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I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journa…

#journalism #twitterexodus

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely on centralized platforms to create and distribute vital information. Journalists — among many information providers and users — should move to decentralized systems where they have control of what they say and how they distribute it. And philanthropic organizations have a major role to play. Here is a way forward.

Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …
Techdirt
#journalism #twitterexodus
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In light of recent events I've started to reconsider which companies and services I want to trust and rely upon.

Over the coming days I’m going to make some changes to the Conversations development infrastructure.

· F-Droid will become a more prominent way to download and install Conversations
· Translations are moving from Transifex to Weblate¹

In addition to that I’m going to reconsider what role Github will be playing in the future.

¹: translate.codeberg.org/project…


Conversations

Conversations is being translated into 41 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.
Weblate

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Really glad Sony is finally making an accessibility-focused controller for PS5.

It’s overdue, especially considering all the accessibility work Sony’s been doing on the software side.

Hope they sell it for a reasonable price.

#gaming #VideoGames #Sony #PS5 #accessibility

blog.playstation.com/2023/01/0…


Introducing Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5, a highly customizable accessibility controller kit

Designed to remove barriers to gaming and help players with disabilities play more easily, more comfortably and for longer periods on PS5.
PlayStation.Blog
#Accessibility #gaming #videogames #sony #ps5

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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

theguardian.com/technology/202…


Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)
#AI #audiobooks #bookstodon #booktoot

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Early 20th century wall charts of invertebrates. You’ve never seen a cross section of a mosquito look so striking! uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/70…
Anatomical color illustration of a starfish

Sarah Strikes Again!

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...
uwmspeccoll (Tumblr)

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Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says #police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.

#privacy #surveillance #acab #FTP #AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…


Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.
Ars Technica
#privacy #AI #acab #surveillance #police #ftp

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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.

#StreetsForPeople #cities #urbanism #streets #transportation #cars #Austria #cars #people

Heavy vehicle traffic on a Vienna street
Vienna street transformed as a place for people walking and sitting
#transportation #cars #streets #people #urbanism #cities #austria #StreetsForPeople #vienna
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kellan

(see also: Mistakes you apparently just have to make yourself, medium.com/@mcfunley/mistakes-…)

Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself - Dan McKinley - Medium

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…
Dan McKinley (Medium)
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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.
a heavy cast metal cube with glass-sided pannels, a latches glass door half open and an tiny oxygen bottle on top, with a canary bird inside

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> 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.


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Weeks ago I released the top 5 best states to be trans in. Subscribers wanted to know the top 5 worst.

I have tracked anti-trans legislation for 3 years. Here are the top 5 hardest states to be trans.

Please subscribe to support my work:

erininthemorn.substack.com/p/t…

#trans #Transgender #transrights #lgbtq #lgbtqia #LGBt


Top 5 Hardest States To Be Transgender

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!
Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
#lgbt #transgender #trans #lgbtqia #LGBTQ #transrights

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Purism will be at CES 2023, one of the most influential technology events in the world.
Get the latest here 🌎
puri.sm/posts/purism-to-partic…

#ces #ces2023

Purism to Participate in CES 2023 – Purism

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.
Purism SPC
#ces2023 #ces

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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.

#Interledger #openSource #payments #privacy

youtube.com/live/Whp4RfW3K_U?f…


Interledger (ILP) Summit 2022 - Day 1

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...
YouTube
#opensource #privacy #Interledger #payments @Purism @Todd Weaver

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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? :)

inklusiv.ca/will-chatgpt-threa…

#Accessibility #chatgpt
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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)

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‘Our sisters deserve better’: Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on female students | Afghanistan | The Guardian

theguardian.com/global-develop…


‘Our sisters deserve better’: Afghan men quit university jobs after ban on female students

A Taliban decree against higher education for women – called a ‘betrayal of the nation’ – has led to male lecturers and student walkouts in solidarity
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)

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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.

#Bookstodon


Kirjakasa

Kotikutoinen lukijayhteisö
kirja.casa
#bookstodon

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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 6 updated and 1 new apps:

* Ranobe: a simple extensible light novel reader

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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🚨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…

BREAKING: Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertisment

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.
noyb.eu
#gdpr @meta

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Máte někdo zájem o e-knihy o Linuxu? Knihy se prodávají ve třech sadách...od eura po 16 euro za všechny knihy.

Funguje to stejně jako Humble Bundle

Nemám s tím zatím zkušenosti, jen jsem na to narazil...

fanatical.com/en/bundle/workin…


Working With Linux Bundle 2nd Edition | eBook Bundle | Fanatical

Linux is the world’s most widely used open-source operating system and our new Working with Linux Bundle 2nd Edition,...
Fanatical
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No jen tak dál 👍👍
Meta dostala pokutu 390 milionů eur za nakládání s osobními daty
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/svet/355…

Meta dostala pokutu 390 milionů eur za nakládání s osobními daty

Irský úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů (DPC) vyměřil americké společnosti Meta dvě pokuty v celkové výši 390 milionů eur (9,4 miliardy korun).
ČT24 - Nejdůvěryhodnější zpravodajský web v ČR - Česká televize

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equel.social/about

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

Unlike most communities, we require our members to use their real identities to facilitate building trust and a professional reputation. We ensure real identities by asking our members to login with LinkedIn.

We will soon release the following features: - cross-posting to LinkedIn and Twitter - topic-based groups and live chat - goal-based suggested connections on Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Twitter


this is not any kind of call to action i just think it's funny in a sad way


Equel | Mastodon for professionals

Equel is a safe and diverse community of professionals for networking and learning. We require members to use their real identities by signing in with LinkedIn.
Mastodon hosted on equel.social

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Here's some of the many different experiences and approaches to braille that exist. #WorldBrailleDay pocklington-trust.org.uk/techn…

Exploring the perspectives on learning and using braille - Thomas Pocklington Trust

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 …
Thomas Pocklington Trust
#worldbrailleday
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