Kin Lane @[email protected]

I hope my SF people are enjoying and/or surviving their atmospheric river. This is a good time to read up on the 1862 atmospheric river, which probably gave us the song "Clementine," according to my good friend Joel Pomerantz. https://sfnhs.com/tag/flood/

#California #disaster #AtmosphericRiver #rain #flood

Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943)

Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

https://www.openculture.com/2020/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-new-years-resolutions.html via @openculture

#Mastodon now has a public development #roadmap !

https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

Love this.

The first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S.
The first unionized Chipotle in the U.S.
The first unionized Apple Store.
The first unionized Trader Joe's.
260+ unionized Starbucks stores.
370+ worker strikes across the country.

2022 was a monumental year for worker power.

@api is just a modern pneumatic tube operator.

So on the last day of the year, this just happened. Unexplained, extraordinary, humans cooperating with other humans to an orchestral degree. Less than seconds, and then they were in the clouds and vanished. Fly safely towards next year friends and strangers, keep each other’s measure with this much care.

It was a pleasure to hear the story behind Freepository straight from @jbminn in the latest addition to Open Source Stories. Hosted source control as a service was revolutionary to open source and contributed to its meteoric rise.

#OpenSource #OpenSourceStories #Freepository

https://www.opensourcestories.org/stories/2022/john-minnihan/

Street artist Jim Bachor fills potholes with incredible #mosaics of famous #art.

https://mymodernmet.com/jim-bachor-pothole-mosaic-art/

"Elmo, who brought Twitter in October for $44bn, tweeted late on Wednesday that the site, “Works for me.”"
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/12/29/twitter-suffers-major-outage-leaving-users-unable-to-logon

The Fifth U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government has been published.

You can read the White House press release here:
https://whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/12/28/white-house-releases-fifth-open-government-national-action-plan-to-advance-a-more-inclusive-responsive-and-accountable-government/

You can read the full plan here:
https://open.usa.gov/national-action-plan/5/

#opengov #opendata #SummitforDemocracy

Excellent piece from @mikejones and @bestqualitycrab for @theconversationau covering the funding issue with #Trove at the National Library of Australia (who I don't think are on Mastodon).

Trove is an #API, which I've demo'd before at places like VALA, which makes the NLA's collections easily query-able.

Trove is #digitalinfrastructure for #digitalhumanities, #socialscience, #archives, #museums and other #GLAM activities.

And it's invisible. Which means it doesn't attract the funding or attention it deserves. Trove archives over 6 billion digital items. Items which speak to Australia's #CulturalHeritage.

If Trove were a supercomputer, it would be funded. If our digitalhumanities were as sexy as #STEM, Trove would be funded. But they're the same type of thing - digital #infrastructure that helps research. Trove is #ResearchInfrastructure. And we should fund it properly.

https://theconversation.com/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-and-the-national-library-is-threatening-to-pull-the-plug-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-197025

I created a @getpostman collection to automate pulling of trending tags from my Mastodon instance. https://www.postman.com/api-evangelist/workspace/mastodon/documentation/35240-8212f086-11ac-4340-beab-ac199efd7336?entity=&branch=&version=