Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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Not using ChatGPT has made a huge difference to my workflow and efficiency. I'm a power unuser.
Remember, when you use #Signal messenger, you are helping to send millions of dollars per year to companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Here are the details, direct from the president:
Signal >> Blog >> Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
The growing concentration of content on the #substack platform is alarming.
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FAVOR to ASK: I'm working on a new version of TV-B-Gone kit. Please let me know which TVs your TV-B-Gone (any type) does not turn off ! I'll fix that. :)
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Hola #Fediverso.
Comparto más noticias astronómicas.
Este fin de semana vamos a ser testigos de una de las lluvias de meteoros más famosa que se da cada año, las Leónidas. Se llaman así porque se observan en dirección de la constelación de Leo.
En México, los días pico serán del 16 al 17 de noviembre, alrededor de las 18:00 hrs GMT.
Sin embargo, será visible casi todo el mes de noviembre aunque con una menor intensidad.
Esta lluvia de meteoros puede verse como tormenta, es decir, con hasta unos mil eventos por minuto.
Su origen se debe a los restos de un cometa llamado 55P/Tempel-Tuttle que tiene un ciclo de 33 años alrededor del Sol.
Fuentes:
https://www.milenio.com/ciencia-y-salud/lluvia-estrellas-leonidas-hora-del-punto-maximo-en-vivo
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/leonids/
#Astronomía #Astrofísica #Ciencia #Cometa #Leonidas #LluviaDeMeteoros #55P/Temple-Tuttle
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¿Cómo te imaginas la comunicación del próximo siglo?
CORAPE y DW Akademie América Latina convocan becas para reflexionas sobre la comunicación comunitaria en tiempos de IA y Fakenews.
Buscan un grupo de personas comprometidas con el uso creativo de tecnologías autónomas 🤖 y nuevas narrativas 🎙️ para transformar la comunicación desde los territorios. 🌱
📅 Postula hasta el 16 de noviembre de 2025
Más info en: https://radioslibres.net/reimaginar-la-comunicacion-del-siglo-xxii/
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@transicorn @keith @homegrown Well, Bluesky stats also show it to be a dying or stagnant network at best (decline in active users for most of this year) and the probability of dying for Bluesky is predicated on its lack of growth unlike Mastodon which has not made a pact with the venture capitalists.
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It is great to see increasing momentum to get off US BigTech and onto alternatives. It is however important to zoom out a bit and check where the alternative is actually hosted - and I don't just mean geographically.
Many BigTech alternatives, even if non-US owned, run atop Amazon AWS or MS Azure datacenters anyway. So you're leaving the room but staying in the building.
To disempower the deep capture US corporations have over tech globally, we're going to need to be rigorous, & act on it.
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📣 Call for Peers!
🫖🍵 The House of Tea is a shared infrastructure to make tea flow, but also ideas, projects and encounters! 💚
Make it your own and run YOUR activities at #39C3!
Anything with flavours of: analog, chill, humane, resistance, peace, healing. ✊
Expect:
NOT a focused, silent, bright work room, to deliver a top-down presentation; 📊
BUT rather a vibrant chaotic space for an active, stimulating discussion! ✨
📚 check https://wiki.houseoftea.space/self-organized_sessions and contact us for planning/scheduling! 💕
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I'm surprised to learn this week that French and British museums consider theft wrong
Just today I increased the character limit on this instance.
I can't for the life of me understand why I never did this before, always struggling to try to express what I needed to in a self imposed limit.
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Way too many bytes in one basket makes for one very big single point of failure. This is the cost of an absurdly hyper-centralised fast-food-like data center culture.
Signal++ down, sucks, but it's seeing fundamentals like banks & public sector services break that stings most.
But hey, maybe this is what it tales to push more govs to actual #datasovereignty, investing in locally owned data centers or building out their team & hosting on-prem
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#OutLoud Thoughts:
You know, in order to keep a majority of a population subjugated, - because you want to use them as cheap labour, or steal their stuff, or simply disregard their needs, or all of the above; you have to keep a minority of that population very happy. Just quite HOW "happy" (read rich) you need to keep the minority is proportionate to the damage caused by (and/or the scale of) this very system, because the fallout will bleed over and be constantly disturbing the minority in one way or another, even if they are not quite conscious of this.
Evo #Morales came to government in 2006. In 2025 the minority game is back. So almost 20 years, and #Bolivia failed to implement a real Latin American turn around.
#Mexico is in a transformation process since seven years ago. Given that same time frame, that only leaves thirteen years before the minority elite would return to their position of absolute power.
Think about that next time you find yourself faced with those who can only rant on (without any real critical helpful debate) about #Morena and blame Claudia #Sheinbaum for everything, even the rain!
Thirteen years is not a lot of time to fix almost one hundred years of minority rule's wrack and ruin.
Of course, Mexico is not Bolivia, and there are many other factors, but it's a thought exercise game, not an absolute statement of fact.
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Os voy a contar algo.
Soy pobre como una rata. Al nivel de mirar el precio del papel higiénico al céntimo para tirar la menor cantidad de dinero por el inodoro.
Salvo en una ocasión que estaba muy, muy justificada*, no he usado ni pienso usar imágenes generadas por IA para ilustrar nada. Porque no lo necesito. Porque hay suficientes imágenes en bancos de stock gratuitos y con licencia creative commons como para cubrir mis necesidades.
Diré más. Uno de los motivos por los que me fui de un trabajo donde estaba cobrando una cantidad bastante significativa fue que, desde cierto momento, me *obligaban* a usar imágenes generadas por IA. Una línea roja nítida y clara que no podía atravesar.
*fue para mostrar la ausencia de rigor de esas imágenes, que es otra historia.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
