If you've never had to pay much attention to how other people treat you online (and I hate to generalise, but I'm going to guess that - if that's the case - you may be able-bodied white CIS man with certain immigration status) then maybe you don't have much insight into all the hidden labour that others have to do to minimise exposure to unsafe behaviours.
And there is, let me tell you, a *lot* of hidden labour.
The people in the neighborhood wanted a bridge over the creek. The city had no funding for #PedestrianInfrastructure for something like that. But they did get an #art grant, so they hired an artist to create an art installation that would span the creek that people could walk on.
This is a long shot but if anyone is in #Birmingham this Saturday, come to my dance party
https://energyflow.rodeo/energy-flow-002/
"ENERGY FLOW is a transference and intermingling party of shared deep grooves and en-tranced acid bass. Between bodies – between djs and dancers. Playing a late night drawl – a lateral drawl – a late night libidinal drawl of deep, house n disco cuts, acid trance and bass."
☞ today November 30 is the 15th Blue Beanie Day, an annual international celebration and support of Web standards.
Many thanks to all who help to develop standards, and promote the open web, and thanks to @zeldman for starting it in 2007!
Listen to what our Founder and Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said when asked what part of the W3C’s work he’s the most proud of:
https://youtu.be/qdNQ3dyALAM
Both my sci fi novels Reconfigure and the follow up Cont3xt are #free on kindle the next few days for #cybermonday. Links to global stores are on http://reconfigurebook.Co.uk and Http://cont3xtbooj.Co.uk Enjoy (and if you do then a review costs you nothing too but means a lot to me)
Whining about Windows
And now it's decided to litter up the desktop with useless shortcuts to things that aren't installed / don't exist on this computer. Brilliant, brilliant!
Whining about Windows
I love (by which I mean can't flipping stand) how #Windows is always turning on OneDrive no matter how many times I try to get rid of it, and then producing lots of icons called "Where are my files?".
Dude, if you don't know, I certainly don't! Maybe you could stop randomly relocating them all the time, and we wouldn't have this problem.
On the desktop of my brand new #FrameworkLaptop, it just for some reason added a file called "My License", which appears to want to be the license info for some previous Windows computer, but a actually leads to, like, a dead link somewhere.
Oh, #Microsoft, you are so bad at pretty much everything!
when I decided to stop uploading my music to spotify it felt risky, but I'm grateful for all the support I've received.
thanks to everyone who has picked up some tunes over the past few years ❤️
https://nullsleep.bandcamp.com
RT @UMAW_@twitter.com
Sick lineup 🤘 link in bio to tell your reps to sign on to UMAW and @RepRashida@twitter.com’s resolution for a new streaming royalty! #JusticeAtSpotify
Club Q in Colorado Springs is running a gofundme for staff and community members responding to the mass shooting hate crime which killed 5 and injured 18... It needs much more attention, only 27 people so far have donated a total of less than $2000! https://www.gofundme.com/f/official-club-q-fundraiser
“Cubical ethnography: Another kind of fieldwork” - Paula Martin
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.2.793
#anthropology #aiart #midjourney #academia @anthropology #InstitutionalEthnography #Gender #Medicine #EthicsReview #UnitedStates #Bureaucracy
Really looking forward to attending #Informed next week, especially the just-added talk between Yoel Roth and Kara Swisher.
Anyone else going? I'll be there from the perspective of protecting whistleblowers and sources.
Virtual sign up for those not going to Miami:
https://informed22.interkinnect.com/
Update on my Mastodon client adventures (https://macaw.social/@yoyoel/109376999311188245):
Metatext on iOS was by far the most recommended, and is quite good. Highly configurable, and rock-solid.
Things I’m still hoping for in future clients:
- Notification aggregation (like the Twitter like/RT facepile)
- Better reply threading and context in the home timeline
- Delightful interface touches. I’m spoiled by @tapbots; their apps aren’t just functional, they bring joy
A friend of mine is getting laid off. If anyone has openings for it ops/devops that I can pass along, please let me know! #hiring #jobstodon
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