Ms. Kathy Reid

Could we please go back to the version of the internet patched together by chewing gum and goodwill;

the domain of the well-meaning, Aloha shirt-clad, neck-bearded hippie;

the time of the lady poet-engineer who wrote spanning tree protocols and prose to match them;

where the only thing you had to do to connect to other humans was to be "capable of sending and receiving packets";

where we share spare GPU cycles to search for extra-terrestrial life or to run HPC workloads for curing cancer;

where the internet was wild and unstructured and embryonic and so full of potential and life and --- I'm not sure - vectors? paths? possibilities?

At which fork or trunk or change did the current slop-enshitti-net emerge?

I just got my 10th dose of COVID vaccine - and I unlocked a new level on Duolingo! *

* No, not really, but please stay up to date with your vaccinations ❤️

Are you based in #Australia?
Work with #Indigenous #Languages?
Want to shepherd the nation's work with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages?

Now hiring: #EO role

https://idil-australia.au/resources/we-are-hiring

#FediHired
#GetFediHired

For folks working in #archives, #OpenContent, #editing, #libraries or #OpenData, you won't want to miss #WikiconAustralia, brought to you by @wm_au@wikis.world and hosted at the #NFSA.

Includes tutorials on #OpenRefine, and workshops on handling #Indigenous material in culturally appropriate ways (such as the CARE principles).

I mis-timed my caffeine intake and now I can't sleep.

May be of interest to the folx in #linguistics

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SEL (Society for Endangered and Lesser known Languages) invites you to an academic lecture titled “What is Language Oppression?” by Dr. Gerald Roche, Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Languages & Cultures, La Trobe University. The lecture will be held on 28th March at 6:00 PM IST.

Organized on the occasion of National Indigenous Languages Day (31st March), this lecture highlights critical issues of linguistic inequality and the importance of preserving indigenous and lesser-known languages.

All students, scholars, and interested participants are cordially invited to attend.

Join us for the lecture via the meeting link available here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88243231132...

Meeting ID: 882 4323 1132
Passcode: 588421

My friend M and her hubby are renting out their home - if you're looking for a 5BR 3BA home - and it's gorgeous inside - in Newtown, #Geelong, take a look:

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-newtown-443619696

Excellent Sunday afternoon read from Professor @drmichaellevin@fediscience.org for Noema Magazine that takes a look at the metaphors we use to distinguish between organic and non-organic beings and challenges some of the assumptions around what we consider to be machines and/or living things.

Very much in the style of Donna Haraway, he advocates at once for #pragmatism, for empirically testing the methods we use for interrogating systems that imbricate the organic and the machine and to keep an open mind when categorising which is which.

For fans of Douglas Hofstadter, #cybernetics, #systems and #ConsequentialCategories.

https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/

Totally hooked on Professor @aquigley@hci.social #keynote at #EverythingOpen today - it's all about #interfaces and #HCI - and about #sensors - and how they can be used for secondary purposes to those originally designed - and at the end of the day we are all #human - and this limits the attention we have for input.

Super interesting!

Paper references are on Prof Quigley's Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LujyjYoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate