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The Guardian has a piece on British typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert, who’s (partially or wholly) responsible for the British highway signage typeface (Transport), the British Rail typeface (Rail Alphabet) and the pictographs on British road signs, and whose autobiography is also out:

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…


Waddle this way! The sign-making design genius who kept Britain’s drivers (and ducks) safe

Airports, road signs, animal warnings … Margaret Calvert revolutionised how Britain looked and her brilliantly clear designs are still used today. We meet the typeface legend and Porsche lover
Catherine Slessor (The Guardian)

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Motherfucker on Psychology Today literally argues that AI is bad because "before AI, confidence usually carried the weight of effort, and that effort was often a badge of accomplishment."

Conclusion:

Confidence is for non-disabled successful people. AI is bad because it allows disabled people to have confidence and maybe, just maybe, gives them the wherewithal to get out of disability.

Fuck everyone writing about AI right now like they know anything because they clearly know less than nothing about the real world. 😾

John Nosta, if you can see this, literally fuck you, you hack.

#AI #Ableism #Accessibility #PsychologyToday #Neurodiversity #DigitalEquity #DisabilityJustice #TechEthics #JohnNosta #CognitiveLiberty

#Accessibility #AI #DisabilityJustice #ableism #neurodiversity #techethics #psychologytoday #digitalequity #johnnosta #CognitiveLiberty
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Ellis C.A. Arcwolf (Author)

Please reply telling me how much you enjoy talking over disabled people, and I will gratefully block you.

I have to deal with enough shit from neurotypicals and society while battling homelessness. Go run your toxic purity tests elsewhere. AI is currently saving my life. You are—as you come at me trying to make me feel bad for not giving up—actively working to end it.

Your rage reminds me that the world is cruel and wants me dead. And I refuse to die, no matter how much you try to make me want to kill myself.

Seriously, if this is you, the kindest thing you can do for me is fuck off and let actual humans who care about other humans and not only about virtue signaling have a say.

#AI #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #Ableism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Survival #Homelessness #MentalHealth #DigitalEquity #CognitiveLiberty #Gatekeeping #ToxicPurity #BlockList

#Accessibility #AI #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #MentalHealth #DisabilityJustice #ableism #homelessness #BlockList #survival #gatekeeping #digitalequity #CognitiveLiberty #toxicpurity
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This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.

If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!

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Photo credit: Redazione Cultura. distributed under CC By SA license

Three smiley people hold up a sign that says "We ❤️ Free Software" at FOSDEM 2019. Photo credit: Redazione Cultura. distributed under CC By SA license. Find the original and more at https://www.dgpixel.com/techblog/i-love-free-software-day-2019/
in reply to KDE

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Sune Stolborg Vuorela

We have a petition borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-f… running in Denmark on the "official" petition website. If it reaches 50k signatures, the parliament is required to discuss it.

Anerkendelse af frivilligt arbejde med open source som samfundsgavnlig indsats med juridiske og skattemæssige fordele

Vi foreslår, at frivilligt arbejde med open source-software anerkendes som en samfundsgavnlig indsats på linje med frivilligt arbejde i almennyttige f
borgerforslag.dk

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Can someone fork Enafore and keep it going? I love Enafore so much more than the regular Mastodon interface but I haven't seen updates on it for a while now! github.com/enafore/enafore #Mastodon #Fediverse #Enafore

GitHub - enafore/enafore: A fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances.

A fediverse client with better support for Akkoma, glitch-soc, and Iceshrimp instances. - enafore/enafore
GitHub
#fediverse #Mastodon #enafore

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Hello! We are the European Rail Passengers Union. We believe that the voices of rail passengers are key to improving cross border rail in Europe. That’s why we are starting a group to make them heard.

Join us at erpu.eu, and we’re looking forward to connecting with everyone here on the fediverse!

#CrossBorderRail #trains


European Rail Passengers Union

United for a more connected and sustainable Europe
European Rail Passengers Union
#trains #CrossBorderRail

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RE: chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/1159…

#FOSDEM was exhausting but amazing. Was lovely to see so many #IzzyOnDroid users and to hear how much people love #Droidify and #NeoStore!

Learning more about #SHIFT and #BlissLabs was great too, what great projects to share our stand with!

And y'all are sticker monsters, I started running out of #Catima stickers so much faster than expected but it was lovely to hear how many people love the project :)

Thank you all for making #FOSDEM2026 this fun and memorable! :)

Sylvia

2026-01-31 09:59:06

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We are at #FOSDEM! Come visit the #IzzyOnDroid / #SHIFT / #BlissLabs booth in UD2 and say hi!

We also have stickers and flyers for IzzyOnDroid #WayDroid, #BlissOS, #SHIFTphone and a few for #Catima.

#FOSDEM2026

The shared FOSDEM booth for IzzyOnDroid, SHIFTphone and BlissLabs

#fosdem #neostore #Droidify #catima #shift #izzyondroid #blisslabs #fosdem2026

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@semitones I've used it to get to #FOSDEM – Catima supports PkPass, so I was able to store my boarding pass there. No paper wasted 🥰 @SylvieLorxu

And yes, all that Sylvia said: it was great, definitely need to repeat, together with our great partners and the wonderful attendees!!! Big thanks also to @ShinIce and his team for all the organizational work, MUCH appreciated! Looking forward to meet all of you (again)!

Greetings from another sticker monster 😜

#fosdem @Shin.Ice @Sylvia @Semitones

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Open Source security in spite of AI - the recording.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/03…


Open Source security in spite of AI

The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026. As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably a lot of the remaining people were quite tired and ready to call it a day.
daniel.haxx.se

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Wegen kurzfristiger Sparmaßnahmen des Bundes können wir unser Tool für virtuelle Ausstellungen #DDBstudio ab sofort nicht mehr für neue Projekte zur Verfügung stellen. Die bisher veröffentlichten ~300 Ausstellungen bleiben vorerst online. Wir sind traurig. Ein Abschiedsnewsletter: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.d…
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@DNB_Aktuelles @kulturSPK @fiz_karlsruhe @archivportal @digiSberlin
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Melancholisch dreinblickende Frau, den Kopf auf die Hand gestützt, eingefügte Gedankenblase: Keine neuen Ausstellungen mehr mit DDBstudio

Newsletter Virtuelle Ausstellungen Februar 2026 - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
#ddbstudio @Deutsche Nationalbibliothek @Archivportal-D @FIZ Karlsruhe @digiSberlin @SPK
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S celkovym pristupom, ako tito ceski CRQ (Cyber Risk Quantification) chalani pristupuju k osvete nie vzdy suhlasim.
To vsak neznamena, ze v principe nemaju pravdu. Tiez sa im obcas podari trafit klincek po hlavicke tak, ze to mozem iba podpisat.
Napr. dnes: cleverandsmart.cz/proc-tolik-c…

CleverAndSmart Management Consulting » Blog Archive » Proč tolik CEO věří maticím rizik, aneb Když zpětná vazba nepřijde roky a někdy vůbec

CleverAndSmart.cz - Magazín o informační a kybernetické bezpečnosti, řízení rizik, strategickém managementu a marketingu
www.cleverandsmart.cz

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Tuesday morning's least surprising news, ever... 🤬

"Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK.

Ministers’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts."

theguardian.com/environment/20…


Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK

Damien Gayle (The Guardian)

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“Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE”

by Olly Haynes in The Byline Supplement on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good”

open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu…

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #ReformUKLtd #Farage #ICE #Pretti #Good #Murder #Minneapolis #Fascism #Trump


Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE

Olly Haynes (Byline Supplement)
#Trump #socialmedia #uk #fascism #press #murder #ice #minneapolis #good #farage #reformukltd #PrETTI @UK Politics @Green Party of England & Wales

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Interestingly Palantir's booming revenue & profits are being driven primarily by US business... the CEO Alex Karp told investors that there is a 'real reticence' among European countries to adopt their technology (except in the UK?) & often countries were keen to develop their own versions of Palantir's tools.

A low-key recognition that Palantir's connections with the Far Right in the USA are not doing so much for their European business?

(time to repost this diagram)

#palantir #politics

full diagram available with associated story at: https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-government-contracts-size-nuclear-deterrent-atomic-peter-thiel-louis-mosley
#politics #palantir

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Israel has entered a new phase of territorial expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a shift in strategic goals, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 have loosened.

mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-new…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza


The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it

Israel has entered a new phase of expansion and military aggression beyond historic Palestine. This is not due to a strategic shift, but rather because the constraints that kept it confined before October 2023 are now too weak to hold it back.
Ahmed Alqarout (Mondoweiss)
#israel #palestine #Gaza

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Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status | US immigration | The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…

'Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case and that she found it “substantially likely” that Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants”.'

#Immigrants #Haiti


Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status

Up to 350,000 Haitians legally live and work in the US due to being granted temporary protected status
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#immigrants #haiti

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If you're interested in divesting yourself of US-based tech and reducing your digital footprint, there's plenty of guides to help (like these two).

disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…

optoutproject.net/tags/cleanse…


Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
Paris Marx (Disconnect)

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"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."

media.mit.edu/publications/you…

#MOLE #AI #LLM #cognition

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
MIT Media Lab
#AI #cognition #llm #mole

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My favorite part of the job has always been people, and it’s even more true at FOSDEM.

In those “backstage” pictures you can see what I love. People having fun, people taking care of each other, people helping each other.

FOSDEM is where I can thank those who make the software I use. It’s where we can meet. It’s where I can give back.

Like every year I’m exhausted and looking forward to the next one. Thanks all for being part of this.

#fosdem #matrix #openSource

A room full with 100 people smiling and all wearing a Matrix cap.
Two people having fun at the booth after one of them cracked a joke.
A portrait of Matthew attaching a mic to Neil as he prepares for his talk in the devroom.
#matrix #opensource #fosdem

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RE: mas.to/@TechConnectify/1159852…

Remember the guy from YouTube who taught you how to use a dishwasher? He just posted a new video that is definitely worth watching.

Technology Connections

2026-01-30 17:27:57

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Let's do this.

youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeG…



You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.https://youtu.be/Zgxb...
YouTube

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I found this funny enough to shair, so here it is. As some of you might know, I have the weather announced a few minutes after the top of the hour. this weather is genorated by I believe Gemini, and I have it set to be rather sarcastic, and I told it that it is for an adult radio station, so swairing is aloud. Well here is what it came up with for the 4:00 hour this morning. This is what the listeners got to hear.

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if you are in Brno this Thursday (Feb-5), please come and meet some good #IT people, including me :)

luma.com/4k2bpkek

#brno


Engineers Hanging Out (No Recruiters, Really) · Luma

How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype). Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't). Product engineering and…
luma.com
#IT #brno

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Now as you might have landed somewhat after #FOSDEM, add your missing pieces and omitted details to github.com/bagder/FOSDEM

I met several newcomers who said it was helpful, and I think we can make it even more so with more eyes and fingers involved.


GitHub - bagder/FOSDEM: Advise for FOSDEM attendees

Advise for FOSDEM attendees. Contribute to bagder/FOSDEM development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#fosdem

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Something something tells me there's this rule on fedi: new account, new #introduction post. So here it is.

I'm Mimi/小秋 (You can call me anything you like, really.)
Physicist by day (and night in practice), doing research on some of the most useless and abstract topics. #danmei writer by night, rotten to the core for nearly 30 years.

What's up with this funny display name, you ask?
It's a play on an exercise problem ("is Tolkien's middle earth flat"), which I came across in a textbook on general relativity. And Reverse London is from the Bleach franchise.

I'm here mostly to relax, talk about my mundane life, generate highly unpopular opinions about things I read/watch/listen to, and emoji react to cute, funny, and silly stuffs that show up on my timeline.

Follow requests and #boosts are both welcome, although I do prefer to have a bit of vibe checking.

#introduction #boosts #danmei

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