command line, Bash, Ars Technica

Added: 2026-05-06 16:02

2026 Provincial Budgets | HESA

despite the big increase in spending this year, Ontario remains 10th out of 10 provinces on this metric, but is no only a hair’s breadth behind Alberta. If Ontario should pass Alberta next year, it would mean that Alberta, which for many years led the country on this metric, would have passed from first to last place among provinces in just 13 years

Tags: HESA, budget, Alberta, 🎉

Added: 2026-05-05 11:58

WKRP - 97.7, 106.7 & 94.5 The Oasis

WKRP - 97.7, 106.7 & 94.5 The Oasis - Where The Music Went - Music from the 1960s, 70s and early 80s

Baby, if you’ve ever wondered Wondered whatever became of me I’m living on the air in Cincinnati Cincinnati, WKRP!

In the musical desert that is local FM radio, we decided to be different. How? Most stations play the same few hundred songs over and over again. On WKRP, we play thousands of songs of the 60’s, 70’s & early 80’s - familiar songs that were huge hits but have just disappeared from the radio. Add to this the legend that is WKRP and we are, literally, The Oasis in a desert.

Tags: via:Scott Leslie, radio

Added: 2026-05-04 13:18

GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman · GitHub

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman

Claims to cut down on the verbose prose spewed as output in Claude Code, reducing token usage.

Tags: Claude Code

Added: 2026-05-04 09:21

Claude Code Limits: 4 Fixes to Cut Your Bill (Without Changing Your Workflow)

From $1,389/mo to $200/mo on the same workflow. Anthropic fixed 3 bugs. The 4 root causes still on your side — with copy-paste templates.

I’ve been surprised at how quickly I seem to burn through session limits (especially when working on bigger things like Jellyboard). I’ve made some improvements on my own but will be trying some of these…

Tags: Claude Code, via:Stephen Downes

Added: 2026-05-04 08:05

Linkblog - 2026-05-03

Sun, 03 May 2026 17:23:56 -0600

Week of Apr 27 - May 3, 2026

How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one | Tey Bannerman

A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things.

Apps, features, platforms, a keyboard key, an entire category of laptops - and a tool for building more Copilots. All named ‘Copilot’.

I went looking for the full list. No single source had all of them. Not even Microsoft’s own website or documentation. So I pieced it together from product pages, launch announcements, and marketing materials.

The visualisation below maps every one, grouped by category, with lines showing how they connect. It’s interactive - click around. Try to find a pattern. I couldn’t.

I’d written a snarky post about how many copilots there were but wasn’t even close. This is insane. Jesus Christ, Microsoft.

Tags: via:Grant Potter, Microsoft, Copilot, enshittification

Added: 2026-05-03 17:22

Sysco’s $29 Billion Restaurant Depot Deal: What It Means for Independent Restaurants

Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29B in 2027. Here’s why the FTC will let it through and what it means for independent restaurants.

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The clam chowder in a New England diner and the clam chowder in a Florida diner come out of the same Sysco can. The biscuits at a Tennessee breakfast joint and the biscuits at a Wisconsin one come from the same frozen case

Tags: via:Grant Potter, enshittification, food, capitalism

Added: 2026-05-03 08:54

Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact

Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity incident and is now investigating its impact.

Tags: via:Eric Likness, Canvas, Instructure, cybersecurity

Added: 2026-05-01 20:53

Dr. Dwayne Donald - 2024 UNBC Teaching and Learning Conference Keynote

A keynote given at UNBC’s T+L conference. His 2026 UCalgary keynote builds on many of these ideas - it’s interesting to see the evolution of his presentation!

Tags: person:Dwayne Donald, via:Grant Potter, video, presentation, UNBC

Added: 2026-05-01 14:53

ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE

An interactive photo timeline of NASA

The photos taken of and by astronauts during Artemis II, on a chronological timeline.

Tags: Artemis, photos, via:Nick Heer

Added: 2026-05-01 13:39

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide For Over 800,000 Years

A chart by Zach Labe showing atmospheric CO2 over the last 800,000 years (combining data from Mauna Loa and ice core samples). Yes, there are cycles. And what we’re seeing in the last few decades is unprecedented.

Tags: person:Zach Labe, climate, CO2

Added: 2026-05-01 12:55

AI Framework for Carleton University

This framework aims to build on and extend the university’s earlier work. It draws from a variety of additional resources: The University of Saskatchewan’s AI Principles and Guidelines Revised, the Australian Framework for AI in Higher Education, the Higher Education Strategy Associates’ (HESA) AI Observatory, a humanistic architecture for AI by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, and both academic and non-academic publications in the post-econdary sector.

Tags: AI, framework, Carleton, via:Natasha Kenny

Added: 2026-04-27 14:01

Course Deletion Progress

a simple visualization of the # of courses in our Brightspace instance, to track the “course deletion” process that will start running soon.

Tags: person:Cody Baxter, D2L, dashboard, UCalgary

Added: 2026-04-27 11:46