We need real journalism and an independent press. Language matters.
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We need real journalism and an independent press. Language matters.
Valid question.

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point
The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again
Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.
The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.
NPR did a very cool podcast about this.
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"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.
Fucking word.
Learn your rights!
AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.Ā It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

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yeah okay ill reblog that
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I can barely contain myself right now
holy shit
HOLY SHIT
holy CRAP.
Artists, creators, students, and researchers of all types, take note:
Digitized photos and text. 2D and 3D object renders. Music and other sound files. Videos. Research datasets. Collections metadata.
On a Creative Commons Zero license: Take what you want. Use it. No permission or attribution required. Yes, even for commercial use.
There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but the Smithsonian⦠the Smithsonian is right.
The archive includes fashion images!
I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.
beautiful compilation from @orc-sign-language
"Joined the great majority" is a good one that I practically never hear.
Heard another good one in an old radio drama the other day - "He slipped out of my arms and stopped paying taxes."
how soon we forget the ancient texts. pining for the fjords. joined the choir invisible. an ex-parrot.

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four
For anyone who needs this
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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor
One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told āthis cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so itās literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurementsā
In the UK there's a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered 'critically endangered' and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.' There's some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you're looking for something to try.
Reblogging myself as I wasn't expecting so many people to pay attention to my comment. Again this list is JUST FOR THE UK as I noticed someone commenting on that, please look into whether there are similar things in your own countries and share if you find anything as I'd love to see them.
There are some crafts considered 'extinct' because the whole process isn't completed in the UK, like making cricket balls where most of the steps can be done here but not the stitching for some reason which is outsourced to India. There are lacrosse sticks produced in other countries where it's more popular as a sport, otherwise the whole sport would have died out by now.
Anyway, I just wanted to add that there's a new version of the list for this year which is now online here.
If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El NiƱo.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
Yup, these are actually *really* important. And a small bit of work helps, so itās doable even if youāre snowed under with survival work or in too much pain to concentrate for longer periods.
Itās multiply-checked by more than one person, so donāt worry about fucking it up because your concentration is fucked. Your input is valuable but not the only input.
I find Zooniverse very good, and it does Citizen Historian work too - I spent time digitising concentration camp records because a) families still donāt know what happened to some of their loved ones b) this makes the records available for historians without travelling to archives in person, which I can testify is *invaluable* for disabled historians and helps cut the need for overseas travel to do vital historical work.
It unexpectedly helped me with learning how to decipher premodern handwriting too, which proved really useful in my academic stuff. You *will* pick up valuable skills doing this. Put it on your CV.
Other places you can go to do citizen science, from the notes
(Thanks to everyone who left these in the notes! If you know more, put them in the notes, and I might add them! And ty @enbycrip for the fantastic addition that covered a bunch of details I didn't get to)
Apps/Websites
eBird (birds
Merlin (birds)
citizenscience.gov (big project database, US-based)
iNaturalist (nature)
MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data) Smithsonian archives (transcriptions, many subjects)
Cornell Bird Lab (birds)
FoldIt (folding proteins)
Fathomverse (sea animals)
Project Monarch (butterflies)
In person
Bioblitz (nature) Species watch (species) Audobon Society (birds)
Also:
Even if you don't have time to spend, but do have some processor cycles to spare, check out the projects available at BOINC's Compute for Science: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Hey guys, these projects make a HUGE difference for science. For example, I run bplant.org and iNaturalist is the #1 source of images in ID guides and articles and other educational materials I develop. The plant observations are also helpful for assessing plant ranges and how these ranges are changing with climate change. And it also helps me identify local seed sources for use in restoration plantings. Use of iNaturalist, even casual use like a random person uploading pics of plants they see growing in their yard, or a random parking lot they were in, or a random vacant lot, those observations are MAJORLY helping in (1) education (2) science (3) conservation.
This stuff makes a huge difference.
Also, if you want to make the biggest impact on these sites, release any material with the more permissive licenses, like CC-BY. If you add a NC or ND clause, for instance, your photos cannot be included on Wikipedia or bplant or a number of other educational sites, because those license restrictions are incompatible with combining with copyleft material.
But yeah, go do citizen science, please!!!
I thought I'd go back and repost this because there are probably a lot of people out there who, like me, reallllyyyyyy need something to distract them right now
So, hey. You. Stop doomscrolling. Take a deep breathe. And if you want, try doing some citizen science or citizen history instead
I'm also going to especially promote MapSwipe, for those who want to do something tangible to help people now.
Volunteer from your phone. Make a difference worldwide.
From their website:
Data Everywhere
In today's technology-filled world, we have access to vast amounts of information at our fingertips. This includes geospatial data, which helps us understand places and the āwhere?ā of things - a vitally important piece of successful humanitarian programs. It is important for getting from point A to point B as well as for coordination, understanding needs, tracking impact, identifying gaps, and a multitude of other concerns. For responsible use by humanitarians, this information must be assessed, refreshed, and validated as populations, infrastructure, and the surrounding environments experience the inevitable changes that occur as time, conflicts, and disasters unfold... MapSwipe is a free open source mobile application available on iOS and Android that empowers anyone with a smartphone to make a meaningful impact contributing to global mapping efforts. MapSwipe crowdsources the review of satellite imagery to:
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For no reason here is a library story
There will be millions of actions like this over the coming years. An important thing to remember is that for them to work (anywhere, not just libraries) is people absolutely canāt announce that this is what they are doing.
Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesnāt mean it isnāt happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.
Something to keep in mind.
10 most popular Lingthusiasm episodes
In honour of the 100th episode of the podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, here is our most popular episode from each "decade" of Lingthusiasm!Ā
Episode 01 - Speaking a single language won't bring about world peace
Wouldnāt it solve so many problems in the world if everyone just spoke the same language? Not so fast!Ā Ā
Episode 13 - What Does it Mean to Sound Black? Intonation and Identity Interview with Nicole Holliday
If you grow up with multiple accents to choose from, what does the one you choose say about your identity? How can linguistics unpick our hidden assumptions about what āsounds angryā or āsounds articulateā? What can we learn from studying the melodies of speech, in addition to the words and sounds?Ā
Episode 25 - Every word is a real word
We donāt point at a chair or a tree and assert that itās not a word. Of course itās not! So why, then, do people feel called to question the wordhood of actual words?Ā Ā
Episode 39 - How to rebalance a lopsided conversation
Why do some conversations seem to flow really easily, while other times, it feels like you canāt get a word in edgewise, or that the other person isnāt holding up their end of the conversation?Ā
Episode 49 - How translators approach a text
How do translators decide whether to more closely follow the literal structure of the text or to adapt more freely?Ā
Episode 59 - Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of MindĀ
We talk about the highly important role of gossip in the development of language, reframing how we introduce people to something they havenāt heard of yet, and ways of synchronizing mental states across groups of people, from conferences to movie voiceovers.
Episode 68 - Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
When societies of humans come into contact, theyāll often pick up words from each other. When this is happening actively in the minds of multilingual people, it gets called codeswitching; when it happened long before anyone alive can remember, itās more likely to get called etymology.
Episode 72 - What If Linguistics - Absurd Hypothetical Questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
We answer absurd hypothetical linguistic questions from special guest Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd
Episode 80 - Word magic
The magical kind of spell and the written kind of spell are historically linked. Saying a word can change the state of the world, both in terms of fictional magic spells and in terms of the real-world linguisticsĀ
Episode 90 - What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are
Vowels are a significant component of what we think of as someone's accent, so we commissioned custom vowel diagrams and explore how they're made and what factors might affect your vowels.
People often ask me what my favourite Lingthusiasm episode is and the answer is often "whichever one is the most recent" but I do have a soft spot for When Nothing Means Something.
When we think about language, we generally think about things that are visible or audible: letters, sounds, signs, words, symbols, sentences. We donāt often think about theĀ lackĀ of anything. But little bits of silence or invisibility are found surprisingly often throughout our linguistic system, from the micro level of an individual sound or bit of meaning to the macro level of sentences and conversations.Ā Ā