André Castro @blcktofu@post.lurk.org

If anyone is lurking in London on the 25th of July, MayDay Rooms are organising a scanathon of documents belonging to the People’s Planning Unit, City Limits Magazine, Arts and Recreation Department, Police Monitoring and Research Unit, Women’s Committee. 💥

https://maydayrooms.org/whats-on/

UPSETTING SETTINGS - XPUB #Gradshow 2019 🥳🤖
12-13.07.2019 #Exhibition + #Presentations + #Workshops!
UBIK, S/ASH GA\\ERY in #Rotterdam

Upsetting Settings presents graduation projects initiated by Alexander Roidl, Alice Strete, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Natasha Berting, and Zalán Szakács. The concept of this exhibition arises from the idea of the default setting, a situation in which a specific mode of interaction is selected automatically, pre-configured to work out of the box without the need to tinker with its underlying apparatus. Every system comes with default settings predefined by its creators, and most of the time, these settings remain unchanged by us, the users of such systems. These defaults do not represent our needs but are possibly the materialisation of biases from the system's makers, from corporate or political interests, from a society at large. The projects engage with the concept of default modes and propose interventions in their core structure/source/root so as to start thinking collectively about better places from which to begin. You are invited to become root users, active listeners, smart speakers, intentional eaters, counter trolls, sensorial spectators!

Grad projects overview: https://project.xpub.nl
Full programme: https://project.xpub.nl/README19.NFO

🏴‍☠️📚💻#XPUB Special Issue 09💻📚🏴‍☠️

Interfacing the Law 3 / The #Library is Open

Thursday June 20th, 2019
Leeszaal West #Rotterdam
13:30-18:00

Three free #Workshops: Marginal Conversations, Knowledge in Action, Blurry Boundaries

w-wat? https://issue.xpub.nl/09

A year ago I tried learning ActivityPub, and more or less failed. I was confounded by a spec that was so abstract I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Turns out I was missing some key things.

I have written a guide to learning about ActivityPub that I wish existed a year ago when I first set out to learn how to write social media servers that conform to the spec:

https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/

Hey! Stop the press! Tomorrow, Friday 17.5.19, #XPUB Master students are urgently presenting the 8th Special Issue 'The Network We (de)Serve' produced in urgency with #Varia at the #Urgent #Publishing conference.

https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/conference/

#chilloutpublishingconfwhentho

https://www.eenewsembedded.com/news/there-news-solar-powered-website-leaves-it-sun

Hello everyone !

📢 🔴 URGENT 🔴

An awesome software is dying, because its #developper has not time anymore to care of it.

It's an alternative of Adobe AfterEffect : Natron (https://natrongithub.github.io/)

Please, can Mastodon community search for a C++ dev, which want to maintain it ? or search for a company which work with free software ? It's very important.

Boost very appreciated

Thanks in advance for your contribution !

#Dev #Mastodon #C++ #Python

Tomorrow, 14.04.19, in #Rotterdam at #Varia's open day, you can come and play the latest (unreleased) build of What Remains on real hardware! (an RGB modded #Famicom to be precise)

http://varia.zone/en/openday2019.html

"We, the professors, tutors and lecturers of Dutch art academies declare to stand for academic freedom and independence, now that our essential core values are under attack with the appeal to report ‘indoctrination in education’ by the Renaissance Institute of the Forum voor Democratie (FVD), which was launched last March 12.

March 15, more than 40,000 teachers, including some of our colleagues of Dutch art academies, were protesting at the Malieveld in The Hague for better and more investment in education and against the increasing work pressure. The pressure has elevated dramatically now that autonomy in the classroom is at stake. History demonstrates that threats, intimidation, and documentation of people for who or what they are and believe in can have terrible consequences. We therefore reject the public persecution of teachers and academics as a measure to ‘structurally change and improve education’.

[...]"

Read more here and if you are involved in Dutch art education sign the declaration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLYkGXeB-1a-PTt5eoPA2MfknKQEdMUpMxN384rG-9h8ldBw/viewform

THE NETWORK WE (DE)SERVED

#XPUB Special Issue 08 will be presented at #Varia in #Rotterdam this coming Thursday 04.04.19 📡at 19:00!

https://issue.xpub.nl/08/

Wtf is debian doing debconf in israel, why is debian making such political statement and why this one?

#debian #israel #Palestine

Impressive attempt to visualize quantities of injury and death in Gaza based on UN data using particles to attempt to convey quantity/scale (still hard to imagine each point as an individual) https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/mar/29/a-year-of-bloodshed-at-gaza-border-protests

Dear ${USER},

XPUB Master is open for applications!

We focus on ${TRENDING_MEMES}, our staff includes ${GREAT_TUTORS}
and we regularly collaborate with ${OBVIOUS_NAME_DROPPING_IS_OBVIOUS}.

Non-EU + EU priority Deadline: 01.03.19

http://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/

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Registration is now open for the Battlemesh v12! It will happen from 8 July to 14 July near Paris.

All information is on https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV12

Don't forget to propose a talk or workshop on your favourite project of the moment :)

I gave a little talk at work today that tries to explain what ActivityPub is; I also turned that talk into a blog post! I blogged!!! https://johnholdun.com/articles/what-is-activitypub/

I wrote a thing about why I believe the best and most useful decentralized applications are going to be the ones that utilize multiple protocols. I imagine a world where ActivityPub, Dat, and Secure ScuttleButt are all seen as tools in a toolbox rather than as ecosystems, and what kind of amazing software we could build with them outside of the central/corporate paradigm.

https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

Web design as architecture http://www--arc.com/

The program of the Libre Graphics Meeting is out. https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ #LGM 19

Anyone from TW #Germany planning to go?

Hey all!I am researching on the topic of federation and more focused on Mastodon. I would really appreciate if you could answer to this question:
— What made you move to Mastodon?
Thank you so much for all the help you can give me, love, Pedro