Is anyone getting a barrage of spam calls? I've gotten eight in less than six hours.

“An essential aspect of power is that it only likes to laugh at its own jokes.”
- Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

:TwinPines: How Journalists and Readers Started a Media Co-op in Pittsburgh

This week, workers and community supporters launched the Pittsburgh Progress, “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members… dedicated to looking out for, and telling the stories of, the working-class people who form the heart and soul of our diverse communities.”
#Coops #Media #Unions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0TI_L6SEY

https://pittsburghprogress.com/

:TwinPines: Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors

"We’re excited to introduce Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors—a revamped cooperative director training program, now expanded into a five‑part series delivered fully online. This updated format makes it easier than ever for directors from every cooperative sector to participate, learn, and grow."
#Coops #Training

https://uwcc.wisc.edu/cooperative-director-training/

You can't spell "Fediverse" without "diverse"!

#mastodon #fediverse #people

A year or two ago, I found a publication that was primarily accessed via a CLI, via Linux terminal.

But now I can't remember what that publication is and internet searches have been fruitless. Anyone know of publications like this?

#askfedi

The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago.
1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse
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No sorry you don't just get to say wild shit and then keep getting to pretend like you're a serious person. We're going to address the wild shit. Baseball player rules. We're putting up a graphic next to you showing that you are 0.128 correct career lifetime on Overconfident Positive Claims (OPC).

@maxleibman first they came for the people, and I - hang on there's someone at the door

This band is tight. It is not every day that you get to see someone rocking out on the harp. Be sure to check out the extended solo starting at around the 12 minute mark 🪉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4XwNuSR_4

#Music #NewMusic #LiveMusic

Airtable alternatives available from Agaric: https://agaric.coop/blog/airtable-alternatives-available-agaric

I was prepared for a sudden Apocalypse, but this gradual shit is ruining all my plans.

Cinderella's Dilemma -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/666

I think we need a broader cultural conversation that goes beyond just GenAI on whether it is mentally and spiritually healthy to talk to tech like it’s a person

When you buy a new car, you suddenly start seeing that model everywhere. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

In engineering we say "Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick 2"'. AI is when you pick Fast twice.

Raise your hand if you too are tired of capitalism.

[small brain] posting a bad quality overcompressed watermarked meme image
[normal brain] searching for and posting the highest available quality version
[galaxy brain] posting a cleanly downscaled version of that so your instance has to store less data
[cosmic brain] just posting the image description

Little help? I'm trying to find the article that quoted engineers at various Musk firms on their practice of designating someone to distract him with some made up problem to prevent him from interfering with their work.

and here is the fundamental problem with the AI grift:

intelligence isn't something you accumulate, like money. intelligence cannot be acquired in transactions.

intelligence is the little spark, the moment of brilliance when we stop and reflect on knowing, and turn it into knowledge about us and the world around us.

the fundamental problem with AI is giving the “long-tail” treatment to both intelligence and knowledge; because neither are commodities to accumulate… 🧵