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Richard Higgs 🗿
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Lecturer: Digital Curation.
Aggressively pro-science, anti-misinformation.
Arts, history, nature, literature, philosophy, education.
Autistic self-advocate. EdTech sceptic.
#DigitalHumanitiesAfrica
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Richard Higgs 🗿 @higgsri.bsky.social · Oct 17
My philosophy in a post, as things stand:
Ontology: Contingentism
Epistemology: Hermeneutical Phenomenology
Philosophy of Religion: NULL
Theology: Metaphysics
Politics: Prog/SocDem/Green
Moral Philosophy: Critical Posthumanism
Meta-ethics: Punk
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culturedspice.bsky.social
Can we make a 77th/Stonehead thread where we all say hi and reconnect with each other on here?

Please repost this and reply below to say hi!
November 6, 2024 at 4:28 PM
higgsri.bsky.social
Why do conservatives and libertarians get so upset about Big Pharma, when profiteering is the ultimate virtue in a capitalist system?
October 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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higgsri.bsky.social
Magic happens when gin combines with dry vermouth. Something cosmic, something alchemical. A whole greater than the sum of its parts.
October 20, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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louca-mai.bsky.social
Really interesting article on the slow death of #AcademicTwitter: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
HT @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social who shared on LinkedIn
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
The Vibes Are Off: Did Elon Musk Push Academics Off Twitter?
www.cambridge.org
October 18, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
What do crustaceans and fluorite have in common? Sometimes they fluoresce!

During fossilisation, these shrimp and crayfish exoskeletons were converted into apatite, which fluoresces in UV. I like to think of them as honorary #minerals 😂

#FossilFriday #fossils #invertober #nature #museums 🧪⚒️
A limestone slab containing a shrimp fossil. It's illuminated with UV light so the limestone appears violet and the fossil is glowing a pale yellow colour. On display in the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen, Germany. A limestone slab containing a crayfish fossil. It's illuminated with UV light so the limestone appears violet and the fossil is glowing a pale yellow colour. On display in the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen, Germany. Small, translucent, dark green fluorite in an open plastic box with a hinged lid. The fluorite shows twinning so it looks like two interlocking cubes. Specimen is from Rogerley Mine, County Durham, England. From the Natural History Museum, London's collection. The same fluorite crystal under UV light. It is fluorescing strong and now has a strong, blue glow. Specimen is from Rogerley Mine, County Durham, England. From the Natural History Museum, London's Collection
October 18, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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moma.bsky.social
Piet Mondrian, Trafalgar Square, 1939-43

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135570
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden
October 18, 2024 at 9:55 AM
higgsri.bsky.social
Since #design is obviously a thing here, may as well join the hordes.
My design for 'Twelfth Night', Masque Theatre, Cape Town, 2023.
Plan, execution.
Set design for a production of 'Twelfth Night'. Setting is a Weimar Republic-style nightclub, dominated by an Art Deco light wall as the backdrop of the set.
October 18, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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higgsri.bsky.social
If you want to find your followers and follows from The Site That Shall Not Be Named, there is an app for that:

Here's a chrome extension that will let you
- find people you follow there here
- find your followers from there
- move your block list over
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
chromewebstore.google.com
October 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social
August 20, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy
Generative KI bietet Chancen, birgt aber auch Risiken wie Verzerrungen, fehlende Transparenz und die Gefahr von Manipulation. Es braucht klare Regulierung und eine öffentliche Debatte, um sicherzustellen, dass KI der Gesellschaft dient.
#ki #ethik #Regulierung #generativeki […]
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det.social
October 18, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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Latest update from @brewster.kahle.org (Oct 17, 5:58pm): blog.archive.org/2024/10/18/i...
Last week, along with a DDOS attack and exposure of patron email addresses and encrypted passwords, the Internet Archive’s website javascript was defaced, leading us to bring the site down to access and improve our security.  The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely. This new reality requires heightened attention to cyber security and we are responding. We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable. The Wayback Machine, Archive-It, scanning, and national library crawls have resumed, as well as email, blog, helpdesk, and social media communications.  Our team is working around the clock across time zones to bring other services back online. In coming days more services will resume, some starting in read-only mode as full restoration will take more time.  We’re taking a cautious, deliberate approach to rebuild and strengthen our defenses. Our priority is ensuring the Internet Archive comes online stronger and more secure. As a library community, we are seeing other cyber attacks—for instance the British Library, Seattle Public Library, Toronto Public Library, and now Calgary Public Library. We hope these attacks are not indicative of a trend. For the latest updates, please check this blog and our official social media accounts: X/Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. Thank you for your patience and ongoing support.
October 18, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Critical edtech research has grown in the last decade but has never had a dedicated conference before

Here's why we're running a European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies next year, where and when it takes place, and how you can take part codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/c...
Image of several stacks of tablet computers in brightly coloured plastic cases
October 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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czernie.bsky.social
A digital education bibliography with links to freely available resources, curated to be practical, with an SA flavour bit.ly/Digital_Educ...
Digital education open bibliography
bit.ly
October 17, 2024 at 6:25 PM
higgsri.bsky.social
Own art
Self portrait, 2006
October 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
higgsri.bsky.social
And more art
Cecil Higgs, Still life with pitcher (1970).
Painting by South African Fauvist painter Cecil Higgs. Depicts a distorted still life in muted colours.
October 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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moma.bsky.social
William Kentridge, Felix in Exile, 1994

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136877
Edward and Marjorie Goldberger Foundation Fund and The Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Memorial Fund in memory of Judith Rothschild
July 6, 2024 at 8:29 AM
higgsri.bsky.social
More beloved art.
William Kentridge
nemimeli.bsky.social Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · Oct 25
#finneganswake (43)

„going ladies from Hume Street in their chairs, the bearers baited, some wandering hamalags out of the adjacent cloverfields of
Mosse's Gardens, an oblate fater from Skinner's Alley, bricklayers, a fleming“…

a stream of life with all contradictions

William Kentridge Thick Time
October 17, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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benhigbie.bsky.social
art by Mary Sibande, and a photograph of the artist
#art #artwork #contemporary #contemporaryart #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #artist #artists #artnet #inspiration #design #designing
a photo of a woman in a red dress, in front of a red moon-like circle, raising up a heart in front of it, a red background a photo of a woman in a purple dress, sitting, looking to the right, a black and white with grey toned background, purple organ-like tendrils on her, there are work-like creatures surrounding her, 2 worm-like creatures flying overhead of her a photo of a dog and lamb coming to a seated woman in a red dress, on a screen above it is a screen with the scene from another angle a photo of the artist, she is sitting on an upside-down bucket, a red dog statue with big teeth next to her, she is smiling warmly at the viewer, her elbow on her knee , her other hand on her leg
October 8, 2024 at 12:28 AM
higgsri.bsky.social
Don't mind me. Just posting art I love to get my algo doing its thang.
Mary Sibande.
October 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
higgsri.bsky.social
One complaint about the bluesky algorithm so far: loving art doesn't mean exclusively manga.
Happy for y'all manga creators you have a space, but it's not really my thing.
October 17, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Worth noting that the reason Elon Musk bought twitter is because he had $10B in cash.
A wealth tax would have prevented this.
September 2, 2023 at 12:59 AM
higgsri.bsky.social
My philosophy in a post, as things stand:
Ontology: Contingentism
Epistemology: Hermeneutical Phenomenology
Philosophy of Religion: NULL
Theology: Metaphysics
Politics: Prog/SocDem/Green
Moral Philosophy: Critical Posthumanism
Meta-ethics: Punk
October 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM