@tinker this is so freaking cool to see, Tinker. amazing community vibes.

@catsalad Cat division implies the existence of not just (the well-documented) cat multiplication, but also cat addition and cat subtraction.

@davidgerard Mastodon: federated. Bluesky: says "federated" on the PR sheet.

*Well, that was fun to read. I wonder how much of that will actually happen

Everything Trump touches dies, including even the greenhouse effect, and wow, that's a big one to kill

https://medium.com/@doctorow/demand-destruction-vs-fuel-superceding-infrastructure-f7521936320f

Black Valley is looking for a few more people to help with crew duties this year! If you are someone interested in being part of our little organizer family, please do get in touch. We are looking for people both in general and specific areas, so if you have a special skillset that might help us take some of the load off the other orgas, that is as welcome as just a social person for infodesk duties. If interested, please get in touch. See you all in July! ❤️

A tremendous amount of the scientific infrastructure is based on volunteerism and the assumption that the basics of survival have been met.

I'm thinking of all of the infrastructure that makes the process actually work --- reviewing for journals, reviewing for promotion at other institutions, presenting talks, helping students, faculty governance, doing more than the absolute minimum in teaching, helping with collaborations on projects, etc.

As the grant-getting situation gets more difficult, it becomes more and more difficult to actually provide these services (not because I don't want to, but simply because my head is full of funding crises and I just... how do the kids say it? ... don't have the spoons).

Importantly, I do not think that the solution is to start charging for these things. Once you start selling them, you become a business. I *like* the volunteer system. It means that I can do these things because I believe in them. It means I can do these things for the people who deserve them and need them, not for the people who can pay for them. Moreover, the amount that one could reasonably charge for these things is no where close to the cost of running a lab. The amount of reviewing one would need to do at $450 a pop to get to the price of a trainee ($75k+) is not reasonable mathematics and would not leave one time to do the actual science.

But I don't know how much longer I can do these favors for everyone while I watch my laboratory starve to death.

@alcinnz @slightlyoff

You might want to check out Stellar CSS from the devs of the incredible Datastar framework. It's still in alpha, but is aimed at being a tailwind killer and is just a work of genius.

They demo it here (worth watching the whole video, and the rest of their stuff though). https://youtu.be/igELI3octGc?t=2620

Auto-creation of colour palettes is just one of many things it allows for.

La semana que viene se celebra el Encuentro de Derechos Digitales (impulsado por Red.es y MWCapital).

Habrá conferencias de:
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
Carissa Véliz (imaginarios sociotécnicos)
Frances Heugen (ex-Facebook, whistleblower de aspectos importantes sobre la algoritmia de la plataforma)

Y varias mesas redondas, por si puede interesaros (será sin duda muy institucional y bastante corporativo todo)

https://encuentroderechosdigitales.com/speakers/

@pluralistic You mentioned the other day you don't see eye to eye with Mark Carney on much, but there is a tremendous bit by Tomaso Padoa-Schioppa quoted in his book "Values":

@Fischblog Deswegen gehe ich lieber Schaukeln...

@davidrevoy
Thank you for the clarification David - and sorry for the wrong assumption. I’m planning to publish a blog post based on my speech and I will rectify it
@gub @villedeblois

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