@grimalkina I remember the very start of devops for having been there, and one (the?) main idea was really "let's get together so we can share the perception of the cost, and pain, and need, and experience them together so that we reflexively understand it".
Sharing experience is the poor man solution to rationalizing "why" and "how", but in a pre-remote work, it worked remarkably, for a very low cost. Oh, and that was before it was hype and when devops was still a team building practice, and not the name of a position.

Having a science about that would be amazing.

@grimalkina oh yes please, visualisation of invisible costs of change/sustainability/etc (I'm not sure it'd be possible, or more than a method/process/framework, but even that would be great)

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

#generativeAI #higherEducation #teaching #academicChatter

The video continues with some dialogue introducing some of the main characters.

You play as Ash, a member of a street gang who sacrificed her own academic prospects to provide for her younger brother after their parents both died from illness.

Your gang, The Strays, provides security services to the local merchants trying to scrape by in the underground of Westveil City. This is the closest thing to community protection anyone except the super-rich can afford.

Each of the six Citadels of the city houses its own gang that has competing interests, but one of your rivals was just wiped out by law enforcement. Allegedly, for seizing firearms. (Wall Enforcement takes disarming the populace very seriously.)

Their weakness is our only opportunity.

So begins the war of Copper and Ember.

Part 2:

They turned their technologies (nanotech and artificial intelligence) against the living. With them, they could overwrite thought, override instinct, and repurpose entire populations.

This wasn't about obedience. It was about productivity. They didn’t just want loyal workers. They wanted unpaid, skilled laborers: engineers, artists, doctors, coders. Minds they could hollow out and reprogram. Tools with memories.

But the process broke bodies. Nanites degraded flesh. Minds shattered under algorithmic strain. The vessels failed.

So they reached beyond science. Into the old, forbidden arts, long suppressed by the governments of the world. Magic. Necromancy.

Their goal was a fusion of dead magic and living code to keep the husks upright; to let the AI puppeteer their corpses.

Keep the skills intact, the pain endless, and the rebellion silent. The eternal unpaid workforce.

However, a wrinkle emerged in their plot.

The old ways of magic were incompatible with synthetic blood.

The narration is a bit too long for alt text, so I'm going to include it in the next three posts for people with visual impairments:

Our history is one of capitalist excess. The wealthy have ravaged the climate for their own ambitions. They plunder nations for sport.

Eighty years ago, they pushed the envelope with nanotechnology to conquer death, trading their natural blood for an artificial copper-based substance that enhances their command over machines.

Thus, they became the Blue Bloods; effectively immortal.

But their appetite could not be sated by accomplishment alone.

Immortality bred stagnation. Control became their obsession. The Blue Bloods no longer craved wealth or luxury. They craved dominion.

@dysfun european imperialism destructed a lot of ancestral knowledge and practices regarding agriculture and ecosystem management at scale, because it wasn't extractive enough (most of the time, in other instances it was just pure racism and entitlement).

For ex, practices linked to saharian pastoralism, among which this water management tactics, are now understood to have limited and contained desert expansion. When I was teen in the 90s, the dominant narrative in France was that all these practices were the cause for Sahara.

It's really, really nice to learn about these movements to spread back practices toward a better ecosystem symbiosis

@soatok this is so very much cyber punk it let me brlieved I'm 13 again, discovering shadowrun books, and still believing "imagining late capitalism" is an art, not some recipes that will be played for the following 3 decades

@soatok this is so very much cyber punk it let me brlieved I'm 13 again, discovering shadowrun books, and still believing "imagining late capitalism" is an art, not some recipes that will be played for the following 3 decades

Ukraine’s NATO path is irreversible, allies confirmed at Vilnius summit

Russia previously demanded that Ukraine and other neighboring countries never join NATO, making a written guarantee to halt NATO’s eastward expansion a key condition for ending the war
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/02/vilnius-summit-sends-clear-message-ukraines-nato-path-is-irreversible-despite-russian-ultimatums/?swcfpc=1

Unpacking the CRA: What Open Source founders need to know https://opensource.org/blog/osi-at-the-open-source-founders-summit-supporting-entrepreneurs-to-build-a-business-with-open-source #OpenSource

@dysfun yep, exactly that

@dysfun european imperialism destructed a lot of ancestral knowledge and practices regarding agriculture and ecosystem management at scale, because it wasn't extractive enough (most of the time, in other instances it was just pure racism and entitlement).

For ex, practices linked to saharian pastoralism, among which this water management tactics, are now understood to have limited and contained desert expansion. When I was teen in the 90s, the dominant narrative in France was that all these practices were the cause for Sahara.

It's really, really nice to learn about these movements to spread back practices toward a better ecosystem symbiosis

Ya un article super sur #FemmeActuelle. Chelou. 🤔

Écrit par #Ovidie et #MaelysBerthout.

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Peut-on être féministe et réclamer des espaces « No kids » ?

Sauvegarde : https://wallabag.parleur.net/share/683c10ed492736.12193549
Source : https://www.femmeactuelle.fr/actu/news-actu/la-pause-simone-de-l-ete-par-ovidie-peut-on-etre-feministe-et-reclamer-des-espaces-no-kids-2180023

« [Les] #NoKids, vous commencez sérieusement à me courir sur le haricot. Enfin, pas toutes les No Kids, juste celles qui en ont détourné la dimension politique pour n’en conserver que l’aspect ultra-individualiste. »

#daronnie #féminisme #féminismes #parentalité

@parleur

Je trouve que cette phrase résume parfaitement l'air du temps:

on ne veut pas céder sa part de confort, balek le vivre-ensemble.

Le confort, ça devient ma némésis. Le truc qui saccage (littéralement) tout et auquel on sacrifie tranquillement des vies humaines, ici et ailleurs

Recent satellite images show sudden appearance of half circle holes all around the world.

Further investigation showed they're all centred around the houses of Mastodon users.

#Mastodon
#humour

Countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles.

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

via what-even-is-thiss

https://justdiggit.org/about-us/

#Africa
#Sahara
#reforestation

Bridge still holds?

Rehearsing the talk for @dddeu next week (yup, I actually do that! 😁) and it's coming together rather nicely.

I look forward to presenting my current take on systems thinking and its importance to us. We need it more than ever.
#DDDEU #systemsThinking