wakingrufus @wakingrufus@mastodon.social

one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers corrupting open science in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2018/jun/29/elsevier-are-corrupting-open-science-in-europe

I have no idea what’s happening here, but it feels very #Cyberpunk

it is now time to leave

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/

Draft: How to become a successful artist on Mastodon 👀

https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/blog/blob/master/content/posts/2018-06-24_How-to-become-a-successful-artist-on-Mastodon.md

Do you think I included sane advice? Anything important I missed? Some other toots I should embed?

The Guardian today has printed in their newspaper a list of 34,361 refugees who are known to have died trying to make it to Europe. https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1009355885087543296

tired: git diff

wired: whatever the fuck this is

#mastoadmin

I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.

But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.

tired: I googled it
wired: I DuckDuckWent for it

Article 13 requires online platforms to filter content upon upload.

This is ridiculous - whether or not particular use of copyrighted content is legal tends to be a complicated matter, with years of court proceedings to establish that.

Expecing an algorithm to make a decision like this in a split second is asking for trouble.

#CopyrightDirective #Copyfraud

Excited but also anxious about my redesign of the Purism website going live relatively soon 👀

oh my god

Nightnight

just your daily reminder that Bezos is pure scum https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos

US-American history in two graphs. Tax the #rich!
#latestagecapitalism

A cool article about how exacting Fred Rogers was about the language used on his show so that it wouldn't confuse or accidentally mislead kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/?single_page=true

I especially love the examples given.

I'm a designer and developer with 15+ years of professional experience and I would absolutely agree culture is more important than code.

I won't go as far to say as coding is easy, because it isn't. The effort it takes to create a platform is considerable. It's why we don't have that many options when it comes to social media.

But culture? That's HARD. Fostering an environment that's open and inclusive and limits abuse? That's so much more difficult.

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/21198/ups_teamsters_strike_hoffa_united_parcel_service

#Unicode11 was released today! Here's one of the characters, which probably won't display properly unless you have a *very* up-to-date font (but see the image below!).

The copyleft symbol was first proposed to #Unicode in February of 2016 and you can learn more about the symbol in the proposal here: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16059-copyleft.pdf

https://r12a.github.io/uniview/?codepoints=1F12F&char=1F12F

#UCotD