For the first edition of the Questionnaire, Lex Roman shares their favourite bookshops, how they take notes, why they miss Super8 filming, and what they are currently reading. @lexroman.com is a writer and publisher of “Revenue breaker”, a small business media supported by its subscribers. 1/2

Lex Roman answers The Questionnaire | Miscellanea

Miscellanea is the newsletter for the independent thinker, at the intersection of digital content, information management and culture. In this edition, we have two Odyssey reviews and Lex Roman answer...

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Flusser says that “Culture is a device for inheriting acquired information” and he too would appreciate that three generations of squirrels have managed to pass on to each other that they can chew a hole in my screen window and safely head over to the nut container for a little snack—-

What do a bookshop, a Super 8 film-making story, and a book about Google have in common? All are stories and recommendations from the first interview in the Miscellanea newsletter. Going live Monday. Subscribe here: miscellanea.danielpr... 1/2

We should ask ourselves: what do we want from a social platform? In this newsletter edition and its accompanying blog article, I discuss platforms' openness, values, ease of use, and community. I looked at Mastodon, Eurosky, eYou, Monnett and others. miscellanea.danielprindii.com/archive/euro...

On new European social media platforms, reading and Chat Control | Miscellanea

Miscellanea is the newsletter for the independent thinker, at the intersection of digital content, information management and culture. In this edition, I discuss new social media platforms, how to fig...

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Slow down. #SilentSunday #Bluesky

I was curious what was happening outside AT Protocol, so I tested the new European social platforms. I looked at eYou, Monnett, Eurosky, Wedium and W Social. You can read my thoughts on the blog: danielprindii.com/blog/europea... #internet #SocialMedia #fediverse #europe

The European landscape of social media platforms | Daniel Prindii

An overview of the most discussed social media platforms launched in Europe, or with their infrastructure hosted in Europe. I discuss about Mastodon, Eurosky, Monnett, eYou, and others.

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Trompe-l'œil in a codex produced in Padua or Venice containing St. Jerome's translation of the Chronicon of Eusebius of Caesarea c. 1480 source: Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 49, ff. 10r, 11r, and 13r #art #medieval #books #codex

In the next week’s edition of Miscellanea, I write about European social platforms, reading (are we still reading properly?) and how to make sure that mass scanning of private messages (chat control 2.0) will not be implemented. Subscribe 👇 miscellanea.danielpr... 1/2

New real estate promo: "This lovely house is 5 min from a data center and no public transportation in sight". Facepalm

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The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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"Watching videos is a more passive form of engagement than reading. Hutton recently collected brain images of children, all 3 to 5 years old, as they took in stories in different formats. 1/6

Ouch. This is a proper journalistic question.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

A Pew Research Center analysis shows that “a quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023”. 1/2

What will we do if LinkedIn, Instagram, Substack, Linktree or other social platforms disappear tomorrow? We'll go to our personal websites if we have them. I wrote in my newsletter about six reasons why a personal website is important. Have a read below 👇

Why you should have a personal website | Miscellanea

Welcome to Miscellanea- a biweekly newsletter at the intersection of content strategy, tech, and culture and how they influence each other. In this edition, I discuss the importance of personal websites, plus book recommendations and a LOTR explainer.

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Screen garden is closing. From their article: "Speaking personally, the rise of LLM integration in the Obsidian community also poisoned the well. I have zero interest in allowing a bag of weights to think for me. 1/3

The Miscellanea newsletter got a shout-out in DeveloPassion's Newsletter. Sebastien’s community space around obsidian, knowledge management and systems is a great place to hang out. And his Obsidian plugins are always thought through. Links below:

DeveloPassion's Newsletter #213 - TypedMark and the Emergence of Typed Markdown Systems

A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!

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Larry, the Chief Mouser, still holds the fort.

Tom Wilson@feedthedrummer.bsky.social · last mo.

British PM: Vacant James Bond: Vacant Doctor Who: Vacant If the King disappears in the next couple of weeks I think we may sink into the ocean.

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Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 2mo ago

How fast can we get to 20,000? - Sunday - Friday - Today! Make the move and tell your network move.eurosky.tech

19,873 accounts on Eurosky.

Eurosky Social@eurosky.social · 2mo ago

How fast can we get to 20,000? - Sunday - Friday - Today! Make the move and tell your network move.eurosky.tech

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

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The nostalgia over blogs, forums, and the early internet, which you find on mainstream platforms (check Threads to see the performative posts), is in fact nostalgia for a culture of participation that worked. 1/3

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)

"I asked ChatGPT" is the new " I saw it on Facebook". #internet #ai #technology #sarcasm

New article: Kirsty Day and Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt on 'Anger and Authority in the Letters of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #medieval

Anger and Authority in the Letters of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)*

Abstract. This article examines how Pope Innocent III (1198–1216) and his curia employed expressions of anger as a rhetorical tool in papal letters, using

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The concept of third spaces was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in the 1970s. In his view, a third space is a social gathering environment different from the first space, the home, where private life happens, and the second space, the workplace, where professional life takes place. 1/3

I’ll just leave this here: “Technology only makes sense if it improves lives, respects our planet, and strengthens our collective autonomy.” — Boris Siegenthaler, founder of Infomaniak #internet #technology

Today, I received an email from Infomaniak, telling me that the newly created Infomaniak Foundation holds the majority of voting rights over the Infomaniak business. The foundation is a Swiss public-interest entity and has nine fundamental principles: - Independence - digital sovereignty 1/2

And you get shade for parked cars, and will consume less energy to cool when used again.

Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺@codfather.bsky.social · 3mo ago

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

“A man like Dawkins being fooled by the marketing and mimicry of AI may be surprising, but it is not entirely unexpected. In fact, back in 2020, computer scientist Timnit Gebru anticipated exactly such a scenario. 1/3

In the next edition of my newsletter, I’ll write about third spaces: what they are, their importance, and how to find the balance between online and offline communities. Subscribe to get the next edition: danielprindii.com/ne... Goes live on Monday. #newsletter #technology #internet #community

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