Educator, Writer, Troublemaker, Computer Scientist. Not necessarily in that order. Warning: "May attack the education system if left unsupervised (supervision might not be sufficient)" (quote credit: Solara)
She/Her, living and working on unceded Wurundjeri/Bunurong land.
ED of the Australian Data Science Education Institute, author of Raising Heretics. Podcaster at Make Me Data Literate.
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Last Notes npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Sydney folks, what's your favourite non google public transport app? npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver I came up with a new term the other day that explains so much, it's the antithesis of human centred design: Profit centred design. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver repeat after me: I would love to speak at your #IWD event. I have a speaker fee because of course we will not be celebrating IWD by asking women to work for free. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Please make your events accessible. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Does anyone have any photos of the new melbourne metro train stations from inside the train that I could use in a blog post? Or if you're going through the metro tunnel today, could you take some photos of the station, from the train (through door or window) when the train is stopped, and share them with me please? npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver this is your periodic reminder that the existence of billionaires is an abject failure of government and public policy. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver "Technology could serve life instead of serving capital." Ursula le Guin 1975 npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver You purchase something online. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver If an individual came to the government saying “I have this amazing business idea, but I can't make it lucrative without stealing” the government would say “that's not a business idea, that's a crime.” npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver There's a new chapter in the People Friendly: Teachers' Guide to AI called How AI Works. This is an easy intro to AI tech for everyone, not just teachers. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver It is astonishing to me that "Nazis didn't like it so we stopped" isn't self evidently a statement of your character that you might not want to make... npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Reminder that chatbots do not return facts, they return statistically plausible, pattern matching text. Asking them questions and believing the answers is a mistake, even though it's what the tech industry tells you, and in some cases forces you, to do. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver This isn't about sport, it isn't about toilets, it isn't about protecting women, and it's certainly not about protecting children. It's about hatred, bigotry, and control. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Trans people are people first and foremost. Their healthcare care, gender affirming or otherwise, is between them and their doctors. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver look, if you don't subscribe to Rick Morton's Nervous Laughter newsletter, at least go and read today's eloquent denunciation of the term "welfare cheat", taking down greed, capitalism, and people who vote for the Leopards Eating Faces party along the way. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Looking for recommendations of podcast recording platforms. I don't mind paying, but my streamyard subscription is going from $99 to over $400 per year, which is just not feasible for a small charity! npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Why do we force dementia sufferers and their families to suffer this hideous fate? npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver It's amazing what you can do by standing up and saying "No." npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Remember the Toddler Laws of Ownership, by Kevin McHugh? npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver wait what? protein water?? 🧐 npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Hello Pollen, my old friend. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver I spent my birthday spreadsheeting my blood test results for the last year - I really know how to party! But it's really bringing home to me how haphazard our practice of medicine actually is, because systematically laying out the data makes patterns and emerging problems so much easier to spot, but it is not normally done, except by weirdos like me. This seems like a problem. npub1q6duw8fem90haedrztkv58pnq9laugp8exfsc4erxewrurpa037qr85tc7 Linda McIver Apparently I-Med has been shipping people's chest x-ray images off to an AI startup for training purposes, without permission.
