Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Mathematician, unknowing computer programming pioneer and role model.
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#Maths #WomenInSTEM #AdaLovelace #AdaLovelaceDay
Image: Unknown artist, 1840, 'Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace'. Collection: Barbican Centre. Public domain.

Last week’s readings: leaving the ‘starving artist’ trope in the past, artistic censorship in many guises and AI companies are pushing out new features in rapid fire.
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#AI #ArtisticFreedom #ArtisticCensorship #Wikimedia

Happy Mad Hatter Day!

@Trishh @creativecommons, indeed. They are so similar!

Ah yes, thank you for recommending that classic romantic film Halloween Ends, Prime Video. 💘🔪😸
#HappyHalloween #RomanticHorror @primevideo

One of these looks a lot like the other one. The goal of content transparency is important but the Content Credentials pin looks too much like the Creative Commons icon if you ask me.
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#CreativeCommons #ContentCredentials #Adobe #AI #Transparency @creativecommons

I'm looking forward to participating and speaking at the Open data – challenges and opportunities for change event happening alongside the IFLA Information Futures Summit at SLQ today.
#Libraries #OpenData #IFLA @ifla

Happy International Coffee Day to all who observe! ☕

Data and privacy concerns are back on the agenda with AI. Plus last week Musk announces he wants to wind back blocking on X and Zuckerberg said he thinks there’s no link between social media and teen mental health.
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#AI #DataBreaches #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMediaBans #Twitter #X

Thinking back to 2014, what sound comes to mind? Recordings from that year are now eligible to be added to the NFSA’s annual Sounds of Australia capsule. Submit a nomination by Wednesday 9 October 2024.
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#NFSAOnline #SoundsOfAustralia

Musk wants blocked users to be able to see (but not interact with) public posts of users that have blocked them, which will make X an even more hostile place and take the platform even further down the free speech absolutism path Musk has it on.
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#ElonMusk #ElonMuskTwitter #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia

MONA's Ladies Lounge decision quashed and sent back to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to reconsider its decision.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-27/mona-ladies-lounge-decision-tascat-supreme-court-decision/104403720

Happy birthday F Scott Fitzgerald, the greatest Gastby!

Okay so I dropped the readling list ball but I am recommitting! In the week gone there was lots of talk by AI developers of mitigating AI risks, Instagram announced accounts for teens and there’s an exciting a new roadmap for Queensland’s public libraries.
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As the new President of Wikimedia Australia I have put down some thoughts on potential areas for the organisation to focus on going forward: growing free knowledge, striving for knowledge equity, getting better at governance and celebrating our community.
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#Wikimedia #WikimediaAustralia #Wikipedia #FreeKnowledge @wm_au

Ticketing company Lyte has collapsed. Like Australian music festivals needed more chaos!
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#Music #MusicFestivals #Ticketing

Organised around three themes – Places and Programs, Collections and Resources and People and Partners – the Public libraries and IKCs (Indigenous Knowledge Centres) Roadmap for Queensland sets out 16 strategies for local action and collective impact.
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#Libraries #IndigenousKnowledgeCentres

The first tab open on Google Chrome this morning shows me this absolutely stunning and surprising aerial view of Uluru! I love seeing different places each time I open a new browser tab with the Earth View from Google Earth extension but this one made me stop in awe for a moment. A truly majestic and powerful place, even mediated through a screen. A great way to start a Monday! 😻

So the Arts Jobs Queensland Facebook group just clicked over 10,000 members. Crazy! But I am glad it is useful to people. 😺
https://www.facebook.com/groups/artsaujobsqld

A key finding of recent Creative Australia research says that programming is an area "... least likely to be influenced by the aim of diversifying audiences". If the product isn't for a specific audience segment why should they buy it?
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#ArtsMarketing #ArtsResearch #artsAUresearch #artsAUmarketing