It took just a few hours for Assad’s forces to collapse in Hama. Absolutely insane events happening right now.

Surely Homs is next.

Hey folks, you know how @iftas is doing so much heavy lifting bringing CSAM detection and really thoughtful shared-but-not-centralized moderation tools to the Fediverse?

And the needs surveys, and the wonderful library of resources, and the moderation community to help keep everyone ahead of […]

It’s fresh snow season, which means that we can see bicycle tracks and bike lane usage in # Toronto again. A very well-used bike lane, even in snowy weather!

#topoli #onpoli

Doing the deep dive into Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language, which puts forward a theory of urban development (but also much much more). And now I'm dying to know what @davidwengrow.bsky.social has to say about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

Folks who are missing out on #wrapstodon, here's a few tools I've made over the past two years that might be fun to play with:

- your fediverse connections: https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse
- your archive […]

[Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

How absurd is it that I live in downtown #toronto, but it’s easier for me to go to # kitchener to buy Middle Eastern groceries, carry 3 heavy bags on the bus then train, than to go to the nearest Middle Eastern store, which happens to be in Scarborough? This is what bad planning policy looks like.

It's astounding that the AT Protocol of Bluesky literally has no way to make content private??? Don't we live in 2024? Have we learned nothing from the past 20 years of social networking?

One thing that I have an impression of on the fediverse, one of the things that people _want_ from the fediverse, is this kind of simple mental model of how things Work™ behind the scenes.

I think in part that is what people who aren't implementing it in particular find appealing about AP: I […]

There's a lot more of my urbanist friends on Bluesky, but I still prefer the fediverse and Mastodon. But I kinda want to have my cake and eat it too, so I'm trying out @openvibe today.

📢 “Philosophy & Digitality” launches its first issue!

A new journal dedicated to exploring the philosophical significance of digitization in humanities, cultural studies, and media studies.

Topics include:
#artificialintelligence
#blockchain
#digitalhumanities […]

Does anybody here know of an open source project that - while using a traditional license - enforces other social rules or makes political, ethical or social norms for the intended use of the project explicit and has any forms of consequences for disobedience?

Think: "This project […]

Loads of reports of Israelis in south Lebanon shooting at ppl and passing vehicles.

Again, they are still *in Lebanon* and are shooting regardless of a ceasefire

This track, fresh bread, by #scree, is one of the most delightfully playful instrumental tracks I heard in a long while.

On #bandcamp: https://screeband.bandcamp.com/track/fresh-bread

#indiemusic #music #arabicmusic

Today marks the 57th day of Dr. Laila Soueif’s hunger strike demanding the release of her son, Egyptian-British writer and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
#FreeAlaa