Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Excited to announce that I’m teaming up with Anuj Ahooja on a new non-profit for the open social web, across protocols, with Bridgy Fed as its first main project! Introducing A New Social.

When I posted Possible futures for Bridgy Fed a while back, I was surprised and gratified by the outpouring of support. So many of you really believe in it and want it to survive, grow, and find a stable footing beyond the useful little one-person side project it is today.

Some people stepped up even further and said, “I’m willing to put the work in and actually help build, drive, and even lead this.” Anuj is one of those people. He’s a renaissance man who’s worked on the fediverse and open social web for many years at sub.club, Flipboard, and more. He’s written at length about the potential he sees in the open social web, across all sorts of networks – “people, not platforms!” – and how we have an opportunity now that we haven’t had in a long time.

And there are so many more of you, across the space, who’ve joined and committed to supporting us! We’re truly humbled and grateful. We’re still only at the very beginning, we have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to get started. Wish us luck, and please reach out if you want to get involved!

Otto Preminger's THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM premiered this week in 1955.

Sinatra is flawless in a startlingly frank film that helped loosen the Code's chokehold. And Kim Novak is heartbreaking.

Streaming everywhere because it's public domain, but beware of poor or colorized(!) transfers.

#FrankSinatra #KimNovak #TheManWithTheGoldenArm #FilmMastodon

#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.9.0

#GNOME #GTK

This is an illustration of the outside the #armynavy game in 1955. For decades, the Pennsylvania Railroad used to run special services to and from the army-navy game in Philadelphia, utilizing a nearby yard as a makeshift station. This occurred almost every year from 1936 to 1975. With the exception of 1975, this special service was always lead by fully-electric GG1 locomotives as pictured below.

#electric #history #histodon #rail #sports #sustainability #train

The Geekathon was fantastic! Thanks to all who did the geeking and especially those who brought gear.

Cashier: Do you need bags?

Me: Do any of us NEED anything?
Cashier: Sir, I have a liberal arts degree too.
Me: Plastic, please.

Following our submission (ICCL/Open Markets/TACD) the U.S. FTC in 2022, the FTC has ordered RTB firm Mobilewalla to stop collecting RTB data
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/ftc-acts-against-rtb-company-mobilewalla/

In December 1876.

The first United States edition of Mark Twain's first individual extended work of fiction, the Bildungsroman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, illustrated by True Williams, is published by the American Publishing Company. An authorised non-illustrated British edition has appeared in early June from Chatto & Windus in London (with the first review appearing on June 24 in a British magazine) and pirated editions have appeared in Canada and Germany.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/74

#books

Over a year ago, I wrote ”A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat”.

For something like 15 months now, Sandra and I have used XMPP via @snikket_im for probably 99.9% of our calls, messages, and video chats, running on an Intel NUC.

We both use the Snikket mobile app, and I also use @dino and @profanity in Linux.

Perhaps a fun holiday / weekend project, if you want family-friendly, self-hosted, #E2EE communications?

#XMPP #SelfHosting #FOSS #Linux

4️⃣ students from @_mason_arts will have original animations displayed on screens in 6️⃣ Metro stations as part of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (@wmata) Art in Transit Program, beginning the first week of December! #MasonNation 💚💛 https://www.gmu.edu/news/2024-12/metros-art-transit-program-showcases-george-mason-students-work

The FuriOS 13.0.5 monthly update is here!
This release includes GNOME and Debian updates, as well as a whole lot of other goodies and fixes from us. Some of the notable ones include: battery management improvements, modem data and call fixes plus more!

https://furilabs.com/update-13-0-5/

Hi Mastodon! I’m Sheril 👋

I am a scientist working in the U.S. Senate on policies related to energy, environment, ocean, ag & tech!

I also host Serving Up Science on PBS & wrote a couple of books.

My PhD is in community sustainability & I’m broadly interested in how we make decisions about science.

A superb argument against the existence of ghosts from 1st CE Chinese philosopher Wang Chong. https://iep.utm.edu/wangchon/

If what your *goal* is to get off Twitter, then Bluesky has solved it. They solved it by building another Twitter, and this time it's open source, which is cool! And it might have this "credible exit" thing.

But god damnit it's not decentralized and it's not federated stop TELLING people that

I did a four-page short comic for Le Lombard (Belgian publisher), it was a contribution to a big book project in French, featuring 24 other comic artists; an "advent calendar" book for Christmas. And yes, you have to cut the page every day in December to reveal a new story. I negotiated to have mine published on CC-By and made it using only FLOSS .

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1055/new-comic-book-la-bd-de-lavent-le-lombard-publishing

#creativecommons #christmas #krita #comicbooks

📢 My new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN!

This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents.

✅ Directly pass t-test, correlation, and Bayes factor objects to format test statistics, confidence intervals, p-values, Bayes factors etc.
✅ Automatically calculate and format summary statistics directly from data vectors
✅ Control the formatting of numbers and labels

https://jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/

#RStats #QuartoPub #Quarto

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (1959) w/ Kim Novak and Fredric March is now on Tubi, if you'd like to lean into your melancholy.

#TCMParty #FilmMastodon

D.C. has passed ranked-choice voting.