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kissane

@kissane@mas.to

Working on governance, risk, and social patterns across federated systems. Previously: COVID Tracking Project + Mozilla Foundation + editorial and community advocacy in tech and culture orgs.

I want our tools and networks to be better in more ways for more people in more places. Also: Books, care, plants, very old bones, humane journalism, magic as technology.

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Traumkaempfer, to Bloomscrolling
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Diese Veilchen blühen dieses Jahr wild auf unserem Balkon. Und weil sie so hübsch aussehen, haben wir sie da bisher auch gelassen.

donni, to random
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Sorry I missed your thing, I randomly forgot about all events and situations

stefan, to fediverse
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Probably the worst (definitely the longest) chart I've ever made. But it was fun!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-activity-report-1/

#fediverse #SocialMedia #dataviz #data

interfluidity, to random
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even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)

b0rk, (edited )
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I was going to post “the 1000 free copies of How Git Works for folks who can't afford it have all been claimed, I'll release more when we sell 2000 copies"

But then I went to check this morning and we've already sold 2000 copies of the zine??? So I guess we're giving away another 1000 copies now. https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

more details in this post: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112552672907642693

b0rk, to random
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WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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"There, amongst the Neanderthal genome, they found snippets of DNA that resembled three modern viruses..." https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-known-human-viruses-found-in-50000-year-old-neanderthal-bones

baldur, to random
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“11ty Goes Fully Independent—JS Party —zachleat.com”

https://www.zachleat.com/web/jsparty-indie-11ty/

> I’ve been blown away by the response so far, y’all are amazing. At time of this post we’re currently at 56% of the goal.

mcc, to random
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A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

vga256, (edited ) to art
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i waited for over 12 years for artist Lyndal Osborne’s handcrafted imaginary bio organisms to come back to the Alberta Gallery of Art, and they finally did. she taught at UofA, and her works always give expression to the oceanic palette of her childhood home in NSW, Aus.

this exhibit is composed of handmade seeds, blown up 10000x their size, as if through a microscope

if you happen to be in edmonton, drop by the AGA to see this piece - it is up on the third floor.

#art #yegdt #yeg #painting

nightdream, to Bloomscrolling
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African Iris I saw yesterday after work. The wind made it hard to frame and focus.

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Walking #Photo

MarieVC, to academia
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Finally had the time to rent this book (yeah for the orders open to all at the University of Luxembourg!).

That's what I like about research, the space to explore different ways of communicating and discussing results.

#SmallData #Academia

Final part of the book ‘Small Data is Beautiful’, a musical score composed by Rowan McNaught, titled ‘Coda’.

MarieVC,
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"While suggesting that there is individual work to be done often gets derided as ‘neoliberal’, it’s often the personal connections we can make and the way we can use data to show people how climate crisis affects their lives that can help us mobilise for broader forms of advocacy at structural levels." (@roopikarisam)

#ClimateDiary #SmallData

stephaniewalter, to random
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Open Database of Design Salaries: a list of salaries of designer, across industries, experience level and geographic location.
There’s less data outside of North America, so people, they need you to participate!

https://designx.community/salary/

kissane, to random
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throwing this on the DO NOT ORDER MORE BOOKS UNTIL THE TBR PILE IS NOT A STRUCTURAL HAZARD ERIN pile

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259803/they-flew/

jcalpickard,
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@kissane quietly making things worse https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-who-fly-9780195307887

erictopol, to random
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A systematic review of airplane flights and Covid infections: duration of flight correlated with infection risk, long flights> 6 hours markedly increased risk (25X) and mask use blocked them
https://mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/6/654

inthehands, to random
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The author’s direct observations at USC, backed up by national study: “With few exceptions, the encampments have been overwhelmingly peaceful, well-organized microsocieties.” “The image of a lawless, violent, antisemitic pro-Palestinian mob stands completely at odds with the reality.”

But people •were• violence at USC. Who?

inthehands,
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Just in case it’s not obvious: there is another way. And it’s the obvious one.

There was no violence at the college where I teach. There was a multi-day occupation of a campus building in support of Palestine and in support of peace — but no police, no violence. Why?

Because the administration actually •talked• to the protestors, while publicly defending their first amendment rights. They worked together on a specific plan of action, and the occupation ended. That’s it. The one weird trick.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on Friday May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

Jaqspur, to random
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Mended a hole with a soot sprite :anidab_left:

The same as the first picture but not on a foot

Toastie, to portland
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As extractive “wildcrafting” has become popular, supposedly treaty-protected access to ancestral gathering sites has diminished, says Michelle Week (Sinixt, Arrow Lakes), who runs x̌ast sq̓it, an Indigenous foods farm near .

“You have the privilege to go out and gather these things without fear of harassment, but my community, who’s native to this place, we just don’t have that luxury.”

https://www.hcn.org/articles/a-wildflower-is-teaching-the-non-native-public-about-food-sovereignty/

Jgbird, to random

Black-chinned hummingbird disputing its characterization.

jessamyn, to random
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I do some work that involves one-time emailing people from my domain about a service they applied for. I use a lot of form letters. I am continually battling with my email hosting provider about the content of these emails, they reject them to b/c they look too spammy.

I get that spam is a scourge and I sympathize, but it's wild how much of a dark art spam fighting is. So far I've had to remove my "hello" greeting and add a fake unsub link (they're not subscribed) just to send outgoing emails.

jessamyn,
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More to the point--and I swear I am not being a grumpy "I hate change and learning technology" person, I love a challenge--all the time I take trying to learn the shifting spam rules and testing new variants of my email, is time being taken away from my work helping folks.

So either the volunteer work takes more of my time, or I have less overall time available for helping people. As I've said in the past, economies of scale for corporations easily become "economies of hassle" for individuals.

molly0xfff, to random
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“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

urschrei, to random
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As if the prospect of a “programming language conference” wasn't unpalatable enough – three days in a foul conference centre surrounded by the socially anxious and/or inept – having to suffer through a load of angry men in their forties screaming about masks is, I think, the final nail in the coffin. I'm going to start a programming language forest camp instead. A local duck has kindly agreed to talk about recent advances in practical approaches to substructural typing, so it’s got legs I think.

urschrei,
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The chances that Helena the otter – who is my friend, very interested in perf engineering in the Python compiler btw: – will ever send me a link to the Cochrane review of studies related to physical measures to reduce or prevent the spread of respiratory viruses is essentially zero; she is an otter. She may wish to show me the rock tool she keeps in her chest pouch, though.

xoxo, to random
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🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! https://2024.xoxofest.com/

xoxo,
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This year’s conference lineup includes Molly White of Web3 Is Going Just Great (@molly0xfff), Sweet Baby Inc’s Kim Belair, Folding Ideas documentarian Dan Olson, writer/researcher Erin Kissane (@kissane), Aftermath co-founder Gita Jackson, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Ed Yong, and Hugo-winning author/podcaster Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane).

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