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Abbi Mar 9, 2023

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Abbi Mar 9, 2023

I continue to fight my way through essays. I'm really trying to trust on this current one that the breakthrough is coming, because it has on all the others, but why must breakthroughs be so late in the day? Granted, I've had this assignment since January but also I've tried to work on it since then, too! And my thesis? Mocking me from the sidelines, in desperate need of attention...

Abbi Feb 15, 2023

One of the things that's rather nice about ageing is watching your favourites constantly reiterating the stories they like to tell in film, tv, song, etc. like fanfic writers set on milking every last drop out of their favourite tropes. There's a wonderful breadth and depth to decades of fandom.

Abbi Feb 13, 2023

Oh - people weren't kidding about how Bing suddenly got useful, were they? And *this* is how AI gets mainstream.

Abbi Feb 2, 2023

(via Dr. Teeroumanee Nadan)

ARLT SIG event - How to create visibility for POC colleagues who work in junior roles 💪
🗓️Thurs 23rd Feb 1 to 2pm (online)
✅Registration:

https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=792

ARLTSIG Webinar: Creating visibility for POC colleagues who work in junior roles | Association for Learning Technology

Abbi Jan 30, 2023

"Disruption" is a healthy idea in many ways, but increasingly in business, education, politics, etc. it feels like people who don't want to do the work to understand why things are as they are thinking that they have a great idea which surely nobody has ever thought of before.

Inevitably not only has it been thought of, possibly even already tried, it is very far down the list from great, useful, advisable, etc. And they never want to pilot it on a small, evaluated scale, no.

Abbi Jan 25, 2023

Well. After all the anxiety and weeping and suchlike that went into last term's assignment, I got the best mark I've ever had for it, and incredible feedback.

I don't really know how to process this, but, I do feel validated for...trying hard. And it occurs to me that I did not often feel that in study.

Infinite thanks to everyone who soothed and encouraged me. One assignment and one thesis to go!

Abbi Jan 22, 2023

Earlier my mum emailed my wife saying she some Instagram video my wife had posted and adding something about a dog. Given that my wife only posts once a year - a picture of Freddie Mercury on his birthday - we were confused. Transpires my mum hadn't noticed the difference between people you follow and posts Instagram puts into your account: it isn't surprising she hadn't noticed, but what was surprising was how shocked she was by the mechanism - content pushed at you. Strange.

Abbi Jan 17, 2023

I was between institutions during the start of ERT, but I'm wondering if the ChatGPT conversation was like this - just a lot of the same threads with a lot of different people, whilst multiple different roles are struggling to find the most effective way to strategically address the elephant in the room.

Part of me feels like this is where I could - should? - step up and start pulling hard at something, but the rest thinks...maybe that isn't quite my role...maybe I'm not high up enough.

Abbi Jan 13, 2023

#food Early this morning I bought a fresh bread roll, and at lunchtime I filled it full of cheap mozzarella and sundried tomatoes and basil and put it under some heavy jars to squish, and now, now it is time to eat it. I am uncommonly proud of this foresight.