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@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-20 14:22:54

This thread is the kind of quality content we keep coming back for here on the fediverse.
And it’s well past time i re-read The Lord of the Rings. mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115582

Pepijn (@Pepijn@mastodon.online)
Huh. Someone has been DM-ing (with what I assume are sock-puppet accounts) telling me I'm wrong and the correct #LOTR quote is "You shall not pass!". As they're rather boring I just block & report them. It seems server admins have removed all or most of the accounts :-) If you're the troll: thanks for the incentive to spend time with the books. Also: WTF dude. For everyone else: I took the opportunity to go through my English copies of the fellowship and took photos of the actual text: 1/x

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-05 14:51:22

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 zenodo.org/records/17779992

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research
This poster presents work in progress that brings interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and members of the public together in a series of workshops to discuss the ethics of machine learning-engaged online participatory research (often called ‘crowdsourcing’), wherein machine learning (ML) is a component at some stage of an online participatory research project. The discussions from these workshops will be used to produce the first-ever framework for ML-engaged online participatory r…

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2025-11-08 09:23:54

RE: mastodon.online/@BrentToderian
Bring back urban spaces where buildings don't tower over you, making you feel small and inconsequential. Max 5 storey courtyard blocks. Small stores, not super stores.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-09 10:20:57

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
wired.com/story/is-craigslist-

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-04 09:18:58

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
conftool.org/fantastic-futures

A white woman with a dark bob on stage with a slide 'Five ideas for Fantastic Digital Futures'
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-09 20:06:05

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
wired.com/story/is-craigslist-

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-10 20:04:56

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more
In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2025-10-26 00:25:37

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-12-02 23:24:03

On the eve of Fantastic Futures #FF2025, two things I want to share: firstly, I'm super-excited about seeing people in person and online tomorrow to Friday! And secondly, huge thanks to everyone who's helped - everyone who put in a proposal, all our reviewers, the British Library's excellent International and Events teams, the incredible Digital Research team

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-11-24 18:13:44

Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the @… community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free!