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I think that AI and social media are doing a lot of stuff to our brains - and that a lot of what they're doing kind of sucks.
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What the hell is a Linux?
blue linden explains stuff about Linux in a way you can understand as she installs what is supposedly one of the most complicated versions of it.
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This week on Bluenet #1
"My laptop runs an operating system called NixOS. So do nearly all of my servers [...] What if you could ls into a sort-by and echo your mom?? Also written in Rust."
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e-hallcracked: how I disabled a digital hall pass for 10,000 students
Heard of e-hallpass? It's the next generation of hall passes. It was also surprisingly insecure.
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Here's a short story I wrote in fourth grade!
This post was published on April Fools' Day 2023. The original title was 'My new project will stun you...' and has since been changed because I feel bad for clickbaiting everyone. April Fools' bit Hi! This will be my last post on my blog for three
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Why ChatGPT won't replace work
I personally find it hilarious that us Americans only started losing our collective minds when automation came for white-collar jobs. Every day I see someone saying "ChatGPT will replace writers and developers. Stable Diffusion will replace artists. What will these people (that we never really cared for in the
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Hall Pass 2: Eccentric Poodle Poo
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On Software As A Service
When someone signs up for a service like Squarespace or Wix, the product they're paying for isn't the website itself, it is the privilege of using tools built by these corporations to build whatever they want.
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Deafeningly visually loud
This post is the first part of a multi-part series on signage and attention-grabbing design. Signage is hard. Posters are an extension of signage. As a designer, I see a lot of examples of signage done well. And a lot of examples of signage done wrong. And some that are
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Hall Pass #1: Of friends, I have all but none.
Hall Pass is my semi-weekly newsletter where I combine a bunch of smaller topics into a larger post in between higher-effort articles. Topic One: Cooler design! I now own a really awesome piece of software by Serif called Affinity Designer. My school provides free Creative Cloud to all journalism students,
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You're not silencing bigotry in the right way.
Disclaimer: Anything in the "Opinions" category is not representative of the opinions of the student journalism organization that I currently represent unless explicitly otherwise stated. Everyone knows bigotry on platforms like Twitter and Facebook is growing in volume and capacity. As evidenced by the existence of platforms like
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My blog is better than yours.
Hey! I recently moved here from Google Sites / Blogger. I wanted to develop my own blogging and website personality, free from the limits of Google products. This website is hosted on a Raspberry Pi. I'm not done with this yet, but don't make me tap the
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