Notices by Downes 🍁 (downes@mastodon.social), page 16

Just finished a very difficult 54 km ride (two flats, very hot, strong winds) after a 60 km ride yesterday. Good weekend riding but I'm a little stiff and sore now.

@robparsons @lauraritchie @wion @chendricks

Hedgehogs make noise?

@dajbelshaw @epilepticrabbit @mrkrndvs

p.s. from one conversation, a wonderful rabbit hole - and the source of three new sources, three new OLDaily articles (with the promise of more to come).

https://www.downes.ca/post/68230
https://www.downes.ca/post/68231
https://www.downes.ca/post/68232

So, thanks.

@dogtrax It's odd. He suddenly knows an entire encyclopedia full of information, but for some reason, that encyclopedia doesn't contain the information about how people are able to learn an encyclopedia that way.

@dajbelshaw @epilepticrabbit @mrkrndvs

You never know. Maybe I've just had the format wrong all these years and that's why the newsletter never really took off...

@mackiwg
You mean like this one? I've seen it around.

But here's the thing: IMO open isn't about licenses. I look at a site like Giphy and I take the *intent* to be to share and to reuse. Also, when I see this on a personal page or referenced in a chat, like this one, I'm thinking non-commercial personal and fair use.

The worst thing Creative Commons did, IMO, was to make it so we require permission to share. It brought commercial rules into private space.

@mackiwg Example?

@lauraritchie @mackiwg
That's the ramp-up. The stuff you do - where your mind wanders - before you set the timer.

It's OK, it's a good thing. It's when your brain is open.

I was waiting for someone to tell me it's not a duck, it's a crane.

Duck!

@rockthrower I don't know what I want least - an expansion team winning the Stanley Cup, which is just wrong, or Alex Ovechkin winning the Stanley Cup, which is just wrong.

@dogtrax I've never marched in a parade. But I've been in my fair share of protests and demonstrations.

Ducks. Just because.

@lauraritchie Oh I like that a lot better

Yesterday's bike ride to Avonmore and back... more photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/albums/72157697317993455/with/42338246432/

@theartguy I am by no means anyone you should listen to on this. But. I would start it as a 'board games' club. Use Wil Weaton's 'Tabletop' as a model. https://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/ To admin emphasize that it's about interaction and imagination. Show kids the show and point out how players get into and act out the part. Good luck with this - you're teaching skills they won't learn elsewhere.

@tellio desuetude.

Great word.

@lauraritchie We call those 'flea markets' though we never get 100K to attend

I like that I don't have to reply right away and that you'll still get it, and be able to see it in context.