@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-11-12 12:57:36
June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-11-12 12:57:36
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-13 14:26:13
Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-07 17:51:04
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-13 18:17:50
It’s strange to watch the world ignore that it’s not just the medium that matters, but the message does too.
And by “the message” I mean both the ideas and the precise language or visuals used to communicate them.
Subtle differences in linguistic execution of the same idea in the same format can have radically opposite effects. The same applies to an image captured from a different angle or in a different style or in a different composition.
And yet it feels like most organizations and most people within them are determined to march on ignoring any consideration of subtlety and craft.
#writing #design #art #marketing
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-06 15:29:01
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-12-03 15:30:03
@lindawoodrow@mastodon.social2025-11-22 01:59:42
#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going to pick it up. So where and how to publish? 1/2
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-29 11:38:06
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2025-10-29 07:51:34
✍️ New post: The Mystery of Storytelling
#blogtober #stories #storytelling #writing
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-10-17 21:22:11
Originally, I argued to skip the «book of abstract» for SIG Writing 26. And maybe, creating one will acually be the best part in organizing it as I hopefully can do it with a fellow document engineer with a proper XML–XSLT–XSLT-FO–HTML–ePub pipeline! Maybe even LaTeX, who knows
Or the second best thing after printing stickers :)
#WritingResearch
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2025-10-23 01:13:38
"...the 38-year-old Electric engineer who..."
Hmm. Do you mean "Electric*al* engineer"? Unless he had an electric personality, of course. 🤔
#writing #English #erminology #labels #newspapers
@xiffy@mastodon.nl2025-12-23 08:55:43
Along the way I learned how to create a nice document from all the Markdown files I have written in Obsidian. With Pandoc and LaTeX stitching the chapters together as one PDF or EPUB. And of course I lost way too much time solving the last typesetting problems, reading documentation of either Pandoc or templating for Latex. It was a fun ride.
#pandoc #latex #obsidian #writing
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-12-19 20:33:11
Has anyone heard of this #writing #software before - Ellipsus?
I saw them in a YouTube sponsorship and was intrigued by their anti-AI stance. Seems like it could be a reasonable non-big-tech alternative to Google Docs with the same collaboration features.
#writingSoftware #writers
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2025-12-20 20:14:33
