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Two years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/07/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html
I made one anti-…

Blockquotes in Screen Readers
TL;DR: This post does not assert the correct way to code blockquotes, it will only demonstrate how screen readers announce some existing patterns. Test Details The first four examples are lifted from WHATWG HTML’s

entry. The next three are from W3C HTML’s 2019

guidance (the W3C HTML spec…

"Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship"
https://pen.org/press-release/rhode-island-freedom-to-read-act…

Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship - PEN America
Joining a growing number of states that are passing laws to protect the right to read, Rhode Island’s newly signed Freedom to Read Act provides safeguards for both public and school libraries, protections for librarians and staff and is the first in the nation to guarantee writers and readers a special right of action against censorship.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 232 nodes and 1283194 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 81 nodes and 150126 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

lmao. lol

oh _no_ wikipedia, this is a _terrible_ idea and WTF are you thinking
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
(h/t @…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Fucking THANKFULLY Wikipedia has 'paused' the 'AI' generated summaries they were considering after editor backlash, and seriously, this is one thing I'm glad isn't getting fucked with this crap
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-a

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Jesus, I thought Wikimedia at least would understand its editors. Who on earth thought this was going to go over well?
SE was at least a for-profit company, WM has no excuse for this. There are plenty of places where they can use AI really fruitfully, but none of them are to do with generating user-facing content.

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

Here's an accessibility tip for Fedilab, an Android app for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and GoToSocial.
There are two settings that hide the top bar and compose button when a timeline is scrolled down. This helps to make the UI less cluttered for sighted users. But it makes these controls unavailable to screen readers. (Continued in reply.)
#Android

Extended Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
https://ift.tt/uBzkPdV
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: June 10, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due:…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Extended Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: June 10, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presenti…

So, two people who were readers of my book on change are bringing out books on change. This happened with my PhD (& my game). Two people published books on my research (with unrepresentative credit). This is why I haven't presented my work publicly this time.
On the one hand, it's great that the ideas spread (they're not mine anyway). On the other, I don't trust these folks & don't respect them anymore.
I need to learn who is safe to share my WIP wit…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

Enhancing Text Comprehension for Dyslexic Readers: A 3D Semantic Visualization Approach Using Transformer Mode
Zhengyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03731

Enhancing Text Comprehension for Dyslexic Readers: A 3D Semantic Visualization Approach Using Transformer Mode
Dyslexic individuals often face significant challenges with traditional reading, particularly when engaging with complex texts such as mystery novels. These texts typically demand advanced narrative tracking and information integration skills, making it difficult for dyslexic readers to fully comprehend the content. However, research indicates that while dyslexic individuals may struggle with textual processing, they often possess strong spatial imagination abilities. Leveraging this strength, …

"Stop counting sheep – and 13 more no-nonsense tips for getting back to sleep"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/04/stop-counting-sheep-and-13-more-no-nonsense-tips-for-getting-back-to-sleep…

Kicking off the festival on the main hall, with David Holmgren and Kirsten Bradley. Hugging myself. https://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/product/rooted-in-resilience/

Crowdsourced map of Flock ALPRs (automated license plate readers):
https://deflock.me/map

DeFlock
Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

Talk about poisoned pen! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/tool-to-identify-poisonous-books-developed-by-university-of-st-andrews

Interviews with executives at Yahoo News, the WSJ, and Bloomberg about adding AI-powered summaries, how they can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/lets-get

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

#WritersCoffeeClub Jun 6
What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
Um.. . I don't know, I write high/epic/dark fantasy (according to my beta readers) but I follow my story where it leads me. Are there conventions? Probably. Do I care? Not consciously.

Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as
"give a positive review only" and
"do not highlight any negatives."
Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper fo…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Interviews with executives at Yahoo News, the WSJ, and Bloomberg about adding AI-powered summaries, how they can help busy readers, reliability issues, and more (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/lets-get…

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!

Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/jun/02/indonesia-micro-libraries-photos

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 11: Who sees your WIP before it’s done?
Good case scenario, my friends. Otherwise, no one. Having beta readers is a luxury.
With #ТемнаНаука it is actually my friends (if we count translation as a form of wri…

Zip Bombs: simple, yet powerful in the fight against #AI bots
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Where Luke assures Gospel readers all secrets will be disclosed (8:17) I notice he neglects to mention there will be fuck-all you can do about it.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Keys
Readers Yusra Warsama and Darren Kuppan explore the multilayered symbolism of keys, reading from Dante, Rumi and Tracy Beaker alongside music by Bach, Bessie Smith and Mozart.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qfrv

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

This Cowboys All-Century unit is special https://insidethestar.com/this-cowboys-all-century-unit-is-special

Calamus 45 Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible
A remarkably effective poem for the end of the cluster. Whitman talking directly to us, the reader, about the import of his poems. And with some ambition: "To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence".
But even better, he's horny for us:
Now it is you ... seeking me,
Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover
The poet is imagining us, his future readers, thinking about how we will want to be his lover. What a lusty man! Whitman is not modest.
I love it. And it's a fitting end to this series. I've greatly enjoyed reading them. Over the past 45 days I've learned better how to read Whitman, to understand his poems. And to relate to them in at least one simple way, teasing out the gayest and sexiest parts of these poems. Making them fun for myself.
I'm not quite done yet. I hope to identify my favorites of the group. I may also try my hand at reading one or two aloud.

"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."

Fun bug:
Screen readers stick paragraphs together when display: block is present in ::before and :after
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428077782
Have confirmed for myself.
Who doesn't like CSS display property bugs that blow up accessibility? Oh rig…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14522 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased by Design: Leveraging AI Inherent Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers
This paper explores the design of a propaganda detection tool using Large Language Models (LLMs). Acknowledging the inherent biases in AI models, especially in political contexts, we investigate how these biases might be leveraged to enhance critical thinking in news consumption. Countering the typical view of AI biases as detrimental, our research proposes strategies of user choice and personalization in response to a user's political stance, applying psychological concepts of confirmation bia…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00887 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Stability of shear flows near a boundary
This book is devoted to the study of the linear and nonlinear stability of shear flows and boundary layers for Navier Stokes equations for incompressible fluids with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the case of small viscosity. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive presentation to recent advances on boundary layers stability. It targets graduate students and researchers in mathematical fluid dynamics and only assumes that the readers have a basic knowledge on ordinary differential …

Forty years ago I moved to Scotland and tried to read the classic “A Scots Quair” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It’s written in a variant of Scots that aimed to be accessible to English readers. I had the Scots dictionary by my side and was looking up words constantly until I gave up. A few years later (with some more experience of hearing Scots spoken) I read it without the dictionary and, while I was occasionally guessing at words from context, I went with the flow and loved it.
Like mos…

"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/

Resistance and The Courts work. Keep resisting.
#Resist
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-14-2025

May 14, 2025
On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern authoritarian leaders are elected.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 81 nodes and 150126 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

If a sitting president can direct the IRS to investigate political enemies, revoke nonprofit status from dissenting institutions, or selectively enforce tax law to reward loyalty,
the agency no longer serves the public.
It serves power.
The slow hollowing of the IRS through funding cuts, staff attrition, and the erosion of norms yields the same result:
a weakened institution unable to enforce the law, uphold equity, or hold the powerful to account.
And when th…

The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care
How Trump, DOGE, and Project 2025 Are Turning the IRS Into a Tool of Authoritarian Rule Editor’s Introduction: Hello readers, it's Nathan Tankus and I am very happy to bring to you the first in a long multi-part series on the IRS spearheaded by Anisha Steephen. Anisha worked for

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24195 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language editions, leading many to prefer it even when their primary language is not English. Other language editions, however, comprise complementary facts rooted in their respective cultures and media environments, which are marginalized in English Wikipedia. While Wikipedia's user i…

Vote: Choose central Ohio's high school boys Athlete of the Year for 2024-25 https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/30/vote-who-is-central-ohios-high-school-boys-athlete-of-th…

Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
https://ift.tt/4gOzeNE
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: May 15, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due:…
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…

Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: May 15, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presentin…

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
Ibrahim Al Azher, Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Zhishuai Guo, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18207

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
In scientific research, limitations refer to the shortcomings, constraints, or weaknesses within a study. Transparent reporting of such limitations can enhance the quality and reproducibility of research and improve public trust in science. However, authors often a) underreport them in the paper text and b) use hedging strategies to satisfy editorial requirements at the cost of readers' clarity and confidence. This underreporting behavior, along with an explosion in the number of publications, …

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 81 nodes and 150126 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14522 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Biased by Design: Leveraging AI Inherent Biases to Enhance Critical Thinking of News Readers
This paper explores the design of a propaganda detection tool using Large Language Models (LLMs). Acknowledging the inherent biases in AI models, especially in political contexts, we investigate how these biases might be leveraged to enhance critical thinking in news consumption. Countering the typical view of AI biases as detrimental, our research proposes strategies of user choice and personalization in response to a user's political stance, applying psychological concepts of confirmation bia…

Extended Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
https://ift.tt/VWeXRb7
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: June 10, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due:…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Extended Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: June 10, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presenti…

On Wednesday,
the Washington Post
named the Economist’s Washington correspondent
Adam O’Neal as its next opinion editor.
In his announcement on Twitter, O’Neal parroted his new boss’ words from last February almost verbatim,
telling Post readers in a chummy front-facing camera announcement that:
[Washington Post opinion page writers and editors are] going to be stalwart advocates of free markets and personal liberties.
We’ll be unapologetically patri…

New Washington Post Opinion editor claims explicitly right-wing revamp isn’t ‘Ideological’
A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological.

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
Zining Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24195

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language editions, leading many to prefer it even when their primary language is not English. Other language editions, however, comprise complementary facts rooted in their respective cultures and media environments, which are marginalized in English Wikipedia. While Wikipedia's user i…

"No Fun with Donald, Vlad and Bibi"
Donald is very unhappy.
#parody #humor #comedy #Fun_with_Dick_and_Jane

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
Zoe Anastasiadou, Andreas Lanitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22932

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
The increase of the percentage of elderly population in modern societies dictates the use of emerging technologies as a means of supporting elder members of the society. Within this scope, Extended Reality (XR) technologies pose as a promising technology for improving the daily lives of the elderly population. This paper presents a literature review that describes the most common characteristics of the physical and mental state of the elderly, allowing readers, and specifically XR developers, t…

Good Morning #Canada
In 2022, this town was voted by CBC readers and viewers as the "Best Small Town in B.C.". Sure, it's got skiing, golf, scenery, and friendly people but it's also a destination for your next #BigStuffInSmallTowns road trip. Kimberley's downtown was designed to resemble a Bavarian tourist village, so it features an almost 7 metre tall cuckoo clock where Happy Hans, a Bavarian-style mountaineer, announces the time.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Yodel
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kimberley-best-small-town-bc-winner-1.6434796

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706

Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into creative communities, like fanfiction, is reshaping how stories are created, shared, and valued. This study investigates the perceptions of 157 active fanfiction members, both readers and writers, regarding AI-generated content in fanfiction. Our research explores the impact of GenAI on community dynamics, examining how AI affects the participatory and collaborative nature of these spaces. The findings reveal responses ranging from cautious acceptan…

Echo Park (Harry Bosch #12), by Michael Connelly
#Book #Crime #Mystery #PoliceProcedural