Will the last small site turn off the lights?
The UK Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs, forums and fedi instances as huge platforms.
Many small, safely moderated sites will shut down or block UK users.
Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet!
Act now before 17 March ⬇️
#SaveOurSites 🌐
action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…
#fediverse #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #mastodon #activitypub #ukpolitics #ukpol #netplurality
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
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#art #mastoart #illustration #bd
Mastodon is short on #artists, so let's take good care of the ones we have 🥲🥲🥲
And add any suggestions below!
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Claire Fauvel (@clairefauvel@piaille.fr)
7 Messages, 31 Abonnements, 159 Abonné·e·s · 🗡️Autrice de Bande Dessinée🗡️ 🌘👹🔥🦄🦂🔮🎨🥀💖🌒 🏴MarseillePiaille
Excited to teach Digital Research Toolkit for the Humanities again this summer!
This course introduces students to essential tools for transparent, scalable, and efficient research workflows. Right now, the course covers:
📂 File organization & research workflows
💻 R & scripting for data processing
📊 Data visualization & reporting
🔍 Literature research & documentation
🔗 Git, GitHub & collaboration
🚨 BUT before I finalize the syllabus, I’d love to hear from YOU! 🚨
A WestJet flight from Calgary International Airport (CYYC) to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (CYOW) was delayed yesterday because of security concerns.
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cal…
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Un vol de WestJet partant de l’aéroport international de Calgary (CYYC) à l’aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier d’Ottawa (CYOW) a été retardé hier en raison de préoccupations de sécurité.
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Om du missat att köpa ett eller flera äldre nummer av tidningen och det/de är slutsålt/slutsålda kan du nu köpa dessa nummer i PDF-format!
shop.datormagazin.se/collectio…
Datormagazin Retro – tidningar i lager
Nu är Datormagazin Retro #8 här! Redaktionslagret med övriga tidningar har tunnats ut avsevärt den senaste tiden, vi har dock exemplar kvar av DMZ Retro #7, #3 och nytryckningen av första Datormagazin Retro kallad version 1.1.Datormagazin
[12:58] Europarlementariërs verdacht van omkoping door Huawei
In een groot corruptieonderzoek naar Huawei heeft de Belgische politie invallen gedaan bij lobbyisten van het Chinese techbedrijf. Ze worden...
computable.nl/2025/03/13/europ…
#naarHuaweiheeftdeBelgischepolitie #bijlobbyistenvanhet #Chinese #Zeworden
Europarlementariërs verdacht van omkoping door Huawei - Computable.nl
In een groot corruptieonderzoek naar Huawei heeft de Belgische politie invallen gedaan bij lobbyisten van het Chinese techbedrijf. Ze worden verdacht van hetAlfred Monterie (Computable.nl)
We know it feels like the world is burning down, but the good news is UK coal use is at its lowest since, um London burnt down in 1666.
Overall emissions are now at their lowest since 1872!
carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-em…
Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666 - Carbon Brief
UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of LondonCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
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Release Day!
Terragon's Challenge, the second book in the Demonhunters of Terragon series is out today!
Earth must be protected - and thus Shivai is breaking all rules by going back there and helping Gregory and his team of Exterminators.
The veil between worlds has become thin, and demons are preparing for an invasion. Can they stop the demons in time?
Find the book in all stores:
books2read.com/TerragonsChalle…
Or buy direct:
shop.hannah-steenbock.de/b/ter…
@bookstodon
#DragonShifter
#NewBook
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Photo: In Olsztyn, Poland. By Adam Okuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski.
World's 10 Best Street Art Capitals for 2025 - STREET ART UTOPIA
A new study from travel company Slingo ranks the statistically most popular cities for street art in 2025, based on social media engagement, Google searches, and the number of documented murals and graffiti artworks.Vidar (Street Art Utopia)
Mopsy is a bunderful addition to our pet family. Here she is, warming the compost in this planter to, er, help with plant growth?
That's what she says anyway. And, if anything does grow, it's a ready meal.
#Rabbit #PetsOfMastodon
It would be a slight inconvenience to unplug and replug when I want to switch between the two, but I could get rid of at least one keyboard and mouse, and maybe even a monitor (or use a 4-screen setup)
#ScribesAndMakers 3/13. Self-Promotion Day. Let's boost away.
If you enjoy fantasy tales that make you feel good when you finish the story, you've come to the right place.
You can find all my books on my website:
If you like to buy from the usual stores, here's my author page on Books2Read:
books2read.com/hannahsteenbock
And here is my own store (still putting up books):
You have 30+ books to choose from.
#WritingCommunity
#ReadingCommunity
Find books by Hannah Steenbock at your favorite digital store!
Books by Hannah Steenbockbooks2read.com
Safehold Elite by Jesper Ejsing
Source: jesperejsing.com/card-art
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
Magic the Gathering — Jesper Ejsing Illustration
Magic the Gathering artwork by Jesper EjsingJesper Ejsing Illustration
Here is an alt-text description for the image:
The image depicts a female elf with antlers in a forest. She is kneeling on a tree branch. She has long brown hair with pointed ears and is wearing green and gold armor. A sword is strapped to her back. She is holding a small pink flower in her hand. The background is a blurred forest with blue hues. There are small yellow lights scattered throughout the image.
Provided by @altbot, generated using Gemini
Anyone who has given at least one of them an honest try, and then decided accordingly that tiling window managers do NOT work well with your specific workflow: Why don't they?
I mean this neither sarcastically nor rhetorically, nor do I intend to solicite any objectively bad takes any hotter than my own; I'm actually asking.
Day Use X Mockin' Uh reshared this.
I was pretty much a fan of floating windows for forever (Mac, Windows, Gnome, Openbox) until Pop_OS introduced their Pop Shell extension (auto tiler for Gnome) and tried that out for a while – now I’m on LabWC with a handful of hotkeys set up to emulate tiling
three main takeaways from tiling I get are: no overlapping windows (nothing hidden), workspaces (one Youtube video claimed workspaces were tilers’ killer feature), and keyboard focus (hotkeys everywhere)
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Daniel Pinkwater's "Jules, Penny and the Rooster"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/11/klo…
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#WordWeavers for March 13:
If your main character was a music genre, what genre would they be?
Niles is absolutely jazz. Old Jazz played from a scratched-to-hell CD through an automotive radio that, by rights, should not be trusted with your eardrums.
Each month, I have to agonize about what German folklore I want to translate, and which cool stuff remains on the "To Translate" pile again. 😢
Well, at least I won't run out of material - even if I were able to do this as a full-time job, which I am not.
Travel Guide for Grand Turk - Grand Turk Purple Travel Guide
Grand Turk has some of the best white sand beaches on the planet and wonderfully turquoise waters with good snorkeling.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
March 13: Are you mindful of your readers’ expectations? How so?
Not at all. I am not here to pander to anyone. The way I respect any reader I manage to get is by writing my story to the max. Take it or leave it.
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 13. Are you mindful of your readers’ expectations? How so?
Mindful, yes, as soon as I decide that this is a story I want to share. I may thwart them, though, because I'm no fan of cookie cutter stories.
And if that story is just for me - I'm mindful of nothing but blissfully writing!
#WritersCoffeeClub 13th March: Are you mindful of your readers' expectations? How so?
One of the problems I face with #AHouseOfFreeWomen is that, apart from one minor exception, every character in the book is dark-skinned. White readers are notorious for expecting fantasy characters to be white as default. So yeah, I have to keep that expectation in mind to make damn sure I instantly subvert it.
To make it clear, I am white af, but white-as-default in fantasy seriously boils my piss. Which is not to say I don't write books with white MCs. I just try to be aware that there's no good goddamn reason for white-skinned people to have a dominant/primary culture in an invented world.
#WritersCoffeeClub for March 13:
Are you mindful of your readers' expectations? How so?
I don't care about expectations of style or genre.
But as a reader and writer of genre fiction, I spend a lot of time thinking to myself "Is this racist? Can I make this not racist? Should I even be telling this story?"
A 38 min commute takes me 2.2 miles of that 1.8 miles is by subway and takes only 6.5 of the 38min.
The rest is the trial of getting on and off of the train. I think this must be some kind of maximum level of transfer logistics to distance traveled ratio. Big sigma on the deltas.
How dispersed are your morning deltas?
~10 min to get from inside my room to the entrance of my apartment building
~5? min walk from home to station
~12? minutes train ride
2-20 min wait for a bus that takes maybe ~5 minutes to get from the station to the office - or i can walk that in ~20 minutes and show up sweaty and gross
another ~3 min between entrance of my office building to my actual office
versus driving:
~10 min to get from inside my room to my car
10-20 min depending on traffic to drive to the office and park
~7 min to get from my car to my office
13 March 1922 | Józef Szajna was born in Rzeszów.
In ##Auschwitz from 25 July 1941
No. 18729)
In August 1943 he unsuccessfully tried to escape. In January 1944 transferred to KL Buchenwald. He survived; Scenographer, theater director, painter culture.pl/en/artist/jozef-sza…
Józef Szajna
Set designer, theatre director, playwright, theatre theoretician, painter and graphic artist. Born in 1922 in Rzeszów, he died on June 24, 2008.Culture.pl
Józef Szajna, I salute you.
We are grateful for your life. We remember what happened.
Fact check: Reuters report claims that "the rise of generative artificial intelligence has made it an attractive tool for bad actors, with its low entry barrier ensuring broad accessibility, leading to an increase in global cyberattacks."
Is there any evidence that AI has led to an increase in online attacks?
Surely it's made convincing-sounding phishing emails across multiple languages easier to create, and would obviously facilitate BEC and CEO fraud attacks via asynchronous communications.
But has it really caused "an increase in global cyberattacks*"?
@0x58 Certainly not implausibly.
@euroinfosec's question and Reuter's claim actually seems to me to conflate two distinct issues: (a) *has there been* an increase; and (b) if so, *was that increase caused by* wider availability of genAI tools?
Certainly genAI availability has had very little to do with recent, ahem, accidents in the Baltic, for one. Likely also with centralization on Giant Tech service providers, meaning a single attack can now impact thousands of companies.
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Putin-Berater: Waffenruhe nur "Atempause" für Ukraine ++
Der russische Regierungsberater Uschakow hat den US-Vorstoß für eine 30-tägige Waffenruhe in der Ukraine kritisiert. Die russischen Streitkräfte haben nach eigenen Angaben die von der Ukraine besetzte Stadt Sudscha wieder unter Kontrolle.
➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Moskau meldet "Befreiung" von Sudscha ++
Die russischen Streitkräfte haben nach eigenen Angaben die von der Ukraine besetzte Stadt Sudscha im russischen Gebiet Kursk wieder unter Kontrolle. Nach dem Vorschlag einer Waffenruhe sind nach Kreml-Aussagen US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Moskau.tagesschau.de
Marktbericht: DAX-Ausflug ins Plus abgebrochen
Die Anleger können sich nicht für eine Richtung entscheiden, der DAX schwankt mit größeren Ausschlägen zwischen Plus und Minus. Droht am Aktienmarkt jetzt eine länger anhaltende Korrekturbewegung?
➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finan…
#Marktbericht #DowJonesNasdaq #DAX
Marktbericht: DAX wackelt wieder
Einen Teil der starken Vortagesgewinne dürfte der DAX zum Handelsstart wieder verlieren. Das Gezerre um die US-Zollpolitik zwingt die Anleger zur Vorsicht. Sie scheuen das Risiko.tagesschau.de
#ScribesAndMakers 3/13. Self-Promotion Day. Let's boost away.
There is nothing shameful about self-promotion.
All my books (and my wife's) are at taupress.com/books
There are also free books when signing up the newsletter (gosh).
#ScribesAndMakers for March 13:
It's self-promotion day.
That it is.
Did you know I've written and published most of an urban fantasy fiction trilogy featuring government corruption and answering that age-old question of "What if the cultists are actually in the right"? You do now! Teaser chapters and where-you can finds over at: sanityline.net
Also, while we're on "also", did you, personally, know that I make gizmos? It's true. The main one is PETI, a virtual pet with retro sensibilities running on modern hardware. You can learn about that and all my other writing and making projects over at arcanalabs.ca
Bragging how using “AI” made you more productive is like bragging how copying your friends homework made you turn in the assignment faster.
You’re missing the point. The point of it ALL. You don’t understand what matters in a human life.
It’s a sad realization that a shit ton of people don’t seem to realize what matters in life. They think “going faster” is where it’s at.
Sweet little capitalist slaves. Gah.
tl;dr: Schumer still folds. Where is the resistance? Where is the leadership?
After Heated Dem Meeting, Schumer Says Dems Will Push For Vote On Short Term CR First talkingpointsmemo.com/news/aft… via @TPM
After Heated Dem Meeting, Schumer Says Dems Will Push For Vote On Short Term CR First
With less than three days to go before government funding runs out, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a vote on the 30-day continuing…Emine Yücel (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Anna Pryslopska
in reply to Anna Pryslopska • • •💡 What tools, workflows, or topics do you wish you had learned earlier in your research journey?
💡Are there essential skills for humanities students entering industry or academia that I should add?
💡 Should I introduce LLMs and AI tools for tasks like automating text analysis, literature reviews, or data preprocessing?
💡 Should I make space for regular expressions?
💡 I’m considering dropping LaTeX in favor of Markdown, Quarto, and plain text editors in general. Is this a step backwards?
Anna Pryslopska
in reply to Anna Pryslopska • • •The course is open source:
🔗 github.com/a-nap/Digital-Resea…
I will be updating it every week with slides, code, and homework assignments.
#AcademicResearch #DigitalHumanities #Linguistics #DataScience #Rstats #AcademicChatter #Academic
GitHub - a-nap/Digital-Research-Toolkit: Digital Research Toolkit for Linguists course materials
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