Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Any high-follower (20k+) techy person interested in helping me debug a tool I made for viewing the distribution of your followers/accounts you follow?

https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse

#fediverse #debug #HelpWanted #opensource

I should add that testing with 10k followers might be enough? The issue was reported by someone with 26k followers, and works fine with my own account, so that's about the range where things might start to break.

"There were no books on web design, no best practices."

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/

#TheWeb #internet #EarlyWeb #history #design #WebDesign

Some good #EarthDay news!

"The US hit a new record low for fossil fuels in the electricity mix last month as solar and wind reached a record high, according to new data from global energy think tank Ember. In March 2025, fossil fuels accounted for less than 50% (49.2%) of electricity generated, for the first month on record."

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-below-50-of-us-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record/

via https://universeodon.com/@MisterMadge/114377699494029590

#news #ClimateNews #ClimateChange

"No one single march wins demands or ends injustice. It’s really about building a sustained movement that can show itself as a political force."

https://www.theverge.com/news/652341/nation-day-of-action-50501-protests-50-states

via https://mastodon.social/@verge/114365969864621897

#news #USpol #pol #NationalDayOfAction #protest #protests #HandsOff #TeslaTakedown #FiftyFiftyOne

@HistoPol Ah, was that https://mastogizmos.com/ by @researchbuzz ?

Something that's been on my mind recently, and I've voiced it as a response to @sue, isn't it odd that LinkedIn, a website for workers, doesn't include ✊ as one of the emoji reactions?

Hm.

#linkedin #SocialMedia #workers #WorkersSolidarity #solidarity

"Activist group MoveOn is “estimating millions of attendees” went to the 1,300-plus scheduled events, with more than 100,000 turning out for the Washington, DC protest."

✊

https://www.theverge.com/news/644237/millions-protested-hands-off-estimates-trump-musk-doge

#news #USNews #USPol #HandsOff #HandsOffProtests #protests #democracy

Happy National Library Week!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Week

Some things you can do this week to celebrate:

- Get yourself a library card, if you haven't already, or help someone else sign up!
- Check out your library's free resources and services, or attend an event!
- Donate to your local library, if you have the means!
- Call your elected representatives' offices, and tell them why libraries are important to you and your community: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

#libraries #NationalLibraryWeek #books #reading #bookstodon

"These examples show that when democracy deteriorates, its fate is not sealed, and democratic institutions can be reclaimed."

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/four-countries-that-have-successfully-reversed-democratic-decline-in-recent-years

#democracy #autocracy

"As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this."

https://cybercultural.com/p/david-bowie-website-1995-1997/

#internet #TheWeb #EarlyWeb #music #musicians #DavidBowie

65% of Wikimedia's most expensive traffic comes from bots.

"Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models."

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

#wikimedia #wikipedia #AI #GenAI

"thetrilliondollardinner.gov"

What?

https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114263375336442235

#TheTrillionDollarDinner #USGov #domains

Wait. Is this reading correct?

"Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use."

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/

Other news coverage:

"Because many of the Copyright Act's provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/

#news #technology #TechNews #copyright #PublicDomain #AI

On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll

#music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll #RockMusic #OnThisDay #OTD #SisterRosettaTharpe

"Of course, what [the British-American academic and author Alice Mary Hilton] defined as cyberculture — an automated society where mankind is freed from drudgery by computers — is very different to what it ended up meaning in the 90s."

https://cybercultural.com/p/cyberculture-alice-mary-hilton/

#cyberculture #technology

"In the summer of 1959, [American NASA astronaut and physicist Ronald Erwin McNair, 8 years old at the time,] refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the building that housed the library at the time is now named after him."

✊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair

#BlackHistory #racism

Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!

Via https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110985808809440467

#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

#news #labor #WorkersRights #FourDayWorkWeek #work #iceland

Happy 24th anniversary to Daft Punk's second album, Discovery.

"Discovery was vigorous and innovative in its exploration of "old questions and spent ideals", hailing it as "a towering, persuasive tour de force" that "transcends the dance label" with no shortage of ideas, humor, or "brilliance""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(Daft_Punk_album)

#OTD #OnThisDay #music #DaftPunk #discovery #anniversary