One thing I like about chronological timelines is I have no clue who I follow is "an influencer" or a random shitposter. A person with 100 followers is just as visible as 100 thousand.
on algo based media it's just mostly cool kida that get shoved in people's faces and I guess into each others faces.
I wish we could do a slick rebrand of taxes. Paying taxes that are properly used should feel like donating to charity. You're doing your part.
If you pay for insurance, you're already ascribing to the idea that a large pool of people paying in can be cheaper and/or more effective than each person paying only after a cost is incurred.
That's taxes, baby.
Talking to a friend today who works at a BigCo that uses TypeScript. Personally, I think TS is a tax on developers’ time and attention. They mentioned they were initially unproductive with TS, but it's smooth sailing now. I responded, “Yes, but you work at a big company, you can have dedicated TS teams.”
Their response:
Now libraries are getting hit in Canada:
"She said the 'book banning people' have attended almost all board meetings since trustees voted down the review."
"...the recent scale and tone of these recent challenges mimics what is happening in the United States – albeit to a lesser extent – where religious and political activism has led to widespread book bans. "
@mauve @evan @bengo Ideally i think corporations would not be at the table at all. that doesnt seem realistic though. if we try to exclude them altogether they'll just lie their way in. At least with W3C you need a confirmed corporate email address to join, so others can check your profile to see who you are affiliated with.
@evan @mauve @bengo more widespread is great. but if Threads attracts enough users to become the dominant player in the Fediverse, they could start closing it off or changing it in favor of themselves and to the detriment of others. So i'd like to see a diverse array of small to medium sized orgs and companies or communities embracing AP instead. the involvement of large corporations makes me uneasy.
My hot take is that the #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub specs are fine. Having some more standards for working with groups might be nice but honestly I'm happy with how much folks are able to do already and how many implementations are out there that can work together. This is from a few months of working on a new implementation. Honestly there's been a decent amount of docs spread around the place to go off of.
Growing a start-up bro with half baked ideas full of the most recent buzzwords on my back so I can get venture capital.
By modulating air through a series of slits he makes sounds like:
"biiitcoooin"
or
"A I..."
When they try to hand him checks I reach out and grab them from underneath.
#TIL dogs can pet other dogs. #undertale
I'm pretty glad that the number of things I'm deeply stressed about had been cut down by like 60% over thr past couple weeks 😅 Sadly some things are looming and out of my control but at least I can check off some of the ones I can actually influence.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.