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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • For many years I have thought that elementary schools should be free of any modern electronic tech. In middle school it should be introduced but not connected to internet (word processors, interactive encyclopedias or coding like we used to learn it in the '80s or '90s, BASIC, Logo, that kind of stuff).

    Finally, introduce internet in high school, in a controlled way, focusing primarily on knowledge and research sites. No LLMs included.

    Of course you can’t control what happens in the students’ homes, but that should not affect what happens at school, specially if you replace homework with schoolwork, which I also think it’s better in the long run.


  • A couple of days ago I finished reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This book really shows how awful the people at the top of Facebook are (it probably applies to other similar companies as well). And it’s not that they want to be evil, it’s more like they are playing a game of fame, pride and power and don’t care about the consequences. It made me recall the quote about “the banality of evil”.




  • Apart from the already mentioned possible causes, it could be temperature: digital camera sensors (e.g. in cellphones) are very sensitive to heat, and I’ve had a couple of badly designed devices where the heat gets too close to the sensor. The result are photos similar to yours, specially noticeable in low light (though mine were more purple-ish than green/blue).