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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Why Are We Sprinting Off the #AI Cliff? | The Ezra Klein Show youtu.be/fjZ90V_JREk?is=CDIVEFMC2Zx… > Fears of out-of-control A.I. have reached a boil over the last few weeks, and several industry executives have called for a coordinated slowdown of A.I. deve...

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

When #AI Knows Everything, What Should Humans Learn? | Kristina Kallas | TEDxUniversity of Tartu youtu.be/44St9MoJU0E?is=Qdx74ogpZAO… #education #teaching #learning > "Our chance for an evolutionary leap is to consciously train as many people […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Maybe you've heard of the Paperclip Maximizer Problem, a famous thought experiment where a superintelligent #AI is told to make as many paperclips as possible and ends up destroying the world […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Are #IndieGames Developing a Gambling Problem? thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/ar… > Gambling-themed #roguelikes are helping #indiedev hit the jackpot. This article goes deep on the #gamedesign mechanics […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

"Was it an African or European octopus?" An octopus was filmed carrying two halves of a coconut shell across the seafloor to reassemble them later as a portable suit of armour, one of the only clear cases of a wild invertebrate using tools […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The headline is sensational. Read on, though, and the reality is much more mixed. #edtech #screentime ‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Your Company's Most Valuable Asset In The Age Of AI Is Walking Out The Door Interesting article about companies using big frontier models, making expert corrections to the output of those models, those corrections being the most valuable proprietary […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

The People Who Will Thrive in the #AI Age www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/a… > What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The #A.I. #Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-… > How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I've been saying this for a decade but okay... "You need to learn #Markdown now more than ever" www.makeuseof.com/you-need-to-learn…

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

America's Top #EdTech Companies of 2026 time.com/article/2026/04/22/america… > TIME and Statista have named the 250 top edtech companies in the U.S., led by Duolingo and Coursera.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

AI is delivering on it's promise, and that's the problem. — Wiktor Jurek jurek.dev/writing/ai-delivered-on-p… > If one unit of development now gets done five times faster, how do we deal with the five units of alignment and management we have to do?

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/kagi-smal… > Kagi's #SmallWeb offers a handpicked collection of more than 30 […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

I use #Markdown instead of #PowerPoint to make #presentations and it's fantastic www.makeuseof.com/use-markdown-inst… > Markdown slides feel like cheating in the best way.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more | Technology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2026… > A handful of companies monopolise the web […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’ | #AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/accenture/2026/… Dystopian when employees are measured for WHETHER they […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

I swapped Ableton Live for Renoise 3.5 — here’s what I learned musictech.com/reviews/digital-audio… > Modern #DAWs are broadly comparable, but one still stands as a black sheep: #Renoise.

a picture of the Renoise DAW audio workstation software

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Your #browser #extensions can see every #password you type www.makeuseof.com/browser-extension… > Your trusted extension/add-on with over 100k review might be spying on you.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

#Coding Is When We’re Least Productive wp.me/p114rL-Vb This article is about coding on its face, but it's really about management taking a too-simplistic view when measuring what employees do. A great employee seeks to understand and solve problems […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

No working, no shopping: Thousands of people hit the Trump administration where it hurts, #generalstrike […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

CA Legislature moves forward bill to hold federal officers liable for unconstitutional conduct - Local News Matters localnewsmatters.org/2026/01/28/no-… > Legislation introduced by #BayArea […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

#Teaching Learners for the Long Tail of Time tedcurran.net/2026/01/teaching-lear… I've long believed a teacher’s goal is not only to implant knowledge into learners’ brains, but to help them develop their own digital […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

PREACH! 🙌 Why Everyone Should Still Use an #RSS Reader in 2026 lifehacker.com/tech/why-everyone-sh… > Looking for an RSS reader? These are the best options, and how they work.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Apple Paywalls Creator Studio Features Behind a Subscription www.vice.com/en/article/apple-creat… > Apple announced a suite of apps under the all-in-one Creator Studio, but certain features are only for subscribers, not one-time buyers.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

5 #opensource #Androidapps from F-Droid that are better than their Play Store rivals www.makeuseof.com/open-source-apps-… > These F-Droid apps do more while asking for less of your data.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

The State of the Open Social Web | Ben Werdmuller werd.io/the-state-of-the-open-socia… > A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

#VibeCoding Is the New #OpenSource—in the Worst Way Possible www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-is-… > As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

I Tested This #OpenSource #Android Keyboard for a Month, and It Replaced #Gboard www.howtogeek.com/i-tested-this-ope… > It's 100% #offline and supports glide typing.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Can we please have one international standard for #shoesize? I don't care if it's #metric , I just don't think shoe sizes should go up to 13 by age four, then start over at 1 for kindergartners, then have completely different scales by gender and national origin.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up? - The New Stack thenewstack.io/html-first-framework… > Instead of starting with a framework, smart frontend developers now begin with HTML and enhance it progressively with JavaScript.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Do you really need to read to learn? What neuroscience says about reading versus listening theconversation.com/do-you-really-n… > Whether reading a book or listening to […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

#AI is the end of the #openweb as we know it qz.com/ai-chatbots-google-search-in… > The AI era means the internet is splitting in two: one for people, another for the bots

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

My son loves his Linux laptop except for one thing: no native Roblox support. If you care about this, take 15 seconds and fill out the survey. chng.it/6qNDMtbVgG > Bring Native #Linux Support to #Roblox Player and Studio

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

Never forget. What Is #EdBallsDay? www.mentalfloss.com/article/63518/w… > “It’s obviously helped by the fact that I have a memorable name,” says former MP Ed Balls of the internet holiday he inadvertently created.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2025

Returning to Really Simple Syndication brought peace to my day #rss #humanetech boingboing.net/2025/04/08/returning… > It took me a while to get my RSS feeds set up the way that I wanted--it’d […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

I don't post much about #videogames but #returnal for #ps5 has completely enthralled my mind and soul. Still in the first biome and loving every minute of it. I've never played another game like it - truly innovative and gripping every moment.

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

You may have heard that Elon Musk this week emailed 2.3 million #federalworkers to tell them they have to write an email telling him what they accomplished this week or else they're fired. I figured, just to be safe, I should email hr@opm.gov and let them […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

This week I accomplished the following achievements: - got over 10,000 steps each day but one - watched a sunset with my nieces and nephews tried cooking bibimbop (but it - didn't come out) - completed an online course on the Lua programming language - defaced 12 Cybertrucks with "f*ck Elon" graffiti - mourned the death of my 25yo trans cousin - convinced 8 friends to delete their Twitter accounts and try Mastodon - released a box of live termites at my nearest Trump hotel - applied for Canadian citizenship

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

I asked the #Articulate360 #Storyline #AI #ImageGen for a stock photo of diverse factory workers. I wasn't planning on their bold representation of the "differently capitated". Bravo! #aifail

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Ted Curran M. Ed. @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

It’s funny to me that #bigtech companies are competing to show off how smart their various #AI models are, but that fancy tech never somehow trickles down to #customerservice where long wait times, byzantine phone trees, incomplete knowledge base search […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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