Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

Wenn wir die Erdscheibe einfach umdrehen, erhalten wir jene kühle Seite, die vom Klimawandel noch völlig unberührt ist. Problem gelöst.

Ich werde das jetzt in Schwurblerkreisen verbreiten. Das wird lustig.

You may have already heard that the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach is building a digital archive of materials about Gebr. Klingspor’s typeface. On Fontstand News, this archive’s architects explain how it all came about.

In the richly-illustrated article, Leonie Martin and Laura Brunner (turbo type) explain their project’s background, process, and where this is all going to lead: https://fontstand.com/news/essays/a-digital-visit-to-offenbach/

Twitter killt die freie API und damit viele spannende Projekte.

Du hast einen Bot und brauchst eine neue Heimat? Wir bieten dir ein neues Zuhause!

https://bot.swiss.social/about

Available in #OpenAccess: «Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology»

#DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110729214/html

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, who died on this day in 1970, on how to grow old: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/

In light of recent developments regarding the #twitter API (it will no longer be free) and the likely ripple effects this will have on other websites and services, I humbly submit this updated version of an old #xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Just in case anyone is feeling this way but doesn’t know how to express it: an academic career does at pretty much every stage require you to learn how to produce entirely new genres of writing, often on the fly—we often provide too little guidance & too few models for each one, with some strange expectation that folks will just figure it out.

Figured out research papers? Write a dissertation!

Finished the diss? Make it a book! Write a grant proposal!

Did those things? Write a statements of your research, service, & teaching philosophies for your dossier!

Case in point, just this semester—nearly 2 decades after I started grad school!—I wrote my very 1st letters evaluating tenure cases—another entirely new genre I’ve never once read, because I was always on the other side of that process.

So just: it’s not that you can’t write or think—it’s maybe that you’re being asked to think & write in new genres all the time

So. We all know what the spoons theory (#spoonie) is. You might even have heard of the derivative #fork theory as it pertains to mental health.

But Pina (a.k.a. ADHD Alien) has given people with #ADHD the perfect metaphor for our struggle with executive dysfunction: Buttons.

http://adhd-alien.com/2019/07/16/why-can-you-do-it-now/

Now for there to be a button emoji that isn't a generic circle or circle-in-a-circle. 🥺

Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir discuter des enjeux de la préservation du jeu vidéoà la RTS. Merci beaucoup de nous avoir donné l'occasion de faire découvrir ce sujet.

https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/forum/video/forum-des-idees-les-jeux-video-un-patrimoine-a-preserver?urn=urn:rts:video:13750209

#textverdunkelung #neuigkeiten #frage

#Twitter geht einmal mehr rücksichtslos gegen die eigene Community vor, indem es seine kostenlose Schnittstelle abschaltet. Der Schritt gefährdet nicht nur zahlreiche Non-Profit-Projekte, sondern auch Wissenschaft und Journalismus. Ein Kommentar.

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/ende-der-kostenlosen-api-musk-zerstoert-was-twitter-gross-gemacht-hat/

Schöner Text darüber, was Bücher in einem Haus aussagen bzw. nicht aussagen. https://www.tor.com/2023/02/02/theres-nothing-wrong-with-anyones-personal-library/

We are truly in the post-API age (Freelon 2018): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2018.1477506

Good night and good luck to all the social computing and computational social scientists out there.

Jetzt handeln! Microsoft stellt kostenloses Teams ein, löscht Daten im April

Seine klassische Gratisversion von MS Teams hat Microsoft abgekündigt. Nutzer sollen aufs kostenpflichtige Teams Essentials umsteigen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Jetzt-handeln-Microsoft-stellt-kostenloses-Teams-ein-loescht-Daten-im-April-7480475.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#CloudComputing #Microsoft #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftTeams #news

Their bodies are used to sand the rough edges and sharp corners off the technology, to normalize it so that it can climb up through the social ranks, imposed on people with more and more power and influence. 20 years ago, if you ate your dinner under an always-on #CCTV, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you bought a premium home surveillance system from Google, Amazon or Apple.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/impunity-corrodes/#arise-ye-prisoners

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#Netflix has unveiled the details of its new anti-#PasswordSharing policy, detailing a suite of complex gymnastics that customers will be expected to undergo if their living arrangements trigger Netflix's automated enforcement mechanisms:

https://thestreamable.com/news/confirmed-netflix-unveils-first-details-of-new-anti-password-sharing-measures

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes

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For important categories, ambiguity is a feature, not a bug. The fact that you can write anything on an envelope (including a direction to deliver the letter to the granny flat over the garage, not the front door) means that we don't have to define "address" - we can leave it usefully hairy around the edges.

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