Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Job alert: @hyphacoop is hiring a Business Development Lead, on contract for April-June 2024 for our sister project Distributed Press!

https://hypha.coop/openings/business-development-lead/ #cooperatives #jobs #dweb

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

Seeing some echos today of the AI trust crisis I wrote about back in December: it's very, very hard to convince people that their private data isn't being used to train AI models once they've decided that it might be happening
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/

@mortendk @eleventy I convinced my work to use eleventy for their site. Moved off of Drupal as I knew I could make a better faster site if I didn’t have to wrestle with Drupal templates. It’s a professional hospital site. Uses TinaCMS for editing content. https://fetus.ucsf.edu/

This paper is kinda wild:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593

"We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field."

I can see this being quite useful for possibly attaching imaging equipment or electrodes for neural recordings.

#chemistry #biology

In the end, it's the people who make social media, not the protocols. Protocols should work to improve user agency.