The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary: "The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...] Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."
Remembering the Black Panther Party
More than five decades after its founding, the Black Panther Party's antiracist, anticapitalist vision remains just as relevant today.
Black Panther Party - Wikipedia
 #history #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty
"Babbage saw the analytical engine as a mathematical device. After all, it primarily stored and operated on numbers. But Lovelace recognized that a machine de­­signed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things. “Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such ex­­pres­sion and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”" Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Scientific American
Ada Lovelace’s 180-Year-Old Endnotes Foretold the Future of Computation
Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper
Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia
 #AdaLovelace #computers #STEM #WomenInStem #AdaLovelaceDay
Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election. You won't want to miss it.
NJ Voter Information Portal
NJ Voter information about the Elections.
7 Ways the Candidates for New Jersey Governor Would Differ on Day 1
The race has been heavily influenced by national politics. But in a debate on Sunday, the candidates, Jack Ciattarelli and Representative Mikie She...
 #NJ #NewJersey #election #USPol image
"On [this] day in 1964, Dr. Robert Moog introduced the world to a completely new type of instrument that would go on to change the course of music history and influence decades of future instrument design." (Video from 2014, marking Moog's 50th anniversary.)
Moog synthesizer - Wikipedia
 #moog #music #history #MusicHistory #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay
Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day! How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game! Visit
Alt Text Hall of Fame - Celebrating well-written image descriptions.
Alt Text Hall of Fame
Celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a ...
 to learn why this is important. #AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay image
"We started with participants sharing personal technology stories—EVs as climate-guilt-free mobility, pirate radio stations as creation rather than consumption, bikes as intergenerational freedom. Then we unpacked the narratives underneath: what myths, what power structures, what economic forces shaped these experiences?"
(m)otherboard
Beyond protagonists: imagining stories of collective good
A report from the Tech Together workshop on collective storytelling and interdependent futures Alongside UNGA and Climate Week in New York, god(m)...
 #SolarPunk #writing #storytelling
Really cool project by @npub1lanz...29vc that lets you create programmatic Mastodon lists!
Mastodon List Bot
 Examples from
Codeberg.org
mastodon-list-bot
Generate "programmatic" lists in Mastodon
 include: - mutuals - all users who haven't posted yesterday, but sometime within the past three days - all users who haven't posted in over three days - all users you've interacted with in the past 7 days #mastodon
I brought this up to the Mastodon team (no response yet), but I wonder if the solution, at least a temporary one, to the problem where people get harassed with followers-only posts that @ mention them, thus hiding these posts from public view and moderators, and allowing the abuser's followers to pile on, could be as simple as allowing to filter out such notifications. #mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #TrustAndSafety image