@STS_News Also how businesses choose and use it. Managers (well paid) believe sales hype and promises (at their word) without understanding the tech, or usability and suitability for work task (critique), then blame (low paid) admins for not being able to use it when failings apparent
@timbocop It’s in my PhD thesis - only required as ethesis but I deliberately produced print version, because similarities of core human aspects of both was discussed in it, as well as shades of difference. And software claims for being good are mostly sales hype, eg >>> X
@PlashingVole Ah yes, that suvs negate shift to e-cars was in guardian last year. Buying a bigger car seems to be used to solve the problem of not being able to position a smaller car on the road, intimidation being a part of SUV culture that goes with prevailing attitude of English politics
Horace Silver performing “Song For My Father” with Bill Hardman on trumpet, Bennie Maupin on saxophone, John Williams on bass and Bill Cobham on drums live at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 1968.
@Dr_D_Robertson He can claim he’s acted in good faith - and point an accusing finger at everyone else. Voila. Blameless, the original transgression superseded.
@GroomB I remember test transmission programmes for BBC2, one was on Pipers window designs. Looking back I think it would have been testing colour… but then we didn’t get a colour tv until 76/77… however understanding contrast and texture is always underestimated…
@claudiakincaid Microsoft will be delighted. OneDrive and SharePoint are our golden future.
Just share a link.
(And ignore the screams and emails in reply saying you can’t just do that)
@e_salvaggio AI art is product being used for the ends manufacturers want it to be, to make it profitable for them - the expected. Net Art was out of a culture of discovering unintended uses for technology that didn’t always work - the unexpected and unpredictable
@prosocialplace @FinsParkFriends@ToughMudder People tend to think that ground recovers quickly, but soil structure takes years, decades to build up. Turn it into a slurry and churn it, and it goes in a day. Replanting (or 'rewilding') does not restore structure.
As cllr in 90s, remember highways officer’s concern gvt funding switching from basic maintenance to capital. 30 yrs on: everything now frayed on edge of collapse, patching no solution. AA blames profits fall on callout surge fuelled by 'pothole epidemic' https://t.co/TGOW15ZqnX
Thank you to everyone who has given our RT to our new Twitter @comicartfest account here - even though this one has the same name! We were victim to a hostile takeover. We’d built a following of over 12K of followers here since 2012 and we’d like to get them back
@timmaughan It does openly take the 'social' off the front of social media and replace it with 'for a price under my control' after. But then this has been a slippery slope, and I no longer come here often. Or Facebook. Why bother.