@georgetakei @sayonaraminasan Les Wexner and Nicola Caputo are both white men, fwiw.

Last year's shutdown of @glitchdotcom was a blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.

So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.

Glitchlet runs on any shared hosting service (e.g., Reclaim Hosting). If you can run WordPress, you can run Glitchlet. Projects-in-progress are stored in the browser's local storage, but you can also one-click publish to make them public and remixable. Glitchlet is designed with educators in mind.

There's no single, primary Glitchlet that everyone uses. The idea is that every instructor installs their own Glitchlet and manages their own classes/workshops/projects. You can seed your instance with template files, or Glitchlet can easily import projects (including archived Glitch .tgz files).

Making something so easy to install and host has trade-offs, of course. No fancy pants Node or React projects, but Glitchlet works beautifully with HTML/JavaScript/CSS. No live collaboration, but you can still remix published projects.

Best of all—you're in control and not subject to the whims of some startup that suddenly decides to "sunset" a key pedagogical tool.

Glitchlet is alpha now, but its code will available to all very soon!

@viq Sorry about that - replied to a similar question further up the thread (as an accidental case in point, I suppose!)

@spritely @cwebber @richlv I know it's a personal preference, but I like the threaded replies model in Slack & Discord better than the "topic" approach in Zulip. Topic to me seems redundant with Channel - sort of like a long-lived email subject line, whereas threaded replies are much more focused and help me visually associate conversations.

@todayilearned @rose_alibi Oh yeah. Definitely seen that. Wrestling, too.

@spritely @cwebber Can you help Zulip achieve this (and fix their conversation thread model)? 🥺

@todayilearned Okay, tell me, Fediverse:

@todayilearned Okay, tell me, Fediverse:

@todayilearned How is this a Popular Belief?

@V0ldek @cstross I couldn't even read the whole list after seeing "CNC Programmers" on it. That may not be the most absurd, but the idea of "here's a robot with a sharp blade spinning at high RPM that we're using to make a physical object with extreme precision, so we fired the human who knows how it works and gave their job to the hallucination box" makes Willy's Chocolate Experience seem like a warmup. I just hope there's video. Lots of video. Ideally from behind safety glass.

@Viss I learned recently that in Mass. , Party City is now just a little mini shop inside Staples. 🤔

@gendercensus Framingham library in Massachusetts, US has it too.

Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.

@mattblaze They just got a new truckload of the good chicken nuggets and they don't want the Coast Guard coming in and devouring them all again.

10 years ago today, we told the world

"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"

Relive the moment we shared our result with the world https://www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJmZyE

#GW10Years #OTD #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon

It just this second occurred to me to draw a connection between "Generative AI" and "Liquid Glass" as two technologies which have the effect of making everything appear to be covered in a thin layer of slime

@Vivaldi @mossman Spreading out in a thin layer is a form of organization, right?

@Vivaldi Chaotic Evil here... 😈

@verge All we wanted was a small electric pickup. *snif*

@ryan Upon rereading your email, I realized I neglected to answer the remaining 12 questions. Sorry about that. Here you go:
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