@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-24 17:17:32
Elgin joins communities looking to ban use of their property for ICE activities
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251024/news/elgin-joins-communities-looking-to-ban-use-of-their-property-for-ice-activities/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-24 17:17:32
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-24 06:54:42
If you read one thing today…
1. You should read more
2. Make it this 👇 https://mastodon.social/@danielquinn/114793526868620928
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-23 18:08:00
Colorado just released a roadmap for coal communities facing an uncertain future.
The state's new report shows how carbon capture, geothermal, hydrogen, and battery storage could replace lost coal jobs and tax revenue in rural areas. Wind and solar are already cost-effective, while emerging tech could create new economic opportunities.
@joe@toot.works2025-12-23 15:00:25
Every time I see that mural showing what Scheels is going to have, I think that it is going to be a good addition to Mayfair.
"The city's Community Development Authority closed on a land transfer agreement on the parcel with the mall property owner Brookfield Properties, which will subsequently transfer the property to Scheels, the city said in a news release Dec. 19."
#Mayfair #Milwaukee #Tosa
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-24 09:13:11
This. 100% this: «…the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world. The global economy is far too big, it’s got to shrink, and it’s got to be distributed more equitably around the world.»
The problem is that even the politicians who understand this are helpless to do anything about it. We have surrendered our future to global corporations and the mega-rich and their hand-picked poli…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-24 07:55:24
Mind Your Ps and Qs: Supporting Positive Reinforcement in Moderation Through a Positive Queue
Charlotte Lambert, Agam Goyal, Eunice Mok, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18437
@yaxu@post.lurk.org2025-10-23 09:47:01
A bit annoying that free/open source communities are almost all hosted by a closed source platform owned by microsoft AI who use it to IP-wash all those projects by training LLMs.. While also supporting genocide etc.
Migrating the big @… and @…
@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-23 12:21:43
This quote encapsulates some of my thinking about AI and knowledge creators, language communities: '"Inclusive institutions" reward you for baking more cake. Inclusive institutions like the rule of law, contracts, and open competition ensure that if you invest, you will reap the rewards.
"Extractive institutions" are how elites grab instead of bake cake.
They siphon state revenues, seize assets, block competition, smother innovation, centralise power, explo…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-23 14:21:56
Christmas means nothing for Trump, pure evil.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-no-catholic-bishops-call-christmas-pause-immigration-enforcement
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-24 11:21:05
National Federation of Community Broadcasters gets a $1.25M MacArthur grant; NFCB represents ~200 stations mostly serving rural and underrepresented communities (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/10/national-federation-of-c…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-23 20:51:58
Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites #America
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 16:26:41
Scores of volunteers are training to protect their noncitizen neighbors from the potential deployment of military troops in New York City.
Organizers said they are building on what they’ve learned from the experience of resistance in Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago,
where masked and unidentified agents have often used excessive force and broken federal laws to carry out the Trump administration’s devastating campaign against immigrants.
“We need to exercise repeatedly w…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-15 16:25:09
🍄 Subway station study reveals fungal communities
#subway
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-22 15:10:19
I partially made this for myself: At home, our internet isn't the fastest, so downloading the identical map files from the internet multiple times, to different devices, is slow and pointless. With this I can download them once and my computer and distribute them from there.
Works for other uses too: if you're on a metered internet connection. Or for folks living in rural communities with no connectivity at all. Being able to distribute the APK _and_ the map files locally can be really great!
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-11-22 12:50:39
Shawn Harris is highly qualified to replace MTG ... in every way except one. See if you can guess what that is
https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-23 21:27:34
Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/gold-mining-exposes-indigenous-women-in-nicaragua-to-high-mercury-levels/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-18 09:00:04
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".
@hippyjo@c.im2025-10-22 03:06:27
Santa Clara county in California is home to San Jose, and many other SFbay area towns and communities.
They are establishing NO-ICE zones, following Chicago's lead.
https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-will-create-ice-free-zones/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-02 17:55:43
Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social2025-11-21 13:13:03
Liebe Communities,
🛍️Unsere #nfdi4culture -Tasche hat einen neuen Werbeträger in #Eltville gefunden.
Wo wart ihr zuletzt mit unserem NFDI4Culture-Fashion Item unterwegs?
#NFDleverywhere
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-11-16 11:35:36
Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…
@veit@mastodon.social2025-11-21 13:00:17
I’m planning the 50th calendar week in Berlin: DevOps workshop during the day and meeting with friends and Christmas party with all Berlin Pythonistas in the evening: https://www.meetup.com/python-users-berlin-pub/events/311702582/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-20 19:28:00
38 coastal, remote, and island communities are getting a lifeline for their fragile energy grids.
Through the Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project, they're designing microgrids, exploring local renewable generation, and hardening systems against extreme weather. The goal: reliable, affordable power that can withstand the next storm.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2025-10-21 18:53:22
Important clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-20 18:21:00
Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65168-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p76#a251120p76
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-10-16 22:56:07
The ripple effects of the federal raid have spread to at least a half dozen small businesses in the counties surrounding the metaplant, according to an investigation by The Current GA.
https://thecurrentga.org/2025/10/14/ice-raid-leaves-…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-15 13:56:53
As part of my work with @…, I have written up some ideas about understanding online communities as ecosystems and how it could help us conserve & maintain them by adapting methods from the environmental sciences to model digital pollution. This could apply to communities & commons including #opensource #wikipedia or the #fediverse.
We're looking for folks to collaborate on this with us, so if that sounds up your alley, please get in touch!
A small 🧵 below. 1/X
https://citizensandtech.org/2025/12/online-communities-as-ecosystems/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-19 15:13:42
People that thought what they BELIEVE was more important than what was REAL, became puppets of #Trump.
Group think spread in communities of:
▫️anti-tax upper class
▫️white supremacists
▫️gun owners
▫️Christian fundamentalists
And pride blocked them from ever being convinced otherwise.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-19 12:55:03
The ParticipACTION website has a wealth of information, for both individuals and communities, to help Canadians get more active.
https://www.participaction.com/the-science/benefits-and-guidelines/adults-18-to-64/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-21 07:23:00
'Time for Them to Leave': Charlotte Communities Rise Up Against ICE Invasion | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-immigration-backlash
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-19 18:08:42
Spot Diagnosis
The series provides evidence-based, up-to-date medical education and information aimed at upskilling medical practitioners in treating skin complaints, in order to improve the skin health of our communities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/spot-d<…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 15:58:31
Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-12-18 12:24:30
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740501470592801
I agree in theory that "assume good faith“ is the right way to go and a very pragmatic maxim for communities, but Mozilla has been testing that assumption for quite a while now.
@axbom@axbom.me2025-11-17 07:34:36
Bonfire is a very exciting Fediverse project for communities. The funding is for ensuring sustainability.
The focus on being able to move freely and take messages with you is welcome.
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
The focus on being able to move freely and take messages with you is welcome.
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-20 10:16:28
US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-b…
@lmc@mastodon.social2025-10-18 00:01:09
Appreciate the WSJ essay from Lauren Powell Jobs on Philanthropy/Giving https://www.wsj.com/us-news/laurene-powell-jobs-beware-of-philanthropists-who-want-control-in-exc…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-16 13:00:04
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-18 09:43:53
One of our friends is the daughter of a Chilean refugee who came here as a young child after the fascist coup in 1973.
Under this Labour government she and her family would have been sent back, probably by 1980 when the dictatorship imposed a new constitution. It was still a highly repressive country. Refugees generally didn't deem it safe to return until the late 1980s. Most made lives here, contributing greatly to this country, as migrant communities always do.
@sjn@chaos.social2025-12-18 01:30:37
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-19 18:20:01
Communities in the DRC are building something remarkable: a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor connecting two major protected areas.
Strong Roots Congo has already secured 23 community forest concessions covering nearly 600,000 hectares. The project does double duty—allowing wildlife to move safely between habitats while supporting local livelihoods and protecting Indigenous peoples from land grabbing.
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 10:36:28
Trends in New Mexico School Districts Serving Low-Income Communities
Uloma E. Nelson, Onyedikachi J. Okeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09993 https://arxiv.o…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2025-10-16 07:39:55
Epic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-02 18:20:58
Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-07 12:52:49
Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-19 11:24:29
From banana suits to bare chests, Oklahoma State football fans aim to 'solve the problem' https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/10/19/oklahoma-s…
@al3x@hachyderm.io2025-10-17 15:38:48
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-13 21:20:37
There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.
OK, maybe not a million, but over 100,000 and growing fast. And they are displacing tennis courts, because you can get four pickleball courts where one tennis court existed, and more and more people think that’s a good thing.
— by @…
:mastodon:
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-10-04 11:46:54
Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 05:09:58
Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump administration
over its cancellation of a $7bn grant program aimed at expanding solar energy in low-income communities.
In a statement on Thursday, California’s attorney general,
Rob Bonta, announced two lawsuits
by a group of states that received grants under the Environmental Protection Agency’s
Solar for All program.
The EPA’s administrator,
Lee Zeldin,
announced the termination of the program in …
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-12-16 16:01:48
Finished "Life, and Death, and Giants" by Ron Rindo.
Gabriel, 18 lbs at birth, his unwed Amish mother shunned for refusing to name the father, dies in labor. Gabriel lives w/ family & friends, liminally between English & Amish communities.
Exceptionally kind, incredibly athletic (a giant at over 8' tall), Gabriel attracts a lot of attention from the world. His exceptional kindness is life-altering for so many.
Tragic, but beautiful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-14 14:25:10
"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 11:35:42
Optimal participation of energy communities in electricity markets under uncertainty. A multi-stage stochastic programming approach
Albert Sol\`a Vilalta, Ignasi Ma\~n\'e, F. - Javier Heredia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04965
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-11-03 13:39:24
"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive…
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.social2025-11-15 08:15:07
‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/13/berlin-bicycle-and-pedestrian-car-friendly-transport?CMP=share_btn_url
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-10-31 20:40:59
Completely taken by the 2025 Local Deprivation maps on gov.uk:
https://deprivation.communities.gov.uk/maps
These maps are painting such a sad & harsh picture of the country (well, at least of England)! Been spending the past hour or so checking out various places I've be…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-22 20:00:09
"Tire Recycling Innovations Turn Waste Into Effective Highway Noise Solutions"
#Tyres #Cars #Vehicles #Recycling
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-11 18:21:11
A thing I did when I was new to find good accounts to follow:
Whenever I saw a post I liked, I didn’t just follow that person. I looked at (1) who they were boosting in their timeline and (2) who •they• were following, so that each new good follow might turn into 5 or 10 new follows.
A week or two of that really helped me find my way to the communities I was looking for.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-07 19:55:51
A key lifeline for rural communities, federal air travel funds, will expire Sunday if the shutdown continues (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rural-communities-essential-air-service-flights-shutdown-deadline-rcna236159
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p97#a251007p97
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 10:52:57
Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Lisi Qarkaxhija, Maximilian Carparo, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Ingo Scholtes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26173
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social2025-12-18 20:45:14
🚀 Ein ausführlicher Rückblick auf unser 5. CCP vom 24.– 26.09. 2025 in Mainz – einschließlich der Stimmen von Euch, unseren Communities – ist jetzt auf unserem #4CulturePortal verfügbar: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6647
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 08:21:22
GAR: Generative Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Formal Theorem Proving
Ruida Wang, Jiarui Yao, Rui Pan, Shizhe Diao, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11769 https://
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-11 04:56:56
Communities where women marry multiple men exist all over the world. They often have one thing in common | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/polyandry-hatti-mosuo-communities-world-b2827030.html
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-15 13:58:37
Or could methods from the environmental sciences maybe be adapted to the dynamics of digital communities/commons, to better understand these processes?
And, just as importantly (if not more so), could they help us to take better care of our digital spaces and maintain them as vibrant ecosystems that continue thriving?
Again, if that sounds of interest, e.g. as someone who maintains or contributes to communities, or as a social or environmental scientist, please get in touch with us!
🧵 5/5
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-18 17:40:58
Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/snapchat-rolls-out-topic-chats-for-publ…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 02:47:59
Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 08:54:47
Botender: Supporting Communities in Collaboratively Designing AI Agents through Case-Based Provocations
Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Sophia Liu, Quan Ze Chen, Joseph Seering, Amy X. Zhang, Haiyi Zhu, Kenneth Holstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25492
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-15 18:09:01
Climate funding isn't reaching the people who need it most. The Global South House is changing that.
This coalition of locally rooted funds puts Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and youth at the center of decision-making. Their approach: democratic, transparent, and built from the ground up—ensuring resources actually reach frontline communities.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-08 20:27:09
🪸 Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tree-sea-environmental-conditions-microalgae.html
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-16 12:30:40
Just finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@joe@toot.works2025-10-06 16:00:45
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-18 22:31:15
‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-10-19 11:02:02
There's some rich scientific literature on volunteering and how volunteer motivations change and shift from initial engagement to sustained contributing, including some work we've done in that space around motivations for engaging with self-research communities.
Maybe it's time for a another blog post to look at that in more detail 😅
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-08 06:00:04
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-17 20:45:45
America in 2025: Survey Finds Steady Concerns Amid Constant National Change (American Communities Project)
https://www.americancommunities.org/america-in-2025-survey-finds-steady-concerns-amid-constant-national-change/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p108#a251117p108
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-18 23:27:51
As the Trump administration ratchets up its targeting of immigrant communities across the Chicagoland area,
elected officials are looking for any tool they can find to protect their residents from militarized raids and roving bands of Border Patrol officers.
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans banned civil arrests at county courthouses across Chicago this week,
preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting and attempting to deport people who …
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social2025-12-16 14:57:56
📢 Achtung, liebe Communities – diese beiden CfPs könnten für euch interessant sein
🚀 Call for Papers: 13. Internationale Konferenz über digitale Bibliotheken für Musikwissenschaft 2026 (ENG)
📝 Full und Short Paper 👉 23.01.2026
📅 02.07.2026, Thessaloniki, Griechenland
➡️ https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/2026-cfp
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-11-11 20:56:03
Local energy communities meet public EV charging in Burgenland, Austria 🇦🇹.
Discounted EV charging is available at times when there is an abundance of wind and solar energy, reducing the public charging price to €0.26/kWh.
https://www.fcbe.at/laden/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-17 04:21:59
Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/16/18882269.php
@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-10 11:43:36
'Are you a data professional, researcher or practitioner (user) working with data within or across communities and sectors? This survey is for you!' https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9S7AtciBfXf9K9o
Via Melissa Terras on a DH mailing list, so GLAMs…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-13 21:05:58
These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
https://
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-18 21:33:36
«LLMs are copyright removal devices - copy open source (or proprietary!) data into it, and you get copyright free data on the other side that you are free to plagiarize into newly copyrighted works. While this process robs all copyright owners, it is particularly damaging to people involved in sharing communities, since many are particpating not for money but for the love of the game - what librarian Fobazi Ettarh calls “vocational awe”.»
Really good framing by @…
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 08:14:56
Designing AI-Infused Interactive Systems for Online Communities: A Systematic Literature Review
Yuanhao Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jiaxiong Hu, Ziqi Pan, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23309
@joe@toot.works2025-11-06 17:14:59
I liked the Fox Bay and still mourn it's passing but it's nice to see something opening in that space. I'll be checking it out.
"The venue's first public event on Dec. 5 will feature local artists Chris Haise Band and Zach Pietrini, as well as Nashville-based alt-pop trio VEAUX. This event also serves as a fundraiser, with profits given back to local Milwaukee music programs, according to a Nov. 5 news release announcing the opening."
#WhitefishBay #Milwaukee #TheArgo
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 03:45:43
A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-16 22:38:29
‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-02 04:00:05
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-01 16:54:44
Hegseth's Decision on Wounded Knee Medals Sparks Outrage in Native American Communities | Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/01/hegseths-decision-wounded-knee-medals-sparks-outrage-native-american-communities.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 00:55:45
David Sacks says AI preemption won't apply to state laws on child safety, communities won't be forced to host data centers they don't want, and more (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1998125180753944985
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 22:34:12
The joy and promise of the Internet is that marginal and marginalized people can find each other
and form communities.
If you're the only goth klezmer fan in Toad Suck, Arkansas, you can find others.
If you're het up about a neglected social issue, you can find others.
The trouble is a lot of communities used to be marginalized for extremely good reasons,
and it probably would have been better if they stayed that way.
Dumb pipes can't tel…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-12-19 19:03:01
Extreme heat is becoming deadlier, but we already have solutions that work.
The Heat Is On campaign showcased proven approaches—early warning systems and nature-based solutions—that have saved lives and protected communities worldwide. At COP30, this momentum paid off: adaptation finance is set to triple under the Belém Package, finally putting climate adaptation on equal footing with mitigation.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-16 01:36:37
Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-15 13:57:24
A lot of online commons & communities - including the people that maintain them and make them sing - are facing "cultural" or "digital" pollution of their spaces. This can be due to intentional pollution, like misinformation campaigns, but also by well-meaning contributions that end up overwhelming the community capacity.
And of course, "generative AI" has turned up the rate and frequency for this: It's easier than ever to "flood" our digital ecosystems with generated text.
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-09-28 02:00:03
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 20:53:08
Questions remain about how leaders at the Los Angeles fire department responded to a fire that leveled entire communities,
and who within the agency knew about concerns the fire could still pose a threat.
A former LA city councilor says the aftermath and recovery effort should serve as a Pearl Harbor moment for the city,
which should never again be in a position with flames encroaching on all sides.
The LA Times has published a series of bombshell revelationsabout th…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-12-15 13:57:46
The framing of digital pollution does mirror environmental pollution, e.g. in rivers and streams in many ways: In those, pollution can be coming from concentrated "point-sources" as well from more diffuse "non-point" sources. Including the problem of "too much of a good thing", where an excess of matter creates an eutrophication of an ecosystem that ultimately asphyxiates it.
Beyond being an apt metaphor, can we learn something from environmental science for online communities?
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-25 14:00:04
add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:32:10
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert.
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-14 03:40:37
Like today’s ICE,
Depression-era INS agents indiscriminately rounded up Mexicans,
presuming they were here illegally.
In Los Angeles, they targeted parks, hospitals, and work sites in Mexican communities,
demanding proof of citizenship.
High-profile raids and media campaigns announcing impending roundups served as tools of intimidation,
creating widespread fear that led to “voluntary” deportation via free one-way train tickets to Mexico.
Entire famil…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 22:54:53
One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…
