Mastodawn

@iwritelike Not a coder but I've technically been writing Markdown since before it was announced in 2004, because I was already writing plain-text emails with almost exactly that syntax and adapting to the Markdown bits took like a day.

(That said I kind of hate Markdown for complex or living documents, Pandoc is amazing but it's reinventing a somehow even worse AsciiDoc by strapping a rocket to a Web 1.0 blogging tool.)

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎19h ago

CBC News 1d ago

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News

American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

CBC

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎1d ago

ORCID Organization 1d ago

Happy Feature Friday! 💫

Among our latest Registry updates include improvements to the Add Works menu option within the Works section of the ORCID record to support the new "Import works from other services" option.

#ORCID #FeatureFriday

Feature Friday

Feature Friday is where we let the community know about updates we've made to the ORCID Registry and the Member Portal.

ORCID

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

Library Lead Pipe

3d ago

Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher by Kalani Craig, @michelledalmau and @teamseaslug
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/digitalarc/

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Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

@geniodiabolico stable is very good once you're working with sticky boxes!
Also, remember that you'll be adding super/s, with any luck, and will want to look down into those too. Too low is not good but too high can be challenging in a different way.

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

Joseph Cox 2d ago

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

Vicki Ziegler 2d ago

"Come friend, neighbor,
you, come set the garden on fire
with all our hard-earned years, tender labor
of being here, ceaseless & volcanic
making of being here, together."

#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry
Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (2014 Split This Rock) https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/set-the-garden-on-fire

Set the Garden on Fire | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎3d ago

Paul R. Pival (he/him)3d ago

booksellers.ca platforms constitute a pan-Canadian one-stop shop that brings together 150 independent booksellers from sea to sea in one place.

About | booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online https://www.booksellers.ca/about

#BuyLocal #BuyCanadian

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎3d ago

Cyberpunk Librarian 3d ago

And now it's time for a "very specific to me" gripe:

For goddess' sake... post the direct URL to your podcast's RSS feed. You don't have to encourage people to use it. Just put it there, for assholes like me, who don't want to listen to your podcast on fucking Spotify.

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Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎4d ago

@bookgaga appreciate! I have confidence that if anyone can find it based on my holey recollection, it will be you!

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