Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)

What a shameful day. You do not liberate a people by starving and then bombing them.

Second, it perpetuates what I think of as the original sin of US co-op policy: creating tools for specific sectors/industries/stakeholders rather than generalized tools.

This is why you can finance rural electric co-ops but not urban ones, for instance. It's dumb.

I hope that we can build policy strategies that don't treat artists as special snowflakes (eg art.coop's work, or smart.coop) and that seeks to build on artist experience for a broader solidarity economy.

When that is the goal, I'm here to help.

I'm sorry to say it, but I am very skeptical of the Artist Corporation model that @Metalabel is trying to advance in Colorado. https://blog.metalabel.com/the-beginning/

I'll explain, as I did to Yancey.

First, in Colorado we are already working on a similar hybrid model: the social cooperative. It is a global movement that we want to join. This effort is being led by groups with deep community investment. https://www.rmeoc.org/programs/social-cooperative/

Actually now that is a registered trademark of Jason Wiener's firm:)

Colorado really does have some important advantages, including flexible statutes and experienced lawyers.

@dajb @weareopencoop Thank you for sharing this and for your good work over the years.

PSA, Apple decided it is going to build the Mac Mini in the US, but @system76 is already building its mini Meerkat in Denver:)

@weatherwest Today in Boulder people keep saying on the street, "Beautiful day," with dread in their voice.

It's a weird feeling to interact with a terminal with a touchscreen, but I like it

@manjarolinux yay COSMIC everywhere!

May your dreams be like that Exhibition Gala, and maybe we'll all wake up in a world like that too

Yes maybe I just need to clean house:)

@scroeser I think of gaming as using the rules of a system to violate its spirit.

A chronological feed is supposed to be calmer and more grounded, but it isn't if someone posts a ton and fills it up. In this context, that's a form of attention-hacking akin to, say, SEO in a search engine context.

@scott That helps, though it certainly takes labor from the user.

I don't know, I think it would be nice to be able to easily move between algorithms, bsky style.

Someone just pointed out to me something very true to my experience—that the chrono timeline is easily gamed by frequent posters. Is there any fix for that, other than just unfollowing?

I just preordered A Better World Is Possible for my kids (and me) and you should too! https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-better-world-is-possible-global-youth-confront-the-climate-crisis-danica-novgorodoff/a9267b5fd78cca1f?ean=9781250262974&next=t

Wanted: Alysa Liu's gold medal skate, except as politics

@nullagent if any other country amassed its fleet around us like the US is doing to Iran, it would feel like war already

@pluralistic Could you say more about your editing workflow? I've been plotting something similar.

You talk about Ollama as an LLM, but it is just a server for running LLMs. I'm curious about which model(s) you've been using and how you set the context window and input for longer articles or books. Do you chunk the content first?