Notices by Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)

I learned so much about the music of my youth from this playful retrospective of the #bass lines from Geezer Butler's work with #BlackSabbath
https://youtu.be/-NKfcPgDX9M

Hey folks, if you had to explain — to someone not in tech — the difference between a community conference, like a DjangoCon or a PyCon, and commercial conferences*, how would you phrase it?

(* I have a couple of examples in mind, but what examples would you give?)

Thanks! (Boosts appreciated)

@br00t4c Sooo, not quite enough move him into a party leadership position...

Regarding my question about keeping my copper phone lines or not, I just saw this which I'd missed before; AT&T has announced it intends to get rid of its copper networks by 2029, assuming regulators allow that. California might be an exception.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-to-retire-traditional-landlines-by-2029-except-in-this-state

In 2024, California said no to its request to get out of its Carrier of Last Resort obligations.
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-rejects-att-request-to-withdraw-as-carrier.

But it's trying again:
https://www.ptreyeslight.com/news/landlines-endangered-by-rule-update/

@ai6yr @sindarina @mattblaze
@MsMerope

#POTS

@br00t4c Ah! I see he must be a man of principles!

TIL there is a #pnw chapter , @Olyindivisible and I wonder what happened to this story. Did it have a happy ending or do we need to more boosting?

The right move,
for the wrong reason.
Half awake, reaching for the device with clumsy cognition. Skipping across multiple feeds, I stumbled into this masterpiece
https://youtu.be/TPSzGgtOxBc
Finding Vivian Maier, by John Maloof
Only 30 minutes into a 90 minute film, I wish this were a multi season #Netflix show. Everything about this is remarkable and excellent.

TL; DR: a box of photos purchased at an estate leads to the discovery of a genius who was Mary Poppins at work and Diane Arbus at home.

Everything about this story is improbable and everything about the storytelling is excellent. Through a horde of material culture and investigative #journalism Maloof reveals the work of a #photography savant, told by the dozens of people whose lives she touched.

@karolherbst

@inthehands me too

Hi @sarahjamielewis , #til

I contribute to the docs for Tahoe-lafs and it seems that it may be useful to you (if you're not already using it) for self replicating persistence with client-first access control.
It's an old project and the docs are confusing to newcomers. Lmk if you have questions.
@openprivacy @cwtch

@indivisibleteam

I think Minnesota attorney General Ellison (651) 296-3353
Is doing some investigation into maga political violence since it is a huge problem in MN
It may be good to let them know so they can contact the Oregon AG and keep up with the investigation 😉

After you call the Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield
Constituent Inquiries: 503-378-6002

Consider reaching out to the professional standards office, because the security coordinator contacted two officers and neither one collected a statement or gathered any information from the victims.

Department of Public Safety Standards and Training : Professional Standards : Criminal Justice : State of Oregon https://share.google/5H99aKvJfHo8zALLB

@indivisibleteam

Another year, another @openprivacy AGM - can't believe we've done this 7 times now.

Much has changed, and even though I'm not working day-to-day on things anymore I'm so excited about the work that is going on.

(Also some exciting news to come on the @cwtch front, watch this space)

TL DR: Roseburg #Oregon #Police are refusing to investigate an attack on the @indivisibleteam event last weekend in Roseburg Oregon.

There is a developing situation in Oregon that impacts anyone who may be the target of #maga political #violence in the #usa .

Parkrose Permaculture includes a recording of a conversation between the local Indivisible safety coordinator.
https://youtu.be/UcLQ98GbiOo
The coordinator called the station because the officer on site didn't want to report the incident. During the conversation, the station officer refused to collect details, asked the victim to cite the charge (she is not an attorney) and then told her that her complaint didn't meet the "beyond reasonable doubt" standard.

(Roseburg Oregon was the site of a BIG mass shooting event some years ago)

@glyph
@eevee

Some of the questions about priorities and incentives are IMHO, covered in Nóva's book "Hacking Capitalism"

@glyph
I'm only half way through and already delighted to find someone who might actually be interested in the bugs I found in accounting.

I can answer most of their questions but I don't know if anyone else is interested.
A general one around the utility of LLMs

Q: people compare LLMs to calculators, or screwdrivers, or digital cameras, or whatever. I’m left wondering if the people saying this stuff have ever used any of those things.

A: No, they have not used any of those tools (or table saws).
The false analogy results from their observation that using $TOOL results in $WHATEVER.
It's the cargo cult pattern.
Since their process is optimized for producing $WHATEVER, everything else is someone else's problem.

------ ok, so what? ------
I'm glad you asked. There is a scenario where all these musings become actionable.
In fact, it's the potential competitive advantage of #cooperatives over #corporate businesses.

TL;DR: overtime, businesses controlled by external stakeholders become more expensive to operate.

OTOH, if an organization can make decisions based on operational requirements _instead of_ financial reporting requirements, they MAY avoid the accumulation of entropy and waste.

Otherwise, cargo culture takes over and we end up with Enron, Lehman Brothers and Theranos.

Leavenworth #Kansas does not want a concentration camp in their community and they are rising up. They'll be protesting again this Monday.

This administration clearly just gets off on the cruelty associated with the names "Leavenworth" and "Alcatraz" but these communities don't want to go back.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLpe3GVMFz7/

#til the women at the Hysteria podcast released an episode of their series "This fucking guy" featuring Leonard Leo.
https://youtu.be/n6Y51b4XqwQ

Leo has managed to avoid public scrutiny of his role in compromising the judicial branch of the #UnitedStates Federal #government.
From an #infosec perspective, the interlocking relationship between executive, legislative and judicial branches is brilliant 18th century #informationsecurity . Today, it's clear how the executive and legislative branches are fucked. This episode summarizes the 45 year #history of fucking up the judicial branch.

If you are not from the USA, or younger than 50, you are likely to find a lot of info here that clarifies the relationship between seemingly unrelated people and events.

Hello Americans on Mastodon, I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.

So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

#art is toxic to #fascism
So are parody, mockery and sunshine.

Make the obscenity of Don Old's budget part of the popular culture.

Hamilton ( the musical) has made young people familiar with our founding fathers.
Maybe some genius of #Music and #Theatre can create earworms with characters expressing the corruption and mendacity of the GOP legislators and oligarchs.... ?

"What does [celebrating the Fourth of July] mean when the party in power, the party with all of the power, turns its back on the ideals upon which this country was founded? What does it mean when the party in power—and the very Court that was established to uphold and defend this nation’s Constitution—feel unbound by the law or by that founding document?"

~ Mary L. Trump

#FourthofJuly #patriotism #Trump
/5

https://www.marytrump.org/p/its-always-darkest