Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

One of the perks of my new job is they don't use Microsoft Teams

So...I'm from Delhi, India, and I love surveying for #OpenStreetMap. I'm a pretty active mapper and I've also done a professional field survey for Médecins Sans Frontières (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders).

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/contrapunctus/

I also like teaching people. In the past one year, I've organized 15+ mapping parties and workshops, where I taught how to use OSM and how to contribute to it.

Could I #GetFediHired to do any of this full time? Open to relocating or traveling.

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For the love of all that is holy, can you all please start using `<a>` for navigation and `<button>` for actions, not the other way around?

Please don't make me turn this into a blog post.

Signed, someone who couldn't right-click to "open in a new tab" when it mattered.

#HTML #accessibility

"Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

[...]

Researchers found that productivity stayed the same or improved in most workplaces, while workers’ wellbeing increased “dramatically” on a range of measures, from perceived stress and burnout to health and work-life balance."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

#news #workers #labor #WorkersRights #WorkWeek #FourDayWorkWeek

i think a radical paradigm shift might help here:

make publishers manually add links to responses and discussions that they wish to elevate.

one interesting model for this that i’ve seen is a site where every article contains in its footer an email address, and if you have something to add to the conversation, you email that address, after which the author *might* manually add your comment for everyone else to see.

this also discourages responding to a comment instead of to the article.

Documenting a prediction: This will receive an Ig Nobel in 2025.

Certainly is of the ilk of “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773186324001014?via%3Dihub

Disclaimer:

Like when he says he's "skeptical of taxes" one way to think about that is if he--and only he--had paid capital gains tax at the normal rate of 20% on the money he made last year, you could cut every taxpayer in America's tax bill by $100