Shares welcome: Asking on behalf of someone, because I don’t have a good answer for them: What is a recommended book for Linux, for someone who doesn’t know the command line?

Activismo adolescente y pedagogías feministas: pensar lo digital como territorio Congreso de Ciberfeminismo visibiliza cómo adolescentes producen conocimiento feminista en Instagram. ¿Cómo fisurar un territorio corporativo donde "sus dueños" deciden qué amplifica el algoritmo? Lo digital es […]

What if every project on GitHub had a ACCESSIBILITY.md Would this commitment at the root of a project change anything? This is a rough draft of what it could look like: https://mgifford.github.io/ACCESSIBILITY.md #accessibility #opensource

Tip for ESL speakers when you’re looking for a new job, say “I lost my job,” “I was let go” or “I was laid off.” Don’t say “I was fired” unless you are intentionally being very clear that *you* fucked up and your employer was big mad.

so this is something I think about a lot in my work at Global Voices, but this is my personal opinion, not org policy. historically GV stories, and translations, are mostly contributor driven, because they're mostly done by volunteers. to me, the idea of telling stories people want to tell is vital

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect. #technology https://werd.io/the-political-effects-of-xs-feed-algorithm/

New study: "Our results also show #ai #search surfaces significantly fewer long tail information sources, lower response variety, and significantly more low credibility and right- and center-leaning information sources, compared to traditional search." https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13415

Very interesting article! "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." […]

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Two weeks from today! Join Translate Science for our next online panel, Translating research software: Localization of the Sketch Engine user interface. RSVP on Mobilizon with your Mobilizon ID or email. Help spread the word, boosts appreciated! […]

BOOST OR QUOTE THIS! Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/116046300273763120 In case you were unaware of the Project Gutenberg new books account, or this offering in particular.

We saw this pattern in infrastructure cuts during the shutdown, cuts alleging social services fraud, cuts to contractors under DOGE: all targeted to blue states. It is an obviously partisan abuse of power, brazen and on a scale we simply have not seen before. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Do you make commercial digital art and take commissions? I'm working on a project for a new, local, independent appliance repair service, and they need a logo and header image for the web site. Looking for links to artist portfolios. (please boost for reach)

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, February 24th and join Translate Science for our next event. Our guest will be Christopher Hertweck, talking about localizing the user interface of Sketch Engine, a tool for creating and analyzing text corpora, from English into German as part of an internship […]

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Do we know of any public #libraries that have set up their own instance for news and whatnot in the #fediverse ?

Update. "Beginning February 11, 2026, #arxiv will require that all submissions have a full English-language version, either as the original language or as an included translation." https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/21/upcoming-policy-change-to-non-english-language-paper-submissions/ Coverage of […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@TranslateScience/115985407289166285 Mark your calendar and plan to attend! Translating research software: Localization of the Sketch Engine user interface #openscience #translation #localization #researchsoftware

Cornwall councillors banned from using social media platform https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx479625dno "A town council in Cornwall has agreed to stop using a social media platform for official business. Marazion Town Council said it was one of the first 213 councils in Cornwall to ban the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@civictech/115985602402934782 This seems like more of an educational opportunity than a job, but a great opportunity for the right folks.

The French government is ditching U.S. videoconferencing services such as Zoom. Over the next year, civil servants will start using an open-source videoconferencing platform called Visio. This is part of a family of programs, Suite Numérique, designed to eventually replace all collaboration […]

Happening now! Excellent opening remarks from Beth Jarosz: "If data were frivolous, people wouldn't be trying to erase it."

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

Are there any "case studies" of whole communities moving to the fediverse, similar to the Forkiverse? I'm thinking about writing a version of my article https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/ and aim it at community organizers. #fediverse #community

In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.

America's dynamism & vitality & creativity arose out of its constant, intense, fluid *mobility*. Over time, mobility has decreased, NIMBYs & zoning have frozen people into place, and we've become less dynamic, less vital, less creative. We need to get moving again.