I've been building starter packs for Mastodon in my spare time and today I want to share what I've built with the community:

https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

I've started building this when I saw how popular starter packs on Bluesky are and I think a feature like this is even more critical for Mastodon where it's harder to find people to follow across thousands of instances.

Only a small number starter packs are available right now, but I'm hoping the community will add more soon! ❤️

We got peer reviews for another manuscript and they really demonstrate how the reviewers took the necessary time for reading in-depth and leaving thoughtful comments.

Also it's very clear that the comments were done with an eye on improving how we can present our work in a better/clearer way. Makes me wish the reviewers weren't anonymous to properly thank and acknowledge them for their input! 💗

@academicchatter

«Connecting Babbage’s theories of worker control and his architectures for computation is a unified objective: the discipline of purportedly “free” labor such that it could continue to produce for the British empire. The templates for worker control that shaped Babbage’s contributions to computing draw on technologies created on the plantation, which were already actively applied to control rebellious workers in industrial factories.»

https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/