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I hate Sky anyway and I got a hotel with Sky and basically Sky Arts is the only channel with anything worth watching at all… The Cure live! Which was worth it … for the hotel 😂\n!!😬

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Flipping heck this is not good! Another loss!! This is called cutting it too fine!!!!

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Even Frankenstein has games and comics !

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Well @dajb@social.coop / @thoughtshrapnel shared this game with our gaming crew this morning playstarfling.com which is very cool. Simple idea super well executed. I then found Hacker News Arcade! hnarcade.com setting aside time to browse !

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When ed-tech fails to bring about its revolution – as it always does – a couple of things are sure to happen:

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First, teachers get blamed for “doing it wrong.”

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Secondly

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students get blamed for “doing it wrong” – in this case, not asking the chatbot the right kinds of questions.

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Students didn’t want to use Khanmigo (Ai)

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So “now Khanmigo (Ai) is incorporated directly … because ‘students were not seeking out Khanmigo’s help as much as we had hoped.'” Don’t want it? Too bad. It’s part of the curricular infrastructure now, suckers.

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So I decided I am away for a couple of days and I will not take my laptop but iPad… let see if it actually manages to catch up sync with iPhone and mac… it always a nightmare when I haven’t used it in a while…

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This flat pack shed build has almost killed me. It’s a good job I could get on the wall and lean on the roof to put in the screws on the very top middle !

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If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes. They let a lot of people go distances and tackle hills that they couldn’t before, and they’re better for all of us than cars, but they’re a menace to both pedestrians and traditional cyclists, more harmful to the environment than what they’re replacing, and have given companies yet another way to hollow out local businesses. (Neighborhood restaurants know that cheap delivery services are killing them slowly, but if they don’t play, they’ll just die more quickly.)

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2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/derailleu…

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A nice page of inspirational form pairings - www.fontshare.com/pairs

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Wow ok so I guess I should have guessed that with the Artemis II mission the flat earthers would come out of the woodwork but I don’t think I was prepared enough. Also what do they actually care about … how is the shape of the earth of any use when we are destroying it anyway with our emissions…

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Teaching a group is hard, so there’s a tendency to retreat to what works for individuals. Give everyone flashcards. Give everyone a computer. Every kid has a tutor. Every kid works on the app. This tendency is maybe especially strong in thinking about math facts, since they’re so heavily studied by special education and psychological researchers who tend to think in terms of individual support—the one-on-one intervention or study. The “Science of Learning” has a bias towards individual pedagogy.

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This tendency should be resisted. Teaching a group is most viable when you’re able to teach them as a group. When you treat them as twenty single individuals, each on their own different path, the job also gets twenty times harder. Now, I’m not naive. I understand there are times when the different needs of students are too great for uniform expectations. But I think we’re often too eager to turn a class into a collection of individuals. Instead we can keep class vibrant, interactive, and engaging without asking everyone to retreat to their desks. The collective deserves more respect

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Michael Pershan via Audrey Watters

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Updates to Unity 6.4 look nice

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The four pot solution to help fix english footballs finances - youtu.be/zUUj-jV_J…

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Slowly been adding subscriptions to micro.blog inkwell - don’t want to overload myself but so far I have read more blogs than I have for a while!

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In DiY news. Fixed an issue with the conservatory roof possibly blowing off tommorow !

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Sarasohn encouraged his disciples to draft a mission statement by invoking a motto from a shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island:

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We shall build good ships here; at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must — but always good ships.

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Apple at 50: The roots of a tech revolution The Financial Times - subscribers only

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Why do I often forget how great Maximo Park are. I am pretty sure this is the one gig I messed up and ended up getting a ticket upstairs at Brixton Academy 2007! I love the standing area - seating not so good

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I’ve been enjoying Planthood for the last few months I have to say it’s one of the best “ready” to cook meal things I have tried and I have done a lot however for the positioning of the tear strip for the sauces can someone sort that out! It’s always too high !!

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Today I asked Claude how to best use Claude Code. This was worth while. I ran out of credits mind while working on a new game project but I feel like I am heading in the right direction, haven’t decided how I will perform a code review yet but I don’t think playdate code can unleash the singularity…

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We now have a weekly brown bin collection starting in Southampton. I’m pretty excited to have my food scraps collected. I’ve tried my own compost scenerio and it never worked so this way I can join the mega composter at least. :)

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Before the war in Iran

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Doritos maker PepsiCo said it would reduce prices by up to 15 percent … chief executive Ramon Laguarta citing the “stretched” budgets of low- and middle-income consumers.

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Yay because obviously cheap crisps (chips) for low income households is a good thing…

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🤦 the war is going to push up prices on so many things crisps would be low on my priority!

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I use Claude to help me code, I see people “vibe” coding which I see as generally fun, interesting and productive. I also see people trying to “vibe” code as step 1 on the journey to learn to code to make stuff and I only see this causing confusion and frustration, I suggest fundementals first.

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Before I power up my Rabbit r1 again just need to confirm OpenClaw is not on by default… nope we are all good

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Spent today cleaning up my VPS server, patching it and anything to keep archived before deleting, downloaded all my older repos on my self-hosted gitlab and switched that bit off. Next step is seeing if my very good hosting providing can edit / migrate me to a more something affordable from £80pcm!

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Over the last few months I have aquired a pet spider, mainly lives in the cooker hood but ventures out a little most days. seems happy

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