Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop), page 3

@Infoseepage Thank you for this! Just the preparation I needed today to get on a train for my first trip to Scotland!

Ooh, I'm excited about this report on "Social Clubs, Community Power, and Political Participation": https://www.democraticbusiness.org/publications/reports/social-clubs-report-2025

@edsu In this case, yeah, the switch from Pop-GNOME to COSMIC:)

@Delib @pine64 The Matrix seems more technical than I want to be—maybe there should be a separate space more focused on UX than config.

@Delib @pine64 Mostly I'm happy with them. What have you been tweaking? I ended up creating a different toolbar, but that's it.

I agree on the desire for better user community, as I'd love to see more best practices and screenshots. Should we just try to be more active in the Matrix?

On AI and popes named Leo: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645

@Qbitzerre Not this time, no:)

I was just blown away that Gemini can read my handwriting perfectly and transcribe it.

Since I don't want to give it my personal writing, I tried the same thing with Gemma running locally on Ollama. It thought I was writing random letters and swear words.

New in @TheConversationUS, I explain the radical lessons from Pope Leo XIII that suggest how Leo XIV might approach AI: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

@dana @ntnsndr Whatever it takes to nab your attention!

A new paper out—not the easiest going, but an effort to theorize some of the dynamics of governance through protocols, with Johannes Bennke: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10661

Hacker News at its best

Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036438

Rainbow under shamrock, if you squint your eyes just right

@arod @ntnsndr Because I suspect there will be a few decisions that turn out to have big long-tail effects that will be made differently for fear of the nonprofit's wrath.

I have no illusions about the beneficence of OpenAI, but I think in a decade or two to come, we'll be thankful that the coup against the nonprofit parent org failed.

Thinking this after hearing a friend describe all the daily medical/nutritional/etc. data he feeds into ChatGPT. I still would not recommend doing that FWIW.

@natematias Any thoughts, @ZaneSelvans

A really good way to hold off the desire for new hardware is to totally change up the software.

My favorite book on the legacy of Pope Leo XIII (the namesake of Leo XIV) is by the Australian politician Race Mathews—who realized that, to understand economic democracy, he had to get a theology degree: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jobs-of-our-own

Thank you, Race, and RIP: https://www.vic.gov.au/RaceMathews

@douginamug @ntnsndr @pop_os_official I think so. It feels a little feature incomplete and glitches a little, but honestly that is more than made up for in the pleasure and speed of using it.

@elle @ntnsndr Welcome! So good to have you here!