Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 6

@kingrat (I have been pondering just creating a separate “books” user on my Wordpress install and piping that out to a book-focused account here…)

@kingrat can you follow your own bookwyrm feed in Mastodon, and then boost that as appropriate to get more visibility? I think no, right (but it does seem like it would be a nice theoretical test of ActivityPub interoperability…)

@aral a question I've never seen a concise answer to: is the problem you're describing a Mastodon problem or an ActivityPub problem?

@markmccaughrean @TimeLime they’re bringing attention to themselves, not to the problem. That’s a massive difference.

@TimeLime @markmccaughrean no legislator, ever, has said “ah, I was not thinking about dealing with climate change, but now that this priceless work of art has been damaged, I’m all in on climate solutions”.

Go throw paint on a coal mine, please!

@aral @ladyerrant @scattershot the existence of the a11y stack at all is because Sun was worried about that. Which tells you how old the stack is.

Cool to see @marklemley and @paulohm publishing in my old journal, under the @creativecommons license I put in place. https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/issue/view/1014

@marklemley @paulohm weird, it was in the RSS feed yesterday and the page was public yesterday.

So much interesting innovation going on at the intersections of data, culture, sovereignty, and security right now.
https://glammr.us/@flickrfdn/112553661237070535

So, #wikipedia friends: my notability is somewhat borderline, and my article is bad, both of which evidenced by my article having had {{update}} since 2016. (The article's existence predates my time with WMF, and survived one RFD during my time at WMF.) Thoughts on next steps?

I could self-nom for deletion, or provide some citations for relevant updates, or...? In any case the current state seems bad for everyone—for me, and for the wiki. So thoughts welcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Villa

@kingrat @lmc @eniatitova toxic car culture: not just for the midwestern straights!

So what SF movies are smart on AI?

Challenge level: nothing where AI is the cliched bad guy (looking at you, Skynet).

I will also accept favorite TV episodes about AI (eg maybe it is time for me to rewatch the Kiksuya episode of Westworld).

https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/112485463853611952

Have had a very large Eagle Creek backpack for 26 years, including two happy usages of their lifetime warranty.

Am doing more short travel these days (a few days here, a few days there) and airlines are getting stricter about carryon sizes. So... got a new Eagle Creek rollaboard. So far, am impressed with a lot of the small design touches. Check back here in 26 years for a review.

I would read the hell out of a deep analysis of the many layers (internal, external, technical, personal, systemic, etc., etc.) that have combined to make early Google so arguably less *dumb* than early OpenAI.

It isn’t just rose colored glasses, right? There was no equivalent of the shareholder coup, the ScarJo voice thing, etc.?

Me: socialism has a lot of schisms and factions, it is one of the reasons I don’t particularly love the label
Also me: I am a card-carrying… whatever this is:
https://kind.social/@wehpudicabok/112452415198620932

I was introduced last week to the concept of an “accountability sink”; a structural technique for saying “the rules/tools/processes made me do it” and therefore avoiding accountability. They aren’t universally bad but booooy is AI going to create a lot of them in bad places, like (checks notes) killing civilians.
https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/112377379849654399

@ntnsndr @mallory bingo. If one presumes that Threads is going to be harmful, the right response is "what weaknesses of the fediverse will allow them to harm the fediverse? how can we fix those weaknesses?" Because (1) they're real weaknesses and (2) others will exploit them.

Gotta admit I found it pretty irritating, in the xz discussion of the last two weeks, that some people declared confidently "you can't pay maintainers". (cc @ehashman)

It isn't *easy* to pay maintainers, but it can be done: at Tidelift, we've been doing it for years. So I figured I'd write up how we do it and what we've learned. And yes, it's a HOWTO. Be glad I also avoided an FAQ ;)

https://blog.tidelift.com/paying-maintainers-the-howto

If you’re weird enough for Fedi, and in Denver, Albuquerque, or DFW, then public service announcement:

GO TO MEOW WOLF.

That is all, return to your regularly scheduled weird.

@jenniferplusplus doesn’t directly touch on your post but you might find this interesting https://blog.tidelift.com/resilient-open-commons