2026-07-31T22:50:23Z https://nostr.now Dinah 🕊🇺🇦 https://nostr.now/npub1s8l0kj8rm98pvnkt6unxm2jvvavfcltd7n0jsxrwd30a4fhenqfscxr53p https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/506/921/original/2dfc852b069f47d5.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/506/921/original/2dfc852b069f47d5.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfgun5patjcaxxwvcwa4pr0r36grynhgymmu7gss8gu7g0whvcteqzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxgg2u49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgpq3djyc34lvc0363j8xv72hh5y8q9mp2fjmttvgfpuzggnqwy9s73tprh'>nevent1q…tprh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Curious what&#39;s different about seeing your own replies in Mastodon advanced interface. I guess it didn&#39;t bug me? Or we&#39;re talking about something different?<br/><br/>My view in Safari:<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/999/652/451/054/419/original/d0759684bc41b4e7.png"> <br/> 2026-07-28T21:12:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqpzvffnmrf5gs8sfcsk3u0zrf2m9kvuhegumfz6y28mq2keh2clgzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpx7fgjpy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2uj7lyuy5vnx03czm8y2jln0fgum3sumn3cxtdkgd6u6c3htz74sa94zc2'>nevent1q…4zc2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>About the forces we&#39;re up against: &#34;They’re getting us mad about the wrong things so that we don’t focus on the fact that they’re just people, and people can either change or not be in power anymore.&#34;<br/><br/>Hell yeah! 2026-07-22T16:53:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2uj7lyuy5vnx03czm8y2jln0fgum3sumn3cxtdkgd6u6c3htz74szyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxfhqjkz RE: <a href="https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116964431707530792">https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116964431707530792</a><br/><br/>&#34;a lot of people don’t understand how it works, because the LLM is not going to tell you how the LLM works. But it is going to tell you that whatever you think about it is totally correct, and then string a bunch of words together.&#34;<br/>😆🎯<br/><br/>And this is just a generally great, lively, funny interview about what libraries and librarians really do in 2026 and why that&#39;s not as simple a story as people might have in their heads by default. Jessamyn West is a human treasure.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note188qcecl5ql2gwkjcgjma2fwrp4ulz9xt8l47n67lym8a02gx3nqqdwt98s" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note188q…t98s</a></span><br/> </div> Jessamyn's Maxim of Uptime says that the likelihood that your website will be up and running is in inverse proportion to the amount of media mentions that you've gotten in the past 24 hours.<br/><br/>I did an interview with a person who works for an indie news outlet. I mentioned my work with Flickr Commons and my blog, librarian.net. Within 24 hours of the interview going up, both sites were down (and are both back up now.<br/><br/>Here's the interview. I think it came out well.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.newsjunkie.net/article/jessamyn-west-interview">https://www.newsjunkie.net/article/jessamyn-west-interview</a> </blockquote> 2026-07-22T16:52:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxm2kmwzhyag5q2z9ag5fe5l7s6znx8zxswxqqtx00el8a9tx974szyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxkkd8lk Found some notes for an unwritten (iirc) Discardia essay about letting go of the web / tech future we accidentally built.<br/><br/>Clearly calling it out as a eulogy with all that “it is dead” means. Calling out the baggage we brought we didn’t know we were carrying about growth being good, all the classist bullshit about the non-techie idiots we threw around without realizing our privilege, all the bias we built into our techno-utopia visions, ... 2026-04-29T17:50:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr5sfxkku32f2ftpmqge0y8hlnf2exkudvpndc9ygylwfzkpcmaegzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxazqwy5 Americans, we can&#39;t change what&#39;s already happened to Venezuela, but we can make a substantial backlash against the idea of a Greenland grab. <br/>The White House comment line is open and it only takes a couple minutes to call <br/>202-456-1111 <br/>and pile an avalanche of negative comments against these violations of international law.<br/><br/>#USpol #Activism 2026-01-05T19:33:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqfpkhm5mdkgdur3m2zj33qcv2t0rs9l67s3g3c48kqgcfzct73cszyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxfztdc8 Authors! It&#39;s time to claim your ~$3K per work if Anthropic ripped you off. <br/><br/>If your work has an ISBN or ASIN and it was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, you (or your publisher) is eligible if it was in the datasets they stole to train AI. <br/><br/>Go to <a href="https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com">https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com</a><br/>for more info &amp; to see if your book is in the Works List.)<br/><br/>You&#39;re in there, <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hhsymyycwny55mp0xz8y9zcvt44jma0ydjwlsrhwg2cr6q734rnqa4rl5g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Annalee Newitz 🍜</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hhs…rl5g</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zq7mkw4r0fvwujzdqh82459jaq7jtukd8ewhxjmussx08g49nj0spwg2ym" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zq7…g2ym</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1h99je98e7eke28f7eerrtj5p0c72pgps8alts2qsdh6f7rmfm96qzlveqk" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Astrobeej</span> (<span class="italic">npub1h99…veqk</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1spsnl0jfcns37l56kce6chex7emfccyzty85z88k4td6vpt9lm7sc04y0m" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Gordon Edgar</span> (<span class="italic">npub1sps…4y0m</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1y7hqzxtext3t49mdg7u322ddxh3e25twnssymfulfsukctnzh7lsmm3tqs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆</span> (<span class="italic">npub1y7h…3tqs</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub167arp8pjuustlen6cudawj0khpphhk376vu798mlaz47cng58gws9mecsr" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Keely</span> (<span class="italic">npub167a…ecsr</span>)</a></span> [@kpl](<a href="https://social.lol/@kpl">https://social.lol/@kpl</a> ) <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ac9gjquwvaexcv8p40km4cnphnunrf4mmyn66ys2fj4wxdl9vsyq8frqzz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>pb</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ac9…rqzz</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1flkcyycdpjs4ttyrmtcc7h4rlxwynhnnp9xs50pf5tprzgvgha9qrm5enp" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Matthew Haughey</span> (<span class="italic">npub1flk…5enp</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1prsjp48zup4rrp4xldg66x7zff2ykvusk47awlhsmaqhm3apl95s53eh8y" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jessamyn</span> (<span class="italic">npub1prs…eh8y</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub10ppetw6xt372zwqlkhmczd2n8uu9a4aq5s6fpeqqfqt2ta25rx2sj7nq7a" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Sherrilyn Ifill</span> (<span class="italic">npub10pp…nq7a</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hgnj9r6fmr4pnfhfg6qwxwds3r2mt4xkn89gy780hdfmvl59hjtqfglnst" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ben Hammersley 👨🏻‍🚀</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hgn…lnst</span>)</a></span> ... 2025-11-27T18:26:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9wgf8a4h0pry28cruyr295g7q77qwdq820m5gpj5lmtsqvszetwszyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxree3se In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs97c3nwxuf7futthrmfs2jnlp3v2tcj5s6s0n9nydsfthqr6fe9wcwxqvdg'>nevent1q…qvdg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Very helpful! 🙏 I&#39;ll be discussing it with my elder relative&#39;s doc at the skilled nursing rehab where he&#39;s working on getting back home after a fall. 2025-09-21T19:20:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxcvltg5kc6t9p98yykf5wcn28ds0kszxlzs7jm5xdty50d53840szyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxefskld In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszv06z4taq75jrsshp8x3q77dpqjg25u4xqd93fwtfdcpx79cuxkg6t0a2d'>nevent1q…0a2d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s one of the things that is so radical about, for instance, The Nap Ministry.<br/><br/>Corporate Masters or Protestant Work Ethic or Grind Culture, whichever it is we are constrained by, interferes with physical contentment and self-acceptance. 2025-08-02T03:42:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszv06z4taq75jrsshp8x3q77dpqjg25u4xqd93fwtfdcpx79cuxkgzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxm9fqy7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspm6qp3jcm4qcwu7l8ccvrvaxy0dlx28zfr46dkugxl4s969vtp2s4tq97n'>nevent1q…q97n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My appreciation or unhappiness about my flesh correlates closely to overall sense of agency and care. When my boundaries are respected (by me and others) and my foundational needs are met (particularly for good sleep, enjoyable exercise, enough solo and creative time, and sufficient good company) then I&#39;m physically vastly more contented. <br/><br/>My discontent with my flesh often comes when something else is wrong. Like when I react as if hungry but I&#39;m really just stressed and thirsty. 2025-08-02T03:40:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvzv07qjz6dhy3vs685xc3ducsxdfhydumgges55zqzkd64ms8kmgzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpx6lrljv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx8dm9qyv647cesmsd0h2hquzkcddpc0w387w2f4s2u2cll8yrx4stkljsj'>nevent1q…ljsj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reading on, I do not think you can understand techno-utopianism without acknowledging how deeply it didn&#39;t / doesn&#39;t want to believe that our bodies are real and have real needs. So much desperate wishing to escape the reality of biology and nature. (And I say this as someone who was around the whole Mondo 2000 / cyberspace dream vibe back in the day.) 2025-08-01T04:30:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx8dm9qyv647cesmsd0h2hquzkcddpc0w387w2f4s2u2cll8yrx4szyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxlhuc0y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7npry3kshvyf98hrvavwpptuu22pke0g82zdgs5qzekaygxah7srvx3lk'>nevent1q…x3lk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As long as success equates to control over an increasing amount of money (in fewer hands) and increasing market dominance (i.e. decreased options), we are dragged away from solutions with deep mutuality and many thriving nodes. <br/><br/>Not only dragged away from implementing them, but from even seeing them as serious or viable visions. 2025-08-01T04:29:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw7npry3kshvyf98hrvavwpptuu22pke0g82zdgs5qzekaygxah7szyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpx20ju0l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrjjqcj2peupttkrvgt5cdx84rg65t6g2r9xuc4x8esuzx9exeyxg8e6cym'>nevent1q…6cym</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;the tech industry is still seemingly the only entity with a serious vision of the future different to our present that could actually be enacted&#34;<br/><br/>🤨 There is too much unstated &#34;no well-funded (in academia or business), white dudes have effectively articulated a popular alternative vision of the future&#34; in that statement. 2025-08-01T04:28:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrjjqcj2peupttkrvgt5cdx84rg65t6g2r9xuc4x8esuzx9exeyxgzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxvpt586 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs82wls8uxy5hgyh8v7uf20ue44ky36ag74jsuwgx9hshy6p3f7vtqv3xqn4'>nevent1q…xqn4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Interesting read and I agree that full-stack alternatives are absolutely necessary. In particular, a very good alternative to Google Docs, and (I begin to suspect) to Slack. Those are key nodes for cooperative projects, and such, a vulnerability when they&#39;re under corporate control. <br/><br/>Unfortunately it felt to me through the history portion like listening to a fish in water unable to imagine not-water.<br/>Some non-ivory-tower, non-theoretical perspective would have helped. 2025-08-01T04:27:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszwmyl2rqq9yd7ylwzllff2hr25zngqpd63ryff9yvfx4mjk9n8qszyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpx4c9suh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszvhwvw7qng4hkx42esar2tq2fwtsdu2k8q0q4thkrfqmtczyuxdcmazj4e'>nevent1q…zj4e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Typo in alt text &#34;graces / graves&#34; 2025-03-13T17:46:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz87cpyx9eu7qryk63ljke4u5mpxatlsea2rhfep20fa5d37uxukqzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxrkjt09 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvpc4js0h3g9jghctnq6dvgeys793vk0t22sa6mcmnvspzquuy7es8r0caj'>nevent1q…0caj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ooof. Hope you feel better soon! 2025-01-31T22:11:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqsq3rtwnm3dqfxxw5ta7d9kusvfc42nrlhnqf7zjdcxmm26npx8qzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxc86xj4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs235mc3j9pg9x5u9844vmhantajr3v64g59xvzgar4kzry0h8t58chtdp0t'>nevent1q…dp0t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hope your house came through things well too and the clean-up isn&#39;t too burdensome. phew. 2024-10-10T17:29:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsydmkltckgg72qu7yxgs7crpm2y935v02wmwc6msd8a9q3qyf0zhqzyzqla76gu0v5u9jwe0tjvmd2f3n438radh6d72qcdek9lk4xlxvpxxcdxxn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszatlj9v3rh86yc368yk857gfltzac9zj0cf87e0e58fa7pvwfnwq95amv7'>nevent1q…amv7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Great picks! <br/><br/>Tag yourself: Charlotte Powell the Village Painter is definitely my fashion goals.<br/><br/>And dang are Max Dupain&#39;s photos cool (and some of them quite homoerotic 😳)<br/><br/>The past! It&#39;s made of people! 2024-09-04T19:53:53Z