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Dr Pen
@penworks.bsky.social
Londoner in Malta. Technology & media in society academic. UX, TEL, webdev OS CMS. OS advocate. Emeritus rocknroller. Luddite.

Mostly on Masto, follow me there from here with Bridgy Fed. @DrPen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Website: https://penworks.net
Actual King and Pope in astonishing Sistine Chapel magnificence. Say what you like about this old stuff, but it beats gold appliquéd fireplaces and a Genai ballroom every time.

October 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Quality from the mastodon art massive

#dontsmoke #smoking #art #illustration
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Hello Blues-sky. Just checking in to say the world is not all terrible.

Here's an icon of a boombox.
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Londoners! Are you attending Breaking the (G)loom? If not why not? Its tomorrow, its free.
#luddites #london

https://breakingthegloom.com/

https://london.architecturediary.org/venue/set-social-peckham/
September 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This is worth reading. Also bc the tech CEO finally discovers that learning to learn is separate from 'training'. He should have attended Gordon Pask classes when he was at comp sci college.

#ai #gordonpask #cybernetics

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Substack, renowned supporter of nazi rhetoric in the name of 'free speech' anti wokeism, has surveyed its authors about use of 'AI'. TLDR:
older guys most likely
Ideation and 'research' main purpose.
(my comment: translation/transcription shld not be included here)
Tip: use Ghost! Self host!
July 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
University: compromising student ethics and integrity one Genai task at a time.

"And you shall know them by their deeds"
July 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Open source rules the world. If you won't take the money, no one can control you.
July 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Gaming the chatbots will become a new pastime for anyone with the nous. Tarpits are the grown up version of this.

July 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Goodbye CC licences, may they RIP. The level of interpretation of 'fair use' is...? $B in profits obv not relevant. Fact: all CC licences are currently irrelevant - corporate power has total control of all content. CC link in reply.
#academia #education #cc #creativecommons #ai #chatgpt #genai

July 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This is what you agree to when you review for Elsevier. Why dont HE use this kind of consent/ disclaimer/ warning in all uses of GenAI? Why isnt every Lecturer told this about uploading lecture materials, or student work, into chatGPT or Copilot? Are students told about the risks to them?
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July 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Celebrate another paying customer leaving the Beast.
#degoogle #bigtech #platformmonopoly
July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today is a happy day at least for me. I reached 600 followers on Mastodon, home of the small friendly networks of the interwebs. Ive learned more on Mastodon than any other socmed, ever. And Im a longtime-user baby.
June 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I posted this on FB to reach some of the other academics in my network. No one says anything. I get the feeling the wilful dismantling of human flourishing L&T practice is totally ignored, or in denial in order to comply with policy. It's almost criminal negligence.

#academia #Education #edtech
May 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The official statement from #Vivaldi about the #EC ruling on #Apple and #Meta antitrust and the #DMA.

Via Bruce Lawson boost on #mastodon.
April 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Verified ID required to access AI models in #OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts.
#genai
Via @cyberciti.biz
April 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Being widely shared over on FB. The hate and disgust is real.
March 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's my birthday. I'm gonna have a feast.

#birthday #party
March 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I hit over 1000 likes for a Masto post on the brandification of words. I'll get to 1000 boosts I think... This post has been shared for 2 days solid. Its my record so far. Masto looks small, but the reach can be greater bc a lot more ppl interact. (at least with me). #mastodon
February 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Surveillance society: #Zoom just updated its T&Cs to listen in and record all your conversations to use in its AI bot training. If you opt out you lose all kinds of functionality. But Id guess if youre an employee and your employer has opted in, then you get no choice. #datasociety
February 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
So the US wants all the rewards without any of the cost and zero responsibility longterm, big support for Russia. The UK must align with Europe.
#ukraine #EU #uk #USPolitics
https://unn.ua/en/news/zelensky-refuses-to-sign-document-on-transfer-of-50percent-of-ukrainian-mineral-resources-to-the-us-wp
February 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about all this. The direction it's headed in.
February 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Shocking the kind of material freely available on the Fediverse. Real problems of moderation there.

#open #free #information #knowledge
February 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Only for American users. I'm in Europe and see this.
February 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Google have changed the name for the Gulf of Mexico, but only for American users. Everyone else probably gets this (I'm in Europe).

#googlemaps
February 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM