Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@social.cleverlibre.org

Thought-provoking piece from @deevybee on fraud and junk science. Including a proposal for an MSc in Defence Against The Dark Arts to train scientists to spot fraud.

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/11/defence-against-dark-arts-proposal-for.html

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Here’s a poem called ‘The Caveman’s Lament’, believed to have been written around 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

It is considered to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem.

Wholesome hashtags on the Fediverse:

#BreadPosting - Baked things

#TootFic - Small stories

#AskFedi - Random questions

#Introduction - New people

#Florespondence - Flowers

#FediDogs - Doggos

#Caturday - Cats

#Mosstodon - Moss

#LichenSubscribe - Lichen

#Sporespondence - Fungi

#SportsBall - Sport

#MastoArt - Art

#NP & #NowPlaying - Music

#AmReading - Currently reading

#SFFBookClub - Sci-fi & fantasy books

#VendrediLecture - French-language books

#MastoRadio - Italian music chat

Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?

After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?

#Firefox #Browser #IndieWeb #RSS

So... We had a long but rewarding day of discussing #OpenAccess for #journals and #books at the #Charleston #conference . Thanks for all that stopped by. Tomorrow: seeing presentations and having more meetings on #ScholComm

Clean them beans! #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage
 https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Early-Morning/73DD28CD07D9D794

Favorite ROR IDs of the week: New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation https://ror.org/005r1rh48, Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (aka Botswana Wild Dog Research Project) https://ror.org/046sdzq93, and Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation https://ror.org/02tdxsk76

I wish more people did these. It's fun to learn odd little things:

First job - Stop
Current job - Sending
Dream Job - Your
Favorite food- Potential
Favorite dog - Passwords
Favorite footwear- Or
Favorite Candy bar - Memorable
Favorite Ice Cream - Data
Your Vehicle colour - To
Favorite Holiday - People
Night owl/earlybird - Who
Favorite day - Collect
Tattoos - This
Favorite colour- For
Like vegetables - Social
Wear glasses - Engineering