This weekend, the International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy. "By NASA’s count, 290 people from 26 countries have visited the space station. Seven are up there right now, representing the U.S., Russia and Japan."
AP News
The International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit
The International Space Station is marking 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit. Nearly 300 people have lived aboard the scientific outpost.
 #news #space #science #NASA #ISS
On this day, 56 years ago: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
ETHW
Milestones:Birthplace of the Internet, 1969
 #arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology image
Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr #fediverse image
I'm now running 60 automated fediverse accounts, packaged in an award-winning project that once got mentioned in the Rolling Stone magazine. "...offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York's archives of civic data..." Go check them out!
Creative online bots πŸ€–πŸŽ¨
Making creative online bots.
 #CreativeCoding #PersonalProjects
My #FollowFriday recommendation for this week is @npub1p095...m5vl and @npub1nv8q...za59's list of authentic, verified accounts of people in Gaza, who all need our help.
Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we veri...
 #FF
"In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick’s informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isn’t a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely community-led governance of decentralized networks is necessary."
Tech Policy Press
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press
The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.
 by @npub1sacl...kcpe #SocialMedia #essay
Hmm, it would be kind of neat to make a zine version of
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Learn about the fediverse and find your community.
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It feels good to make things.
Happy Monday, fediverse! Quick question. How well do you know the people you follow? Would you recognize them from their bios?
How well do you know the people you follow?
Can you recognize your follows from their profile description?
 #fediverse #quiz #SocialMedia
If people who follow you on social media are called "followers", what do you call people you follow? #SocialMedia #language #linguistics #poll