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Built or know a great Wikidata-powered tool, bot, or visualization?

Share it in #WikidataStories! From SPARQL maps to book-sharing apps like
https://Inventaire.io, which connects book lovers, your story could spark new ideas.
It takes minutes to share.

10 days left—submit by 13 June → https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Impact_stories (simply edit the talk page)

#WikidataStories #OpenData #TechForGood @wikimediaDE

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Wie aus einem Platz für Autos ein Platz für Menschen wird, zeigt Paris: Place de la Catalogne 🌳💚🌳 #Verkehrswende #StädteFürMenschen

Vorher/Nachher-Bild aus Paris Oben: Großer Kreisverkehr ohne Bepflanzung Unten: Kreisverkehr ist aufgelöst, Ein Teil ist autofrei, die Mitte wurde großflächig bepflanzt

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@baldur Maybe this article describes the current state of developing code with AI-tools more accurately.

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

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In a nutshell, we show that the resting poses & statistics of a rigid body are easily computed from its geometry, without any dynamical simulation.

This simple geometric model enables us differentiate through dice designs, & optimize their shapes to match target statistics. 3/n

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Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

#English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

"Rightie tightie, leftie loosie" in Spanish is
"la derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."

[image of a screw with a curved arrow pointing to the left, another identical screw image with an arrow pointing to the right]

Meaning:
"the right oppresses, the left liberates."

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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup.
"By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything).
The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"

Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol.
Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil.
The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow."
In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"

Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc.
"We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel.

"What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia."
In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back.

"Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."

Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!"
"The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!"
"How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

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all your half-finished projects are still experience that contributes directly to your skills and confidence. the dozen half-finished projects are the seeds of the finished one that you could never have handled a decade ago.

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That thing where right before you click the "run tests" button you kinda wince and turn your head away from the screen in self-defence.

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Today starts #CoordinateME 2025: an international #wikidata competition around content with geodata – from villages and hospitals to public art and natural monuments. Let's go!

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Coordinate_Me_2025

Screenshot of the project's website: The competition is organized by Wikimedia Österreich and supported by Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Canada, Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia España, Wikimédia France, Wikimedia Nederland, Wikimédiens du Niger User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Sénégal, Wikimedians of Tchad User Group, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Volunteer Supporters Network and Wikimedia CEE Hub.

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Zur richtigen Zeit am aus fotografischer Sicht passenden Ort: DWD-Kollege Thomas Möller heute morgen auf dem Dach des Seewetteramts in #Hamburg mit Blick auf die "eingenebelte" #Elbphilharmonie

@lritter To throw some more into the ring: ancestor -> descendant (or sub-node) maybe?

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The EU OSS Catalogue is now live! 🎉

The new resource from the @EUCommission , with 640+ #OpenSource tools for public administrations, is designed to support software reuse and collaboration across the #EU.

Learn more on the Interoperable Europe Portal 👉https://europa.eu/!VBxPqG

EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue is now live on the Interoperable Europe Portal

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Life imitates art

#Cats #Caturday

A photograph of a money machine with a sign ING BANK with a lion symbol between the ING and the BANK

Above it is another ING BANK sign where a large cat sits in front, obscuring and replacing the lion's body perfectly

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Ich habe mal angefangen (Weblinks, in den Apps? Keine Ahnung)

Adobe Account: https://account.adobe.com/privacy

eBay DE: https://accountsettings.ebay.de/ai-preferences

X - Grok/xAI: https://x.com/settings/grok_settings

MasterCard (benötigt die Kartennummer): https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/corp-responsibility/commitment-to-privacy/privacy/data-analytics-opt-out.html

GitHub: https://github.com/settings/copilot

Instagram macht das in der EU noch nicht, wordpress.com/Tumblr ebenfalls nicht.

Hat sonst noch wer ein direkt Links zu Opt-Outs?

#ai #smashai #optout #optoutai

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Kennst du das auch? Für irgendwelche Gründe musst du eine Ausweiskopie durch die halbe Weltgeschichte versenden?

Dafür habe ich die Anwendung "Meine Ausweiskopie" entwickelt: Schwärze damit einfach sensible Felder, die dein Empfänger nicht benötigt, und lege ein Wasserzeichen darauf, um die unbefugte Weitergabe zu verhindern.

Verfügbar für Windows und Linux unter:
https://github.com/Varbin/ausweiskopie

#teamdatenschutz #datensparsamkeit #ausweis #perso

Screenshot eines Computerprogramms: Eine Passkarte wird angezeigt, die einzelnen Felder wie Name, Nachname, Geburtsdatum usw. sind schwarz umrandet. Darunter ist eine Auswahl an Feldern ankreuzbar, sowie Einstelleungen für ein Wasserzeichen. Es gibt die Knöpfe "Vorschau" und "Ausweiskopie erstellen".

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Heute sind wir ein Stück weiter raus zum Depu Shajing Electronics Markt gefahren. Hier erstreckt sich über eine riesige Fläche auf drei Etagen ein Markt, der sich eher auf Werkzeug und Bauteile für Industrieanlagen fokussiert. Es gibt dort sowohl neues als auch gebrauchtes.

Eine riskiere Halle, dessen Ende man nackt mehr sehen kann. Überall sind feste Stände in denen Waren angeboten werden.

Ein anderer Teil der endlosen Halle. Im Vordergrund führt eine Rolltreppe nach oben.

Eine Karte der Halle auf dem alle Stände der Etage mit Nummern verzeichnet sind. Die Karte listet über 1200 Standnummern (wobei einige Stände aber auch mehrere Nummern haben und es deswegen nicht ganz so viele sind.)

Ansicht eines großen grüne Gebäudes. Es ist vielleicht so 200meter lang. Davor Mopeds und Autos.

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Want to work with me on @wikidata? We are looking for a Senior UX Designer for #Wikidata. If you're interested in helping people build the best knowledge graph there is, then this might be the job for you! https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/53795746/Senior-UX-Designer-Wikidata-all-genders-?jobDbPVId=191749381&l=en

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One of my favorite internet things to have come out in the last few years: a detailed catalog of objects, furnishings, and interior design used in Star Trek. https://star-trek.design/

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