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Tom Scott-Redford -
Hello! I work in digital literacy with a particular interest in communications, the Web, and social media.
Hello! I work in digital literacy with a particular interest in communications, the Web, and social media.
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How I fixed Adobe Digital Editions crashes when trying to get borrowed eBooks onto a Kobo eReader. I would post this on the help forums for Adobe Digital Editions, but I can't find the needle in the haystack of different types of crash that the application presents, so in the spirit of being community minded, here goes a very different post from my usual.
25.11.2024 21:38Very Specific Issue with Adobe Digital EditionsThese two posts get at the sense of fancy statistical pattern systems (aka AI) having some purpose, but that purpose very much not being even on the horizon of the path we are on with current applications of AI.
1.9.2024 12:01These two posts get at the sense of fancy statistical pattern systems (aka AI) having some purpose, but that purpose very much not being...I like this post about 'impressionist blogging', mainly because it gives voice to a sense of how using generative AI as a tool shapes the work it serves. I still don't know how generative AI will work its way into my life. For all the risks that it poses, there are myriad interesting possibilities. But perhaps they are not to be found on the path we are currently walking.
20.8.2024 10:31Thinking MachinesI feel very uncertain about where we are with AI in practical use. It is unavoidable (literally, every time I open Illustrator, I get prompted to use generative AI) and certainly convenient. I’m also too aware, though, of the flip side of AI to feel very comfortable using it. Indeed, an AI holiday planning mishap […]
13.2.2024 12:55Will it hurt anyone, can I trust it, and will it make me look stupid?In reply to <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim/110674295961940246">Jim Killock</a>. I hadn't thought of that, but now that I do, I suppose that was one of the things that drove me away from Twitter. I think my block list over there was only so large because I'd add people dogpiling users I followed. I don't know what an answer to this really looks like, and I'm thankful I don't have to moderate a Mastodon server! Perhaps a form of voluntary cross-server block list of individual abusive users? Is that even technically possible in Mastodon/ActivityPub? How serious does an offence have to be to get on it? I often think that, whether we're talking social media, AI, or ride-sharing apps, the problem isn't tech, it's people; the problem is the sociological and philosophical question of speech, community norms, accepting that everyone sees the world in a bit of a different way. I do feel that if any bunch of communities is able to figure out a way for this to work, it is likely to be Mastodon and the Fediverse.
9.7.2023 09:25Comment on Threads by tredford01<a href="https://tomredford.eu/archives/author/tredford01" rel="ugc">@tredford01</a> Thanks for sharing our blog. I think the issue is wheher <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/threads" rel="nofollow ugc">#threads</a> is capable of sane moderation at scale. Even on Mastodon, servers seem to suffer from moderation problems once they have large communities.The risks of users from Threads dogpiling users on a small Mastodon server for instance, are hard to police. Here these risks are managed as anyone tolerating users behaving like that gets defederated, but with Threads, that means defederating millions of users at once.
7.7.2023 18:48Comment on Threads by Jim KillockI joined Mastodon during one of the waves of user migrations after Elon Musk took over Twitter, and I have to say, I like it there. So I didn't really know what to make of Threads when people started talking about it.
7.7.2023 18:15ThreadsI’ve had a few interesting conversations in the last couple of weeks that have ended up at the same conclusion: we can talk tech until the cows come home, but the really interesting debates—the debates that are too often absent, especially from the Silicon Valley perspective—are not from the sciences.
28.5.2023 11:14A More Complete Picture on New Tech and Societyhttps://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2 I’ve had this link in my reading list for a while, but it is quite timeless. I think we have a sense of the media landscape having found its footing after the upheaval of the internet’s arrival, but really, I think the last 20 years have only been the beginning of our reckoning of […]
14.2.2023 16:25Media literacyI’ve been [badly] writing WordPress themes for this blog since sometime around 2006 or 2007. With new block themes supported, I've tried an experiment to recreate my classic theme for full-site editing.
19.11.2022 12:28Building a Block ThemeI got the idea to try these weekly posts after realising how many links I was saving while browsing the Web. It isn’t my goal with this little project to provide a comprehensive exploration of an area, more of a stroll through the bits that interest me just now. So with my excuses out of the way, HyperThursday 2 is about AI, or to be more precise, how we live with AI.
10.11.2022 07:30Everyday AII'm trying something new here. Rather than write a screed about how we should all get on bicycles and take up blogging again, I'm going to share some links to things I found interesting on the Web this week. It might become a (kind of) weekly thing and probably will go out on Thursdays. So, lets start with the natural habitat of links, or hyperlinks: hypertext.
3.11.2022 08:04Hypertext