Modding Fridays is an online community of people interested to learn together about the maintenance, repurposing, and reappropriation of supposedly obsolete consumer electronics, for fun and profit. We see our interest as part of a broader conversation on retromediation, permacomputing and repair culture.
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At Modos, we build technology that respects your time, attention, well-being, and freedom.
Imagining a Safer Future for Content Moderators
Through this blog series, we are exploring what the world can look like when technology is designed and deployed for the benefit of all.
Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game
Can you succeed at the fast-paced challenge of content moderation?
Disquiet – Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code.
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
Modal Collective
We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.
Announcing the Modal Foundation - Updates from the Modal Foundation
We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.
ModGov - Governance for online communities
A simple, flexible framework that helps online communities create shared rules, elect representative moderators, and ensure stability.
Decentralised content moderation — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
Who is doing interesting work on decentralised content moderation?
New/Mode – Empowerment & Community Action Platform
Empower your voice and drive change with New/Mode advocacy tools. Mobilize your community in minutes. Start your campaign for free today.
Modal Foundation
Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.
We have some news you can use on the blog this fine Monday! Ozone, our mod tool, is adding a new *report-based* moderation workflow, which enables higher-context moderating, better collaboration, auditing, and more! Check it: atproto.com/blog/report-based-moderation
Report-Based Moderation in Ozone - AT Protocol
atproto.comWhy Modular Research
Content relating to how modular research addresses issues in traditional science
Hyperproblems: New Ways of Doing and Communicating Science - Hyperproblems
Nathan Skene on Twitter / X
ScienceIDE: Turning World's Scientific Codebase into Agent Learnable Environments
Where does the rigor go? Research software and the future of trustworthy science.
Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
I have a friend who replicates every study he wants to follow up on before starting his follow up, just to make sure he's not chasing phanto…
