The Screenless Office @screenless@mastodon.social

Useful keyboard shortcuts for the web client that aren't documented in the panel yet, courtesy of @Gargron:

gb -> blocked accounts
gd -> direct messages
gf -> favourites,
gh -> home,
gl -> local timeline,
gn -> notifications,
gs -> getting started panel,
gt -> federated timeline
gm -> muted users,
gp -> pinned toots,
gu -> your profile

a new essay in the Infinite Séance series by Olia Lialina 🙂

Infinite loop, infinite scrolling, numbered days:
http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/infinite_seance_3/

#olialialina #internethistory #netart

Take me down to the paradox city where the grass is green and the grass isn’t green

Came across this startlingly deranged Marvin Minsky quote from 1968 where he blames *art critics* for why computers can’t make good art (because they refused to codify art for him)

Despite all of technology’s advancement, nothing will beat the alpha smart Neo for word processing

protip(?): if you add ".rss" to the end of your profile url, you get a feed of all your public and unlisted toots that you can then plug into ifttt in order to cross-post to birdsite, with links on every one to remind people that you're actually on a much better website. here's how it looks on mine.

What You Found In 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-you-found-in-3-million-russian-troll-tweets/

#unicode #utf8

J'ai rigolu

You can now challenge someone to game of #chess over toots! https://castling.club/ 💪

It's actually a standalone server in the #fediverse, implementing #activitypub all by itself. 😃

Hey, #Berlin people! A new social centre is starting to organise in Neukölln and they're having a summer fest tomorrow!

More details here: https://soze44.noblogs.org

I'm showing a selection of Final Girls films, horror films made by women (suitable for a teen audience), starting around 20:30, for free of course! There will also be a vegan bbq, music, a workshop on anonymous software and encryption by @resist_berlin and a lot more, just come, it'll be gr8

(Boosts welcome)

this article on teaching programming to non-native English speakers is super helpful http://pgbovine.net/non-native-english-speakers-learning-programming-paper.htm I definitely struggle with this in my own teaching, and it's doubly difficult because so much of what I teach is specifically *about* English. nevertheless I've been trying lately to engineer more opportunities for my students to make work in and about other languages

Je recherche des projets open source cool pour réaliser des logo et graphismes, pour me faire la main et contribuer en même temps 😀 !

Vous connaissez des projets qui ont des besoin ?

Retootez s'il vous plait <3 !

I really like this description of the @screenless office: "an artistic operating system". Exactly. Why could we not have that? This is such a good proposition.

reminder https://icosahedron.website/media/5Qkl5OpoRwVhf4F1VwM