Serena Jones

@serenaj
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Author & micro-publisher, Tyger's Head Books – Transcribing the ECW Newsbooks | General Editor, Helion & Company (views my own) | Biographer of Col. Sir George Lisle | Petrolhead & home mechanic, may occasionally bang on about Mazdas and newly bought garage tools

Follow @englishcivilwar for ECW-focused chat | #EnglishCivilWar

SERVER SWITCH KLAXON! 📢

I'm moving over to historians.social, so I'll put up a redirect from here shortly.

The new account is [email protected]

Nothing else will change, and it looks like my followers have been ported over already.

Many thanks to @lizcovart, @kawulf, & @jmadelman at historians.social for approving my account in under half an hour!

In the days before digital computers, "computers" were human (as @Halpin just noted in a convo with me)

People doing calculations by hand

A large chunk of these human computers were women

Indeed, so *many* were women that ...

"... one contractor of the Applied Mathematics Panel used the term 'kilo­girl' to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation work. Another astronomer spoke of 'girl-years' of work."

I wrote about this for Smithsonian magazine a few years ago: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/

The Gendered History of Human Computers

It's ironic that women today must fight for equality in Silicon Valley. After all, their math skills helped launch the digital age

Smithsonian Magazine

"And thus far of my rusticall intelligence, plainly dressed ... It may passe though clad in Country Russet or Gray, for now Country gray begins to be Parliament gray ..."

(Informator Rusticus No. 1, 27 Oct–3 Nov 1643. British Library E.74[15])

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The Online Safety Bill introduces mandatory age verification on content platforms. Non-profits using community content moderation will have to collect more user data. Adults and children will be exposed to privacy risks as there isn’t capacity to hold data securely.

The Wikimedia Foundation warns of the Bill's impact on Wikipedia and other open knowledge platforms.

#BlockTheBill #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/deep-dive-the-united-kingdoms-online-safety-bill-b7020723dd39

Deep Dive: The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill - Wikimedia Policy - Medium

With the shared goal of making the internet better and safer for all while also protecting Wikipedia, we offer recommendations for revisions of the UK Online Safety Bill.

Wikimedia Policy
I'm writing a short article on getting started with Mastodon for Computers in Libraries and have found @nikodemus guide invaluable. You might too. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit?usp=sharing
Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon

Nikodemus’ Guide to Mastodon by Nikodemus Siivola <@[email protected]>, updated 2022-12-08. Read time 20-30 min Translations: Ukrainian Mastodon is a microblogging social network somewhat similar to Twitter, or your Facebook timeline. In some ways it is akin to Twitter of early 2010s, but i...

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My book, Black Folk is on the way, it will be out in June 2023. Please preorder! Link is in my bio!

Hello #Mastodon, if you know a Black woman student (HS/College/Grad School) or early career, I am going need you to lend me your ears.

The Sadie Collective, a nonprofit bringing resources and community to Black women in quant and social science fields, is award ing $6000 and all expense paid trips to their annual conference.

As someone who participated PLEASE share widely.

https://sadiecollective.force.com/s/research-reception-form?language=en_US

#econtwitter #economics #sociology #science #academia #academic #BlackMastodon #Blacktwitter

SC Member Portal

Still trying to find my #history communities on here. I am interested in #military history, #engineering history and similar. Anyone got any pointers?

@histodons @englishcivilwar

I messed up the tag on the above post for @englishcivilwar first time around, apologies! 🙈 😅 I've now corrected.

Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.

In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.