Tim Klapdor

@timklapdor
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15 years in Higher Ed working at the nexus of tech and learning. Now the Manager of Online Learning Design at the University of Adelaide. Background in graphic design and multimedia. Still make stuff on the web. CSS magician.
Bloghttps://heartsoulmachine.com
Old Bloghttps://timklapdor.wordpress.com/
All my other stuffhttp://timklapdor.me/
Tim Klapdor3h ago

Seeing quite a lot of the new #AIAesthetic in UI design. Muted nature colour palette, yellows and beige instead of white, more frequent use of serif fonts, spaced out all caps labels. Looks like we're back on the train where everything looks the same.

Given how LLMs work - and this is the extent of accessible AI tools - it just seems inevitable that this is what the median of the web would look like. Put in a blender and whizz.

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Office Space Bot9h ago
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Benno1d ago
I have to say: I'm finding the role of the Pope in my current reality to be a source of utter bewilderment.
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Dave Lane  ðŸ‡³ðŸ‡¿1d ago
Ok. What if we - the voters of Aotearoa - aligned ourselves to elect a Government that is committed to achieving the best possible outcome for all NZers. As table ante, any parties wanting to be in such a Gov't would need to first publicly acknowledge that 'Trickle Down Economics' is a nonsensical farce, and that 'neoliberalism' has failed the vast majority of people upon whom it's been imposed.
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Show threadBen Werdmuller1d ago
Making the world more equal, more empathetic, more inclusive, and more informed requires remaking the institutions that have upheld existing inequalities and oppression. Everywhere else we call this level of change innovation. We need social innovation too.
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James Hillier3d ago
We're not gonna sit in silence, Crisafulli.
Show threadTim Klapdor5d ago

Having started a war on his own, and having spent the last year pissing each and every country off around the world, the pressure to end the war won’t come from Iran, but the rest of the world. Trump has burnt the idea of US diplomacy to the ground - he has no friends left.

I can see that a boycott and blockade of US goods - especially their tech - is looming.

Tim Klapdor5d ago
I am starting to think the Iran conflict isn’t going to go the way the US thinks. Their blockade of a blockade, halting all trade may not impact the US but it does affect the rest of the world. Trumps flippant tariff strategy has opened the door to a retaliatory tariffs from the rest of the world against the US rather than Iran.
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Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱6d ago

When I did some reading on the current situation, I found a lot of sites out of Australia that were repeating this "base load" idea, in the context of nuclear power.

I suspect that this is fossil-fuel propaganda.

Fossil fuel companies love promoting nuclear power because they know it takes decades to get a reactor built (if it gets built at all), and in the meantime, everyone keeps using fossil fuels.

It's the perfect way to cripple renewables without being obvious about it.

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Office Space Bot6d ago