Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se), page 3

@catsalad Every time I try to run an algorave I swear

@mc Agree entirely that the libertarianism is mostlyon the OS side (see also their main objection to the GPL being it's viral nature - i.e. encoding the _obligation_ to contribute back to the commons, not just the right to profit from it) @tante @parismarx

@mc Oh yeah it's a great podcast (and episode) overall - this was mostly a nitpick :) @tante @parismarx

@tante @parismarx I think you made it kiiiind of clear at various points but it wasn't entirely consistent mostly.

Listening to @tante talking about open source stuff on Tech Won't Save Us with @parismarx , and I have to say I take issue with the story being about a 'corporate takeover' of open source. No, OS and the OSI was always corporate. That was the whole point of extracting the politics.

Signal has been running on Signal video for a long time, and the addition of call links about a month ago was a MASSIVE quality of life improvement.

Seriously, give them a try! Imagine, not sharing the contents of your daily standup with a large video conferencing company!

@glynmoody this should be read as marketing, to be clear

And, like, this is a big part of what I've been focusing on and thinking about lately -- Not because a platform screwed me over, but because in-person retail (especially in Appalachia) also had a *very bad* year this year, and I'm also starting from scratch in a new industry.

But I'm playing a long game of *how do we build a business that will still exist in thrive in 10 years* not *how do I get my revenue back to normal by this time next year*.

So what I'm doing and what she needs to do are different.

Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense

@j2bryson any other sanctions?

@j2bryson so less than one percent of revenue

@RickiTarr well as for that, let's hold off celebrations until we see how Starlink junk will impact.

@silhelm Leckie's Radch empire is intersting as well, being deeply polytheist semi-capitalist, but with heavy emphasis on clientage connections between extended families, as well as the whole gender thing.

@silhelm gotcha, another tip might be A Memory Called Empire, which is deeply informed by the authors scholarship in Byzantine history

A few days later, my friend's dad called me, and apologized that she had asked me that, and re-invited me to Thanksgiving, and said that I was 100% right, that I was welcome, and that his own mother was not, and that she could come only on two conditions:

1) If I allowed her to come. It was my call.
2) If she said anything ignorant during dinner, he would put her in the car, and drive her back to the nursing home, and she could eat her turkey on a paper plate alone.

I accepted.

5/N

i dont even trust an ai to google things correctly. why would i trust ai to create a playlist for me, spotify?

@silhelm Jemisin isn't known for feel-good stories necessarily, but The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is excellent all the same, and not nearly a downer on the level of the Broken Earth trilogy.

Leckie's stuff (Ancillary Justice and sequels) is great as well imo, though YMMV on whether you think it breaks out of whiteness despite most characters being described as some flavour of dark-skinned. Likewise the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

The Jasmine Throne was great and queer, but not feelgood

The truth is that the media is more afraid of bias than they are of misleading their readers. And while that seems like a slippery slope, and may very well be one, there must be room to inject the writer’s voice back into their work, and a willingness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, and no matter how willing they are to bark and scream that things are unfair as they accumulate more power.

-Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

@mathiascederholm Japp, bara å lägga till så vitt jag vet.

@Anders_S Exempel på opinionsskribenter de väljer att ta in för att kommentera kön och genus: https://x.com/JVinterstare

https://www.parabol.press/kon-ar-binart-det-bor-biologer-veta/