@jilleduffy

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Writer covering work, women in midlife, some tech. Author of The Everything Guide to Remote Work. Global citizen; currently near the Mekong. Pro worker stance. (she/her)
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@404mediaco "Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. “I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,” he said. " Amazing.

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

404 Media

every day there’s so much bad news that I want to tell you about a bike “race” I lost this morning.

I was cycling home from an errand when I came upon this guy. We raced a short distance and he beat me!
Head down, eyes straight ahead—he was very focused, his legs were moving so fast! I didn’t mind losing at all. We high-fived at the end.

Important detail: he was a preschooler on a balance bike, his mom was thrilled that I played along. 🤣🚲

#pedalpower #BikeRace

The language I studied the most as an adult is Romanian. It was an intense course, 5 days a week, 5 hours per day. After we got present, past, and future down (30 days), the instructions quickly pushed us to share our opinions about the news. The problem? It was 2017 and all the news was about mass shootings and school shootings. I HATED it. I understand the need to push learners to discuss difficult topics, but that was too much.

I remember a friend who taught ESL told me that music lyrics went over well with his class and that everyone knew Bob Marley songs, but maybe that advice is 20 years old 😭

Curse words are a no-no. This is a very polite culture. We have talked about small talk, describing people, food, animals. We did a lot on describing taste and texture of food. The advanced group is working on business stuff, like developing a social media post and a campaign.

Other ideas?

Did you learn English as a second (or third, or fourth) language as an adult? What are some of the lessons or topics that resonated with you while you were learning?

I'm off to volunteer teach English again today, and I'm using materials I find online but also winging it and trying to make activities that are relevant to the students, who are Lao farm workers. Some are interested in business development, some are interested in makeup, one likes to crochet in her spare time. It's a mixed bunch!

A Bloomberg headline reads: "Apple Seeks to Disrupt the Glasses Market the Way It Did With Watches"

Let me tell you that everyone I know calls Meta glasses spyware; the Snapchat glasses were little more than a cheap thrill (though not so cheap); Google Glass had a lot of interesting ideas that no one actually wanted on their face

What do you think? Is ANY COMPANY able to make "smart glasses" aka spyware glasses a thing?

@jilleduffy A server farm is where they build the servers for the data centers.

What's the difference between a data center and a server farm?

Wrong answers only

What's the difference between a data center and a server farm?

Wrong answers only