I really enjoy listening to audiobooks and appreciate the emotion and nuance that skilled narrators bring to the story. So I have my (considerable) doubts that AI-voiced audiobooks will be just as good. Hope this doesn’t become the norm. #Bookstodon #BookToot #AudioBooks #AI
On December 30, the very last research day of 2022, our former long-time graduate intern and social media science editor Sarah Finn (now the Archival Projects Librarian at the Milwaukee Public...
When we see streets primarily as space to move cars, we miss out on the wonderful places for people that streets can be. And our cities are less successful for it. Actually, it’s not even good for moving cars! Rotenturmstraße’s before-&-after transformation in #Vienna via former Deputy Mayor Birgit Hebein.
Over the years I’ve been collecting examples of what I can only describe as non-transferable knowledge. These are all definitely huge mistakes, but no amount of counseling or thought leadership is…
Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.
> No mom it's not a "messy pile of clothes on my chair" it's an L1 cache for fast random access to my frequently used clothes in O(1) time. It needs to be big to avoid expensive cache misses (looking in my closet). I NEED to be minimizing latency, this is important to me. Please.
Last week, we discussed the top 5 states to be transgender. I was asked by subscribers to compile a similar list, but this time for the bottom 5 states. Here they are!
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
I have been watching the Interledger Summit 2022 session recordings incrementally over the last few weeks.
Unexpected delightful surprise was @todd presenting how @purism (the privacy-centric open source laptop and smart phone) stubbed out an entire two-sided app store marketplace based on Interledger and its related in-progress projects.
2023 is going to be breakout year for open payments.
Welcome to Day 1 of the 2022 Interledger (ILP) Summit!The Interledger Summit 2022 showcased and celebrated our vital work in the financial inclusion and paym...
I have a question for anyone using screen readers. If you were shown an unfamiliar webpage/document that you were going to read, which of these would you use? Feel free to boost.
I've been playing with #ChatGPT a lot since it came out on November 30th. A few days ago, I decided to have a bit of a conversation with it about the threat it might pose to the future of digital #accessibility.
The resulting conversation surprised me beyond anything I could ever imagine. Why don't you take a look? :)
Thanks for sharing this. I do feel though that the answers you received were fed to the machine by nice humans who certainly understand the trends of present times. I felt like I was at the university lecture on #accessibility and not an honest conversation! Good try though! :)
@vick21 lol yes, fair enough. It was surprisingly nice, positive, and thoughtful. But then again, if AI is just out to kill us, I’d expect it to be as sneaky and deceiving as it possibly can be. Other conversations will follow, no doubt. :)
Trying a slightly longer video. This is an air de cour by Michel Lambert, Vos mépris chaque jour a 17th c courtly air (I have realized the basso continuo/basse obligée myself with a bit of help from a friend, so I hope not too many errors against harmony were made)
I might have spent longer on this than I was intending to XD
"I'll just calligraphy it out rough" (but I'll use good paper just in case) "I guess I'll do the O fancy" "Maybe just a little simple border" "... with gold" "... ... and a banhammer"
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Today marks 5 years since I became a literary agent! My clients and colleagues have made this the best job I've ever had -- and the piles of books I've helped edit and sell don't hurt, either. So grateful to everyone who has helped make it all possible. (Even when the process moves at a snail's pace.)
Preface On a Friday in 2006, I lectured at an undergraduate class in Occupational Therapy at University of Florida. One of the questions I received from a student and, coincidentally later in the …
I just read, in an anthology of Russian 19th-century Gothic Tales (kirja.casa/book/70999/s/russia…) a story by Vladimir Odoyevsky, called The City Without a Name.
I can't find an english translation of the story online, but if you find it somewhere, read it! Written in 1839, it's a very accurate description of our own times almost 200 years later when profit motive drives everything and every humane pursuit is driven into nonexistence in the name of endless gain.
What fresh hell is this? Adobe has opted me in to letting them train their algorithms on my photos? That’s the end of me using their cloud storage for anything, ever. #privacy #adobe #lightroom #LightroomMobile
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
🚨BREAKING: Following noyb litigation, @meta (Facebook and Instagram) has been prohibited from using personal data for advertisement. The #GDPR decision signals a major blow to Meta's business model in Europe, as Meta faces a € 390 Mio fine. ➡noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohi…
After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.
Čína se připravuje k válce, varuje bývalý americký generál
Čína připravuje svou armádu na válku o Tchaj-wan, varoval penzionovaný generálporučík americké armády a bývalý poradce pro národní bezpečnost H. R. McMaster.
@kanvor Možná to není poslední pokuta, v článku na konci je. V současné době úřad zpracovává dalších jedenáct případů týkajících se Mety. 😀😀 To už by byl pěkný ranec.
y'all wanna see a Mastodon server that makes you log in with LinkedIn to enforce a real name policy?
they're trying to out-Hachyderm Hachyderm as far as gross corporate vibes and i think they may succeed
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this is not any kind of call to action i just think it's funny in a sad way
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To celebrate World Braille Day, we examine the use of braille today comparing the perspectives of people who actively use braille now and those who do not, as well as those who want to learn it now and those who perhaps wish they had done so earlier …
GOLD SF is open for submissions! GOLD SF is an imprint of Goldsmiths Press aimed at publishing new voices in intersectional feminist #ScienceFiction.
Please look here for more information about the imprint, and a link to download proposal guidelines as well as more details of what we're currently looking for. We are open for submissions until mid-February.
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