La nueva #MariCarmen se llama #Jordi
https://diariosocialista.net/2026/09/29/desahucian-a-jordi-con-un-87-de-discapacidad-y-a-alicia-madre-soltera-con-tres-hijos-en-mataro/

Apple’s new CEO could change when it launches phones and laptops
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002107/apple-ceo-john-ternus-product-launch-strategy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://ursal.zone/@JorgeOMau/117247157532419552

Resp.: políticos bolsonaristas e assemelhados, agronegócio, extrativistas, setor financeiro, grandes capitalistas.

Civic Tech’s Interface Era, Revisited

Last year, Dan Munz and I wrote a pieced called The End of Civic Tech’s Interface Era. The launch of America.gov as the new front door to federal agency services seems like a good time to revisit our piece and talk about what it got right (and what it got wrong).

What we seemed to get right

Navigation is becoming less important

America.gov asks people to describe what they need rather than requiring them to understand the structure of government. Its promise to bring information from roughly 29,000 government websites into one experience is a conversational version of “no wrong door.” The user’s task, not the agency structure, becomes the organizing principle.

The important interface is moving upstream

America.gov’s central work is not primarily its visual design. It is the system behind the experience:

• Searching official federal, state, and local sources
• Selecting and linking authoritative material
• Gnerating step-by-step guidance
• Supporting multiple languages and voice input
• Redacting likely personal information from uploaded documents
• Managing privacy, caching, rate limits, and AI providers

That seems to support our post’s argument that civic-tech expertise will shift toward systems, standards, source structure, policy logic, and guardrails.

Context-specific interaction is arriving

The site asks users to provide dates, state, and circumstances so it can tailor answers. It can use approximate location to find nearby services. This is a modest version of the adaptive experience described in our original post. The answer changes according to the person’s situation instead of everyone traveling the same navigation path.

Privacy becomes part of interface design

A conversational government interface needs a different privacy model from a conventional website. America.gov says it does not retain conversations or require accounts, while its privacy policy also explains its operational measurements, security logs, short-lived caches, approximate location data, and retention of voluntarily submitted feedback. That transparency is part of the product, not merely legal plumbing.

What we got wrong, or overstated

This is not yet the end of the interface era. Yet…

America.gov still has a designed interface: a fixed homepage, navigation, explanatory pages, accessibility structure, source links, and feedback controls. The AI operates inside a stable scaffold.

Our original post viewed just-in-time UI generation as the likely successor to conventional websites. America.gov’s initial phase suggests a more conservative sequence:

1. Build a trusted conversational front door.
2. Keep existing agency systems and source pages underneath it.
3. Add transactions only after the discovery layer is working.
4. Potentially generate or coordinate more adaptive workflows later.

That may turj out to be the more realistic public-sector pattern.

America.gov is not generating individualized application interfaces yet

Our post imagined dynamically assembled forms that could combine benefits, vary information hierarchy, and adapt to a person’s circumstances. The current site does not do that. Its terms of use explicitly say that asking a question does not submit an application, file a document, or contact an agency.

The coming-soon roadmap previews passport applications, Medicare enrollment, job matching, and progress tracking for 2027. Those are much closer to our post’s vision, but they remain planned capabilities rather than evidence from the current release.

Our original post probably underestimates the value of a stable interface

Our original take frames fixed, shared interfaces mainly as constraints. America.gov shows why governments may opt retain them:

• Users need a predictable place to start
• Official links provide inspectable evidence
• People need a fallback when the model is wrong
• Agencies need a stable accountability boundary
• High-stakes actions require confirmation and agency ownership

The likely future is not that interfaces disappear. A stable shell will coexist with dynamically generated content and workflows inside it.

AI does not remove the need for policy and institutional boundaries

Our original post calls for policy as code and legible rules engines, but America.gov highlights an issue that deserves some attention – authority.

The site can explain a benefit, but it cannot determine eligibility. It can refer a user to a passport process, but it is not the agency of record. Its terms warn that answers may be incomplete, wrong, or outdated and instruct users to check the linked source. In a lot of ways, its similar to USA.gov, but with a conversational interface.

Generating a good interface is the easier part. The harder part is preserving provenance, agency responsibility, appeal rights, policy currency, and auditability while making the experience feel seamless for the user.

Future predicting, redux

I think the phrase “just-in-time interfaces” is probably best understood as a continuum, not a binary replacement for traditional interfaces. imagine phases shaking out roughly like this:

• Phase 1: conversational retrieval and explanation
• Phase 2: guided, cross-agency forms and applications
• Phase 3: personalized workflows, shared data, status tracking, and proactive assistance
• Persistent layer: stable design, accessibility, source provenance, security, policy rules, and human accountability

America.gov feels like Phase 1. It validates the central insight that an agency website is no longer the only meaningful interface for governent services. It also shows that public services cannot safely jump straight from static websites to unconstrained AI-generated experiences.

The original post was right about where civic-tech work is heading. America.gov suggests that the transition will be more incremental, more infrastructural, and more dependent on trust than the phrase “the end of the interface era” implies.

Cities keep shelling out taxpayer money for sports stadiums, yet the economics almost never makes sense

https://theconversation.com/cities-keep-shelling-out-taxpayer-money-for-sports-stadiums-yet-the-economics-almost-never-makes-sense-292058

> Communities almost never see a boost in job or income growth after taxpayers subsidize a new sports facility.

From ancient Rome, bread and circuses.

Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1001463/car-data-privacy-northeastern-study-honda-gm-ford?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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L'Europa non dovrebbe puntare il suo futuro nell'IA sui grandi centri dati.

L'Europa dovrebbe diffidare degli investimenti generazionali in tecnologie che potrebbero presto essere superate da alternative più economiche ed efficienti.

«la Silicon Valley... [ha creato] ...grandi concentrazioni di processori che richiedono enormi quantità di energia, acqua e capitale per supportare modelli sempre più grandi gestiti da una manciata di aziende. Questo viene considerato un requisito fisico naturale dell'intelligenza artificiale, ma si tratta più di un modello di business che di una questione tecnologica»

https://www.rapporteur.com/opinion/europe-shouldnt-bet-its-ai-future-on-big-data-centres/

@aitech

I’m sure the timing here is definitely a coincidence with the closure of the Hamilton steel plant owned by the US company run by a Trump donor.

https://apnews.com/article/steel-plant-trump-mesabi-essar-be31b94688c769a4a5c1098e1b85f3af?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#canpoli #tradewar #steel #industry #cdnpoli #theAmericanFascist

A former Cornell student was drugged and raped by seven men. Two were expelled; others only received sanctions including suspensions, workshops or essays. No one was charged. Now the DA has reopened the case. #OpDeathEaters

Essays, lifted suspensions and...

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/117350114171384415

Yes, thank you! 🙏
There is a ton of problems, but in the end, ICE is still the best long distance train network in Europe.

SpaceX preps next-gen Starlink as Amazon’s competitor stalls
https://www.theverge.com/science/1001259/spacex-starlink-satellites-starship-amazon-leo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR.

ICCL v Microsoft class action update...

Full decision in link --> https://enforce.ie/digital-data/iccl-secures-landmark-precedent-against-big-tech/

Most popular YouTubers lack a basic understanding of its appeal, ie that it is more relatable, personal and home made than traditional media. As soon as they see success they start buying professional gear and taking corporate sponsorships, turning themselves into a passing fad

RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/Ddy602ujOC_

"Stealing🚨taxpayer money to run explicitly political ads with public funds."
-B Nyhan

"Trump's presidential campaign🚨aired an identical version in Jan 2024. Trump promoted it on his Truth Social back then:

On the ad: Text Trump to 88022

The ad spending🚨jumped up after it aired on Fox News Sunday this morning. It’s now up to > $70k."
-B Wagner

#Theft #Trump #Kleptocracy #Fascism #Propaganda #Warmongering #Fearmongering #ETTD #Elections #USPol
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/critics-savage-government-funded-trump-155139950.html

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260927115632

Googlebooks might be the real deal
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000424/googlebooks-meta-ray-ban-audio-control-resonant-microsoft-surface-mouse?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Creatures: John Carpenter's

#comic #creatures #mobilek