Openrearch texting me claiming my internet is all fixed and to let them know to cancel the engineer. Nope it is not fixed speed has halfed price has not.
2022-01-02
My o2 phone verses my current BT broadband 🤦🏻♂️ BT just wins. Half the speed I had a month ago. Hope for good news to report next week.
Hey Musk and Bezos this came out in 1987 🤔
2022-01-02 If you throw a bottle at a footballer you are NOT a supporter of football in any sense.
Hopefully CCTV will result in a life time ban for this individual and if you where sat near them contact Leeds FC. These people ruin football.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…
2022-01-02
Excellent piece here on the issues of Fast Food Education - dctr.pro/2mz
2022-01-03
Finally got round to using the CSS filter approach @aral@mastodon.ar.al talks about here for dark mode on my “link’ page adamprocter.co.uk - although it has reminded me its a bit of out of date and I don’t like the style anymore at all.
2022-01-03
2017 / 2021 / 2022 slower and slower
2022 looking like a bumper year
Audio Version
From Feb I will be the brand new Interim Head of an also brand new Department of Art & Media Technology at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Hopefully if successful I will be able to make it a more permanent role (application and interview dependant)
But from Feb to August I will still be Programme leader for BA Games Design & Art so I will be pretty busy however I have plans…
At the end of Jan I should have internally submitted my PhD text and come the end of March be waiting on my viva dates hopefully end of Easter / early summer so come Sept I will finally officially be Dr. Procter.
So if things go to plan I could be a Doctor running a new department with some exciting approaches to technology and humans from October.
As anyone who has read my blog or knows me I am very keen to push back on big tech, surveillance capitalism and this is something that has been my conversation piece to enable me to be given the interim role so embedding ethical and humane technology thinking and criticality in the new Department will be fundemental.
The Department already has amazing staff and students and a brilliant set of programmes of study.
Combine this with new structures and new programmes to come starting in earnest in October 2022 it is all pretty exciting.
Much hard work to come but it feels like an exciting new chapter awaits.
Of course I’ll keep people up to date on my blog if it all falls apart 🤣😬 or not 😊🙌
2022-01-03
I decided to try wavelength to record an audio narration of one of my blog posts and then copied the resulting code and deleted the extra post. I will try and do this for my long form posts at least. I liked the idea from a substack I saw today and of course accessibility.
2022-01-03
No fault… hmm turns out “something” of my line in the cabinet had been “unplugged” now reconnected to new “lines” and … boom 💥 download from 28Mbps back higher than previous stable 55 and now at 64Mbps ! Good job I didn’t cancel the engineer 😊 I am now a happy Procter
2022-01-04 I signed the web0 manifesto
web0 = decentralisation
You should sign it too.
web0 is web3 but without all the nonsense that is the valley neoliberal surveillance capitalism and NFT hype ✌️💥
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com
Wow Anne (ITV dramatisation about Anne Williams mother of Kevin Williams murdered at the Hillsborough disaster) is excellent and very moving, what a travesty of injustice for so long, my Dad watched it play out live on TV. I block the Sun newspaper on all my devices to this day.
2022-01-04
So on top of my generally terrible eye sight I am now at that age I also need reading glasses but I like these and so ordering a pair
2022-01-04 I still am an Apple fan boi even though there are now privacy issues but a $3 trillion dollar company you need to plough that money into software and hardware teams properly and put more money into sustainability, environment and longevity. Focus on the humane in the tech PLEASE
2022-01-04
Tomorrows breakfast is upgraded!
2022-01-04 Drone carrying defibrillator saves life*
*If someone with better health insurance and a healthy life style is detected nearby meta drone will always change directions and save the more worthy person.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
2022-01-07
Roblox child labour exploitation and no safe guarding for kids YouTube of course you can bet NFTs are involved and black markets
2022-01-07
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2022-01-08
Fear not I won’t keep posting these but today was so close
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