NEW RESOURCES
Spotted on Mastodon: a new Mastodon/RSS tool called RSS Parrot. From the about page: “This is the browser home of RSS Parrot, a Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into your feed reader. The Parrot follows the RSS or Atom feeds of a large number of websites, and sends out a toot whenever a new post is published on one of them…. The RSS Parrot brings WordPress blogs into the Fediverse without the need for the blog’s owner to install the Mastodon plugin.”
EVENTS
MIT News: The creative future of generative AI. “The future of generative AI and its impact on art and design was the subject of a sold-out panel discussion on Oct. 26 at the MIT Bartos Theater. It was part of the annual meeting for the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT), a group of alumni and other supporters of the arts at MIT, and was co-presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST), a cross-school initiative for artist residencies and cross-disciplinary projects.” The panel event is available on YouTube. I spot-checked its captioning and it looked perfect.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Detroit News: Lake Superior State releases its list of banished words: Is it cringe-worthy or iconic?. “Wait for it: At the end of the day, hacks need to slay 10 cringe-worthy words and phrases, according to an iconic list from a Michigan university…. This year marks the second appearance of the word ‘iconic’ on the annual list that the Sault Ste. Marie university began releasing in 1976. ‘ ..
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