 I cannot recall any press coverage at all of an entrepreneur or CEO or anybody as devastating as this. “one more example of Musk as that most familiar figure: the noisy forum shitposter, forever writing checks with his mouth that his body can’t cash.” https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musks-creep-show Ok second thought, “devastating” doesn’t begin to describe it. “A Montana judge on Monday found that the Treasure State is violating its residents’ right to a clean environment — delivering a major victory to the 16 kids, teens and young adults behind the first U.S. youth-led climate trial.” https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-in-climate-trial-00107668 "Describe the relevant sectors of the economy": "Academia, industry, non-profit and international". Hmm. The "inter-" in the use of "international" in this way always grates with me, and would even if they had said "national and international academia, industry, and non-profit". "Inter-national" means "in-between nations" not "abroad"! Cognitive dissonance: warm to hot cucumber in my hand when peeling it. That's what you get when you harvest your lunch straight from your hydroponics plants at the lunchtime in the California sunshine. “we know that only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington” Rep Gaetz while standing next to Trump in Iowa. There are now elected representatives who are calling for force against the very government they are part of. If there isn’t a swift law that would put them away for some years for that, there should be Imho. “a Tehran court sentenced a woman to two months in prison and six months of psychological treatment for “a contagious psychological disorder that leads to sexual promiscuity” because she didn’t wear a hijab.” Pet clinic sends customer service survey. I usually answer those because who knows, maybe they actually want to listen? In this case, I didn't hit submit. They apparently only wanted to know whether the staff did all the things management wants them to do to sell me / my dog more expensive stuff. I'm not volunteering my time to help you get more of my money! Can a network be a Commons? (In the Ostrom sense) I would think so — if a network can be proprietary it could instead be a Commons, no?Eg CompuServe was a proprietary network, which was supplanted by the internet, which arguably is a (gigantic, and not well governed) Commons. Visa, back in the days it was a club of banks was arguably mostly a network governed as a commons, I would think. So why doesn’t a web search find much for “network commons”? @J12t I covered this a bit with Episode 9 of the Implausipod, but it might not be 100% what you're looking for. Are you looking for something like Castells, or have you considered that and are looking elsewhere? What do we make of this @VeilidNetwork thing? What will be its place in the larger scheme of things relative to, say, #Signal, #Tor, #IPFS, #Matrix and the #fediverse? https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/veilid_privacy_data/ #Veilid
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  @J12t @VeilidNetwork seems primarily useful as an everything-app alternative to Signal with greater privacy. It’s very different from Matrix as it doesn’t aim for the same networking effects of group-centric, federated discourse. "The data have spoken." I like that phrasing. Even if it means it's not a superconductor. Bit unclear to me how researchers could get that wrong in the first place. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary verification it seems to me, otherwise extraordinary embarrassment ensues ... Another reason I don't like "federated" as a term is this: If somebody says something is federated, how many things do you think are federating? My default assumption would be: maybe a few dozen. Like the federated 50 US states, or the 16 states in the Federal Republic of Germany, or maybe a handful of healthcare organizations in an identity federation. My default assumption is not: tens of thousands, as the fediverse is today, or even millions as the fediverse may be tomorrow.   @J12t Let’s say you are the CEO of a major corporation, brought on recently to help turn it around and put it back on a growth course. Now CNN is doing an article about you. Great! What do you expect the first sentence to be? What about: “Linda Yaccarino is living in a world of delusion.” Hmm. And all your employees will have read it by lunchtime. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/media/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-reliable-sources/index.html There's a session on #testing #interop in the #fediverse tomorrow morning (pacific time) of the W3C's #SWICG, with presentations from a few people including yours truly. If you are interested in how to make the Fediverse more reliably interoperate, and in building a community around automating tests that can be applied to lots of fediverse apps, come attend? The meeting is open to all. https://events.swicg.io/2023/08/activitypub-interop-test-suite-uhd8usFSzIuz  If you were to write an "analyst report" and you had three short bullet points to explain "why the #fediverse, and why now?", what would you write?
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 @J12t Streaming is turning into cable tv, in terms of pricing and ads. The supposed revolution turns into the old guard. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/media/disney-plus-streaming-prices-reliable-sources/index.html @J12t except that with streaming it’s a whole lot easier to switch providers every ~month to bing-watch from different collections And there’s still no streaming equivalent to news channels Threads has implemented rel=me, but if I read mozeri’s post correctly, only in one direction. That would not be good or sufficient. https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/Cvu2fDiLZve/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== “Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'”. It simply had to come to this. A bunch of “Christian” churches would clearly expel Jesus himself for being far too “liberal”.  Finished “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Actual science fiction, not just a story in some off-world setting. Interesting book, recommended. |
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@J12t once I learned the story about the McLaren with Peter Thiel his personality started to make a lot more sense.