Notices by Mia (mia@hcommons.social)

Nature Editorial, 'Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing ': 'Action must be taken now to ensure that records of the scholarship undertaken by everyone, everywhere, can exist in perpetuity' https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03842-z

If you've never previously interacted with me, you'd better have a great answer for why a post quoting a Jewish woman saying 'never again means never again for everyone' suddenly makes you put yourself in my mentions

'Never again means never again for everyone'

Powerful words from Nan Goldin, speaking in Germany. She also points out that 'Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism', and the harms of that false equivalence.

Full video via https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/65325/1/nan-goldin-makes-powerful-speech-condemning-genocide-in-gaza-palestine-israel

@Zergling_man imagine wasting your life posting nonsense

Improving the usability of open source software projects isn't easy. Learn how we're 'Collaborating to improve usability: the Universal Viewer project' with @scottjenson https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2024/11/collaborating-to-improve-usability-the-universal-viewer-project.html

#IIIF #UniversalViewer #OSS #UX #usability

@GossiTheDog imagine if they actually did it to help menopausal, chemotherapy and long covid etc folk living with brain fog! (I don't believe it for a second but still, imagine...)

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names 

'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.

...calls to end anonymity online by forcing people to reveal their real identities might not have the effects people expect'

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-stable-pseudonyms-created-a-more-civil-environment-than-real-user-names-171374

Cool tool! MastodonContentMover

'a command-line tool that downloads your posts from one Mastodon instance, saving them as a set of files on your computer, and then re-posts them on any other Mastodon instance.

[so that] Mastodon users [can] move content they value when migrating from one instance to another, which is not currently possible within Mastodon itself.'

https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/

@ach do you know if the DH2024 organisers will also post to mastodon in the lead up to the conference? It feels a bit (a lot) gross going to twitter to check for updates

Ted Chiang on AI: 'When Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism.'

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

It's a rainy Sunday so I'm deleting (more) old tweets with https://redact.dev

It's sad watching old conversations go, but those moments and connections are already unreachably past

Someone just replied to an email I sent them in July... *2002* so you're probably doing ok