Jessamyn

Thank you for this @anildash I'd been pointing people to the excellent article by @annaleen about Substack's grift but it's nice to have more things to point people towards about why it's a bad choice. Also props for the title.

https://www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

Annalee's article, icymi

https://substack.com/home/post/p-33863773

Usually I save my work announcements for the @flickrfdn account but this is one I've been playing with in my non-work time.

You can now browse Flickr Commons photos via a "map view" for the images which have location metadata. Zoom in and find images with No Known Copyright Restrictions from places you are interested in. So fun.

https://commons.flickr.org/map/

I can see my house from here (almost)! Excellent fun new toy built by @alex

#maps #flickr #metadata

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The tiny all-volunteer website I help run @best_of_mltshp uses Fastly as our CDN through their Fast Forward program. Today they're adding a free tier for their services

https://www.fastly.com/pricing/

I admit, I don't even totally understand all the things they do for us, but https://fosstodon.org/@haubles worked with our team to get it all set up. They're on Mastodon at https://fastly.social/@devs Really happy to work with them and pleased at this good news so that more people can share this excellent service

New Year new #Wikipedia list. Reebee Garofalo was one of the original people who put together Rock Against Racism Massachusetts but you may know him as the snare player for the Good Trouble Brass Band playing in the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands. He was cited in a ton of other Wikipedia articles and made that Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart you may have seen in an Edward Tufte book. A good guy to get to know, deserves a longer article but this is good for now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebee_Garofalo

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Notes and slides for my talk at #NELA23 tomorrow.

"Fair Use: A Legal Loophole... or Is It?"

"All the slides" link has alt text describing slides. This will be the first in-person library talk I've given since December 2019 (I've done two non-library talks) and I'm (mostly) looking forward to it.

https://www.librarian.net/talks/nela23/

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