So ... of course "the free market" hasn't delivered us competition. It's whole purpose is to do the opposite!

That's why we need to abandon the entire edifice of assumptions and policy that Hipkins handwaves at by saying "the free market". Guyon Espiner seems to understand that, and pushes Hipkins to explain how a government he led would go beyond tinkering and do that.

Does Hipkins commit Labour to doing that? We'll just have to wait for the policy announcements. So, no. Of course not.

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Jeg er selv er opvokset i en landsby på Djursland og har set den forandring de seneste årtier har bragt. Og fordi jeg samtidig cirka midt i livet fik øjnene op for den klimakrise vi var/er på vej ind i, er jeg optaget af hvordan det gode liv på landet kan fremmes og leves indenfor planetens grænser. Og hvordan den grønne omstilling kan bibringe gejst og sammenhold i stedet for utryghed og splittelse.

Det har jeg skrevet en kronik om i Jyllands-Posten: https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik/ECE19227827/baeredygtighed-er-ikke-noget-abstrakt-naar-det-handler-om-livet-paa-landet
#dkpol #dkgreen

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

@sebsauvage achievement unlocked ✅ bravo !

@stefan_hessbrueggen @joshisanonymous @Iris Oh, this is a very good question. There are likely others on here that can probably answer this better than I can, but I'll give it a go.

Statistical analysis has been problematic, even before the advent of LLMs, or even ML data science.

https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014

This paper here, for example, talks about the specific challenges of eugenic history within the context of data science:

https://iase-pub.org/conference_proceedings/IASECP/article/view/286

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Just submitted a CFP to the Fediverse & Social Web track at @COSCUP 2026. The talk is titled I just wanted ruby annotations: writing in dead scripts on the living fediverse.

Here's the abstract:

Koreans used to mix hanja (漢字; Chinese characters) into Korean prose, much as Japanese still mixes kanji and kana. The style is called Korean mixed script (國漢文混用體). Almost nobody writes this way anymore. I do.

When I wanted to post this way on the fediverse, I ran into a small but stubborn problem: <ruby> annotations, the HTML feature that puts pronunciation guides above or beside characters, were stripped by the major servers I tried. I filed an issue against Mastodon. It sat there for a long time. At some point, “maybe I should run my own server” somehow became “maybe I should implement ActivityPub myself.”

ActivityPub is not simple. JSON-LD alone has several ways to say the same thing. Then come HTTP Signatures, WebFinger, NodeInfo, inbox forwarding, and the small incompatibilities that only become obvious when Mastodon and Misskey disagree. Before building the server I wanted, I built Fedify: a TypeScript framework that keeps most of that protocol plumbing out of application code.

Hollo came next, because I still wanted the original thing: a single-user ActivityPub server where Markdown and <ruby> annotations survived the trip. Hackers' Pub followed from the same framework, aimed at developers who want short posts and longer articles to federate.

This talk is about how a small typographic itch turned into upstream patches, a framework, and two fediverse servers. I still just wanted ruby annotations.

Fingers crossed!

Now this is a quote:

"Viewing the world through clips is, frankly, awful. I would rather stare a wall in a dark room than spend my time watching the endless parade of sweaty vape store-tier sweatpants men sitting around staring at their phones in unfurnished McMansions, playing dorm room icebreaker games with bored OnlyFans models."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/spending-millions-of-dollars-to-be-completely-irrelevant

@timbray liars. I bet he’s complaining that the province won’t build them a stadium

@Kaiz @selmins sí, i sense cap mena de problema ètic o moral. L'escàndol de la DGAIA és el més espectacular cas de corrupció de tot l'estat sencer però a Catalunya.

If you're attending #FediForum let's have a discussion tomorrow around this open access paper: Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media which argues that decentralized platforms like the Fediverse focus on governing within communities, but ignore the frictions between them. From workshops with 24 Fediverse community organisers, they identify six design challenges (visibility, information collation, tiered sharing, relationship-building, customization, and adoption) and propose three principles for "inter-community governance": modularity (shared vocabulary, like governance nutrition labels) and forkability (copy and adapt others' governance structure or rules), and polycentricity (overlapping trust bubbles instead of one global network, i.e. archipelagos).

Decentralisation and autonomy alone aren't enough, communities need connective tissues to interconnect them beyond just technical federation (a mycelium network if you like 😊)

If you're interested and are able to read or peruse it ahead of time that will help us have a more grounded and potentially productive discussion based on it...

GitHub: “USE AI!!! NOW!! DO IT!!”
Users: <use AI>
GitHub: 500

so hey

we're looking for work, preferably in a non-profit, but given the historical moment we're at, we're open to for-profit if it's doing something socially positive

we have a strong background in information privacy (ex-Google). we have years of non-profit governance experience. we've been coding intensely since early childhood and, depending how you count, have nearly 40 years of experience at that. we also have experience managing other programmers.

anyone know of anything?

@lkundrak i was going to say he took too big of a shit but that's too honorable of a way to go out

Power save mode on-off (PSMOO) operation is described in Figure 12.

Flotilla: centinaia su barche in avaria

www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/view.jsp?id=99&p=101

8.20 "Con un violento raid in acque internazionali, le forze navali israeliane hanno intercettato, abbordato e sistematicamente neutralizzato diverse imbarcazioni della Global Sumud Flotilla. "Attacco contro civili su barche civili disarmate", scrivono…

On this day, 13y ago, @ghost started as an idea on kickstarter

5,000+ people backed the project to help bring it to life and support the future of media and journalism

Today, Ghost has generated over $150M for independent publishers all over the world

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform

On this day, 13y ago, @ghost started as an idea on kickstarter

5,000+ people backed the project to help bring it to life and support the future of media and journalism

Today, Ghost has generated over $150M for independent publishers all over the world

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform

I know I'm late to the party but WTF is going on with the internet losing its mind over Angine de Poitrine?

I couldn't stand even 5 mins of it. It's the kind of thing your mate shows you when you're 12 and you laugh for ten seconds and then move on with your life.

https://piped.video/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so