Mastodawn

AliExpress is trying to sell me some dark shit today...

I have so many questions going on like
- how has this sold 41 times?!
- who thought that it was marketable in the first place to need making it

#dark #chernobyl #aliexpress #GlowInTheDark

Sae Ra 4d ago

Kathy Reid 4d ago

Does your organisation work with #language #data in #Arabic, #Tagalog, #signLanguage, #Kannada, #Tamil, #Burmese, #Croatian, #Tigrinya, #Vietnamese, #Thai, #Pashto, #Uzbek, #German, #French or #Kurdish?

The @mozilladatacollective has an open #CfP to fund the uplift or creation of datasets in this space that focus on dialogic interaction, multimodal - so video or speech paired with transcription, or which focus on the intersectionality of under-represented contexts or domains.

Is that your organisation?

https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/call-for-proposals-mdc-is-commissioning-mission-aligned-datasets/

Call for proposals: MDC is commissioning mission-aligned datasets!

Mozilla Data Collective is building towards a multicultural, multilingual, and multimodal future that works for all of us. And over the past few months, we’ve listened as people have flagged what kinds of datasets they need, but are struggling to find. So we’re pleased to announce that MDC

Mozilla Data Collective

Sae Ra Mar 11

Wikidata Mar 10

Attention app builders! 👷
Wikidata now also offers a GraphQL endpoint. It is ideal for integrating simple queries that don’t need the full power of SPARQL into your application.
You can learn more at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibase_GraphQL
What are you going to build next?

Wikidata:Wikibase GraphQL - Wikidata

Sae Ra Mar 11

Jack Skinner Mar 10

RE: https://mastodon.pycon.org.au/@pyconau/116190610077077145

This is happening tomorrow! Please help me get the word out 🙏

Free to attend. Very chill and friendly environment. Hands on and practical tips for submitting talk ideas to conferences!

And perfectly timed for @pyconau‘s open CFP right now!

What more could you want. See you there?! 👋👇🏼

Sae Ra Mar 6

Totally just tuned our car’s audio to specifically cater for the new Blackpink album. This Hyundai Ioniq is showing its Korean pride by playing that bass line perfectly

Sae Ra Mar 4

maybe we need a Fedi version of Subject Headings?

#LibraryThoughts

Sae Ra Feb 26

ausglamr Feb 26

Open Source vs. Big Vendors: A conversation with Sebastian Hammer (Video) (@saera on Shelf Matters)

https://www.caval.edu.au/blog/podcast-posts/open-source-vs-big-vendors-a-conversation-with-sebastian-hammer-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-source-vs-big-vendors-a-conversation-with-sebastian-hammer-video

Open Source vs. Big Vendors: A conversation with Sebastian Hammer (Video) - CAVAL

Multicultural library leaders share inclusive practices, migrant stories, visible collections and equitable programs.

CAVAL

Sae Ra Feb 25

OH “I didn’t realise that books were still a thing”

I dislike people.

Sae Ra Feb 25

Hugh Feb 24

This is very good. You should read it.

"Technology doesn’t need to be free. It cannot be free because freedom as a concept applies to people."

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world

Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

Smashing Frames

Sae Ra Feb 17

Just putting it out there. this is not something I would Google…