Andy Rush

@andyrush
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Course Media Developer for the Center for Instruction and Research Technology (CIRT) at the University of North Florida. I work with UNF faculty to develop and produce course media. I’ve been working in the Educational Technology field for over 30 years. #fedi22 #video #wordpress
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Introducing Action Phrase, voice control for live production.

Built for streamers, YouTubers, event producers, churches, teachers, and presenters.

Say things like:

• “Cut to camera 2”
• “Show lower thirds”
• “Bring in music”

and trigger actions across OBS, vMix, Companion, ProPresenter, MIDI, OSC, and more.

Action Phrase features:

• natural phrases (with variables)
• script-aware triggers
• speaker-based automation

🎥 https://youtu.be/ykcvdTHHmrk
👉 https://actionphrase.com

Introducing Action Phrase: Voice Control for Live Production

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Matt Mullenweg on EmDash, the supposed ‘spiritual successor’ of WordPress. https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/
EmDash Feedback

So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. (Is it nominative determinism or a simulation glitch that everyone trying to t…

Matt Mullenweg

The passive income movement was a fantasy about not having to give a shit. This is a terrible foundation for pretty much anything.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20

Westenberg.
Editing of posts. Still Mastodon's greatest feature.
We are told to do oral exams; I can't do that in a lecture class of this many students. We are told to use lockdown browsers, but they're only effective if you monitor the students by video. I refuse to take this step.
3 months into the new year and 1,001 miles ridden. Good start to 2026!
This is just a terrific video featuring Cindy Cohn from the EFF talking with Jon Stewart - especially when she distinguishes the way the word “harm” can be interpreted differently between political parties (and how she points out the Democrats are being played). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo
Cindy Cohn - Fighting for Digital Human Rights in “Privacy’s Defender” | The Daily Show

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Man, what an enshittified service Vimeo has become.
I hate sad news. Rest in Peace Patrick.

Something I should have done long long ago - subscribe to the Open Culture RSS feed! - https://www.openculture.com/feed/rss2

h/t @carpetbomberz