I'm going to update my operating system this weekend. https://elementary.io/ still requires one to reinstall the whole system in order to upgrade. This isn't too much of an issue for me — most of my work lives off my machine and I sync it (thanks Nextcloud, Gitea and friends) but this is one of the few things that's blocked me from suggesting this to a non-power-user-whose-time-is-also-very-tight kind of person.

I also don't have the spoons to contribute (because that is not a small undertaking) nor do I know how to sponsor someone to do so (how do you prioritize something like this over like upgrading all the stock apps to use GTK4?). Oh well.

actually nvm I forgot that New York Times bought them, fuck

Is it safe to use Wirecutter again?

CEO of OpenAI, ranking employee of Microsoft is ... he works on AI and is also afraid of - checks notes - AI waging war. And now works at a company that - checks notes - also works heavily within American defense. Something feels fake. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny

Like okay, I watched The Walking Dead and Black Summer but the fact he really a prepper on the low - and an opening rich one at that - is funky funky.

Is it me or is that ... an event coming up? Lol, seriously, we're hours away from the kick-off of a People's History of Twitter, and I'd love to see you all pull up tomorrow.

9–10:30AM PST / 12–1:30PM ET / 4–5:30PM PST are the times, https://lu.ma/apht's how you RSVP and tomorrow is when I'll see ya.

Not even thirty minutes in (had to stop), but it's clear that they're aware of other people are doing, with mentions of ActivityPub and SSB. Not surprising given the proliferation (and usability of working software). But there's a consideration by Baliji that existing systems are already legacy (and legacy because they don't move over a blockchain or some sort of PoS or PoW system, which, okay, I guess).

I thought this would be worthwhile. Maybe because it's a video because I can't really parse video for non-entertainment purposes - I zone out.

Why is this so CUTE?! https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform

One of my favorite authors is on here! https://wandering.shop/@nalohopkinson

Because it's dangerous to move without paying attention to what others are doing, I'm hate-watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTxE9KV3YrE mainly to parse out what are new "talking points" that are debunkable because I keep hearing new things w.r.t crypto coming out those not normally plugged into it.

Dude is trying to purify Florida. https://newrepublic.com/post/171137/ron-desantis-florida-bill-felony-undocumented-person-home-car

A good (but long) read about how the majority of history that we do know is optimized for the promotion and maintaining of imperialism (even to a point of making it seem like "it's over"). A good extension even drawing the connection between how African history in schools only focuses on slavery (and even then, very lightly). https://www.liberatingnarratives.com/white-devils-all-over-asia/

Boeing, Raytheon and Microsoft wouldn't want this message out but it's nigh time to start funding the needs of people and not the war machine (that those three companies profit from). https://www.answercoalition.org/protest_march_18_19_peace_in_ukraine_say_no_to_endless_u_s_wars

When you refer to "multi-user API access", do you mean like a way to do something for multiple users using one access token? I don't think Mastodon provides this from their API (all are listed at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/

We'd probably have to store info per-user, per-instance.

Two days until https://www.betterplatform.net/! Now more than ever, it makes sense for people to be directly involved in platform building. Join us on 16 Mar to see what that can look like. RSVP at https://lu.ma/apht.

If this seems improbable, look for any proposals, campaigns or the like that mention unhoused folks without being paternalistic (i.e.: blaming them for systematic failing, implicitly shaming them for their lack of a fully-formed shelter) and provide the cheapest and fastest solution — giving them a home.

It might exist in a video game, but not in any system that leans into capitalism and keeps planting "land rights" as a thing a nation-state that stole it can own.

That's to say the leftist politics of 2023 are the watered down, defanged form of the actual change needed and called for from the early 2000s.

What felt like "common sense" Left politics was considered too radical 50 years ago. Hell, even up to 30 if you throw in things around working hours and abortion — which has been added onto from earlier times. If wanting more for people equates to "radicalism", then so be it.

Good. To this whole thread. https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/1635311397570777090

A good way to describe this weekend. And a justification against attempting this as the system doing good - this was the "solution" after 2008; not actually holding anyone accountable. https://mastodon.social/@sethcotlar/110017517972146509. That money stored in DIF had to come from somewhere and if it can only be used to bail out banks, then it's being misused.

Like have we forgotten about the "promised" monthly checks that turned up being ... two?

Apt reading https://www.versobooks.com/books/3955-keystroke-capitalism in light of SVB and YC's failures.