{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":11,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/users\/jalcine","displayName":"Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn \u270d\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udcd6","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7870-original-tmp20250603010735.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7870-96-20250603012911.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7870-48-20250603012911.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7870-24-20250603012911.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"7870"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/7870-96-20250603012911.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"he\/they.no one of acclaim. way less important than you.","url":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jalcine","displayName":"Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn \u270d\ud83c\udfff\ud83d\udcd6","note":"he\/they.no one of acclaim. way less important than you."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> interesting but more of a thought experiment given how it's a mirror of what dominant cultures get to be represented. Could even be considered a calcification<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/users\/jalcine\/statuses\/116375536939980971","object":{"id":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/users\/jalcine\/statuses\/116375536939980971","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> interesting but more of a thought experiment given how it's a mirror of what dominant cultures get to be represented. Could even be considered a calcification<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine\/116375536939980971","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375514459754202","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375514459754202"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12429574","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-10T13:20:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine\/116375536939980971"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. 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Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine\" class=\"u-url mention\">@jalcine<\/a> excellent point!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375569124300608","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375569124300608","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine\" class=\"u-url mention\">@jalcine<\/a> excellent point!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375569124300608","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/users\/jalcine\/statuses\/116375536939980971","url":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/@jalcine\/116375536939980971"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/todon.eu\/users\/jalcine"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12429575","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-10T13:20:00+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375569124300608"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. 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Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>Anyway, my answer is yes, but definitely changed.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375516622370202","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375516622370202","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Anyway, my answer is yes, but definitely changed.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375516622370202","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375514459754202","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375514459754202"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425198","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:45:19+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375516622370202"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>I think there's also a real deep question about training data. If the LLMs have been trained on code and text made by people like us, could our traditions, principles and values be encoded in there, somewhere? It's an interesting question.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375514459754202","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375514459754202","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I think there's also a real deep question about training data. If the LLMs have been trained on code and text made by people like us, could our traditions, principles and values be encoded in there, somewhere? It's an interesting question.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375514459754202","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375508379950173","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375508379950173"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425192","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:44:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375514459754202"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. 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This doesn't always bubble up to executives, of course, and it's not universal, but I'd point to people like LeCun, Bengio and Hinton as standard bearers of this open culture.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375508379950173","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375508379950173","objectType":"note","content":"<p>One thing few hackers I know want to acknowledge is how much our culture has inspired the AI\/ML community. People who work in the space are adamant about open source tooling, patent-free technology, and shared research. This doesn't always bubble up to executives, of course, and it's not universal, but I'd point to people like LeCun, Bengio and Hinton as standard bearers of this open culture.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375508379950173","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375493169805077","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375493169805077"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425181","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:42:28+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375508379950173"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. 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Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>One reason this culture has survived and thrived is that many of us can get employment by building software, hardware, or systems that the world needs. Our skills in these areas make us highly sought after.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375470294894908","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375470294894908","objectType":"note","content":"<p>One reason this culture has survived and thrived is that many of us can get employment by building software, hardware, or systems that the world needs. Our skills in these areas make us highly sought after.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375470294894908","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375461504832184","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375461504832184"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425135","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:37:27+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375470294894908"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>LLMs threaten that. If people can get pretty-good software without hackers in the loop, our jobs become more precarious, and our ability to hold employers and others to our principles would drop precariously.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375477910585051","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375477910585051","objectType":"note","content":"<p>LLMs threaten that. If people can get pretty-good software without hackers in the loop, our jobs become more precarious, and our ability to hold employers and others to our principles would drop precariously.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375477910585051","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375470294894908","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375470294894908"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425136","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:37:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375477910585051"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>I don't know what that will do to hacker culture. I don't think LLMs will kill it, though. Even if we can't get jobs on our own terms doing the work that we love, and even if the work seems unimportant because it can be done by an LLM, I think many of us will keep doing it, because we can, and because we love it.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375488525126319","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375488525126319","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I don't know what that will do to hacker culture. I don't think LLMs will kill it, though. Even if we can't get jobs on our own terms doing the work that we love, and even if the work seems unimportant because it can be done by an LLM, I think many of us will keep doing it, because we can, and because we love it.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375488525126319","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375477910585051","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375477910585051"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425137","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:37:25+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375488525126319"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>Regardless, the question was about the style and traditions associated with creative and curious computing, often expressed in Free Software or Web hacks. It's a joyful, principled and humourous culture that I consider myself a part of. The network we are on now is inspired and guided by that culture.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375461504832184","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375461504832184","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Regardless, the question was about the style and traditions associated with creative and curious computing, often expressed in Free Software or Web hacks. It's a joyful, principled and humourous culture that I consider myself a part of. The network we are on now is inspired and guided by that culture.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375461504832184","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375452232480237","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375452232480237"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425108","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:31:09+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375461504832184"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. 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Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>Thanks so much to everyone who responded. <\/p><p>From the comments, my guess is that many responses misunderstood \"hacker culture\" as a concept, even though I included a link.<\/p><p>This might be due to the poll coming out around the time that Anthropic announced Project Glasswing:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-23:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375452232480237","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116375452232480237","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Thanks so much to everyone who responded. <\/p><p>From the comments, my guess is that many responses misunderstood \"hacker culture\" as a concept, even though I included a link.<\/p><p>This might be due to the poll coming out around the time that Anthropic announced Project Glasswing:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375452232480237","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-09:objectType=thread:nonce=85cc0373cf68d2ce","notice_info":{"local_id":"12425102","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-09T15:30:08+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116375452232480237"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6308149","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}