Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

It looks like critical info, like phone numbers & emails, for every single Twitter account is now up for sale c/o a total data breach.
https://twitter.com/c7five/status/1606724099530694658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1606724099530694658%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
#Twitter

Holloways - from the Anglo-Saxon ‘hola weg’, or sunken road - are ancient green lanes carved over centuries by livestock, wagon wheels and human feet.

Locals call this one Hunt’s Lane but you won’t find that name on a map. Shivers down your spine are guaranteed as you follow in the footsteps of countless others and wonder: what errands were all those folk doing, what was on their mind?

#holloway #archaeology #medieval #history #environment #Somerset #Quantocks

For your Christmas cheer a Doctor Who Christmas song featuring Daleks. From the 1960s. #Christmas #music #1960s #Daleks #Dalek

https://youtu.be/SSxmnKWGGvY

The wind-chill temperature here in Minnesota today is about -40 F. Yikes!

By the way, here’s a fun fact!

-40 F is exactly the same temperature as -40 C. It’s the only temperate level where that’s true.

And they’re both really f-ing cold…

Northern lights in Fairbanks, Alaska last night as photographed by Maia Hartwigsen.
#NorthernLights #Alaska

ICYMI @neilhimself reads Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Cue it up to the 10min mark) https://on.soundcloud.com/uwxSv #TisTheSeason

The #Jan6 Committee report is out. The details are damning.

Read it here and pass it on.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23514928-report_finalreport_jan6selectcommittee

Hey folklore people! Good news. After hosting #MythologyMonday on the birdsite for three years now, @AimeeMaroux and I are also bringing it to Mastodon!

Give the project a follow (@mythologymonday) and tune in next Monday to join the fun.

See you then!
#Folklore #FolkloreThursday #Mythology

In the spirit of the holidays, we have a gift for the best fans in the world: more Death & Dream.

This deleted scene from The Sandman episode "The Sound of Her Wings" gives us a little more insight into why Death is the way she is. We hope you enjoy it.

- Neil, Allan & David

Beautiful stitchwork by
Narumi Takada

https://instagram.com/nrm_takada?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
#embroidery #cat #Paw #CatPaw #stitch #art #MastoArt

New website launched today by the nation's first academic center focused solely on student debt and the law features:
- unique resources on ongoing developments in #StudentLoan law and regulation,
- key information on SLLI’s efforts to support #StudentDebt scholarship, and
- a one-stop tracker for facts and materials on litigation related to the Biden Administration’s student #DebtRelief plan.

Website: https://www.slli.org/

Press release: https://protectborrowers.org/uc-student-loan-law-initiative-launches-new-website-featuring-debt-relief-litigation-tracker-and-research-hub/

#LawFedi #LawProfs

The sound of an Olivetti Studio 44 #typewriter. It's at Conserve the Sound, a marvellous collection of once-familiar #sounds, as intensely evocative as the smell of hay or Plasticine or peat smoke (or whatever it is that does it for you)
#ConserveTheSound
https://www.conservethesound.de/sound/schreibmaschine-olivetti-studio-44.html

I know that #ChatGPT is so last week, but I've been think about implications for drafting and working on #Contracts and #LegalWriting with AI-assistance (which is why I like to think AI is about "Augmented Intelligence" and not artificial intelligence).

I was discussing with our R&D team using AI to assist in contract drafting... so I asked ChatGPT to write a contract for a cow being sold for magical beans... and then to write it in musical form.

#LegalTech #LawFedi

I was today years old when I discovered that @neilhimself wrote an episode of #Babylon5.

Rewatching B5 and in particular the Day of the Dead episode which features Penn and Teller.

Mind blown.

A little BBC Radio 4 news: You can hear the audio adaptation of my story The Sleeper and the Spindle in the UK on the radio on the 24th and the 26th, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qm49, and hear me with the BBC Symphony on Friday & Friday Week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cl2r and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cp2b. And after broadcast they will be available anywhere in the world using the websites or the BBC Sounds App.

@neilhimself Ah, now it feels like the holiday season has truly begun with the traditional "Neil Gaiman explains how to listen to BBC outside the UK" Thank you and can't wait to listen to it!