Found over on Mastodon: how bad UX design has led to Iceland having 82 people running for president, with many not even knowing they were running... uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-a...

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

A digital endorsement process gone wrong

There’s an obvious health and safety issue for anyone using one side of this riverside table at Wapping.

I already got Mad Enough to Blog It™ yesterday about the WordPress thing but here it comes again—the time-suck of just having to figure out whether or not any particular service you used for some fully unrelated purpose is selling your stuff off for AI fodder indignity.substack.com/i/142156685/...

ECclancyny.bsky.socialFeb 29, 2024 5:15pm

DocuSign now says they'll be using your data* to train AI. *Anonymized. But that's not really a thing. DocuSign makes software to sign documents online. All types of contracts and other docs use this service now. Info: support.docusign.com/s/document-i...

Genealogy and FamilyHistory people with blogs on WordPress 👇ICYMI

JSjoshsternberg.bsky.socialFeb 27, 2024 7:32pm

"Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals." www.404media.co/tumblr-and-w...

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

This is always worth recirculating: www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/... The cautionary tale of the first gosh-wow excited attempt to digitise Domesday Book.

Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000

Databases recorded in old computer formats can no longer be accessed on new generation machines, while magnetic storage tapes and discs have physically decayed, ruining precious databases.

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!

The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

Event: The cyber incident at the British Library has called into question our reliance on online systems to consult medieval manuscripts. Join this conversation on the current situation, and on rethinking practices 🕔 5-6.30pm 💻 Wed 7 Feb Online (free) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/feb24/...

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age

Digital library services experts field reflect on the sustainability of research practices in the current age

I am horrified that the University of Kent is planning the closure of many excellent programmes, including Anthropology, and is proposing up to 58 redundancies among academic staff! This further destruction of UK centres of academic excellence is heartbreaking.

Why is it that after years of being the nice person doing everything for others at cost to yourself and encouraged to not be such a doormat that when you dare to try and put yourself first that told so wrong for that too?!