Ted Curran M. Ed.

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy

Award-winning #instructionaldesigner with an #indieweb sensibility and a love of #freesoftware. Also a #musician, #singer, #songwriter, #guitarist, #Renoise […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://indieweb.social/@tedcurran, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 3:19 PM

Why Are We Sprinting Off the #AI Cliff? | The Ezra Klein Show

https://youtu.be/fjZ90V_JREk?is=CDIVEFMC2Zx7QeUe

> Fears of out-of-control A.I. have reached a boil over the last few weeks, and several industry executives have called for a coordinated slowdown of A.I. deve...

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 1:37 PM

Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/pervert-glasses/

Doctorow outlines the coming world where ubiquitous face cameras make nowhere safe to be your authentic self.

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 10:45 PM

If I'm ever reading extremely dense online learning materials, I'll use a #speedreading #chromeextension like Sprint Reader

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sprint-reader-speed-readi/kejhpkmainjkpiablnfdppneidnkhdif

It turns any text into a magnified speed-reading interface optimized […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 2:46 PM

When #AI Knows Everything, What Should Humans Learn? | Kristina Kallas | TEDxUniversity of Tartu

https://youtu.be/44St9MoJU0E?is=Qdx74ogpZAOF8MzA

#education #teaching #learning

> "Our chance for an evolutionary leap is to consciously train as many people […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 2, 2026, 6:27 PM

@bammerlaan Way to be! I've been using @surf to aggregate content from all across the web on targeted topics of interest, to reproduce the subreddit experience, like this one on learning technologies:
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01m121xphcncc42e3t58zeqe8n?ref=share

It's pretty good […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 2, 2026, 12:51 PM

**#Reddit is killing #RSS feeds and Old Reddit, blames AI scraping but sure looks like the continuing #enshittification of the platform to me. **

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-and-restricting-access-to-old-reddit-blames-ai-scrapping-bots/

I am actively […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 8:22 PM

Next-Gen Instructional Design Toolkit with AI - The Future is Code

https://tedcurran.net/instructional-designers-embrace-command-line-tools-with-help-from-ai

#instructionaldesigners design learning experiences for the Web, but most don't know the #opensource toolkit that web developers use - […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 21, 2026, 2:27 PM

@tedcurran Spoilers ahead: At first you start off making clips one by one. Then you add agents to start clipping automatically. Then more agents to buy more wire when your supply runs out. Then use profits to take out ads to increase demand. Eventually you corner the stock market to give you […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 21, 2026, 1:30 PM

Maybe you've heard of the Paperclip Maximizer Problem, a famous thought experiment where a superintelligent #AI is told to make as many paperclips as possible and ends up destroying the world […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]

@leogaggl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Sep 9, 2026, 7:48 AMReposted by @tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy

In 2011 I wrote "Facebook - good riddance!" and never looked back. This post is the opposite: no relief. What kept me on Flickr was never the company. It was an open licence and a shared habit of attribution. That practice deserves a home no company controls. So I'm building FediFlick (AGPL) […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 10:11 PM

I should state for the record that I'm a proud skeptic of #gamification in #education. Most of the time, it's people trying to "spice up" conventional learning content by sprinkling game mechanics on top of it without engaging with what truly motivates (or de-motivates) learners. Teaching should […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 6:36 PM

I had been wanting to re-platform my #instructionaldesign #blog TedCurran.net from #Wordpress onto a #staticsite #CMS for a long time.

So when I woke up this morning and saw that my site had suffered a(nother) database attack knocking all my content offline, I went YOLO and rebuilt the whole […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 2:30 PM

Are #IndieGames Developing a Gambling Problem?

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/are-indie-games-developing-a-gambling-problem/

> Gambling-themed #roguelikes are helping #indiedev hit the jackpot.

This article goes deep on the #gamedesign mechanics […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 7, 2026, 2:21 PM

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/06/hotels-california/

Vendor lock-in is pervasive in #instructionaldesign, and I'm constantly fighting companies' attempts to trap our teams on their platforms and extract profits from us. This article describes an #economics research paper that documents the […]

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 5, 2026, 3:49 PM

https://www.theverge.com/tech/990658/audacity-4-update-audio-editing

Big changes to the Swiss army knife of #audio editors.

@tedcurran.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy Aug 25, 2026, 4:45 PM

I don't post about this much but I've recently developed a deep and abiding love of #roguelite and #roguelike #games. I think they're fascinating about how they affect #motivation and #persistence with hard tasks, besides being super fun.

I've started curating a @surf feed on the topic […]