Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier."

Elsevier's profit margin is around 40%. Claiming that academic publishers prey on researchers, more than forty leading scientists are setting up "a nonprofit open-access journal".

Publicly-funded knowledge should be free.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

#Research #Publishing

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-06 Sa

GM’s plans for in-automobile content as a service; banks hit the wall; once again, full self-driving is near; I agree with Josh Marshall that there is unlikely to be any debt-ceiling negotiation…
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2023-05-06 Sa

so on #Bluesky, rather than going with the well-documented and defined webfinger protocol, behind the .well-known directory, decided to make their own shit for verifying domains via HTTP.

thus, somebody took the S3 bucket name "xrpc" and now is s3.amazonaws.com on the platform

going great

https://bsky.ipg.gay/profile/s3.amazonaws.com/post/3juud6zh5ur2n

Wrote up some thoughts about @takahe and a refactor/redesign I'm doing, with the aim of more customisable profiles and proper domain separation: https://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refactor-treat/

(also, maybe we can support BlueSky/AT as well? Who knows!)

Techdirt leaving #Twitter. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/03/goodbye-twitter-techdirt-will-soon-end-our-automated-posting/

@mpanhans not currently. the idea was that Bluesky would create a protocol which Twitter could adopt eventually. But it was never a requirement. And Elon pulled the service agreement Twitter had with Bluesky.

it's finally here!!

First thoughts on Bluesky: y u no PWA?

Like, Elk can manage it. Pinafore managed it. Mainline Mastodon managed it! If the goal is decentralisation, why would you put app store gatekeepers in charge?

And if funds are not infinite, why wouldn't you centralise effort on the web, particularly now that iOS Push is out?

Today I learned the word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville, replacing the term ‘man of science’.

#science #WomenInSTEM

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/

I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern

This is not new or novel. It was women -
@timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html

If you hate shit like this, don’t follow me on instagram…

2015/01

#SilentSunday #photography

🚨 Want to help build a robust bridge and relays between #ActivityPub & #ATprotocol networks? (

Live only for a few hours - we launched this group late last night - it already has over 26 developers/followers starting to do exactly that.

➡️ @activitypubblueskybridge

If you are working on this, or want to, go follow that mastodon-compatible Frendica group & introduce yourself!

#BlueSky #MastoDev #Fedidev

There is probably something better than a fresh #croissant with jam for brekky, just can’t think what it may be.