JOB OPPORTUNITY! I'm hiring again.
I need a historian to help Colonial Williamsburg with its website, web strategy, and blog content, who can also help us vet the accuracy of our content. The role will also bring someone in the ground floor as we re-imagine the museum for the digital age as we are building the world's largest virtual museum about early American history.
Salary Range: $60K-$70K.
Let me know if you have questions.
24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
✨ Import from Instagram
Now available! 🥳
PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4466
Docs: https://pixelfed.social/site/kb/import
Thanks again to @NGIZero for funding this amazing feature! #instagramImport
TIL: there is someone who has made it their mission for years to eradicate the phrase “comprised of” from Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of
State Dept official: Western exports of microchips/electronics to Russia are back to pre-invasion levels
European companies sell to companies in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Georgia, the UAE and Armenia, which then turn around and sell the items to Russia
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-better-evading-western-sanctions-electronics-war-ukraine/
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/09/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-going-to-get-rid-of-the-block-feature-enabling-greater-harassment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230610/p60#a230610p60
So yeah, thanks @scott, this is very cool...
Electric bicycles (and trikes) are displacing more barrels of oil than all other electric vehicles... combined. >>> https://carfree.city/@scott/110515609281961933
Check out @ClimateMigration for more #climate and #ClimateScience
I'm riding 130km to raise money for MS Queensland tomorrow. I'm only just short of $3000 raised. Please put in a little more and help me get over the line https://www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/johnquiggin/brissie-to-the-bay
Today's google-doodle "celebrating scones” features two scones giving one another side-eye. I think the idea is to capture the imaginary great divide between jam-first-then-cream people and cream-first-then-jam people. I say imaginary because what you put on scones is butter, duh. And not some shit English butter, either
I learned so many neat things about #GNOME, #FlatHub and #endless in this interview with @BrodieOnLinux and @ramcq
I'd love to see more OSS developers linking up with content creators and telling their stories, there's so much to learn from in this interview!
A while back, I stumbled upon a file I consider the largest piece of evidence revealing how hundreds of data brokers trade personal data on everyone, including super-sensitive data, globally.
Massive investigation by US-based @themarkup and German @netzpolitik_feed, I think this is a must-read for everyone interested in the future of digital technology:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you
PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".
It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.
And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.
It's election time! The @gnome Foundation is seeking candidates for our board of directors election this summer.
I'm interested in candidates who bring experience from other nonprofits, volunteer / community management, fundraising or advocacy.
I'd love suggestions for candidates we should approach, and am happy to speak to any prospective candidates about what's involved.
You can find election details at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-foundation-board-of-directors-elections-2023/15657 and about how the board works at https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05/24/gnome-foundation-board-elections-2021/
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics