Notices by Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)

*Please* CW your posts about US politics. The functionality exists so that people who are following you can selectively dip into rough / controversial topics and preserve some semblance of mental health.

I've got auto-filtering on based on keywords, but it can't catch anything 🥴

@Steve It's an incredible to do to paying business users

This Bluesky thread is wild. I use LLMs as part of my workflow, but I really *didn't* like having Gemini forced into my Google Docs, email, and everywhere else this week.

One person, who has written into their contracts that they're not allowed to use AI in their work tried to get it turned off...

https://bsky.app/profile/litbowl.bsky.social/post/3lfvlw656xs24

Well, here we are. I'm much more available for work than I'd like to be right now, and therefore would appreciate boosts of this post which links to my /work page 🙏

https://dougbelshaw.com/work/

This is very cool

https://www.bbc.co.uk/orbitmusic

@ntnsndr I've got relatively simple needs: I just want stuff that works without drama (technical/ethical/other)

@ntnsndr Are there particular ones you're missing?

I think I'm just going to switch to Ghost

Would be nice to see the same level of activity/concern for migrant boats

https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112993932798589752

@kevie Thanks! They seem to be looking after him. There's some large physical specimens here!

My son is trying out for American Football today. He had a neck injury four years ago so I haven't allowed him to play rugby or anything like that since then.

On tenterhooks and have already looked up the nearest hospital 😬

New #introduction time:

👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi for the last 7 years.

Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.

Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.

Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.

Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking

I like 🏔️🥃⚽

Remember, kids...

(via @epilepticrabbit's excellent newsletter*)

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Some pretty incredible writing here.

"I’ve been in this position so many times that it exhausts me just to write about it. Sometimes, it’s not that I’m afraid of men; I’m just really, really tired."

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

New (temporary) home office set up in utility room! 🙌

Long-term, need to decide whether to go for an office pod, or whether to convert the double garage.

The mobile hanging from the ceiling was given to me as a gift by my sister when I was about 15 years old.

My mother calls it my 'pterodactyls' but they're actually hand-painted Japanese cranes from the Futon Workshop which used to be in Newcastle.

I've had it hanging in every house I've lived in since then, so delighted to have it up in the new place!

@neil

Second: I do think there's a culture in the UK that I haven't seen elsewhere that "someone should sort this out" (with that "someone" being "not me")

You see it in news stories all of the time. The parent appearing on the news to comment on "the dangers of vaping" and how "the government should do something about it". Yet theyve neglected to intervene in their own kids life.

@neil There's so much to comment on here.

First: the main reason that parents give children smartphones, other than as a babysitting device, is to track them.

While the world is objectively safer than it was for previous generations, there's social pressure to know where your kids are at all times.

Up here, kids go to middle school (and therefore walk to school by themselves) aged nine.

Unsupervised use is another thing, but easy to see how it happens.

"In relation to their systems most systematizers are like a man who builds an enormous castle and lives in a shack close by; they do not live in their own enormous systematic building." (Søren Kierkegaard)

Kind of getting inspiration wherever I can find it today, including from a Danish philosopher who used to fill a cup with sugar, pour extremely strong coffee to the brim, down it, and then write furiously.