Bits

An education in public interest technology that cuts across established fields like law, sociology, journalism, public policy and more allows students to better understand the challenges technology can either worsen or address — providing young people with pathways to pursue careers in technology for purpose across many established fields. https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/technology-and-society/public-interest-technology-and-its-origins/strategy/

.. if we want a true #indieweb we must be prepared to fight for it. Hope is not enough. https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

If you really want #passkeys put them in a password manager you control. But don’t use a platform controlled passkey store, and be very careful with security keys. https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

Music & Sound

#datasonification #art #science research #data on the depletion of coral reefs due to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease and the impact of Harmful Algae Blooms on coastal economies was converted and performed as a piece of music by the university’s Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble https://www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2024/music-data-crescendo-concert.aspx

Hold the Line is a piece of sound art generated by data from Canada’s 2023 wildfire season. Every single fire that was reported by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fires Centre between 1 April and 30 November is represented by a click sound, with each real-world day playing out over 2.5 seconds of sound. A bass note drops at the start of each new day. #data #sonification #climate #climatechange #canada https://www.loudnumbers.net/hold-the-line

Politics & Economics

Over 87 percent of farm capital in Canada is land and buildings, and many farmers don’t own anything—they rent. #farming #agriculture #food #canada https://thewalrus.ca/inside-farmings-tech-boom/

a small team of researchers analyzed how local economies have responded to the last 40 years of warming and projected those effects forward to 2050. They find that we’re already committed to warming that will see the growth of the global economy undercut by 20 percent. That places the cost of even a limited period of #climatechange at roughly six times the estimated price of putting the world on a path to limit the warming to 2° C https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07219-0

#canada is notorious for nurturing oligopolistic tendencies—there are several variations of the joke that the country is three companies in a trench coat. #economics #food #loblaws https://thewalrus.ca/loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company/