I've been on here for years and never actually did an #introduction post. Better late than never?
I'm a #neurodivergent #British #Trans Woman with #Dyspraxia, #Dyslexia and #Dyscalculia. I'm a recovering #tech / #computing hobbyist (trying to give it up, don't encourage me).
I'm into #art, #sewing/ #textiles (very much a newbie though), #crafts, #music, #writing / #fiction and #slowmovement.
I was atheist but I'm trying to get into #paganism (#celticpaganism / #celticreconstructionism specifically) and am planning to learn #welsh.
I'm a fan of #doctorwho and I've just started getting into #startrek.
I created "Starshine's Pages" on #neocities (link in bio) and I'm very interested in #webhistory and the #indieweb.
I've had follow requests on (and will likely indefinitely) since the Twitter exodus but feel free to request a follow, I'll accept if you seem like an ok person. Don't be offended if I don't though.
#reintroduction #dyspraxic #transwoman #mtf #transfem #uk #introductions
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@fncll @cogdog used my Known install for 4 years .. really loved it .. wish I had properly archived it, but nuked it and started playing with the #indieweb wordpress stack in 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180501000000*/known.networkeffects.ca
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Just read the newest #BlueSky blogpost: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-2-2023-bluesky-beta-app
"Domain names as usernames & account portability" is very #IndieWeb and pretty cool for people who have a domain.
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@tim @eleventy I was able to use netlify and the caching plugin, brid.gy for mastodon connections. @sia has a great write up on implementing #webmentions and #indieweb items. https://sia.codes/posts/webmentions-eleventy-in-depth/
@mxbck had a great explanation as well too https://mxb.dev/blog/using-webmentions-on-static-sites/
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~ #webrings watch ~
Day #13: Vocaloid Webring
https://adilene.net/webring
Adilene is a big #Vocaloid fan. From the software to the performers to the songs. If you share any of the enthusiasm: Sign up! Show it some love!
#indieweb #website #yesterweb #web #webdev #smallweb #japan #anime #music
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Detweeting (and More)
Not that I’ve been particularly active on Twitter for quite a while now, but the way things have gotten, especially under its new owner, I decided it was finally time to go. I haven’t deleted my main account (yet), but I’ve deleted most of my tweet history, and the accounts I used for side projects, and I don’t plan on returning.
Mastodon has filled Twitter’s niche for me over the last few years (obviously different people have different use cases, so it may not fit yours), and you can still find me there at @KelsonV@Wandering.shop.
As for the archive, I’m slowly going through and looking for threads (and occasional single posts) that I think are worth keeping, importing them where they seem to fit best on this website, whether on the blog or another section.
It may be time to do the same with Facebook and Instagram* too. I haven’t been active on either of them in ages, and I’d rather own my data IndieWeb style than wait for Meta to go the way of LiveJournal.
*I’ve already trimmed a lot of my Instagram history.
#facebook #indieweb #instagram #mastodon #social-networking #twitter
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2023/03/detweet/
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Tonight's project - archiving my sad little collection of posts on the bird site over the years. I was never a big social media person, so this extract shouldn’t take long.
Let’s see how far I can get tonight!
Taking back what’s mine with #POSSE and the #IndieWeb
https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback
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And then a bit later the above comment was pulled into the site. I need to figure out which of the #IndieWeb plug-ins I enabled that did it.
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Great discussion on not relying on one silo like twitter by @aleen and @tempest making very #IndieWeb points
Originality: 39: Do Not Put All Your Eggs in Twitter's Basket
Episode webpage: http://relay.fm/originality/39
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"text": "This is my monthly roundup of the articles I found interesting. Here\u2019s my list for February, 2023: a shorter list because it\u2019s been a very hard month for lots of reasons.Notable ArticlesAISci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories. \u201cThe rise of AI-powered chatbots is wreaking havoc on the literary world. Sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine is temporarily suspending short story submissions, citing a surge in people using AI chatbots to \u201cplagiarize\u201d their writing.\u201dAI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse. \u201cIn one example, a generated voice that sounds like actor Emma Watson reads a section of Mein Kampf. In another, a voice very similar to Ben Shapiro makes racist remarks about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In a third, someone saying \u201ctrans rights are human rights\u201d is strangled.\u201dClimateDisasters displaced more than 3M Americans in 2022. \u201cMore than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the past year because of a natural disaster, according to a new Census Bureau tally that marks a rare federal effort to assess the uprooting caused by hurricanes, floods and other events. The Census Bureau estimate far exceeds other counts of U.S. evacuees and reflects the uncertainty about how much disruption disasters and climate change are causing. Census figures show that 3.4 million adults were displaced in 2022, or 1.4 percent of the U.S. adult population.\u201dCryptoSam Bankman-Fried is not a child. \u201cSBF is being extended the benefit of the doubt that many are not so lucky to get. He is affluent, white, male, and accused of white-collar crimes, and so he is granted the charitable characterization of a naive boy. Meanwhile, the perception that Black children, particularly those accused of violent crimes, are adult criminals has earned its own term: adultification bias.\u201dThe Celsius examiner's report: a picture of fraud and incompetence. \u201cFor some reason, Pillay stops short of outright stating that \u201cCelsius was a Ponzi scheme\u201d, but the facts speak for themselves.\u201dCulture\u2018The Last of Us\u2019 Is Not a Video-Game Adaptation. \u201cHere, we may rightly speak of interactivity: One may care about a character on television, but one must care for a character in a video game. In fact, The Last of Us suggested that care, by definition, means choosing to have no choice, holding onto another person so tightly their survival becomes an inescapable necessity.\u201dThe Mobile Phones of Doctor Who \u2013 The Motherlode of Props. \u201cIf you\u2019re a Doctor Who fan - I promise that this post is going to please you greatly!\u201d Reader, it did.Don\u2019t write this, write that. \u201cYet despite all of this, I don\u2019t believe you can ignore the audience. You can\u2019t aim at them, you can\u2019t change to suit an imaginary audience in the hope of getting a real one. But writing is not for writers, it is for readers and if they are not in your mind in some way, I think your writing becomes self-indulgent.\u201dIn \u2018The Last of Us,\u2019 a survivor of the AIDS crisis saw his partner's death honored. \u201c\u201cAs I\u2019m watching it, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my god,\u2019 [\u2018The Last of Us\u2019 co-showrunner] Craig Mazin wrote this piece that just made me feel like someone saw me and Robert,\u201d he said. \u201cSomehow Mazin wrote this piece of art that reflected not just the life that Robert and I had, a falling in love in this dystopian time, but the lives of so many of my friends who also found loves that they loved and lost.\u201d\u201dDemocracyBiden, Sanders, Haley and the state of the 2024 presidential race. \u201cI wanted to hear from some of the women I talk to about politics on their takeaways and what the week portends for the upcoming election cycle as both parties attempt to turn voters\u2019 attention to the 2024 race. Their conclusion? The state of the union is incredibly fractious.\u201dHow much Biden talked about abortion, LGBTQ+ rights. \u201cDuring his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden devoted more words to abortion and fewer to LGBTQ+ rights in 2023 than in previous years, spending 72 and 35 words, respectively, on the topics out of a nearly 7,300-word speech.\u201dA Mass. bill would cut prison time for organ donations. An advocate is calling the measure 'unethical and depraved.'. \u201c\u201cThey\u2019re a marginalized group in society, highly stigmatized and extremely vulnerable,\u201d Cox said in an interview. \u201cAnd so to incentivize the selling of your body parts in exchange for the most precious commodity in the world \u2014 which is time on this earth, and your freedom \u2014 was just so appalling.\u201d\u201dHealthOne in Ten Lung Transplants Go to Covid-19 Patients: Here\u2019s What We Know. \u201cAccording to data from the United Network for Organ Transplants (UNOS), in the U.S., about one in 10 lung transplants now go to COVID-19 patients. [...] COVID seems to cause very severe pneumonia in some patients, leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and even leading to pulmonary fibrosis in some patients.\u201dMediaWikipedia\u2019s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust. \u201cDue to this group\u2019s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia\u2019s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggerate the Poles\u2019 role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles, blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis.\u201dJournalists Remain on Twitter, but Tweet Slightly Less. \u201cAs it turned out, not enough people were migrating off Twitter and onto the same platforms as Grimes for it to be a sufficient replacement. On Mastodon, she has a much smaller and less diverse community that didn\u2019t let her obtain the same level of reporting. Likewise, the 40,000 followers she has accumulated over the past 15 years on Twitter weren\u2019t gonna migrate overnight either.\u201dBuild a reputation instead of a personal brand. \u201cI find myself drawn more to what individuals are writing than publications; if others are like me, all the publications who treat their staff as disposable and interchangeable will be in for a rough ride when they try to replace them all with AI churn content. [\u2026] I read my first Ed Yong article because I was interested in COVID; his thoughtful writing and reporting earned my trust, so I started following him on Twitter \u2014 not The Atlantic.\u201dJournalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic\u00a0Age. \u201cBefore I go, I wanted to share the lessons I learned building a newsroom that integrated engineers with journalists and sought to use a new model for accountability journalism: the scientific method.\u201d'I wiped my eyes and wrote the facts'. \u201cAs a reporter, I felt tasked with the duty of accurately representing this funeral and the vile circumstances that led to it. As a Black reporter, I felt a duty to bear witness to his unjust death and the burden of grief that came with it.\u201d This edition of The 19th\u2019s weekly newsletter is breathtakingly written. Yet another reason I\u2019m proud to work there.Media's Money Problem. \u201cLow pay and grueling hours mean barriers to entry that skew journalism toward a certain demographic \u2014 white and male. It\u2019s impossible to do your best work shining light on the activities of elected officials when you make $12 an hour and those same elected officials are organizing social media campaigns to put you out of work altogether. And it\u2019s impossible to cover the needed range and depth of stories when you are overworked and underpaid and understaffed.\u201dScienceLost Letters Show Erasure Of DNA Heroine. \u201cIt was Franklin who was sabotaged. Three times her pivotal results were shared by male scientists with other male scientists without her permission and behind her back \u2014 once when a PhD student gave Wilkins the picture, once when Wilkins showed it to Watson and again when a grant administrator showed a summary of her work to Crick.\u201dSquid skin inspires novel \u201cliquid windows\u201d for greater energy savings. \u201cThe idea of a building that can learn, that can adjust this dynamic array on its own to optimize for seasonal and daily changes in solar conditions, is very exciting for us.\u201d No kidding!SocietyL.A.\u2019s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores. \u201cAn analysis of more than 130,000 VI\u2011SPDAT surveys taken in the Los Angeles area as far back as 2016 found that White people received scores considered \u201chigh acuity\u201d\u2014or most in need\u2014more often than Black people, and that gap persisted year over year.\u201dHow abortion data rates will change after Dobbs. \u201cWe find that there\u2019s really, really significant levels of underreporting to the point where really, most survey data on abortion is is not useful, which is a real challenge because that\u2019s a lot of how social science researchers collect data\u201dSafety Systems Gone Wrong. \u201cWhy do we tolerate a police system - ostensibly a public safety system - that kills more Americans than aviation does, with some cops walking around indifferent to safety? And yet we\u2019re petrified about two airplanes getting too close.\u201d\u2018They need to see\u2019: RowVaughn Wells on what it means to attend Biden\u2019s State of the Union address. \u201cFor the first time at a State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the mother of a Black man killed by police will be a guest of the first lady of the United States. Other parents with similar tragedies will be in attendance as the guests of members of the House of Representatives; they will be visible reminders of the parade of unarmed Black Americans who have lost their lives, representing families calling for change in the wake of tragedy.\u201dAdvocates mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act. \u201cAdvocates 30 years ago saw the passage of FMLA as the beginning, not the end, of what was possible at the federal level. But while hundreds of millions have benefited from the program, the United States remains the only wealthy nation without any national, guaranteed paid leave policy three decades on.\u201dChild care crisis is causing parents to leave their jobs or get fired, study shows. \u201cOf the parents surveyed, 26 percent quit their jobs because of child care problems and 23 percent were fired. The number of parents who were fired or had their pay reduced is three times as high as it was just five years ago. The rate of parents quitting has doubled since 2018.\u201cWhere is abortion legal? Almost half of all Americans aren\u2019t sure, new poll shows. \u201cHalf of women are unsure if medication abortion is legal in their state, and a third don\u2019t know if they are allowed to access emergency contraceptive pills, new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found.\u201dTechnologyThere's a reason why there's no United States version of NLNet. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason why there\u2019s no United States version of NLNet - that\u2019d encourage public services built by people using public dollars. That\u2019d run counter to organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, IBM, Amazon and the like who make money by siloing government infrastructure and forcing citizens to accept sub-par solutions (that other groups have to hack around).\u201dTech's Elite Hates Labor. \u201cI believe that a worryingly large amount of the most powerful people in technology have seen the growth of workers\u2019 rights as a symptom of a broken market.\u201dFediverse Funding Opportunities. \u201cAt the moment, there\u2019s funding for a handful of micro-grants (non-profit) or micro-investments (for-profit) up to ~$30k each. If your project needs greater funding, please submit it anyway; things can (and probably will) change quickly, and your proposal will help make the case for larger allocations to the fediverse.\u201dBlame the CEO for Tech Layoffs at Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon. \u201cAny executive who participates in decision-making that leads to hundreds or thousands of people losing their jobs should be the one leading them out the door. Pichai and other tech CEOs shouldn\u2019t be making $280 million a year or even $1 million a year \u2014 they should be fired for poorly managing some of the largest companies in the world.\u201dBig Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power. \u201cWorkers in an industry that had long been famously union-agnostic at best had been forming bonds, organizing and developing solidarity. Layoffs of this scale and suddenness can be a blow to that process. [\u2026] If there\u2019s one thing that firing people in a large-scale and seemingly random way accomplishes, it\u2019s instilling a sense of precarity, even fear, in those who remain.\u201dThe \u2018Enshittification\u2019 of TikTok. \u201cThis is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they\u2019re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they\u2019re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.\u201dI\u2019m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer. \u201cLong term, I want this model to grow beyond me and become a known professional path. This experiment is both easier and harder for me than it will be for those after me: easier because I have an extensive personal network and the financial means to safely take risks; harder because it\u2019s uncharted territory for both me and the clients and because there\u2019s a lack of legal, administrative, and marketing tools. I hope that as things progress the barriers will lower, making the model accessible to more and more people.\u201d Inspiring!ShotSpotter Employees Not Only Have The Power To Alter Gunshot Reports, But Do It Nearly 10% Of The Time. \u201cShotSpotter\u2019s human techs don\u2019t just alter reports to distinguish things like a car\u2019s backfiring from a suspected criminal\u2019s gun firing. They also alter determinations and gunshot locations to better serve the needs of law enforcement agencies that interact with them.\u201d",
"html": "<p>This is my monthly roundup of the articles I found interesting. Here\u2019s my list for February, 2023: a shorter list because it\u2019s been a very hard month for lots of reasons.</p><h3>Notable Articles</h3><h4>AI</h4><p><a href=\"https://pcmag.com/news/sci-fi-mag-pauses-submissions-amid-flood-of-ai-generated-short-stories\">Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories.</a> \u201cThe rise of AI-powered chatbots is wreaking havoc on the literary world. Sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine is temporarily suspending short story submissions, citing a surge in people using AI chatbots to \u201cplagiarize\u201d their writing.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://vice.com/en/article/dy7mww/ai-voice-firm-4chan-celebrity-voices-emma-watson-joe-rogan-elevenlabs\">AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse.</a> \u201cIn one example, a generated voice that sounds like actor Emma Watson reads a section of Mein Kampf. In another, a voice very similar to Ben Shapiro makes racist remarks about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In a third, someone saying \u201ctrans rights are human rights\u201d is strangled.\u201d</p><h4>Climate</h4><p><a href=\"https://eenews.net/articles/census-disasters-displaced-more-than-3m-americans-in-2022\">Disasters displaced more than 3M Americans in 2022.</a> \u201cMore than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in the past year because of a natural disaster, according to a new Census Bureau tally that marks a rare federal effort to assess the uprooting caused by hurricanes, floods and other events. The Census Bureau estimate far exceeds other counts of U.S. evacuees and reflects the uncertainty about how much disruption disasters and climate change are causing. Census figures show that 3.4 million adults were displaced in 2022, or 1.4 percent of the U.S. adult population.\u201d</p><h4>Crypto</h4><p><a href=\"https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child\">Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child.</a> \u201cSBF is being extended the benefit of the doubt that many are not so lucky to get. He is affluent, white, male, and accused of white-collar crimes, and so he is granted the charitable characterization of a naive boy. Meanwhile, the perception that Black children, particularly those accused of violent crimes, are adult criminals has earned its own term: adultification bias.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-celsius-examiners-report-a-picture\">The Celsius examiner's report: a picture of fraud and incompetence.</a> \u201cFor some reason, Pillay stops short of outright stating that \u201cCelsius was a Ponzi scheme\u201d, but the facts speak for themselves.\u201d</p><h4>Culture</h4><p><a href=\"https://vulture.com/article/the-last-of-us-is-not-a-video-game-adaptation.html\">\u2018The Last of Us\u2019 Is Not a Video-Game Adaptation.</a> \u201cHere, we may rightly speak of interactivity: One may care about a character on television, but one must care for a character in a video game. In fact, The Last of Us suggested that care, by definition, means choosing to have no choice, holding onto another person so tightly their survival becomes an inescapable necessity.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/the-mobile-phones-of-doctor-who-the-motherlode-of-props\">The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who \u2013 The Motherlode of Props.</a> \u201cIf you\u2019re a Doctor Who fan - I promise that this post is going to please you greatly!\u201d Reader, it did.</p><p><a href=\"http://williamgallagher.com/selfdistract/2023/02/03/dont-write-this-write-that\">Don\u2019t write this, write that.</a> \u201cYet despite all of this, I don\u2019t believe you can ignore the audience. You can\u2019t aim at them, you can\u2019t change to suit an imaginary audience in the hope of getting a real one. But writing is not for writers, it is for readers and if they are not in your mind in some way, I think your writing becomes self-indulgent.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/last-of-us-queer-aids-crisis\">In \u2018The Last of Us,\u2019 a survivor of the AIDS crisis saw his partner's death honored.</a> \u201c\u201cAs I\u2019m watching it, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh my god,\u2019 [\u2018The Last of Us\u2019 co-showrunner] Craig Mazin wrote this piece that just made me feel like someone saw me and Robert,\u201d he said. \u201cSomehow Mazin wrote this piece of art that reflected not just the life that Robert and I had, a falling in love in this dystopian time, but the lives of so many of my friends who also found loves that they loved and lost.\u201d\u201d</p><h4>Democracy</h4><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/2024-presidential-race-abortion-lgbtq-gender\">Biden, Sanders, Haley and the state of the 2024 presidential race.</a> \u201cI wanted to hear from some of the women I talk to about politics on their takeaways and what the week portends for the upcoming election cycle as both parties attempt to turn voters\u2019 attention to the 2024 race. Their conclusion? The state of the union is incredibly fractious.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/biden-state-of-the-union-word-count\">How much Biden talked about abortion, LGBTQ+ rights.</a> \u201cDuring his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden devoted more words to abortion and fewer to LGBTQ+ rights in 2023 than in previous years, spending 72 and 35 words, respectively, on the topics out of a nearly 7,300-word speech.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://boston.com/news/politics/2023/02/01/massachusetts-bill-prison-time-bone-marrow-organ-donations\">A Mass. bill would cut prison time for organ donations. An advocate is calling the measure 'unethical and depraved.'.</a> \u201c\u201cThey\u2019re a marginalized group in society, highly stigmatized and extremely vulnerable,\u201d Cox said in an interview. \u201cAnd so to incentivize the selling of your body parts in exchange for the most precious commodity in the world \u2014 which is time on this earth, and your freedom \u2014 was just so appalling.\u201d\u201d</p><h4>Health</h4><p><a href=\"https://columbiasurgery.org/news/one-ten-lung-transplants-go-covid-19-patients-here-s-what-we-know\">One in Ten Lung Transplants Go to Covid-19 Patients: Here\u2019s What We Know.</a> \u201cAccording to data from the United Network for Organ Transplants (UNOS), in the U.S., about one in 10 lung transplants now go to COVID-19 patients. [...] COVID seems to cause very severe pneumonia in some patients, leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and even leading to pulmonary fibrosis in some patients.\u201d</p><h4>Media</h4><p><a href=\"https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939\">Wikipedia\u2019s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust.</a> \u201cDue to this group\u2019s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia\u2019s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggerate the Poles\u2019 role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles, blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://cjr.org/tow_center/journalists-remain-on-twitter-but-tweet-slightly-less.php\">Journalists Remain on Twitter, but Tweet Slightly Less.</a> \u201cAs it turned out, not enough people were migrating off Twitter and onto the same platforms as Grimes for it to be a sufficient replacement. On Mastodon, she has a much smaller and less diverse community that didn\u2019t let her obtain the same level of reporting. Likewise, the 40,000 followers she has accumulated over the past 15 years on Twitter weren\u2019t gonna migrate overnight either.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://tracydurnell.com/2023/02/06/reputation-instead-of-personal-brand\">Build a reputation instead of a personal brand.</a> \u201cI find myself drawn more to what individuals are writing than publications; if others are like me, all the publications who treat their staff as disposable and interchangeable will be in for a rough ride when they try to replace them all with AI churn content. [\u2026] I read my first Ed Yong article because I was interested in COVID; his thoughtful writing and reporting earned my trust, so I started following him on Twitter \u2014 not The Atlantic.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/02/04/journalistic-lessons-for-the-algorithmic-age\">Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic\u00a0Age.</a> \u201cBefore I go, I wanted to share the lessons I learned building a newsroom that integrated engineers with journalists and sought to use a new model for accountability journalism: the scientific method.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/19thnews/i-wiped-my-eyes-and-wrote-the-facts\">'I wiped my eyes and wrote the facts'.</a> \u201cAs a reporter, I felt tasked with the duty of accurately representing this funeral and the vile circumstances that led to it. As a Black reporter, I felt a duty to bear witness to his unjust death and the burden of grief that came with it.\u201d This edition of The 19th\u2019s weekly newsletter is breathtakingly written. Yet another reason I\u2019m proud to work there.</p><p><a href=\"https://lyz.substack.com/p/medias-money-problem\">Media's Money Problem.</a> \u201cLow pay and grueling hours mean barriers to entry that skew journalism toward a certain demographic \u2014 white and male. It\u2019s impossible to do your best work shining light on the activities of elected officials when you make $12 an hour and those same elected officials are organizing social media campaigns to put you out of work altogether. And it\u2019s impossible to cover the needed range and depth of stories when you are overworked and underpaid and understaffed.\u201d</p><h4>Science</h4><p><a href=\"https://jayhancock.substack.com/p/lost-letters-show-erasure-of-dna\">Lost Letters Show Erasure Of DNA Heroine.</a> \u201cIt was Franklin who was sabotaged. Three times her pivotal results were shared by male scientists with other male scientists without her permission and behind her back \u2014 once when a PhD student gave Wilkins the picture, once when Wilkins showed it to Watson and again when a grant administrator showed a summary of her work to Crick.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/squid-skin-inspires-novel-liquid-windows-for-greater-energy-savings\">Squid skin inspires novel \u201cliquid windows\u201d for greater energy savings.</a> \u201cThe idea of a building that can learn, that can adjust this dynamic array on its own to optimize for seasonal and daily changes in solar conditions, is very exciting for us.\u201d No kidding!</p><h4>Society</h4><p><a href=\"https://themarkup.org/investigation/2023/02/28/l-a-s-scoring-system-for-subsidized-housing-gives-black-and-latino-people-experiencing-homelessness-lower-priority-scores\">L.A.\u2019s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores.</a> \u201cAn analysis of more than 130,000 VI\u2011SPDAT surveys taken in the Los Angeles area as far back as 2016 found that White people received scores considered \u201chigh acuity\u201d\u2014or most in need\u2014more often than Black people, and that gap persisted year over year.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/abortion-data-rates-after-dobbs\">How abortion data rates will change after Dobbs.</a> \u201cWe find that there\u2019s really, really significant levels of underreporting to the point where really, most survey data on abortion is is not useful, which is a real challenge because that\u2019s a lot of how social science researchers collect data\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://vannevar.blogspot.com/2023/02/austin-fedexdal-disaster-jfk-incursion.html\">Safety Systems Gone Wrong.</a> \u201cWhy do we tolerate a police system - ostensibly a public safety system - that kills more Americans than aviation does, with some cops walking around indifferent to safety? And yet we\u2019re petrified about two airplanes getting too close.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/state-of-the-union-tyre-nichols-rowvaughn-wells\">\u2018They need to see\u2019: RowVaughn Wells on what it means to attend Biden\u2019s State of the Union address.</a> \u201cFor the first time at a State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the mother of a Black man killed by police will be a guest of the first lady of the United States. Other parents with similar tragedies will be in attendance as the guests of members of the House of Representatives; they will be visible reminders of the parade of unarmed Black Americans who have lost their lives, representing families calling for change in the wake of tragedy.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/family-medical-leave-law-30\">Advocates mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act.</a> \u201cAdvocates 30 years ago saw the passage of FMLA as the beginning, not the end, of what was possible at the federal level. But while hundreds of millions have benefited from the program, the United States remains the only wealthy nation without any national, guaranteed paid leave policy three decades on.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/child-care-crisis-economy-parents-jobs\">Child care crisis is causing parents to leave their jobs or get fired, study shows.</a> \u201cOf the parents surveyed, 26 percent quit their jobs because of child care problems and 23 percent were fired. The number of parents who were fired or had their pay reduced is three times as high as it was just five years ago. The rate of parents quitting has doubled since 2018.\u201c</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2023/02/where-is-abortion-legal-americans-unsure-poll-shows\">Where is abortion legal? Almost half of all Americans aren\u2019t sure, new poll shows.</a> \u201cHalf of women are unsure if medication abortion is legal in their state, and a third don\u2019t know if they are allowed to access emergency contraceptive pills, new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found.\u201d</p><h4>Technology</h4><p><a href=\"https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/7y35\">There's a reason why there's no United States version of NLNet.</a> \u201cThere\u2019s a reason why there\u2019s no United States version of NLNet - that\u2019d encourage public services built by people using public dollars. That\u2019d run counter to organizations like Microsoft, Accenture, IBM, Amazon and the like who make money by siloing government infrastructure and forcing citizens to accept sub-par solutions (that other groups have to hack around).\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor\">Tech's Elite Hates Labor.</a> \u201cI believe that a worryingly large amount of the most powerful people in technology have seen the growth of workers\u2019 rights as a symptom of a broken market.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/15It9y-Nx8ZXV6b4yEzrBtMpIdnC6APURnMhvk5DRD_Q/edit\">Fediverse Funding Opportunities.</a> \u201cAt the moment, there\u2019s funding for a handful of micro-grants (non-profit) or micro-investments (for-profit) up to ~$30k each. If your project needs greater funding, please submit it anyway; things can (and probably will) change quickly, and your proposal will help make the case for larger allocations to the fediverse.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2\">Blame the CEO for Tech Layoffs at Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon.</a> \u201cAny executive who participates in decision-making that leads to hundreds or thousands of people losing their jobs should be the one leading them out the door. Pichai and other tech CEOs shouldn\u2019t be making $280 million a year or even $1 million a year \u2014 they should be fired for poorly managing some of the largest companies in the world.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel\">Big Tech is using layoffs to crush worker power.</a> \u201cWorkers in an industry that had long been famously union-agnostic at best had been forming bonds, organizing and developing solidarity. Layoffs of this scale and suddenness can be a blow to that process. [\u2026] If there\u2019s one thing that firing people in a large-scale and seemingly random way accomplishes, it\u2019s instilling a sense of precarity, even fear, in those who remain.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow\">The \u2018Enshittification\u2019 of TikTok.</a> \u201cThis is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they\u2019re locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they\u2019re locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer\">I\u2019m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer.</a> \u201cLong term, I want this model to grow beyond me and become a known professional path. This experiment is both easier and harder for me than it will be for those after me: easier because I have an extensive personal network and the financial means to safely take risks; harder because it\u2019s uncharted territory for both me and the clients and because there\u2019s a lack of legal, administrative, and marketing tools. I hope that as things progress the barriers will lower, making the model accessible to more and more people.\u201d Inspiring!</p><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2023/02/01/shotspotter-employees-not-only-have-the-power-to-alter-gunshot-reports-but-do-it-nearly-10-of-the-time\">ShotSpotter Employees Not Only Have The Power To Alter Gunshot Reports, But Do It Nearly 10% Of The Time.</a> \u201cShotSpotter\u2019s human techs don\u2019t just alter reports to distinguish things like a car\u2019s backfiring from a suspected criminal\u2019s gun firing. They also alter determinations and gunshot locations to better serve the needs of law enforcement agencies that interact with them.\u201d</p>"
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So right now, #IndieWeb and #ActivityPub won't actually do more for you than #MicroBlog membership and the #ShareOnMastodon plugin BUT they have the potential to do more if the developers focus more on making it so that we at least get the same thing from them for our site identities that our meat connected identities get from Share on Mastodon. And #SyndicationLinks needs to post a link to where we can get the dang token. /end rant
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"html": "<p>So right now, <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> won't actually do more for you than <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/MicroBlog\">#<span>MicroBlog</span></a> membership and the <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ShareOnMastodon\">#<span>ShareOnMastodon</span></a> plugin BUT they have the potential to do more if the developers focus more on making it so that we at least get the same thing from them for our site identities that our meat connected identities get from Share on Mastodon. And <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SyndicationLinks\">#<span>SyndicationLinks</span></a> needs to post a link to where we can get the dang token. /end rant</p>",
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“The #IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of:
owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data.”
Learn more at https://indieweb.org
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I’ve gone full Web 1.0 and added a #GuestBook to my new yet intentionally old school #adhd #blog - drop by and say something!
I’ve been reading up on #Webmentions and the #IndieWeb today and feel that I’ve got to be the change I want to see so supporting IndieWeb protocols & principles is important.
One of the use-cases mentioned was to allow people to comment on a site in general - which made me think of Ye Olde Guest Book.
https://whatwasidoingagain.com/guest-book/
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So what #IndieWeb is good for is to join a community of other webmasters and make a wiki page that will probably never be read because #GoogleSoldOut but it's nice to feel welcome somewhere. I don't underestimate the value of community validation. It is a reasonable vetting process to make sure someone has a domain and can install a plugin for this.
It's also a good thing to introduce people to microformats, h-cards, and other things that will make them easier to find since Google sold out.
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@Arp Woah - the reply to the post appeared as a comment on the site 🤯
#Webmention #ActivityPub #WordPress #Comments #IndieWeb
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So in this thread, the developers in #ActivityPub and #IndieWeb are going to get a little of the side smoke that really belongs in #WordPress 's lungs, but y'all should catch some because if you're going to make tools for us you need to be paying attention to us. Some of you might be, but maybe some of this is Google's fault since nowadays if you search, people like me are invisible. You're only going to see ____ digital solutions, not ____ cat pics, hand sewn plush, and social commentary.
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Frustration kicking in... facing the prospect of a yet another new project nobody will appreciate until it's gone... taking a step back... Okay, I need to articulate some things about IndieWeb and ActivityPub on Wordpress. I am finding some features useful and some not very. In the end, I would recommend to other webmasters to not go through the bother, and just make a Microblog account, feed in your feeds, and install Share on Mastodon. Now the why.
#IndieWeb #ActivityPub #WordPress
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Micropub token to enable bridgy mastodon publish
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anyone out there using indieauth protocol for their apps/sites?
#fediverse #indieweb
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There are a few options for sending and receiving Webmentions on static sites: indieweb.org/static_site.
I don’t have experience with those, but the indieweb chat has a helpful community if you have questions: indieweb.org/discuss
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