Steve Williams

@NowNowNow: Fun! Mine: sbw.org/now

I use and recommend privacy-respecting email provider @Fastmail, but their email newsletter has a tone-deaf announcement of a "podcast" that has no RSS and a broken landing page. Hey, Fastmail, listen to @DaveWiner! If there's no RSS, it's not a podcast! sbw.org/notapodcast/

@skippyscage cool photo of "Moffett" Firehawk on @fireaviation! fireaviation.com/2021/04/15/mor… May I use your photo with attribution on my noncommercial Moffett Users site? nuqu.org/20210417/1998/

@edyson, since you mentioned the Release 1.0 archive is hard to search, I whipped up a super quick-and-dirty full-text search. sbw.org/release1.0/sea…

@edyson @AKMA @mshook The David Waltz quote was on the first page of the 31 January 1988 issue of Release 1.0. It is attributed to Waltz in "The prospects for building truly intelligent machines," Daedalus, Winter 1988. jstor.org/stable/20025144

@AKMA @mshook TLDR - He said it to me himself, and I quoted it in my newsletter Release 1.0 - sbw.org/release1.0/ But (she says diplomatically), the archive is hard to search and I have not yet found it. If you do, please DM me - or tell the world!

"Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding." - David Waltz, Thinking Machines

Excited and relieved that @LinuxJournal will be preserved by @SlashdotMedia. I'll be interested to hear how we former subscribers can continue to support a venerable publication!

Santa Cruz area Amateur Radio Emergency Service volunteers helped protect us in the CZU Lightning Complex fires. Join me to help rebuild the W6WLS repeater owned and shared by Matthew and Rebecca, who also lost their home nearby. gf.me/u/yw97dw #AmateurRadio @ARRL_ARES

@dsearls correctly notes the future will find our time missing from the record, like the geological "Great Unconformity." urlzr.mp/bqb I see the cloud as a Hail Mary pass to a more permanent future. Doc, @Nomadness can at least re-transcribe your analog media.

BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg icann.org/news/blog/ican…

#SaveDotOrg: Tomorrow, Thu Apr 30 9 am Pacific: @EFF, @AccessNow, @NTENorg, and @HRW will hold a press briefing on the scandalous plan to sell .org to Ethos Capital for >$1B. How to join: urlzr.mp/4pb (EFF). My comments on the scandal: sbw.org/dotorg/

The @StanfordMed Nat'l Daily Health Survey is exciting! But it's not very accessible. It doesn't work with my 88-year-old mother's screen reader. A alternative using a simple, accessible form might get more response from elders.

Everyone, please join the @StanfordMed National Daily Health Survey! It can save lives, even before mass testing, and it may help us safely get back to daily life after the peak passes. med.stanford.edu/covid19/covid-…

Sad that @BayCHI's planned March remembrance of Larry @nomodes Tesler is postponed, we hope to May. For now, we hope you enjoy listening to his 2011 BayCHI presentation at @parcinc, on the occasion of his SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award. baychi.org/_8B @hormetic @nancyf

"Time" haunts me this morning, just as she did all of last night's performance of #TheWintersTale by @SantaCruzShakes. I can still hear a baby crying! santacruzsentinel.com/2019/08/15/255…

@davewiner @judell @dougkaye Dave, you're right, we must do better than @InternetArchive snapshots. But, no, we mustn't publish first to archive.org: #daveshouldwe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sbw.org/linuxjournal/#…

@wftl's introduction to OpenSearchServer in August @linuxjournal was timely, as I was just trying again to find a simple, open source search engine for my small web sites. I spun it up experimentally and wrote up my impression: sbw.org/opensearchserv…

@IdentityWoman @GETDWeb @timberners_lee @idworkshop Thanks, Kaliya. I want to learn more. Got a link to a critique of Hover? And what self-hosted Verifiable Credentials should I investigate? Sorry I couldn't attend IIWs lately.

I felt privileged to shake @timberners_lee's hand at #DWebCamp after his lightning talk about Solid. I enjoyed our brief chat and look forward to rebuilding the interoperable web! solidproject.org

I'm excited to take @sbwsty to #DWebCamp, created by @internetarchive to build a more open, privacy-respecting web. Alas, Saturday I must duck out to ride the @scmcbikeride century. This will be a big week for me!

I've supported @escapepodcast and @EAPodcasts since 2009. Excellent authors and readers, paid fairly, @creativecommons licensed, creative culture done right. But payment via the odious @paypal made me feel bad monthly, so I switched to their @patreon: urlzr.mp/7mb