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We're working on a complete UI redesign!
metrofive represents the 5th generation design with a focus on accessibility, discovery, new photographer features and social features like Stories and Live.
The alpha release will be available soon, it's pretty slick 😎 #metrofive #pixelfed
Via friend of the podcast Henry Grabar:
-Car trips starting and ending in Paris are down 60 percent since 2000
-Car trips between city and suburbs down 35 percent in that time
-168+ schools with car-free blocks created since 2020
-one (1) cyclist killed in 2022
https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycling-history-france.html
Nature has just put out correspondence that calls for scholarly institutes to join the #fediverse, and start their own #mastodon instances.
Together with that, the writers put out a longer article, 'Mastodon over Mammon', that explains the argument in greater detail, and is worth reading.
Great work by @brembs et al, which points to the core issue: the private ownership of public commons.
Full version:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771
Nature Correspondence:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. Both historically and conceptually, this is not a new situation for the scholarly community. Historically, scholars were forced to leave social media platform FriendFeed after it was bought by Facebook in 2006. Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. For both short form (Twitter/Mastodon) and longer form (journals) scholarly discourse, decentralized solutions exist, some of which are already enjoying some institutional support. Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. Demonstrating that the scholarly community is capable of creating a truly public square for scholarly discourse, impervious to private takeover, might renew confidence and inspire the community to focus on analogous solutions for the remaining scholarly record – encompassing text, data and code – to safeguard all publicly owned scholarly knowledge.
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. Both historically and conceptually, this is not a new situation for the scholarly community. Historically, scholars were forced to leave social media platform FriendFeed after it was bought by Facebook in 2006. Conceptually, the problems associated with public scholarly discourse subjected to the whims of corporate owners are not unlike those of scholarly journals owned by monopolistic corporations: in both cases the perils associated with a public good in private hands are palpable. For both short form (Twitter/Mastodon) and longer form (journals) scholarly discourse, decentralized solutions exist, some of which are already enjoying some institutional support. Here we argue that scholarly organizations, in particular learned societies, are now facing a golden opportunity to rethink their hesitations towards such alternatives and support the migration of the scholarly community from Twitter to Mastodon by hosting Mastodon instances. Demonstrating that the scholarly community is capable of creating a truly public square for scholarly discourse, impervious to private takeover, might renew confidence and inspire the community to focus on analogous solutions for the remaining scholarly record – encompassing text, data and code – to safeguard all publicly owned scholarly knowledge.
@mathowie It’s not a tax dodge. I wrote an article about it.
If you track the donations, you can deduct them from your own taxes (if you itemize of course).
But in no way can the business legally claim a tax deduction for your donation.
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
What CVS was doing was *very* different. And fraudulent.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cvs-sued-using-customer-donations-165400166.html
If you’ve shopped recently at your supermarket, there’s a good chance you faced a choice at the checkout counter: Whether to give to a charity. But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial.
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The War on Cars
Robert Reich
Connected Places
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Jeff Jarvis
Peter Butler
Andy McMillan