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Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac, 2025/02/05

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So this is a design problem I considered when building CList. Not whether I should build an iPhone-only app - that is really a user-hostile way to roll out a product and never really crossed my mind. No, the real question is whether to put all the posts from all the services (Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, blogs) into one single feed. I see the appeal of this - it consolidates everything into one place. But from a practical perspective, it's unmanageable: it's too much content in one place. That's why while CList aggregates all of these as well, it keeps them separate when you're reading them , and merges things only when you want to reply. Via Apostolos K.

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Generative AI’s Impact on Critical Thinking: Revisiting Bloom’s Taxonomy
Chahna Gonsalves, Journal of Marketing Education, 2025/02/05

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This paper (17 page PDF) is valuable as a discussion of the evolution of Bloom's taxonomy, particularly in the light of generative AI, but I don't think a survey of eight people, some of whom only occasionally use AI, is a substantive basis for a remapping of the elements. Indeed, it makes me rethink whether breaking down the various aspects of learning into a taxonomy like this is useful. I mean, why include 'collaboration' in the affective domain but not 'cooperation'? Why do we consider 'ethics' to be a type of learning but not 'metaethics'. Really, what we're working with (if we want to approach it this way) is the combination of all possible verb-(adverb)-object combinations, and deciding some are important ('simplify concepts') and some are not ('play baseball'). But the importance of any of them depends so much on individual and context it doesn't really matter what the broad 'taxonomy' is.

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How a digital 'you' can sit through your agonizing web conference calls | TechCrunch
Connie Loizos, TechCrunch, 2025/02/05

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Pickle, as Scott Leslie summarizes, "provides a voice-driven visual clone that can attend zoom calls on your behalf." To set it up, train it with your face on video for five minutes, then (in theory) it can replicate that face as you talk, no matter where you're talking from, so it looks like you're paying attention on the Zoom call. Note: don't order it from Etsy.

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