David Benqué @air_pump@post.lurk.org

"The goal of the inaugural Open Publishing Awards is to promote and celebrate a wide variety of open projects in Publishing.

Nominations are open for 1 month from August 19, 2019. More information about categories, judging and why we are doing this can be found below.

The inaugural Open Publishing Awards focus on two categories – Open Source Software and Open Content. Judges may decide to break the categories down to sub-categories upon reviewing the nominations and call out projects for special mention in each. "

https://openpublishingawards.org/

Halt and Catch Fire!

The Open Call for contributions for the Eclectic Tech Carnival 2019, from 8 to 13 October in Athens, Greece, is now online in English (Greek version coming soon).

We are only waiting to be amazed by your ideas, so please get in touch: https://eclectictechcarnival.org/ETC2019/call/

CfP:

"RE: Infrastructures explores the #collective #care and #maintenance of alternative networking practices—new #protocols, peer-to-peer connections, offline-first #computing, and community-based #governance.

How can these emerging Infrastructures of Regeneration provide spaces to imagine radically different futures, resist easy co-option by the forces of late-stage capitalism, and work in #solidarity as plural networks seeking emancipatory change?"

https://ournetworks.ca/

Tired of reading the word "#artificialintelligence"? Then this firefox add-on is for you.

1. Install
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fuck-ai-and-up-sm/

2. Browse any page that talks about AI

3. Enjoy the read

😂 😂

or if you are more than tired (i.e fed up) this addon may suit you better instead (but disable the previous one first)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fuck-ai-and-up-ns/

😂 😂

"Façonner des futurs souhaitables : concevoir à l'ère de l'anthropocène" par @thomasdiluccio et moi-même en vidéo à #MiXiT19 !

https://mixitconf.org/2019/faconner-des-futurs-souhaitables-concevoir-a-l-ere-de-l-anthropocene

#futur #anthropocene #design #ethics #climateChange #future

[en] #Diffu is a Free Software allowing authors to publish all kinds of texts or articles and to aggregate the reactions they generate on social networks, especially through #ActivityPub such as #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Pleroma, #PixelFed, #Funkwhale, #Hubzilla, #GNUSocial ...

Diffu is a kind of free and federated alternative to #Medium or other applications that are not always easy to install.

To develop it, we launch a crowdfunding campaign

https://www.ulule.com/diffu/?lang=en

ReToot are welcome 😉 !

AI cheerleaders: Public relations, neoliberalism and artificial intelligence
Clea Bourne
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2046147X19835250

'Digital Hygiene -
Dietary metaphors for internet use blame individuals for systemic hazards'
Rachel Bergmann
https://reallifemag.com/digital-hygiene/