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🥚 sometimes you gotta coax fledgling birds 🐦 out of the nest once you know they’re ready to fly 🦅

@RafaelCorrales That's what everyone seems to be saying.. I don't see it. They have no reason to see themselves as a 'public utility'

@jeanqasaur mutual aid

In software engineering, there's what people think of as "docs" and then there's "the information I needed to debug that thing that took to days of my life." The second thing is different and should be called something other than "documentation." But what should we call it?

I'll just leave. this here. youtube.com/watch?v=XRzlW0…

PromptSpace.app is the top #AI team no one’s heard about🤫

Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content. This is right before we’re about to give our talk at the oslo freedom forum on how decentralized social networks with lightning integration are bringing financial freedom to the masses... pretty sus… 😕 This would be a watershed moment: If people can’t transact freely p2p on their platform, this has huge implications for the entire ecosystem of apps with lightning integration and v4v.

Met with a CTO today who spent $x00k trying to make AnonCreds v1 (aca-py) work. The lack of scalability crippled their product, they had to throw it all away. Nobody likes saying these things publicly, so we're left with just unsubstantiated marketing claims. Tis a shame, we really would all be better off with a bit more transparency.

@by_caballero @csuwildcat @sivavaid @elonmusk Doing great here in San Francisco county for 15 years! Have had a lot of familiy visit lately and say "Wow it's so nice here, not like what I saw on {cableNews} or {corporateSocialMedia}!"

@csuwildcat @sivavaid @elonmusk having just read the two articles i linked i don't find these anecdotal narratives particularly convincing, not least because my own personal-life anecdotes contradict yours? maybe my bay area social circle is less concerned about property crimes?

Be charitable to very judgement people who are direct realists about perception. From their point of view they aren't being judgemental. No, rather, the bad qualities of others are simply being "revealed" to them directly. It's not evident that those judgments are in fact contingent on background philosophical assumptions, specific cultural norm, and their personal traumas. It _really_ feels like something they're perceiving directly. It's not a very pleasant way to be! But also it's hard to undo, and even with philosophical insight and good will can take years to get better.

@json_dirs @arxiv 🙏

@bengo @arxiv one I tried to preprint on Wednesday but got bounced by arxiv mods with no explanation lmao. I was gonna post it today but 🤷 I'll dm u the link

yup. this is why open source models and open source in general is not an intrinsically liberatory strategy. building on a corporate ecosystem is just doing free labor for them

@json_dirs @arxiv which doc are the screenshots from?

this isn't news to anyone who pays attention to politics in FOSS (even calling it open source instead of free software is fraught), and I make this argument in this piece that @arxiv decided doesn't count as research because it is explicitly, rather than implicitly political

Nix Flakes are the real deal. If you’re on Linux or macOS, tune out everything else in this domain. They’re that good.

@TheKaryl @OR13b @provenauthority @discoxyz @TransmuteNews 🪩

Plotting the consent-driven future for individuals *and* orgs w legend ⁦@provenauthority⁩ and too much caffeine 💜🪩 #DIDs #decentralizedID #verifiablecredentials ⁦@discoxyz⁩ ⁦@TransmuteNews⁩

@aronchick I was math nerding about hyperbolic geometry this week. wild. (2007) applied to DHT routing ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/42158…

@aronchick 🤯 arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04335…