C. Scott Ananian works to empower others.
Member of the #TwitterMigration.
I found this on Bsky, posted by @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social, and it's worth sharing here:
"While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story.
Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him."
“The Chinese car industry, whose latest opportunity to scare the living daylights out of Europe and the US came at the Auto Shanghai motor show. What did we learn?
The country is set to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes.” | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/auto-shanghai-2025-car-show-warning-to-the-west/
Because we don't yet know which #Massachusetts communities are likely to receive these funds, there's no immediate action item. But it's something that will likely be coming up soon, so keep an ear out.
@Andres4NY Apologies for the poor quality here. Perhaps this is legit. But I am loathe to delegate the framing of civic issues to "AI".
Can anyone tell me about "AI-empowered consensus mechanisms", like pol.is and Common Good AI? Lawrence Lessig (!) is pitching my local town government to use these things, at his own expense (!!), and the idea of involving AI in our small town representative town government gives me ... pause.
@LucasWerkmeister @brooke which debian branch saw the largest uptick during covid?
testing
@brooke leaving me in suspense there
@swingerofbirch @daringfireball having personally visited assembly lines in China, the whole "small hands" and "child labor" angle is racist bullshit. Not because it doesn't happen--labor abuses have been documented--but the vast majority of assembly uses /tools/ not /fingers/ and the true reasons for the US lagging China have been extensively documented, and include decades of neglect of related engineering and manufacturing disciplines. But it's easier (and racist!) to say "small hands" and "child labor" rather than admit that China has a legit (and vast) edge on US manufacturing.
In Brazil, Mateus Batista Santos and Tamiris Tinti Volcean's AletheiaFact app uses Wikidata to support fact checking- https://aletheiafact.org/
We want to hear from builders like him to inspire others across the globe.
Submit a civic tool story → https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Impact_stories
If you're looking for ways to help vulnerable immigrants in Massachusetts, including people who have been detained, one option is to volunteer for BIJAN: https://www.beyondbondboston.org/join
They have a particular need for people proficient in both English and Spanish.
#BostonWeekend 24/x
Sat 5-6pm
"In May of 1854 Federal Marshals arrested Anthony Burns under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Immediately following Burns’ arrest, Bostonians gathered at #FaneuilHall to discuss whether they would abide by this federal law or appeal to a higher law of freedom and liberty for all. The eyes of the nation were firmly fixed upon Boston.
Join Revolutionary Spaces and the National Parks of Boston at Old South Meeting House as we recreate this historic meeting on the anniversary of Burns' arrest. Rocking the Cradle is free and open to the public for all ages. Doors open at 5:20pm and the program begins at 5:30 PM, running for approximately 30 minutes. Pre-registration is highly encouraged."
https://revolutionaryspaces.org/explore/upcoming-programs/rocking-the-cradle-2025/
#Boston #Reenactment
@brooke don't forget the eternal gif/jif civil war, the terror reign of ping the duck, and the brief cursed life of mjpeg. Webp was an accidental child, caused by inattention and a naive certainty that age had rendered graphic standards infertile. But lo, it arrived unwanted and began to cry for attention...
Do you want something really neat?
@neil @barrowofdirt now if only there were a matching tool to get output from my phone clipboard back to my laptop
@joeycastillo whoa that’s the sigourney weaver watch! can you just clip multiple together or do you have to make a custom part?
@myrhillion @todb 1992 US, prior broadcast 1991 in the UK. Episode 5: https://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world_the_world_at_your_fingertips/
Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.
My wife just shared with me that one of her colleagues has her son at home for a two week visit right now.
He's a student at Harvard. His visa has just been revoked and he cannot return to the US.
His life, his academic career, all his belongings - just cut off. Extraordinary. What a global humiliation this US fascism is.
@brooke streams are so dated. application/octet-promise is where the kids are at.
@brooke brb going to register application/quintet-stream with the IANA.
