Mastodawn

Dr. Ben Mitchell Oct 17, 2023

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Oct 17, 2023

#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
Do Children have the same basic human rights as anyone else, including to choose their preferred name and pronouns?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-human-rights-commissioner-resigns-calls-pronoun-policy-an-attack-on-gender-diverse-kids-1.6998397

CBC: “Sask. human rights commissioner resigns, calls pronoun policy 'an attack' on gender-diverse kids”
#HumanRights #LGBTQ #SaskPoli #BCPoli #SOGI #PleaseBoost #Notwithstandingclause

Yes

19.5%

Definitely Yes

63.2%

There is only one answer - PLEASE BOOST

17.2%

Poll ended at Oct 18, 2023 at 8:27pm.

Sask. human rights commissioner resigns, calls pronoun policy 'an attack' on gender-diverse kids | CBC News

After nine years as a Saskatchewan human rights commissioner, Heather Kuttai resigned from the role Monday in response to the province’s new policy that requires teachers to alert parents if their child wants to use a different gender expression at school.

CBC

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 28, 2023

Now on Bluesky at: @drlibraryben.bsky.social

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 23, 2023

Well, when MAiD procedures were vastly expanded in Canada I knew it was only a matter of time before someone in my communities decided that our society was making it much easier for them to die than to live. Everyone's reasons are their own, but I don't think it's an accident that their previous post before that announcement was about how they were struggling to find accessible housing...

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 22, 2023

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Ryan Randall Sep 22, 2023

Dr. Brock's "Black Cyberculture: Black Joy and Digital Blackface" talk today will look at both Black joy online and how non-Black people use Blackness online.

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 22, 2023

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Ryan Randall Sep 22, 2023

Dr. Brock pairs a reading of _The Negro Motorist Green-Book_ and _Lovecraft Country_.

Describes the Green Book as the first Black-authored network, a search engine providing crucial information for Black motorists.

Lovecraft Country also shows how the interstate highway promises universal access, but ends up exposing Black folks to white supremacy and discrimination.

And Dr. Brock likens the interstate highway to the internet, a subsequent but similar network.

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 20, 2023

Privacy Badger Sep 19, 2023

Privacy Badger 2023.9.12 has been released for all supported browsers!

The main new thing is improved link tracking protection ("link unwrapping") on Google sites.

With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.

To learn more, visit https://eff.org/badger-link-tracking-protection-update

To install Privacy Badger, visit https://privacybadger.org/.

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy

We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 6, 2023

Halifax Examiner Sep 6, 2023

We've taken @SuzanneR70 's investigation out from behind the paywall:

‘They don’t let us’: Dollarama stores sell bread, unless there’s a Sobeys nearby

Sobeys was one of the grocery chains involved in the bread price-fixing scheme. Now, a Halifax Examiner investigation finds that the sale of discounted bread is limited near Sobeys locations.

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/they-dont-let-us-dollarama-stores-sell-bread-unless-theres-a-sobeys-nearby/

‘They don’t let us’: Dollarama stores sell bread, unless there’s a Sobeys nearby

Savvy shoppers know they can save big on a loaf of bread at Dollarama. But at more than a dozen of the Quebec-based company’s stores in Nova Scotia, there’s no bread on the shelves. Those stores have one thing in common: there’s a Sobeys nearby. Mary Wilson went shopping at Dollarama’s Cole Harbour location last […]

Halifax Examiner

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 6, 2023

Virgile Andreani Sep 5, 2023

I just found out that the @zotero Connector for Firefox has a setting to save papers to zotero.org, when your local Zotero is not running, which happens to me frequently.

#Academia #AcademicChatter #Zotero

Dr. Ben Mitchell Sep 4, 2023

Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Aug 30, 2023

This is a fantastic publication for anyone working, or interested to work with historical newspaper data. Created by former colleague Yann Ryan, "this book is a guide to accessing and analysing newspaper data, mostly using the programming language R."

https://yann-ryan.github.io/newspapers/

@BL_DigiSchol #BritishLibrary @LivingWithMachines
CC @cneud

Accessing and Using Historical Newspaper Data

Dr. Ben Mitchell Aug 31, 2023

Librarianshipwreck Aug 31, 2023

“While AI is often thought of as human-free machine learning, the technology actually relies on the labor-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the Global South and often subject to exploitation.”

Some very important perspective on AI…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid.

The Washington Post