(He/them) Librarian, public historian, and scholar in Science and Technology and Neurodiversity Studies. 🌍 #Libraries #LIS #GLAM #STS #HSTM #critlib #CAPAL #Neurodiversity 🌍
Geekier as Willam the Wisp at: https://kolektiva.social/@Willamthewisp
#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
Do Children have the same basic human rights as anyone else, including to choose their preferred name and pronouns?
CBC: “Sask. human rights commissioner resigns, calls pronoun policy 'an attack' on gender-diverse kids”
#HumanRights #LGBTQ #SaskPoli #BCPoli #SOGI #PleaseBoost #Notwithstandingclause
Now on Bluesky at: @drlibraryben.bsky.social
Dr. Brock's "Black Cyberculture: Black Joy and Digital Blackface" talk today will look at both Black joy online and how non-Black people use Blackness online.
Dr. Brock pairs a reading of _The Negro Motorist Green-Book_ and _Lovecraft Country_.
Describes the Green Book as the first Black-authored network, a search engine providing crucial information for Black motorists.
Lovecraft Country also shows how the interstate highway promises universal access, but ends up exposing Black folks to white supremacy and discrimination.
And Dr. Brock likens the interstate highway to the internet, a subsequent but similar network.
Privacy Badger 2023.9.12 has been released for all supported browsers!
The main new thing is improved link tracking protection ("link unwrapping") on Google sites.
With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
To learn more, visit https://eff.org/badger-link-tracking-protection-update
To install Privacy Badger, visit https://privacybadger.org/.
We've taken @SuzanneR70 's investigation out from behind the paywall:
‘They don’t let us’: Dollarama stores sell bread, unless there’s a Sobeys nearby
Sobeys was one of the grocery chains involved in the bread price-fixing scheme. Now, a Halifax Examiner investigation finds that the sale of discounted bread is limited near Sobeys locations.
I just found out that the @zotero Connector for Firefox has a setting to save papers to zotero.org, when your local Zotero is not running, which happens to me frequently.
This is a fantastic publication for anyone working, or interested to work with historical newspaper data. Created by former colleague Yann Ryan, "this book is a guide to accessing and analysing newspaper data, mostly using the programming language R." :blobcatbook:
“While AI is often thought of as human-free machine learning, the technology actually relies on the labor-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the Global South and often subject to exploitation.”
Some very important perspective on AI…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/
I'm part of AASPIRE, the group doing this research. AASPIRE does research to help autistic adults, with autistic adults involved at every phase of the research. If you meet the criteria, we'd love to have your help! See flyer below (or alt text) for details!
BREAKING: Apple has formally endorsed a strong right to repair bill in California after spending years spending millions of dollars opposing it. It's difficult to express how important this is. It means right to repair—consumers—have won
https://www.404media.co/apple-endorses-california-right-to-repair-bill/
Puts on historian hat. "Oh shit this thing is full of ghosts!!" @histodons @academicchatter
Hey, Mastodoods. I have been working with my team on this resource for generative AI in education for most of the summer. I hope you might find it useful, too. https://aieducation.trubox.ca
The Northwestern University Library Workers Union have their first contract after three years of organizing! It includes…
- Raises for all
- Longevity raises
- Librarian rank and promotion
- Flexible work
- MLIS tuition assistance
- Updates to professional development funds
- Formalization of other benefits into contract
- New Labor Management Committee that will meet quarterly
#NULWU #NorthwesternUniversity #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers
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Had an absolutely delightful time keynoting the Digital Pedagogies Institute yesterday. I hope Day 2 is excellent for all attendees!
https://mastodon.social/@anndulhanty/110902350802171373
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!
For months I have been working on an upcoming project, and today's the day I'm finally announcing it to the world.
With the help of an amazing team of transgender writers and a trans dev, Assigned Media is creating the Trans Data Library, a repository of information (a bit like a wiki) on anti-trans activists, "expert" witnesses, and organizations. #trans #journalism
Here's a link with more info, including how you can lend your support:
My new book, Undoing the Grade, just came out today. You can read an excerpt at Hybrid Pedagogy. The book represents over 20 years of my thinking and writing about grades.
"Grades and assessment are elephants in almost every room where discussions of education are underway."
Zoom's terms of service now include training GenAI with no ability to opt out
Check sections:
- 10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use
- 10.4 Customer License Grant
- 16.2 Ownership of Zoom Property
Edit: included other sections of ToS
