What the #fediverse really needs is a mailing list (out-of-band) for all #instance #admins and operators. Something like #NANOG for network operators.

And no, Discord is not acceptable. Discord has HUGE privacy, trust, security, and safety issues.

#Email is available whether you're on vacation, in space, hiking across Europe. It's ubiquitous and its available everywhere and on every device.

Call me a boomer if you want. (I'm actually Gen X).

But the fediverse and #fediadmins need a dedicated mailing list for coordination and discussion.

Barring that then there needs to be a #published #directory of out-of-band #contact #information for all #fedi #admins. (Opt-in of course.)

My mother was born on the farm in a small Mennonite community on Vancouver Island. She grew up mostly in the years after WW2, raising her kids in the 1960s-80s. In her 40s she got her Grade 12, then went to college in Kamloops where she was a nurse into her 70s. She started writing her memoir decades ago, publishing it earlier this year just before she turned 88. She’s a remarkable woman. I’m proud of her. You can read her story here…
https://bit.ly/3PttMwe

#Booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #published #books #writing #writinglife

Would you read a book about “the secret life of pianos?”
ps. Get a free chapter at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

pps. PLEASE BOOST SO THAT PIANO ENTHUSIASTS WILL SEE. Thank you.

#booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #published #books #writing #writinglife #music #pianos #musictech

My current jam is people sending me pics of them HOLDING MY BOOK IN THE REAL WORLD!! OMG!!!

Mind blown. Brain all over the shop. Woo.

“Lemphers is Australian but has spent a significant part of his career in the US. He was part of #Microsoft’s founding team for its huge #AzureCloud #computing business, and worked in its labs run by well-known former chief software architect #RayOzzie, researching #MachineLearning.

#Lemphers declined to say how much had already been invested in Maincode’s early research, but that it was multiple millions of dollars. Accounts filed with the corporate regulator in March showed #EasyGo had #revenues of more than $500 million in the last financial year.

The products #Maincode is developing are still under wraps, and the #startup is preparing for a public launch in coming weeks. It has pitched its model as one that can work alongside #people, rather than replace human #thinking. It has also #published its first scientific #ResearchPaper and claims to have been working with some undisclosed #Australian brands to determine some of the problems its #AImodels should focus on solving.”

#EdCraven / #Crypto / #gambling / #payment / #DaveLemphers / #AI / #Melbourne <https://www.afr.com/technology/crypto-billionaire-invests-millions-to-build-australia-s-chatgpt-20250725-p5mhpd> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/1dWA7>

"Terry LaBan is a #Philadelphia-based #cartoonist who has #published #comicbook series, had internationally #syndicated strips and, at the end of 2024, published “Mendel the Mess-Up,” a #children’s #graphicnovel that tells the story of a boy who works to save his Eastern European village from the Cossacks.

“Mendel the Mess-Up,” distributed by Penguin Random House, is rooted in his grandfather’s experience, but not based on it.

LaBan is critically acclaimed and popular with #readers young and old, but sometimes, inspiration strikes him in the same way it strikes anyone else: simply."

https://www.jewishexponent.com/terry-laban-wyncote-author-tells-jewish-stories-for-an-international-audience/

My photographs are featured in National Geographic!

NatGeo scoured my website, picking their favourites from my huge portfolio of beautiful #LostPlaces. They chose to feature places all from my home country of #England, amazing!

Thanks to #NationalGeographic for featuring my work, this is definitely a proud moment and a milestone for my journey as a #photographer.

The full feature now live, on their Dutch-language platform - https://www.nationalgeographic.nl/fotografie/a62133950/urbex-locaties-engeland

The Guardian describes the process of getting #published in #science #journals as #broken: In 2020 alone, #academics globally spent >100 million hours #PeerReviewing journal papers. In the US, that time spent amounted to >$1.5 billion of free labor." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/13/quality-of-scientific-papers-questioned-as-academics-overwhelmed-by-the-millions-published (1/2)

I got to share a piece of my story in a CanvasRebel interview—how I left clinical research for creative #entrepreneurship, how @Zoho became my #business sidekick, and why discomfort often leads to my best art. Read it here: https://zorz.it/crinterview

Rugged land by Rico the noob

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhjYq7hOi00

#horizon #28mm #2022 #published #landscape #armenia #travel #landscapephotography #mountain #exterior #28mmf14feplus #weather #cloud #z7ii #sky #naturephotography #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

"Shoshana von Blanckensee didn’t think anyone would ever read “Girls Girls Girls.” The 47-year-old #queer #Jewish #writer and oncology nurse isn’t being self-effacing when she says this to me over Zoom. Realistic would perhaps be a better word.

When she first started writing what would become her debut #novel about 20 years ago, queer #novels mostly didn’t get #published. And if they did, they were smaller releases through independent #publishers. Shoshana worked on “Girls Girls Girls” long enough to see queer novels and voices force their way into the cultural arena and zeitgeist. But even with that shift, Shoshana thought she was just muscling her way through to the end of a #manuscript, finishing the #book for the sake of finishing it.

I cannot begin to express how thrilled I am that she was wrong."

https://www.heyalma.com/girls-girls-girls-is-an-intimately-tender-portrait-of-being-young-jewish-and-gay-in-the-90s/

"#Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, a gifted teacher and dynamic educator, has influenced thousands of #Jewish leaders over his long #rabbinic career. #Philosopher Steven Katz claimed that “no Jewish thinker has had a greater impact on the #American Jewish community in the last two decades than Irving (Yitz) Greenberg.” Rabbi and author Joseph Telushkin described him as “one of #Judaism’s great gifts to the world,” while rabbi and activist Avi Weiss hailed him as “one of the seminal thinkers of our generation.”

Greenberg’s recently #published magnum opus, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative #Theology of Judaism, is arguably the most compelling and thought-provoking $book to grace the Jewish #bookshelf this year."

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-857536

The #Book Everyone Wanted to Duplicate But Nobody Could

This debut #adult #fantasy was an instant sensation when it #published. So many tried to duplicate its magic but nobody succeeded.

https://bookriot.com/the-book-everyone-wanted-to-duplicate-but-nobody-could/

...if #gaza gets #fed and #palestine is #liberated and i haven't perished...

my next #published #book (so my 9th one, and in progress) will be christened...

ThePurpleStorm: My, 'burning bush'

I'm so excited that Dr. Barbara Gastel’s #book #Medical #Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career will soon be #published! It's the first #textbook about our #profession! I had the honor of reviewing the #manuscript. https://tinyurl.com/5c6vs3hb

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218404245-name-her-holy

Daughter of a friend. This is her first #published #novel.

Disclaimer: I haven't read it myself yet.

Fired - 1st #woman & 1st #African #American to be #Librarian of #Congress. Anne Applebaum: "Every #book #published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books." Reporter: #president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? #Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of #DEI and putting inappropriate #books in the library for #children. #censorship #librarians