Ian Ramjohn

@iramjohn
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Wikipedia expert at @WikiEducation. 
Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile
On masking

* The Mask Comes Off When I Write - Jason Sanford There are some amazing quotes in there. Because of all that, I was taught to heavily mask. To hide who I was inside...And once I started school, I taught myself both consciously and unconsciously to mask even harder. After

Ian Ramjohn
News publishers call Google’s AI Mode ‘theft’

The News/Media Alliance, a trade association representing some of the largest news publishers in the US, has criticized Google’s AI Mode, saying it’s “depriving” publishers of traffic and revenue.

The Verge
Documentary on Minshall to be screened at Cannes Film Festival's first Caribbean Day - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

CARIBBEAN filmmakers will take centre stage at the Cannes Film Festival during the first-ever Caribbean Day at Pavillon Afriques on May 21.

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

The House Financial Services Republicans and the White House (now deleted) tagged either a hacked or fake account in their announcements that Paul Atkins was sworn in as SEC Chair. The "Atkins" account immediately started asking for crypto.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

@Gizmodo @science-Gizmodo There's been a cluster in West Michigan too.
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said | CBC News

A Toronto woman is raising concerns about her privacy being breached after she received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during a Lyft ride last month.

CBC
@davidtoddmccarty A childhood friend makes beautiful handmade knives. I've love to support him, but they run around $250, and I just can't bring myself to spend that much.
I would never have dreamed the day would come when I was more pro-US military than the US fucking government.

It's important to me to see this posted. I know the people I work with, I know their values, but when you're a small non-profit in an environment like this, survival is also a concern.

I'm proud @WikiEducation and our leadership team re-affirmed what's right.

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2025/03/20/wikipedia-is-missing-people-and-perspectives-heres-how-wiki-education-is-changing-that/

Wikipedia is missing people and perspectives. Here’s how Wiki Education is changing that.

For the last 20-plus years, if you wanted to know something about a topic, Wikipedia is probably where you landed. Whether you painstakingly used Wikipedia’s own search field, Googled it, looked at…

Wiki Education

@run_atalanta @cavyherd @DarrenNevares

"The chart that started this thread is good, and seems fair, except it's from a majority perspective. The fediverse is left-leaning, but also fairly privilege-leaning."

Yes, definitely this.