Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.
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Tang Seng on his return to Chang'an (probably): "Ultimately, while invaluable in their own right, these newly discovered texts raise more questions than they answer."
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Aral Balkan ·
Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Microsoft Copilot?
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Ryan Barrett ·
Excited to announce that I’m teaming up with Anuj Ahooja on a new non-profit for the open social web, across protocols, with Bridgy Fed as its first main project! Introducing A New Social.
When I posted Possible futures for Bridgy Fed a while back, I was surprised and gratified by the outpouring of support. So many of you really believe in it and want it to survive, grow, and find a stable footing beyond the useful little one-person side project it is today.
Some people stepped up even further and said, “I’m willing to put the work in and actually help build, drive, and even lead this.” Anuj is one of those people. He’s a renaissance man who’s worked on the fediverse and open social web for many years at sub.club, Flipboard, and more. He’s written at length about the potential he sees in the open social web, across all sorts of networks – “people, not platforms!” – and how we have an opportunity now that we haven’t had in a long time.
And there are so many more of you, across the space, who’ve joined and committed to supporting us! We’re truly humbled and grateful. We’re still only at the very beginning, we have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to get started. Wish us luck, and please reach out if you want to get involved!
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The issue with Pekinology is that yesterday's reasonable assumptions often become the "proven facts" behind tomorrow's reasonable assumptions. Rinse and repeat for several years, and you end up with a framework of analysis that has no provable relation to reality any more.
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Sarang Shah ·
I'm feeling reaffirmed about staying off the internet. But I do wonder how the hell we're going to get back to a robust social and info environment offline. I've tried my best by hosting meetups, supporting publications, even starting one, but man, it can't just be low resourced folks like me.
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I don't know about any of you, but I for one am going to laugh very hard in about a decade or so, when all the children of these birth-rate-obsessed reactionaries start rebelling in unison.
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Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days...
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mekka okereke
I just realized that I don't need to argue with y'all about:
* Starter packs
* Composable moderation
* Quote tweets
* Paying trust & safety engineers for their labor
* Funding stuff without VC or begging for donations
* If UX is possible without VC moneyI don't need to argue with y'all about any of this. I'm not asking for your permission or your help. I'm telling you what's going to happen.
Mastodon is moving in the right direction, just slowly. It could be faster with funding + focus.
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Hilde De Weerdt ·
Check it out and place your order: A card game for lovers of Japanese prints (and for manuscripts lovers there is still the earlier game Anjou). Kudos to our wonderful KU Leuven history graduate Bram De Ridder
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josef ·
saw someone describe LLMs as "an encyclopedia on steroids" and i think that's basically incorrect in every way, isn't it? i would have gone for something more like "a thesaurus on acid"
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So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.
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The fact that the word 低音 is pronounced with two high tones breaks my brain every time I encounter it.
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Here's a simple line to use if you ever need it: YouTube, Facebook, Xitter and the likes are mainstream media.
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My personal infosec approach is to 1) observe some basic best practises against brute-force, data dumps or dictionary attacks, and 2) avoid becoming important enough to be targeted by anything more sophisticated than that.
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Groups of people aren't like buildings. So you can safely ignore any line of reasoning that assumes that societies have foundations, or that companies and industries have fundamentals.
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Inflation is just the natural decay of money. Everything that's valuable or worthwhile decays over time. Beware of those who show a vampiric urge to fight against it.
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Only needed 16 lines of shell to create a basic microblog.pub client, allowing me to post directly from the terminal. Might be useful when I want to post some thought without getting sucked into the timeline.
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Bastian Allgeier ·
I shared a very personal post a few month ago and then unlisted it from my site. It's a tough one and I was very worried about attracting the wrong folks with it or getting into painful discussions. But a lot of really wonderful conversations followed. Especially with people from the US.
I think it's the right time to post it once more. Maybe it can help you in some way or another: "My Grandpa was a Nazi" https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
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Iris ·
@ludicity See, if you'd read the classics, you'd know what classical societies tended to do to VCs (the fate of Marcus Licinius Crassus comes to mind). I believe we should reinstate the practice, myself, but unfortunately stock options don't melt quite as well as gold does.