Researcher & #Luddite interested in building commons who loves everything open 💖: #opensource, #openstreetmap #openscience #citizenscience #openculture […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtkhdf3agp72«What the manicured worlds of modern AAA games lost us is the world of malleable possibility that could exist when game pieces were allowed to be, well, game pieces.» Lovely writing @bruno! https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/21 Aug 2026 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkhdf3agp72https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtjeae2melf2RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/117128036869692713 Getting excited about heading back to Paris for a visit again *and* going to #sotm2026! #sotm #OpenStreetMap https://floss.social/users/CoMaps/statuses/11712803686969271320 Aug 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjeae2melf2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mti5qlfzw2u2I can't say why, but in this configuration these three look like they are posing for a 90s brit-pop album cover.20 Aug 2026 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti5qlfzw2u2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mti5qlfzw2u2I can't say why, but in this configuration these three look like they are posing for a 90s brit-pop album cover.20 Aug 2026 02:03 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti5qlfzw2u2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mthjbblhb3e2RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117119855247915826 Sounds like Juancito is – considering the circumstances – recovering well from his surgery 🐕️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthjbblhb3e2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mth7jq3edlm2Whether you're already a regular Wikipedia editor or not: The "Organized Labour" WikiProject is running a month-long edit-a-thon campaign to improve related topics across a wide range of Wiki projects and languages. Check it out here […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11712324982184694819 Aug 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mth7jq3edlm2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mte7qcktzyb2I wrote on why we should be skeptical that "how can we scale-up X?" (be that our open knowledge #commons or "how can we get a European Google", …) is a reasonable framing. As biologist JBS Haldane (and many planners inspired by him) point out, 'being the right size' does not just apply to […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11711650875919475718 Aug 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte7qcktzyb2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtfpbzyvnmh2More tales from the village: Last week someone hit & run one of the town's community dogs, smashing one of his legs. A woman found him and asked for help in the local pet group chat. We came over to get him into her car, a 3-person job, to get to the vet. Since then, folks started a raffle to […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11711985524791582619 Aug 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfpbzyvnmh2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtfpbzyvnmh2More tales from the village: Last week someone hit & run one of the town's community dogs, smashing one of his legs. A woman found him and asked for help in the local pet group chat. We came over to get him into her car, a 3-person job, to get to the vet. Since then, folks started a raffle to […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11711985524791582619 Aug 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfpbzyvnmh2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtf34t73ngt2« If we only treat the burnout side (reduce workload, add tooling, cap PRs), the languishing continues. If we only treat the languishing side (restore purpose, reconnect to meaning), the workload crushes people before the reconnection takes hold. We need both. But we've been doing neither. We've […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11711843638500101618 Aug 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtf34t73ngt2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mte7qcktzyb2I wrote on why we should be skeptical that "how can we scale-up X?" (be that our open knowledge #commons or "how can we get a European Google", …) is a reasonable framing. As biologist JBS Haldane (and many planners inspired by him) point out, 'being the right size' does not just apply to […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11711650875919475718 Aug 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte7qcktzyb2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtbvxt4lwr32@socrates generally happy to help out with admining, any particular bits you look for expansion with?17 Aug 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbvxt4lwr32https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt5rizcalqu2At the point of moving in where it's time to put up pictures on the wall. First to go up the small collection of documentary photography works (mostly by other folks, but also including some of my London Trans Pride photos). Followed by @Michael__Rera's parting gift meme when leaving Paris15 Aug 2026 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5rizcalqu2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt5rizcalqu2At the point of moving in where it's time to put up pictures on the wall. First to go up the small collection of documentary photography works (mostly by other folks, but also including some of my London Trans Pride photos). Followed by @Michael__Rera's parting gift meme when leaving Paris15 Aug 2026 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5rizcalqu2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt5he2l7dgs2TIL the Spanish verb "claudicar", for "giving up"/"surrendering" etc. – and that feels like the perfect word to describe what happens when developers use Claude to "write" their software. Instead of Enshittification, it's Claudication.15 Aug 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5he2l7dgs2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt4z6e3c2eb2Está mañana fuimos al encuentro de @cybercirujas en las Sierras Chicas para soldar algunos conectores y hablar sobre mi MNT Reform que sufrió durante nuestra mudanza (sus baterías se rompieron🛢️) pero todavía funciona bien sin baterías! #cybercirujas #sierraschicas /cc @mntmn15 Aug 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4z6e3c2eb2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt4odgu573b2«Some of our “design leaders” apparently never ordered the Sea Monkeys when they were kids, so they’re learning the lesson now. Except that instead of a $1, a fishbowl, and 6–8 weeks of waiting time, our design leaders need all the world’s water, all the world’s computational power, the […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11709951662018317015 Aug 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4odgu573b2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt3apgsziug2Level of adulthood: got a label printer and managed to resist making tiny "dog" labels and stick them on their foreheads.14 Aug 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3apgsziug2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt24ecjy5yg2This week, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science happens in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso! And @natematias and I had the privilege of remotely teaching as part of that course (at 5/6am respectively!): About how research can support #Wikipedia, and the other way around: How Wikipedia […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11709375312483388814 Aug 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt24ecjy5yg2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msxzwl7pm5q2I've been co-opted into the rank of being a John Codeberg. Wish me luck.13 Aug 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxzwl7pm5q2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msyls2u3t7r2Nice to see that Gary managed to pull his book "Quantified Self: Learning to Observe" on #PersonalScience and #QuantifiedSelf together and that it'll be published later this year. Back in 2021/22, we read an early draft of it as part of our journal club at the Peer-Produced Research Lab, and […] https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/11709033536273559013 Aug 2026 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyls2u3t7r2https://bsky.app/profile/gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msxzwl7pm5q2I've been co-opted into the rank of being a John Codeberg. Wish me luck.13 Aug 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:fequgggosmo7dk4l4tmlpmph/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxzwl7pm5q2