@Chip Butty
Applied speculative social history of the future
Former Hugmonster General
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Recent Notes
I cannot recall a time in the last 40 years when I have been less inspired to make and share things on the internet. 🙁
@nprofile1q... I love and value every thing you create and share with us that is from you.
It sucks that some have taken this joy away from you, but know that you still have fans.
It sucks that some have taken this joy away from you, but know that you still have fans.
I do wonder if those who are relaxed about a single national id tied to all of your data understand how relational databases work, growing government authoritarianism and managerialism, the lessons of history, issues around data quality, statutory trade offs of data usage for finding small groups of people, or the actions of current governments' misuse of the data they have.
And this is the kind of country I want to be in.
Kay reflected on how Scotland has always been a multinational and
multilingual country since the 11th century, and declared “all you
need to do to belong” in Scotland "is to want to belong”.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26283360.watch-scots-campaigner-moving-tribute-multinational-scotland/?ref=rss
#Scotland
Kay reflected on how Scotland has always been a multinational and
multilingual country since the 11th century, and declared “all you
need to do to belong” in Scotland "is to want to belong”.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26283360.watch-scots-campaigner-moving-tribute-multinational-scotland/?ref=rss
#Scotland
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But.
Much as I dislike AI, there is no reason in principle why data cen...
@nprofile1q... I agree, but POSIWID wins here for now.
And even if they do, they create massive amounts of ewaste as they burn through the GPUs they buy (it isn't an actual investment in infrastructure, and given how many are being powered by gas on site, it isn't even helping us improve the grid or create more green capacity)
And even if they do, they create massive amounts of ewaste as they burn through the GPUs they buy (it isn't an actual investment in infrastructure, and given how many are being powered by gas on site, it isn't even helping us improve the grid or create more green capacity)
I'm biased but there's an incredible Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer (DH RSE) job going at the British Library, working with the Digital Research team, curators and more
https://ce0752l...
@nprofile1q... it would be great to hear about places where RSEs are actually respected by their academic peers. I've had a number of RSE friends over the years and while they still often prefer it to rolls in private industry, the culture they are in still sounds terrible (disrespect and high-handedness from academics being a big part of it).
If the BL role is different then that I'd really shout about it.
If the BL role is different then that I'd really shout about it.
I do think it’s worth dedicating sustained attention to the question of what an inclusive, invitational “active club for the left” would look like: something that would serve to (a) get people o...
@nprofile1q... I do think you need to contemplate the difference in tactics though.
Active Groups are right for fascists as they win when small groups can cause a lot of damage and move on. It is an offensive strategy.
Things like Kenmore Street were successful because there was a good and effective defensive strategy (though it was started off by a single individual, the mass outpouring is what made it ultimately successful at stopping the Home Office).
How do we create a Porcupine Strategy for the communities we need to defend? How do we make it too expensive/embarrassing/other to attack?
Active Groups are right for fascists as they win when small groups can cause a lot of damage and move on. It is an offensive strategy.
Things like Kenmore Street were successful because there was a good and effective defensive strategy (though it was started off by a single individual, the mass outpouring is what made it ultimately successful at stopping the Home Office).
How do we create a Porcupine Strategy for the communities we need to defend? How do we make it too expensive/embarrassing/other to attack?
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What do people use to collaboratively edit markdown (plain text ish) documents nowadays? (pls boost)
important to note that all the current headlines about NEETs, especially erroneously connecting their worklessness to PIP*, are coming out precisely as the call for evidence for the Timms Review of PI...
@nprofile1q... how many times do we have to say "PIP is an in work benefit"?
Well I can't vote green in the constituency vote so am going snp + green for the regional list
It feels good to cast at least one vote for something that actually reflects how I see the world, and I'...
@nprofile1q... I'm in the same position, but I do have the advantage of knowing and liking the SNP candidate for my constituency.
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