sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)
Steve Song
@manypossibilities.net
Local hands building local networks. Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata Day job: https://isoc.org Views my own.
What does finding a bus on Google Maps have to do with the Open Fibre Data Standard? www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05...
An Open Fiber Data Standard to Make the Internet for Everyone - Internet Society
The Open Fibre Data Standard is an initiative to develop and implement a common language for describing terrestrial fiber networks.
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An audit of 2.5 million academic papers has identified nearly 3,000 biomedical-science papers that contain fake references. go.nature.com/42iMcX4
Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers
An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.
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Lots of new updates with the release of version 0.4 of the Open Fibre Data Standard! www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...
What's been happening with the Open Fibre Data Standard
Welcome to the first of our OFDS newsletters. We will publish these periodically to keep you updated on OFDS news, events, and opportunities to engage.
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"These constraints silence voices and weaken ecosystems working to protect fundamental human rights, including the safety and dignity of women and girls online.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Zambia cancels world’s largest human rights and tech summit days before start
Government blocks RightsCon 2026 conference saying it did not ‘align with national values’
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If we applied Peter Drucker's principle that a CEO should not earn more than a multiple of 20 times the lowest paid worker, then the lowest paid MTN South Africa employee would have earned ~ 5 million Rand last year (~$300K). techcentral.co.za/record-r99-m...
Record R99-million payday for MTN CEO Ralph Mupita
A significant rise in MTN’s share price has led to long-term share incentives vesting at much higher values.
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BREAKING: 150+ journalists including @maddow.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social @jamestgriffiths.com @doctorow.pluralistic.net @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @kattenbarge.bsky.social are thanking @archive.org for services to journalism. ✍🏻Journalists can still sign at www.savethearchive.com/journalists/
Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record
Journalists are thanking the Internet Archive for their respectful preservation of news and history and for being an important resource for journalists. This letter is coming at a time where many majo...
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Do people ever ask themselves, why, on this beautiful planet, they are spending time defending a system where 12 billionaires have the same amount of wealth as 4.5 billion people
From two years ago but only just seen it. Speak out for justice. Written, Directed and Produced by Chiara Gizz Original here youtu.be/GyEMbIRYVGA?...
Today's calculation: how long does a satellite in a circular orbit stay up when it stops all reboost burns? Depends on a lot of things, especially solar activity, but let's average over all of that and do a Kaplan-Meier analysis in 50 km height bins on 69 years of actual data.
This company is scraping your Zoom meetings and turning them into AI podcasts without permission. Extremely wild and weird www.404media.co/this-company...
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.
404media.co
It is a sobering thought that, if Starlink launches stopped today, the entire constellation would cease to exist in 5 years time.
truly incredible that strava leaks are still happening after all this time
Man is born free and everywhere he is in Markov chains. Rousseau for the 21st century.
What is community-centred connectivity? youtube.com/shorts/AOhsM...
Community-Centered Connectivity
YouTube video by Internet Society
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Catch us this week at #MediaParty happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for an #PIMFargentina / Sandbox event 'Internet Pulse: Visibilizando la salud de la red' ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...
The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) website is now live at ofds.info. Tell your friends!
Home — Open Fibre Data Standard
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The book Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power is here! Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed. Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy. I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together. We need a government that serves the many, not the money. Join in. lewisforleader.ca/ youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
Why I’m running for NDP leader
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
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Bill C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian! Tell our leaders to scrap this dangerous bill NOW! #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky
Stop Carney’s Surveillance Plan: Stop Bill C–2!
Bill C-2 threatens our privacy, erodes our freedoms, and grants the government unchecked surveillance powers. Tell Mark Carney: surrendering to U.S. data demands isn’t leadership — it’s a betrayal of ...
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Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated Alaa was not defeated!
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11mo agoBelow are photos of Alaa Abdel Fattah free and at home with his sister, Sanaa, and mother, Laila. It’s wonderful to see his beautiful smile again! (Photos via his sister, Mona, on X) #FreeAlaa
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist Amazing news!!
Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist
The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.
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Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 11mo agoHouse Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
LLMs are actually the perfect technology for American business society at the moment: a tireless sycophantic yes man that confidently hallucinates whatever horse shit your friendless soul-void craves? Obviously this was always going to be a hit with American executives
This. A thousand times this.
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 12mo ago"True human companionship & emotional support cannot be programmed into a robot no matter how advanced our technologies can become, for companionship & emotional connection require sense-making & a value-positing consciousness." i wrote this 7 rys ago & it still holds medium.com/@Abebab/the-...
Crowd-sourced, interactive map outlining the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. www.surveillancewatch.io
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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The inimitable Russell Southwood of Balancing Act is back with a Substack! russellsouthwood.substack.com For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)
Russell Southwood | Substack
Click to read Russell Southwood, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
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