ÖBB claims you can buy RDC tickets from EuropeanSleeper. I doubt.

Is the Stockholm-Berlin #NightTrain by non-SJ RDC, starting on September 1st, really not bookable in *any* of the usual places? When the press release https://www.rdc-deutschland.de/en/press/press-releases/germany-takes-over-the-euronight-berlin-hamburg-stockholm-from-1-september-2026/ said «All passengers can conveniently purchase their tickets online at www.nachtexpress.de and www.nattexpressen.se» I did not imagine they meant *only* there.

#rail #stayGrounded #EN345 #EN346

I was wondering how hard would it be to import a starter pack into a #Mastodon "collection" but I see I won't have this problem for a while because «In this release, Collections can include up to 25 accounts».
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

My " #Wiki people" starter pack is at 97.
https://fedidevs.com/s/MjA4/

#FediMeta

Happy to see that #Mastodon v4.6.4 no longer buries the full handle of a user into a popup, and I can once again just copy-paste from the profile. That was one nasty regression in the name of "simplicity". (I'm not sure in which version this happened because I can't find a mention of the change in the release notes of the 4.6.x line.)

#FediMeta #MastoDev

ICYMI: I'm co-organizing a workshop at @cscw in Salt Lake City on October 8 about AI impact on free software/open source. https://wiki.communitydata.science/OSS_AI_Workshop_(CSCW_2026)

The deadline is past, but we've got room and would love to add a few more people, and can if folks move *fast*. Please reach out if you're interested!

Sadly, it's in-person only, and registration is not cheap ($295 for the workshop only or $175 on top of a CSCW registration). General CSCW early registration ends today (8/11).

New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live.

If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance, and more.

Alongside our direct investments in maintainers, this program focuses on paying for resources that keep projects secure & make them more maintainable over time.

Learn more about the job here:

https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/program-manager-resilience

Feel free to DM me here if you have Qs.

#GetFediHired

Here's what I mean.

Thin unreachable scrollbars are a zombie idea that refuses to die.

Right then!

Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU is live!
https://crossborderrail.eu/longestjourney/

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

#GitLab at work got updated to v18+ and I see that rounded corners are back in vogue. They used to be very popular in #MediaWiki monobook circa 2008. Italian #Wikiquote never removed them, so we're now fashionable again by staying still. :)

I admire the people who are the pioneers of using their language in new ways. Like Mahuton, who is first person who tried to write Wikipedia articles in Fon. I'm just there to give people like him a little nudge; those people are the real heros, not me.

WWU-US/CWA has an election date with the NLRB!

I am amazed, grateful, and humbled by the raw energy that my colleagues have mustered to build our union up so far, so quickly. We have much more work to do, so now we will celebrate and redouble our efforts to ensure that we all get our voice. Nothing about us without us!

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-08-05-us-upcoming-nlrb-election/

#WikiWorkersUnited #unionneeded

https://onlabor.org/why-are-bosses-so-thin-skinned/

Ho trovato una moneta da 50 lire del 1964 per terra in centro a Helsinki. Strano perché ha un valore pressoché nullo per i collezionisti. Non ricordo nemmeno se mi sia mai capitato di usare una moneta da 50 lire per pagare qualcosa (forse nei primi anni 1990 quando un ghiacciolo costava qualche centinaio di lire?).

When energy prices increase, household budgets feel the heat. Energy shocks reduce purchasing power, leading to weaker consumption. Households that spend more of their income on energy are disproportionately worse off. Read our #EconomicBulletin https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/economic-bulletin/focus/2026/html/ecb.ebbox202605_03~2626ace009.en.html
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Watching with interest:

"Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges."
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-major-publishers-article-processing-charges-false-claims-act/

"A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant #APCs. The case…claims Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa [Taylor & Francis] forced U.S. research institutions to submit false claims to the government for reimbursement through article fees up to 10 times the cost of processing the articles."

#Litigation #Publishers

@neriman

In #LittlerMendelson [1]'s own words:

"Littler Mendelson is prepared to assist you in regard to all the above union prevention tools ..." [2]

"If you would like information on our state of the art union avoidance training programs ..." [2]

Archive of the NLRB docket [3].

@wwu

hashtags: #WWU #WMF #UnionBusting #WikimediaFoundation #WikiWorkersUnited #Wikipedia

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littler_Mendelson

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20260802062633/https://www.littler.com/news-analysis/asap/employee-free-choice-act-its-more-just-misleading-name

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20260802095026/https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740

Wikimedia Foundation hired union-busting law firm for union election case.

The NLRB docket shows that the Wikimedia Foundation has retained Littler Mendelson to represent it in the Wiki Workers United union election.

Littler Mendelson is one of the most prominent U.S. management-side labor law firms and has been widely criticized by unions and labor advocates for its role in employer anti-union campaigns at companies including Apple and Google.

NLRB docket:
https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740

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https://nitter.net/EIB/status/2083794992154423654#m

I'm slowly running my script to update the price list for the books in the #InternetArchive acquisition wishlist, which I last updated (for USA addresses) in 2019.
https://archive.org/details/open_libraries_wish_list_booksellers

Looks like it's going to find prices for about 440k books out of 930k. The median price so far is about 25 $.

(This triggered by @davidgerard writing about shady companies scooping up used books for undeclared purposes likely to be "LLM training": https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/ .)

I did it. It's a blog post.

Ideally, publishers—like librarians—should see themselves as guardians of the culture, but, well . . . 🤷

Ready for a legal breakdown of the literary agent model?

Me: Why make all those people angry?
Also me: But this is what I'm thinking about.

Along the way, I’ll offer a personal publishing horror story and advice to writers considering traditional publishing.

So here goes. (Warning: I think the rebel in me is coming out.)

https://terikanefield.com/traditional-publishing-and-the-pitfalls-of-the-literary-agent-model/