Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

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.

p2p
offline
no account
personalized
activitypub
client

stay tuned ;)

#SocialReader
#FediForum

We're thrilled to be at Fediforum this week to present our latest tools! For the past year, we've been working on bringing distributed hosting to the Fediverse, to create better, more customizable social interactions built atop ActivityPub.

Come check out our talk on Wednesday March 20 in the morning, around 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET (the overall schedule is here).

Here's a sneak peek of our presentation:

No-code publishing to the distributed web: Sutty CMS is a graphical, user-friendly interface for static Jekyll-based websites. With a click on a toggle, you can publish your websites to IPFS, Hypercore, and of course, HTTP.
Social Inbox: Publish a profile and post your website's contents directly to the Fediverse. Other accounts can follow your websites, and replies to your Fedi posts can be moderated and published on your for sites through a back-end moderation panel on the Sutty CMS. It also allows instance-level allow lists and block lists. We've automated announcements so others can easily subscribe and follow your website posts on the Fediverse.
Social Reader: A new ActivityPub client that supports natively loading published data over p2p protocols, skipping the need for always-online HTTP servers for accessing content. It also gives you more precise controls over the content that you interact with.

We'd love to connect with you!

Especially if you're building or strategizing around:

Payments and sustainable funding on the Fediverse
Peer-to-peer and distributed publishing
Fediverse adoption by medium to large organizations

Hope to meet some of you there!

I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.

PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Share to links.

https://werd.io/2024/seeking-share-urls-for-every-platform

We don’t really have something like that with Nostr. Should we have something?

“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

#tech #cloud #ai #datacenter #environment

uBlock Origin filter list for sites that contain AI-generated content for uBlock Origin. Useful for scrubbing AI-generated bullshit from Google, DDG, and Bing image search pages.

Edit: I didn't make this! Just seemed useful.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main

The Inaccessibility Cycle

#disability #ableism #accessibility