Missing in Action
03/08/2017 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaJust a quick squiggle to say that the serpent is alive and well but has been largely absent from Cyberia lately.
Daisy Dursley is visiting again and there are the online distractions of Duolingo, The Washington Post and a fascinating online course about fake news and the surveillance state. Pity that the main presenter has an uncanny resemblance to Rolf Harris but with a German accent. It just adds an air of extra creepiness to the whole thing
Also snaffled a copy from the library of "No place to hide" by Glenn Greenwald which is full of the juicy details of the whole Edward Snowden revelations of NSA snooping. It's scary enough that Obama's minions were gathering all those hay stacks of information but truly terrifying to imagine what Steven Bannon and Jared Kushner would do with such a gold mine.
It is a riveting story and offers an offline alternative to slinking about in Cyberia sniffing out Scary Mooch snippets and boy scouts drama. Still not yet read the infamous New Yorker interview and now it is truly most ancient FAKE NEWS
Did finish Camp Nanowrimo but set the bar ridiculously low this year at only 15,000 words instead of the usual 25,000. Mainly because once Daisy arrived 2 weeks ago there would be very little time for squiggling or doing much at all online. Got to make hay while the sun shines
Tomorrow I will be back to using the tweet stone instead of a proper keyboard Portkey to Cyberia so most unlikely to be catching up on comments and other folks posts any time soon. Still reading and keeping up but just not replying much lately
Daisy Dursley is visiting again and there are the online distractions of Duolingo, The Washington Post and a fascinating online course about fake news and the surveillance state. Pity that the main presenter has an uncanny resemblance to Rolf Harris but with a German accent. It just adds an air of extra creepiness to the whole thing
Also snaffled a copy from the library of "No place to hide" by Glenn Greenwald which is full of the juicy details of the whole Edward Snowden revelations of NSA snooping. It's scary enough that Obama's minions were gathering all those hay stacks of information but truly terrifying to imagine what Steven Bannon and Jared Kushner would do with such a gold mine.
It is a riveting story and offers an offline alternative to slinking about in Cyberia sniffing out Scary Mooch snippets and boy scouts drama. Still not yet read the infamous New Yorker interview and now it is truly most ancient FAKE NEWS
Did finish Camp Nanowrimo but set the bar ridiculously low this year at only 15,000 words instead of the usual 25,000. Mainly because once Daisy arrived 2 weeks ago there would be very little time for squiggling or doing much at all online. Got to make hay while the sun shines
Tomorrow I will be back to using the tweet stone instead of a proper keyboard Portkey to Cyberia so most unlikely to be catching up on comments and other folks posts any time soon. Still reading and keeping up but just not replying much lately
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Date: 2017-08-05 10:15 am (UTC)Ah, online courses... <3 I already dream of returning into that realm, if I survive the intense Pokemon Go summer and the end-of-August vacation. Of course, I still have a ton of Unity tutorials, and a challenging new project at work... Cyberia will have to do with the remaining scraps of time...
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Date: 2017-08-07 01:38 pm (UTC)Back at the Lair tonight.
Noticed that the Cat has also gotten quiet in Diaryland lately too.
The stupid computer is back to the beachball BS again. It is taking ages between hitting a key and seeing the character appear on the page. Well at least it is in Firefox so had to resort to squiggling this reply in Scrivener which is also acting pretty pathetic too. SAD
So you are still doing the Pokemon thing. It must be only the diehard cultists still playing now. Here we only see the occasional Asian tourist hunting the invisible beasties in Kings Park which is used to be a veritable zoo for the creatures at the height of the craze
These days it seems so much harder to keep up with online courses. Already a week behind with the FAKE NEWS course. The stuff about the STASI and NSA spooks was especially fascinating
Reading stuff is OK. It is the videos that are the killer and you can’t always just watch the transcripts because often there will be interesting pictures or graphs
Oh well. Another opportunity to indulge in nostalgia for the golden age of online learning back in 2012 ;)