Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 13

@openfuture @tarkowski alternate titles, or maybe section headings:

- “standalone licensing considered harmful”
- “licensing is *not* all you need”
- “responsible licensing is neither responsible nor licensing, discuss amongst yourselves”

A regular theme of my recent reading has been the indigenous Americas before and during European colonization.

This 3D reconstruction of #Tenochtitlan from @thomas_kole is a pretty amazing addition to the genre. I can’t speak to its accuracy (though a lot of work does seem to have gone into it) but there is important power in nudging the imagination to question history as you’ve received it.

http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

An unfortunate reality of our moment is that (1) lots of us feel powerless to help deal with the various disasters floating around us and (2) there are lots of such disasters, often so bad they impact our physical (mapped) world.

A small but significant way to help is updating Open Street Map, since it is used by emergency teams around the world; here’s links to emergency mapping going on in Alaska, Maui, and Vermont right now: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2023-August/022052.html

#OpenStreetMap #OSM

Am reading Graeber’s Dawn of Everything and now I want Civ VII to be really, really weird.

@juliaferraioli @vmbrasseur FWIW I’ve never seen a concrete methodology. If you’re going by pure package count, the number is almost certainly more like 95-99%; LOC… hard to say, especially since much depends then on whether you’re including “just” libraries or everything from the firmware up.

@checkervest my 7yo is not being “taught” handwriting in the way I was-no copying things tens of times, no separate handwriting grade. But he has been taught the basics and is hand-writing in class almost every day.

@mekkaokereke @marypcbuk @seldo “We’ll get to that after the first few hundred thousand invites” says a lot about what your priorities will be later when you have to do it right; specifically it says “it’ll be an afterthought that we only do as much as needed to avoid bad press”.

@mattl We use todoist for task-oriented stuff; I tried Basecamp but neither of us loved it for family stuff (why, I can’t recall). Backpack is unsearchable—pointer?

@mattl I have long wanted to, does that count 😂

My wife and I do use it for a few household-related tracking things; eg, list of restaurants we want to go to on (rare) date nights; household maintenance that needs to be done. Could easily see more of that over time.

Increasingly think that before llms become a genuine misinfo crisis because of misinfo they themselves generate, they’re just going to stupidly burn out every human moderator on every platform, and allow a wave of human misinfo as a result. https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru/110146668322885122

@mtsw God, this has been driving me nuts. So many people who swore up and down they were really, really into fighting bad things, and when asked to sacrifice *posting to an audience that he immediately demonstrated was small and shrinking*… whoa, whoa, I can’t sacrifice *that*.

@vaurora @chrisjrn Granted my survey is not comprehensive, but I’ve literally never seen that, nor “here’s what we, an institution, are doing (other than performative statements like this one)”. Maybe that sort of call to action is best practice, but it does not appear to be widely-adopted practice (or anecdotally, adopted-at-all practice).

Welp, may have to take 30 seconds in my next public presentation for this idea.

To be clear, most North Americans live on stolen land! But reciting that mechanistically before completely unrelated conferences, with no plan, possibility, or even real desire to give the land back, numbs people to genocide without creating action.

In contrast, every conference is inevitably related to capitalism, and every participant can chose to make capitalism better or worse. https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/110051208247493374

@chrisjrn I’m glad they’re useful in the .au context, but very skeptical that’s the impact in the US.

It’s so transparently obvious that the entities involved have exactly zero intent to ever give back a square inch of land. If you called them “genocide acknowledgements” they’d be a lot more accurate, but then no one would do them, which… says something, I think.

@chrisjrn To put it a different way: it always feels to me like absolution, not awareness-raising. “I don’t have to do anything more, I gave an acknowledgment!”

It is possible I’d feel differently If I’d seen even a single one that had a link to a concrete, specific plan of restitution. Could be anything: National Park transfers, seats in Congress, etc. But that would force people to grapple with actual action, and no institution will admit to that as a goal.

@natematias what’s the best you’ve seen (if anything is good) on the research impacts of Twitter’s apparent price spike for API access?

@clacke was going to say… Graeber is not a reliable narrator on a lot of things, but in my very mainstream denomination growing up it was trespasses.

@clacke @mekkaokereke https://ghc.anitab.org/

@kat @evan we have really enjoyed Pandemic for this reason, and looking forward to this for the same reason: https://www.daybreakgame.org/

It’s a little odd that ZOOM AND ENHANCE is now something you can just install on a Linux box.

cc @lilianedwards - I wonder if, in courtrooms, “grainy images enhanced with a side order of racism” are an even bigger risk than deepfakes?

https://fosstodon.org/@TheEvilSkeleton/109820692303446936