Congratulations to @kanarinka from #MIT who has been awarded the Emilie Jäger Prize for her research in the field of #DataFeminism. On May 14, she will give a talk entitled "Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism".
https://digital-in-justice.unibe.ch/index_eng.html
Herzliche Gratulation an @kanarinka vom #MIT, die für ihre Forschung im Bereich #DataFeminism mit dem Emilie Jäger Preis ausgezeichnet wird. Am 14. Mai hält sie einen Vortrag mit dem Titel «Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism». https://digital-in-justice.unibe.ch/index_eng.html
مشروع REUSE: تبسيط تراخيص البرمجيات الحرة
#تراخيص_البرمجيات_الحرة #رخص_البرمجيات #license #GPL #GNU #GNUTUX #FOSS #FREESOFTWARE #LINUX #BSD #MIT
The document, dated March 11, 2025, focuses specifically on records & communications from the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (R/FIMI) Hub, a small office in the #State Dept’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracked & countered foreign #disinformation campaigns; it was created after the Global Engagement Center (#GEC), which had the same mission, shut down at the end of 2024. #MIT Technology Review broke the news earlier this month that R/FIMI would be shuttered.
I stumbled upon yet another #software license discussion, and it seems that people have a hard time with this.
So I felt that I should write a simple overview/guide to choosing a license.
https://distractedmind.home.blog/2025/05/02/licenses-are-boring-but-you-really-need-one/
Reunited MIT-MC.ARPA with a page of the Boston Globe once taped to its IO cabinet. ITS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #lisp #mit #ailab
By pulling up the drawbridge around higher education in the U.S., Donald Trump is sabotaging the transnational networks that have amplified American power. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/29/world/stop-scaring-future-world-leaders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #softpower #educations #mit #harvard
READ: When MIT linguist Michel DeGraff proposed a course on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine, the university shut it down.
#Gaza #Palestine #MIT #haiti #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
BREAKING: we & BDS Boston
kicked Israel's largest weapon manufacturer OUT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY!!!
https://x.com/m1t_caa/status/1915841970418618541
#bds #MIT
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
Come see a live demonstration of Microsoft’s first product: MITS Altair 8800 BASIC on a simulated KA-10 Saturday at Mimms Museum of Technology & Art #Billgates #Vintagecomputing #PDP-10 #MIT #Ai #intel #microsoft #microsoft50 Lonnie Mimms Mimms Museum of Technology and Art https://x.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1915513092072407244
So, the first thing sold across what we call the Internet was.... weed?
https://gizmodo.com/remember-how-the-first-thing-ever-sold-online-was-a-bag-1708799689
"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.
'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin
"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >
Today I learned about the existence of MIT's giant flywheel, which reportedly has a right of way easement across Cambridge in case it ever falls off track and rolls into the sea. There would be no stopping it.
https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/GCP-00034920
Also, I learned what a flywheel is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel
What a world!
Sunday - SWAPFEST is BACK - The Flea at #MIT in #KendallSquare #CambridgeMA $6 admission, dozens of eclectic vendors.
If you haven't been - go - and the first one of the year means all the weird stuff folks found since fall will be for sale. Let someone's spring cleaning detritus become your new favorite thing.
Tiny Pogo Robot Gets Wings, Does Flips - Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/ #hoppingrobot #robotshacks #one-legged #micro #wings #pogo #mit
MIT develops small, energy-efficient one-legged hopping robot
The MIT jumping robot is only 5 cm tall and weighs less than a gram. But it can still make big jumps.
MIT entwickelt kleinen energieeffizienten einbeinigen Hüpfroboter
Der Hüpfroboter des MIT ist nur 5 cm groß und wiegt weniger als ein Gramm. Große Sprünge machen kann er trotzdem.
