There is a complete failure of funding for the community (non #mainstreaming) side of tech, I have put in more than ten funding applications over the last few years to all the openweb funding flows. And the answer, if the is one, is always the same, some of the replies: ” This kind of effort…
Revisiting the ActivityPub foundation idea
There are a few views on this issue, the “common sense” #NGO path, an example Presenting Fedi Foundation: Empowerment for SocialHub community 1 And the more “nativist” openweb path What would a fediverse “governance” body look like? And then we have the #geekproblem path, which has been pushing the fep process the last 2 years,…
Parasites are very human
Most people are parasites in our current #mainstreaming society, this is non controversial view in the era of the #deathcult Some examples: Let’s look for a moment at our tech world, if we are generous 90% of people on the #openweb are parasites on this culture and tech space. Maybe 9% are “native” but could…
The term liberals can understand is a narrow point of view
The term #enshittification coined by https://mastodon.social/@pluralistic@mamot.fr is a pop term for a very real social/tech problem. I have been using the #dotcons for the last 20 years to express this same idea. I feel this is a better hashtag, but that’s just my view, you can see the thinking for this latter. The whole 30-year…
Taxpayer spent more on SpaceX
In the last year, the typical taxpayer spent more on SpaceX — a company owned by one of the richest men in history — than on energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.It’s time to reverse this. Government allocation of taxpayer funds. A more thoughtful and strategic approach to government spending, with an emphasis on addressing…
#Fediverse how can we do better
#Fediverse how can we do better at this https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/the-process-platform-isnt-working/3923/6 #blocking of the #dotcons moving to the #openweb is not the solution, it’s like we are putting our heads in the sand. Our “native” projects are #4opens thus anyone, including the #dotcons can be a part of the #openweb in this it’s a good thing they…
Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict
Joel H. Rosenthal (Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs), Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) Algorithms of war Arriving early, the panel and audience are ugly broken people, priests and worshippers of…
Current messy thinking
Pushing defederation from #meta is not wrong in sentiment, the #dotcons are vile and cons. But is wrong from a practical sense, the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub are #openweb based on #4opens you do not have technical tools for stopping the #dotcons as the data in the end is in the open, unencrypted, in the database,…