Mark McGuire

@mark_mcguire
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Former design academic (University of Otago 1993-2018). Ph.D. in Media Studies (Dissertation Topic: “Simulated Communities")
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Canadian-born New Zealander, married a Kiwi while living in Toronto. We moved to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1993. My partner teaches English at U. of Otago. We have two Dunedin-born sons.
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Also @mark_mcguire on Instagram, Flickr, & Twitter (for now)
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#Design #StreetPhotography #OpenCulture #Community #OnlineCommunities #OpenEd #Art #SoundScapes
Mark McGuireNov 22, 2022

@MarkMaguire

If we can find enough of us here we could create our own instance. I find that talking to myself leads to fewer arguments (and I always win them, anyway).

Mark McGuireNov 21, 2022
Alexandra MihaiNov 21, 2022
A simple analysis of why I've been engaging with Twitter and what I might do next (sort of "thinking aloud", as I myself really don't have a plan yet).👇
https://educationalist.substack.com/p/time-to-think-beyond-the-platform
Time to think beyond the platform

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

The Educationalist
Mark McGuireNov 21, 2022

Sure, let’s talk about the loss of beer instead.

Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded (Guardian, Feb. 23, 2021)

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022

Qatar facing renewed calls to compensate migrant workers over uninvestigated deaths (Guardian, Nov. 17, 2022)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/17/qatar-facing-renewed-calls-to-compensate-migrant-workers-over-uninvestigated-deaths

#Qatar #QatarBoycott #QatarWC #QatarWorldCup #Qatar2022 #MigrantDeaths #MigrantWorkers #MigrantDeathsQatar #MigrantsRightsNow

Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

Guardian analysis indicates shocking figure over the past decade likely to be an underestimate

The Guardian
Mark McGuireNov 20, 2022

This helps to understand the effects of #PTSD on sufferers and their long-suffering caregivers.

'His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It:
After my partner was brutally beaten on the street, I became one of the many thousands of Americans caring for someone with post-traumatic stress disorder — and our relationship changed forever.'

by Virginia Eubanks @VirginiaEubanks in the NYT Magazine

I recommend listening to the audio version.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/magazine/ptsd-trauma.html?searchResultPosition=1

Mark McGuireNov 20, 2022
dirkwalsNov 19, 2022
Ben Jennings on #Qatar2022 #QatarWorldCup2022 #FIFAWorldCupQatar2022 #FIFA #WorldCup2022 #WorldCup - political cartoon gallery in London http://original-political-cartoon.com
Welcome to the Political Cartoon Gallery Original Cartoons for sale

Mark McGuireNov 19, 2022

I just discovered a timely book, ‘Lurking: How a Person Became a User’, by Joanne McNeil (@jomc). I’m going to order a copy from my local bookstore.

Someone shouted “Musk!” in a crowded Mall of America and everybody is heading for the exits. This is a teachable moment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/books/review/joanne-mcneil-lurking.html

It’s Time to Unfriend the Internet

In “Lurking,” Joanne McNeil examines what it means to be a person online.

Mark McGuireNov 19, 2022

Some good pieces published recently about the #FTX #CryptoPlatform scandal. This one provides some helpful context.

Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown:
The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist delusion.
— By Timi Iwayemi in The Nation (@thenation)

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/money-from-nothing/

#SamBankmanFried #FTXscam #FTXExchange #ctypto #InfoCapitalism #EffectiveAltuism #MoneyFromNothing #MoneyForNothing

Money From Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown

The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist delusion.

The Nation
Mark McGuireNov 19, 2022
Anna HiattNov 6, 2022

Glad to be here! I work with a global journalism collaboration called Covering Climate Now that's committed to helping outlets all around the world improve their climate coverage and play it more prominently. It's been exciting to see media outlets begin to cover climate more seriously in the last year.

I'm always looking to meet journalists working on #climate or interested in getting on the beat. #introduction

Mark McGuireNov 19, 2022
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Nov 8, 2022

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

Mark McGuireNov 18, 2022
Dave Lane  🇳🇿Nov 15, 2022
For those who want to run their own Mastodon instance, here's a (I hope comprehensive) tutorial on how we do it here at the NZOSS and at the OER Foundation (among other places). https://tech.oeru.org/join-fediverse-installing-mastodon-40-ubuntu-2204-docker-compose
Join the Fediverse: installing Mastodon 4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 with Docker Compose | OERu Technology Blog

In the past week or two, with Elon Musk completing his purchase and take-over of Twitter, there has been a torrent of defections from the centralised, closed, for-profit platform to its antithesis, the Fediverse - it's a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".