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Fediverse Developers Network meeting this week Wednesday 11am pacific on Jitsi. Hope to see many of you again! Notes from the previous call: https://fedidevs.org/notes/20230410 More details in the Matrix Announce Channel: https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-devs-announce:matrix.org Great piece on #ai by Ezra Klein in The NY Times. Except at the end, where he is hopeful we’ll handle it well, imho there is very little chance of that. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html  “Respiratory infections are the leading cause of death for children around the world and the No. 1 reason kids are hospitalized in the United States, but scientists don’t know what causes a good chunk of them.” Something I suspected but didn’t know. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/health/human-metapneumovirus-explainer-wellness/index.html Note to self: document your design rationales. Because when try to write them down, those "rationales" sometimes don't sound so rational. Don’t like the evidence? Make it illegal. “Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental reviews, including coal mines and power plants.” https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16052023/todays-climate-montana-anti-climate-law/ “Glitches, echoes and ‘melting the servers’ crash DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter”. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer duo. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/tech/twitter-desantis-meltdown/index.html Clearly the most amusing thing that happened all day. Ranked list of digital identity open source projects. Somebody did some work there: “Theophobia.” Now that’s an idea for a religion. Iain Banks: Against a Dark Background. “Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says”. And 12,800 people would die, just in Phoenix. Think the #climatecatastrophe doesn’t affect you? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/climate/blackout-heat-wave-danger.html Twitter, the far right platform. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/  It is a moral crime, a crime against people and democracy, to include twitter, embed twitter in articles, report on twitter, unless it's ABOUT it becoming far right propaganda arm.  Everything is larger in Texas. https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/05/01/uninsured-rate-pandemic Carbon offsets is one of these things that has always sounded too easy to be effective. Meta is planning to implement ActivityPub? Not so fast IMHO. Parsing the recent leaks on their "Instagram for your thoughts" / P92 / Barcelona app. Blogged: https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230522-what-the-meta-activitypub-not-so-fast/  @J12t I think your hypothesis that Facebook will take an "asymmetric" approach to the fediverse/#activitypub is a good one given their track record.  @J12t Given Meta’s history, shouldn’t the assumption be they intend an asymmetric plan rather than a symmetric one? Seems like the right default assumption to make here. This is probably the last hiking weekend that the California wildflowers are out in the Bay Area. Still enjoying seeing them a lot. Both creeks I crossed so far are dry, and while the shade is cool and green, the California sun is having an opinion about itself otherwise. Time to hunker down, plants! A mere trifle, those $14 trillion. Certainly not enough to wear masks. https://www.wane.com/community/health/coronavirus/covids-total-cost-to-the-economy-will-reach-14-trillion-by-end-of-this-year-research-finds/ #sarcasm @J12t Not even counting the impact of long covid crippling millions of Americans. That could be bigger than all the rest put together. On the W2C Social (SWICG) call. 6am pacific! (I must think it is important.) I count 17 people, which is excellent. We managed to get it revived!!  @J12t I had no idea Jitsi was so great lol. it was a privilege to just sit and listen. (I think that was my first actual facetime with any .org, much less a working group.) one forgets out chere that constructive, curious, and considerate is actually the norm for a whole lot of folks. |
