Eleanor Konik @eleanorkonik@scholar.social

Are there any good serialized audio feeds/podcasts about free software or related topics that highlight the voices and perspectives of women, people of color, queer, disabled, and/or neurodivergent people etc.?

I'm tired of my options being Linux for Men who make "triggered" jokes, and women who talk about the proprietary/business world.

"When I asked the man behind the system [...] how the students in these classes feel about being watched, he admitted that they didn’t like it. They felt violated and surveilled, he said, but he shrugged off any implication that it was his fault."

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-natural-inevitable-ethics

Since a lot of people seem to not know:

Boycott: A call for consumers to cease purchase or use of a product or brand until a demand is met.

Walkout: A one day action where all of the workers at a company, during the day, suddenly all stop working and walk out to rally

Strike: A prolonged action where all of the workers at a company cease working until a demand is met. Which often involves...

Picket lines: When striking workers stand outside a business rallying and urging for a boycott

Hey guess what there's a research ethics board opening at the Public Health Agency of Canada

You will have to attend all-day meetings sometimes

It will be unpaid

The ethics board

Is exploiting people for unpaid labour

This is what the ethics board is doing

And now I've drawn up a cover on Wattpad and written a few paragraphs. Kobolds in Space is becoming a thing. May Tiamat have mercy on my soul.

Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other

An interesting article about an experiment in language evolution, by @cathleenogrady for @ArsScience https://t.co/aiapaYMVZx #linguistics

Let us never forget that the oldest
preserved poetry was written by a woman.

At the same time it is the oldest creation myth on record, the oldest narrative about the birth of civilisation which we know in writing, and a cautionary reflection on gender roles.

We do not know the exact day that woman was born or when she died, but we should choose a day in our calendar to celebrate her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

So I was rewatching the Two Towers the other day

Attending a highly interdisciplinary conference only 2 hours away with a mix of academic & community practitioners. The moderators have not contacted me & the chair has not answered my question about presentation logistics or getting the moderator's info. I come from a field that usually uses basic PPT slide decks for conference talks. My topic is highly technical but also very interesting to a broad audience if presented well (which I am capable of). Reader, what would you do in my situation?

Have you ever thought about folk songs in fantasy worlds?

Preindustrial types sing a LOT. Shanties and hollers pace your work but without the coherent storytelling of ballads or protest songs, they get convoluted. F’rex “Black Betty” popularized by Ram Jam might be about a police wagon, a whip, a musket, a prostitute, all the above. Or “Haul Away Joe” probably existed for decades before adding a lyric about the French Revolution.

Dear authors,

Please stop using both ω and w in your equations.

Yours,
People tired of squinting at papers trying to figure out which is which

So I'm sure you're all familiar with the UN projection of the Earth that puts the Arctic at the center and shows all the land, but let me present to you the inverse of that, the Spilhaus projection, which centers the map on Antarctica and shows the world's ocean as the single, continuous mass of water that it is.

trying to promote Mastodon at the Association of Internet Researchers #aoir2019 conference... any other Mastodon users here?

Some sort of weirdo yellow flower with black stems and leaves??