@grantpotter

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Educator, instructional technologist, tinkerer, musicmaker, hauler of bootstraps
Bloghttps://networkeffects.ca
WFMU Profilehttps://wfmu.org/profile/727619763/Pappy_with_the_Khaki_Sweatband
grantpotter5h ago
Celebrated #fathersday and #summersolstice with my son and friend upon the #ultramarine festival in #novascotia last night .. spoken word to full on floor at the Legion https://ultramarinefest.com
grantpotter3d ago
“Faced with the absurdity of viewing AoEII goats as carrying the spark of consciousness, we might reconsider Anthropic's assertion that Claude has a “constitution” and experiences anxiety.” #llm #ai https://www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient-then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii/
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

404 Media
grantpotterJun 13
click the rock faces to change the sounds and then release it down the hill #midi #drummachine https://mifsud.org/stone/
Rolling Stone

grantpotterJun 10
“Here’s a good rule of thumb: if you go online—especially if a social media platform is involved—assume there is an attempt to exploit your fears, grievances, beliefs, personal identity, and sense of community. Whether you are an elitist music nerd or an aggrieved Alberta separatist, assume you are being manipulated.” https://thewalrus.ca/a-pr-hoax-created-the-years-hottest-rock-band-imagine-what-it-can-do-in-politics/
grantpotterJun 10
#foreverseptember https://rifflandiafestival.com/
grantpotterJun 9
"Nineteen of the province’s 25 public institutions are projected to operate at a loss with an estimated $300 million annual shortfall." #britishcolumbia #highered #education #university https://bcpolicy.ca/2026/06/09/post-secondary/#identifier_173_5109
Rebuilding post-secondary education as public infrastructure in BC (or how we fix the predictable failures of marketization)

British Columbia’s public post-secondary education system is facing its worst funding crisis in history. This report captures a critical moment in time for BC’s public post-secondary education sector. It traces the historical throughlines and outlines a path forward that reclaims post-secondary educ

BC Policy Solutions
grantpotterJun 9

"It produces nothing. It improves nothing. It will not lower your cortisol in any way you could measure or sell. It is the hour you spend going nowhere, for no reason, with no benefit, watching the light change, keeping company with the dead, drinking the second cup you did not need.

It is the most useless thing you will do all week.

It may also be the only hour that was truly yours."

https://idle.news/blog/on-the-difference-between-rest-and-idleness/

idle.news — On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness

Why the wellness industry loves rest, fears idleness, and has spent a great deal of money to keep you from noticing the difference.

grantpotterJun 9
"No Wi-Fi? Claude outage? Rolling blackouts? The end of civilization as we know it? With CrankGPT, you'll never be without the intelligence you need. We're no preppers, but with CrankGPT, we're prepared." https://crankgpt.com
CrankGPT — Local Human-powered AI

A human-powered, fully local, fully private AI solution.

grantpotterJun 5
"a semi-autobiographical accounting from a biological scientist perspective observing and experiencing academia as a distinct ecological habitat with university professors and PhD students as inhabiting species." #academia #university https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4qgfm7DU
University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem

YouTube
grantpotterJun 4
"Not affiliated with Chipotle. They will probably sue us. Worth it." https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
GitHub - cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.

The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more....

GitHub