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My blog: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/ Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).
Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at
www.gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Vejo aqui muito discurso de esquerda.
Quantos de vós são sindicalizados?
ℹ️🌧️🚗 Nestes primeiros dias de chuva mais a sério, enquanto as estradas não ficam mais limpas e desengorduradas, todos os cuidados são poucos!
#StaySafe
#Apple is claiming before @Curia that #DMA is expropriating their copyrights and patents! 😲
The @EUCommission and the @fsfe stated that Apple has not listed any right. How this can be? 🤔
The Court followed up, but Apple just cannot list any copyright and patent affected by #interoperability!
Advogados da Apple argumentam em tribunal que interoperabilidade do #DMA prejudica os direitos humanos... da empresa.
Direitos humanos......... da empresa 🤦♀️
happy internet archive day! 22nd October 2025
TODAY! Show your support at the RALLY FOR THE INTERNET ARCHIVE. Supervisor Connie Chan will introduce a proclamation declaring Oct 22 “Internet Archive Day” in SF.
📅 Oct 21
🕦 11:30 AM
📍 Steps of SF City Hall, Civic Center Plaza
ℹ️ blog.archive.org/event/rally-...
Historiadora Raquel Varela é uma das fundadoras do “Maio”, novo jornal promove o debate entre quem vive do seu trabalho
comunidadeculturaearte.com/historiadora...
I went through OpenAI's privacy policy yesterday in class and found a few interesting points.
First, there is a glaring error of a section missing. The content on section 8 (legal basis) is on 9 and 9 (data transfers) is missing.
🧑⚖️ The hearing is about to begin!
👀 Representatives from #Apple, @EUCommission and the European Parliament, as policymakers from Germany and industry representatives, are all here at @Curia
💥 This is BIG 💥
:fsfe: The FSFE's lawyer will have 10 minutes to explain to Court why #DMA requires […]
Empty room at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg
Conmemorative plaque at the Court of Justice for Thomas More. You can see the plaque and the explanation besides it
Table with the agenda of the day and a microphone
🏛️ We have just arrived at @Curia!
💼 Today, our lawyer, Dr. Martin Husovec, will explain to the court why #DMA #interoperability should apply to #Apple in full extent!
👀 Stay tuned for updates! And if you need a quick recap of what's at stake for […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
"Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower." metr.org/blog/2025-07...
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Jimmy Wales on stage at the British Library conference centre
Great start to #KnowledgeIsHuman by Jimmy Wales: open knowledge is essential infrastructure. Every layer of knowledge in ecosystem is grounded in human effort - creating; sharing; synthesising; remixing; reusing. GLAMs, BBC, Wikimedia and us - we can all contribute
wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...
A lot of the pillars upholding the internet are actually based on goodwill, volunteers, and incredibly tenuously funded organisations - all taken for granted by governments and Big Tech, dangerously so, and everything we discuss around information and AI depends on it. #KnowledgeIsHuman
20.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0A top issue for me, when it comes to supporting politicians, are their positions on data centers and imprisoning SV executives.
20.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 140 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0A Paula ia adorar o camarada do meu escritório que se recusa a usar a Drive. Diz ele que "a nuvem está no ar!; a pen está aqui, na minha mão".
20.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0E hoje há muitas pessoas a dar-lhe razão :-)
(Que se resolva rápido e não haja estragos de maior)
An image in black and blue depicting a cloud with the text "There is no cloud, just other people's computers" from fsfe.org
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Just signed a stack of copies of The Bovadium Fragments (out now from HarperCollins). Very sad that I cannot sign with the late great Christopher Tolkien who suggested I write an essay to go alongside his father’s text (and his own brilliant editing).
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Settling in for the @wikimediauk.bsky.social / @britishlibrary.bsky.social / @wikimediafoundation.org #KnowledgeIsHuman symposium. Going to be a full day of discussion about the information ecosystem in the age of AI.
20.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3*finally*
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This week Finland saw its first frost mornings of the season - our Sunday selection is a set of shots of frosty nature taken around the country. Photos shared on IG by galinakoponen, arcticgiantresort, rajamaki.pirkko, and taeya.t:
www.instagram.com/p/DP_LUtljNpr/
October #writinglifemonthly Day 19 What's a book trope you absolutely love? Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 19 📚
Tropes you love (or love to hate)
Enemies to lovers?
Wise old mentor?
Suddenly beautiful without her glasses? (Okay, that one makes me 🤮 as an adult, but as a teen 😍)
Share yours.
#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat
preconceptions. Sometimes, we look at things in a way and forget or can't see they may be better than we see them or that we're not seeing them in the right angle. It also can be fun. It also needs to be believable.
19.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Reader here) I like when characters are seeing a situation, and we, readers, start to suspect it's the other way around and make us want to warn them. We get the double satisfying relief of the solution, but also the characters' reaction. I think I like it because it challenges our assumptions, and
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Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
Join the celebration next week! 1 trillion pages have been saved to the #WaybackMachine, & The Web We’ve Built brings stories, music & digital history to life.
📅 Weds, Oct 22
🎟️ In Person ➡️ zttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133239
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ zttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011939
#Wayback1T
#NoKings Miami!
18.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 36822 🔁 8893 💬 198 📌 251An iPhone has so many privacy and security features that it’s very easy to miss them. Now’s a good time to dive in and get to know them all. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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