Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@social.cleverlibre.org

Today is my 1 month anniversary of signing up for Mastodon. A few observations—after spending 13+ years on Twitter:

•The Mastodon community is kinder & more focused on lifting one another up than tearing down.

•Mastodon is learning from Twitter's mistakes by including accessibility options, incorporating an edit button, & not centralizing everything

•Engagement is not dependent on clickbait or outrage, but genuine positive content.

None of the above are absolutes, but overall, glad I'm here.

Virginia County Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack https://www.securityweek.com/virginia-county-confirms-personal-information-stolen-ransomware-attack

Released v2.0.0 of my #Twitter Archive Importer for #WordPress.

https://github.com/shawnhooper/twitter-archive-to-wp

Major changes (see readme for full changelog):

* Save tweet into post_content instead of post_title
* Save the original tweet URL as _tweet_url postmeta
* Wrap links with <a> tags.
* Skip tweet if it has already been imported in previous run
* Added actions & filters at key points in import process

Archive.org digitised the Vinyl LP collection of the Boston Library. I had a listen to "Heroes, Gods and Monsters of The Greek", which is amazing - the crackling of the vinyl is especially charming.
https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

I updated my YouTube playlist of past keynotes, workshops & presentations I've shared: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcCkQ9mj_ok-o0_MOw1ExGJ46CgC_icx9

I added about 20 recorded webinars from the past 3 years focusing on remote learning, technology integration, Google Tools, etc. #edtech #MediaLit #NCed

It’s that time of year again! We’re thrilled to kick off our Best of 2022 collection with a list of our 10 most-read #Longreads originals. These essays and reported stories are not to be missed!

https://longreads.com/2022/11/29/best-of-most-read-popular-longreads-originals-of-the-year/

Hello! We're the OptOut Media Foundation—a nonprofit charity with a mission to educate the public about current events and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting and assisting independent news outlets and, in doing so, advance democracy and social justice.

Journalists, not tech algorithms, curate our free news aggregation app and newsletters. We're excited to see how we can further promote indy media on Mastodon.

More about us: https://www.optout.news/about/

#introduction

Trigona ransomware spotted in increasing attacks worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trigona-ransomware-spotted-in-increasing-attacks-worldwide/

#Security

If you've got a story you think our readers want to read, and you're the right person to tell it, pitch us. Here's how: https://www.texasobserver.org/pitch/

(We are a paying market at .50/word for freelance writers.)

#journalism

Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage

https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/11/29/2211207/dropbox-acquires-boxcryptor-assets-to-bring-zero-knowledge-encryption-to-file-storage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#encryption

Torrent Site User Who Transferred 120TB of Pirated Content Avoids Prison

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/11/29/223228/torrent-site-user-who-transferred-120tb-of-pirated-content-avoids-prison?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#piracy

What a great talk about internet privacy, thanks @alexwinter!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luvthTjC0OI

#privacy #internet

Community belongs to you, not the software it runs upon.

One donut to rule them all.

Education is about changing humans. When our students leave our classrooms, we expect they can do things, see things, and think things they could not before the class. If our students leave with their abilities unchanged, then they (and we) have wasted their time and energy and money while there.
#edutooter #education #teaching

Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zm9q/elon-musk-twitter-nazis-white-supremacy

New Report from Global Google Research Project Considers the 'Future of Education'

Global Trends and 'Preparing for the Future' Highlighted in First of Three Reports

https://thejournal.com/articles/2022/11/29/new-report-from-global-google-research-project-considers-the-future-of-education.aspx