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Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter
I grew up in Wales during a time when our language and culture were under pressure. That experience shaped my belief in the importance of digital spaces where people can speak their own language, connect locally, and be truly seen. This is why I care so deeply about language and regional inclusion in the Fediverse.…
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Metadata Misdeeds: Designing Discovery for People
(These notes are collated from the StartHereSocial project, a prototype domain picker for choosing a Social Web provider) People join social networking services for many reasons. In descending order, the main motivations are Some individuals want to connect with people in their town or country. Others are drawn to spaces defined by a particular language or…
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You’re Doing It Wrong
Over the past few months the ActivityPub world, and the larger decentralised social media ecosystem, has seen increasing tension leading to public shaming and attacks that I believe hurt everyone’s ability to progress, undermines our collective goal of better social media for all, and hurts the wider social web. More importantly, I believe it constitutes…
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Impact Assessment
First published in Uncommonalities Volume II: Bad Enough (Bratum Books) It would’ve been bad enough without the new Chair being such a persnickety arsehole. After almost two years of tedious meetings, tedious reports and tedious comment reviews run by a tedious Chairperson, now they had to sit and suffer the tedious wrap-up meeting – in…
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The Welshman on the front line of New York’s battle with COVID-19
as published at https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-welshman-on-the-front-line-of-new-yorks-battle-with-covid-19/ Jaz-Michael King Friday, April 3rd. It’s been a heck of a week. New York is the hotspot for COVID-19 in the United States and I work for a national public health non-profit headquartered just outside Queens on New York’s Long Island. I moved to New York in 1996, having been born and…
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FHIR up the Oven! Is Health Data… Pizza?
this article first appeared on https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fhir-up-oven-promoting-interoperability-turning-apis-pies-king/ The American healthcare system is increasingly worried that patients might want their health records in a troublingly new and scary form: digital. Despite the billions of dollars invested into arming the nation’s healthcare industry with electronic health records, very little of that data has turned into actionable, patient-centered data…