Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)

@pcottle do you have the guns for it

Times of Israel says the government voted in favour of the deal, which will go into effect Sunday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-janaury-18-2024/#liveblog-entry-3462022

@alexmorse eventually!

@totoroot sure. Jack Dorsey is the former CEO of Twitter. He's been critical of ActivityPub, and has financed efforts to replace it. He started Bluesky, and has supported Nostr.

If he's going to be at FOSDEM, I think it would be good for him, and good for us, if he saw the presentations that are going to be made at the Social Web devroom at FOSDEM.

Maybe he'd understand the protocol and movement better. And maybe he'd stop fighting against us, or just do it less.

Does that explain it?

I barely believe in continuity of consciousness from moment to moment, so I am not that bothered by this part.

@leomas I don't think that's true. I think France, Spain, Austria, Poland, and others have laws about non-EU countries having controlling ownership of media companies. So, at least somebody in government is on the no side.

@mcc noted! I will turn off the berate-o-tron for those music posts ONLY

@mcc which days, so I can shame you if you post?

@g that's a lot of buts!

@UrsaAshBear thanks! Sorry for being obstinate. I think calling calendar software todo software is kind of a stretch, so if I were you I would have done yes, but also.

@mcc you should write that poll, and I will repost it.

I had a poll up about cannabis, and I decided to delete it and run this poll instead.

@elduvelle it can happen after you die, right? Ideas, feelings, characteristics passed along either through other people or through writing or art.

Is this a meaningful framing? I don't know. I do think it's interesting, though. And maybe a comforting way to think about life and death.

Would that person have my subjectivity? I don't think so. But that's not really part of the bargain with reincarnation; most ideas of it are that memories of previous life are lost.

So, will there ever be a future person or creature with enough of my interests and characteristics that others would get that spooky feeling that the person *is* me? I think it's possible, but not easy. The others would have to know us both. I think it could happen in families between generations, but harder when across longer spans or time or space.

I think what's essential to a person is their personal interests and characteristics. Through our actions and words, we can imprint those onto other people or even to other parts of the living or nonliving world. My sense of humour, for example, is passed along in part to my kids. My passion for the social web is, I think, spread around the world.

So, I'm yes, but. I think the common idea of reincarnation is that something essential about the person is transferred to a new body, without the person's memories being transferred. Or, at least, those memories are difficult to access.

@democratsabroad agreed!

@fasnix @Flipboard I like @cbcnews and @npr as starters!