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Making weird stuff at the @UOW Open Day
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In the future I expect (or maybe hope) people will look back at the way information industries use social media today the way the construction industry today looks back at asbestos
"Can you believe people were just doing that without protection! Wild times"
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11 Mar 2022
Just imagine a school without grading system, so that students can actually enjoy studying and trying their best without worrying about making mistakes @_traviswall #bcm112
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Talking today about how to identify propaganda. Study your emotions instead of studying the form. If it hits you in the feels, it's propaganda.
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I went to the uni today and probably, without knowing, walked directly past students who have been in my classes for two years. How weird.
28 Feb 2022
so weird being on campus and seeing people iβve only ever met online before!!
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Welcome to #bcm112 in Wollongong. What a time to be online. Many hazards, many opportunities.
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Now, add GPT-3
23 Feb 2022
Creative work is inherently unequal. This is very visible in the income distributions of singers and movie stars, but less visible in white-collar professions.
Why? Thanks to/because of the office. 1/7
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23 Feb 2022
Creative work is inherently unequal. This is very visible in the income distributions of singers and movie stars, but less visible in white-collar professions.
Why? Thanks to/because of the office. 1/7
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I have read many academic pieces about design and tech. This podcast with a comedian and a guy claiming to have worked at area 51 reverse engineering UFOs contains some of the most profound design and tech philosophy I've come across (1:43:40-1:48:30). youtu.be/BEWz4SXfyCQ?t=6220
Traditional is not an aesthetic, it is what is produced under pre-industrial constraints
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McLuhan using diggers
>Technology is extensions of ourselves
>Human arm and hand is turned into this machine
>This machine has much larger capacity than human arm and hand
>Message = now people have greatly expanded capacity to change the physical environment
#bcm112
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Fractional ownership of real estate via tokenisation incoming
youtu.be/LNpjKZnsdfI
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27 Oct 2021
Netflix's Marketing power:
- Squid Games show increasing Vans sales by 7,800%
- Korean signups on Duolingo by 76%
- Korean candy on show up 250%
- Quid actress 400K to 18.9M Instagram followers
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Nice find. The possibility in crypto is the capacity for facilitating an ecosystem of self organising and adaptive structures.
27 Oct 2021
finally wrapped my head around blockchain - it's much simpler than i thought jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/7vβ¦
#bcm206 I was curious how far we can theoretically go with decentralisation, so I looked for a fitting article. I knew this would be a good one when it opened with a Le Guin quote
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30 Sep 2021
2021: NFTs are just JPEGs β
2022: NFTs are tickets to communities/utility/experiences that can be added to for decades to come β
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If anyone wants to know what @uow campus actually looks like, it is going to be on Gardening Australia this week
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Seeing and evaluating all things as prototypes is useful skill worth developing
- what does this thing test?
- what does it reveal?
- where could this evolve through iteration?