Joshua Chalifour @jc@scholar.social

42 countries (including Canada) agreed to a set of principles & public policy recommendations adopted by the OECD on AI and its development. These address things like safety, transparency, human rights, sustainability, etc. https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0449 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The fruiterie down the block started carrying these grapes advertised as "cotton candy" grapes. I thought, marketing, but tried them & wow! They're amazing! Totally uncanny that their flavour isn't artificial. Seems people put a lot of effort into making it happen though. hm does that make it artificial in a way? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Candy_grapes

Voynich manuscript news always seems exciting at first... then we're deflated. https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cracked-the-code-of-the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript/

Need help negotiating #OpenAccess publishing rights (or simply retaining your authorial rights) for your article? CARL just released an update of its Canadian Author Addendum to Publication Agreement along with two guides on using it. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/updated-canadian-author-addendum-and-author-rights-guide/

You can read Arundhati Roy's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/13/arundhati-roy-literature-shelter-pen-america

It's an abridged version but still, she covers a lot. Indian politics to forms of writing that don't fit nicely into popular categories, to characters in her books, and the way things may play out against those most hurt by our climate catastrophe.

Just realized this intro isn't entirely correct anymore–moved from engineering. Now I'm a Digital Scholarship Librarian and a subject librarian for Communication Studies and Journalism.

Talking about the ice in Greenland, Robert Macfarlane not only explains how it records all manner of things for millennia but does it in a sincerely beautiful style. Read this "The Blue of Time" excerpt from his book, Underland about deep time. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/the-blue-of-time/

My colleagues at the Concordia Press launched their first catalogue today. In 2019 there will be a collection of writings by Ken Lum and Richard Foltz's "Les religions de la Route de la soie," translated by Benoit Léger. https://www.concordia.ca/press/catalogue.html – Here's a to a new university press becoming more concrete, they've been hard at work the last couple years to get to this point.

Actually, just realized I phrased that question badly. I see how it would know what a moved one is but I could multiple accounts on different instances without necessarily setting any as moved. So how does it know what is "primary"?

I just noticed the preferences interface has a Follows and Followers section w/ some interesting features. What does Account Status mean, err that's to say, how is it determined? How does it know what a primary account is vs. a moved one?

Have you seen Mozilla's new Internet Health Report for 2019? I just started reading it. I like how it is organized around assessment themes, which include privacy & security, openness, digital inclusion, web literacy, and decentralization. https://internethealthreport.org/2019/

On the one hand, sure you don't want to spread malware across the university computers. On the other, what if it's a mistake? Most people would never know. In fact things could be blocked for reasons that are not malware. The people behind the site wouldn't necessarily be aware, just like most people browsing it.

Just browsed a faculty member's website to see her research project but univ. security blocked it w/ a nondescript cryptic error (I knew it was uni. security because I looked at the error source, recognized the system's name–most probably wouldn't). IT says it's infected w/ HTMLGen-A. Thx. I also have reasonable mis-trust for the message. I don't like access to info being blocked, especially rubs me the wrong way on library computers. Need to think through this

There are a lot of excellent tips and well-thought-out explanations in this article on trans-inclusive web design, information architecture, etc. https://alistapart.com/article/trans-inclusive-design/

A brief explainer of some economic models for #OpenAccess publishing from SPARC. https://sparcopen.org/our-work/alternative-publishing-models/

Denver, Colorado is voting on decriminalizing psilocybin. It would make sense to do this everywhere, including mescaline and similar psychedelic substances. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/magic-mushrooms-decriminalize-denver-1.5126634

UNESCO's page about #WorldPressFreedomDay -- Freedome of the press and of expression are of the utmost importance to so much https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday #PressFreedom

Classement mondial de la liberté de la presse 2019 : la mécanique de la peur https://rsf.org/fr/classement-mondial-de-la-liberte-de-la-presse-2019-la-mecanique-de-la-peur #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #JourneeDeLaLiberteDeLaPresse @LibertedelaPresse