Eight years ago, almost to the day, I took a photo in the Palais des congrès de Montréal. Just now, I took the same photo again. If you look closely, some of the shops on the right seem to have closed. Otherwise, not much change. Same building, same awesome architecture.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

This video breaks down why two often-confused factions on the right are not the same thing: hardline Christian nationalism (“builders”) vs. the Groyper, black-pilled accelerationist scene (“burners”). I unpack how meme aesthetics, irony, and shock culture function as recruitment, status, and […]

'Chilling': Chris Hayes reacts to Jimmy Kimmel suspension following Trump FCC threats ABC has “indefinitely” pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air after Trump’s FCC chair criticized the host’s Charlie Kirk comments. “This is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump's ongoing campaign to crack […]

I know it’s to keep away bots but I like to imagine they had to do this to keep ants from editing their own pages.

MONTREAL! TONIGHT!

Awesome exhibition and film about architect Carla Juaçaba's creation of a museum/school with a coffee farmers cooperative in Minas Gerais, Brazil. https://www.archdaily.com/1031331/cca-releases-documentary-on-carla-juacabas-work-to-support-forest-conservation-in-brazils-coffee-region I have seen […]

Now that I'm in Montreal, @tomgauld.bsky.social is reading here from his comics, and Kula Shaker (don't know him? Give a listen to his song Tattva) is playing here his new album, and both tomorrow (Friday) the same night?! 🤯 So the overlapping group of folks currently in Montreal loving both Tom […]

#eduroam is one of the most wonderful things of global academia. #oat25

Now Michael Radmacher presenting on UVic's Transgender Archive, at the KULA launch symposium!

Enjoying the talks + discussion with Richard Bovenden (author "Burning the books"), Leslie Weir (Librarian and Archivist of Canada) and Michael Witmore (former director Folger Shakespeare Library) at the KULA Academy launch. Thanks @jmhuculak for this super interesting lineup. 🤩

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

"With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They're an essential part of MAGA and so people really don't want to see what is undeniable." […]

This is the "entartete Kunst" moment of Trump's movement, started with "cleansing" the Smithsonian museums. (My words, not WaPos.) Good idea to have a close look at the paintings we are supposed to despise […]

The University of Utrecht is cancelling the #webofscience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex. https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026 "Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial […]

Every time I hear about how the ATmosphere isn't decentralized enough... and then I see things like Laurens' regular newsletter showing how much non-Bluesky PBC development of incredibly cool stuff is happening... (this is just a snippet, full newsletter has more):

"Whether or not community archives identify themselves as cultural or political endeavors, the very act of taking control over the documentation and storytelling about one's own community calls attention to issues of power and politics manifest in more traditional approaches to creating and […]

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

Today is Thunderfest, a welcoming event at the beginning of fall semester at the UVic campus. @jdd together with library colleagues are presenting a real, well maintained Altair 8800i, from 1975, in the library entrance area. Next to it, some stations […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

DeepL verfolgt einen eigenen Weg im KI-Wettrennen: Statt maximaler Ressourcen wie OpenAI oder reiner Nutzung fremder Basistechnologien setzt man auf einen Mittelweg. Ziel: mit deutlich weniger Aufwand klassenbeste Resultate – spezialisiert auf konkrete Anwendungen. #ki #deepl #NLP #innovation […]

It will be a whole new level of hypocrisy if they manage this whilst they've actively campaigned against sensible gun control measures — mass shootings by trans people represent only 0.087% of all mass shootings. This is all another way to fearmonger about 1% of the US population […]

Fallacies of #distributed Systems -- extended version (attached slide) ⇒ full talk: https://www.draketo.de/software/p2p-talk ⇒ full slides: https://www.draketo.de/software/p2p-talk.pdf #p2p #decentralization #decentralized #software #programming #talk #lecture

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer: “This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Diese wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften sind auf Mastodon aktiv: 🔹 Astronomische Gesellschaft @GermanAstroSoc 🔹Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum @DHd 🔹Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts @DGEJ 🔹Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft @DGfE_eV 🔹 […]

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.

NxWorries and Sleater-Kinney are the headliners of #rifflandia Day 3 (Saturday, September 13) at the Matullia Lands, Rock Bay, Victoria BC. I consider going there. 🤔🎶🏝️

Somehow interesting how humanity finds again and again - often VERY surprisingly - how getting rid of private property dictating every aspect of our lives somehow is possible and (gasp) makes things better overall? 😱 […]

Today I'm giving a small workshop "Citizen Science for Academic Librarians" together with @Dieter_Boolean in UVic Libraries' Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC). Some bragging about @tibosl projects is part of the curriculum. 🤠

Ziviler Ungehorsam auf Plattformen wie Google Maps - schlau und sympathisch, worüber in @tazgetroete hier berichtet wird. Aber wie immer gilt hier: die völlige Kontrolle über diese Plattform hat Google, so, wie Meta Facebook und Insta kontrolliert. Aktionen, die (und sei es als unbeabsichtigter […]

Karen Munro (UVic's Assistant University Librarian Engagement & Learning) welcoming Dawn Schell (UVic's Student Wellness Counsellor) for the libraries' "Who are our students?" event, a regular event the week before the semester starts. Ca. 20 participants […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

https://xkcd.com/2347/ recursion

Open Source is eating the world https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux/114982807401777153

Missing Link: Metas große AR-Wette – was die AR-Brille Orion einzigartig macht Metas AR-Brille Orion ist ein wahnwitziges Stück Technik, das zehn Jahre in Entwicklung war und Milliarden verschlang. Bei genauerem Hinsehen zeigt sich warum […]

Sorry, Raghav Sethi (@muo_official ): You're getting confused by talking about two different meanings of "replacing" Windows. Your article is about installing a new OS on your computer, not about using Linux, although its title claims otherwise. If you want to have a Computer where the hardware […]

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram. 2. What Instagram put over her post.

@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.

Many EU member countries have a rich colonial past, e.g. France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium... (I know, Germany too - but this is off my topic here.) Do you know any museum from any of such country who would be interested to work with us on a European funded project about taking […]

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

I absolutely adore such "infiinte dives" Before you scream: This is *not* fucking "ai". It's digital art by Daisuke Fujikawa.

USA: We ♥️ Las Vegas tourists, now more than ever 🤠😎🥳 Canadians: (...) USA: But, but, hey, ICE is only after the bad guys 😰 Canadians: (...) [picture 1: today's news headlines in Canada] picture 2: from this year's CA gov tourism industry report [ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

"President Trump didn’t like what he was seeing on his TV screens these past few weeks, so he decided to change the story. (...) The authoritarian stunt was largely successful: mentions of the Epstein revelations dropped by 71% and budget bill coverage fell by 29%, replaced by imagery of federal […]

Thank you Monique Grenier (Open Science & RDM at UVic Libraries) for inviting me to be a guest at Victoria's new #openscience community meetup - it's both an honour and a pleasure. ☺️ https://osc-international.com/members/?filter_osc_e60cd=OSC%20Victoria It reminds me of my effort together with […]

USA: We ♥️ Las Vegas tourists, now more than ever 🤠😎🥳 Canadians: (...) USA: But, but, hey, ICE is only after the bad guys 😰 Canadians: (...) [picture 1: today's news headlines in Canada] picture 2: from this year's CA gov tourism industry report [ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

No digital sovereignty without open source, warns OSBA https://www.heise.de/en/news/No-digital-sovereignty-without-open-source-warns-OSBA-10518946.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into heise online in English @heise-online-in-english-heiseonline

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline "which way, American man?" Why did they use that word language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those […] [Original post on c.im]