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I'm a software developer and design researcher working with the #web and #memory, especially practices like #webarchiving #curation #preservation #sustainability #repair #cooperation #mutualaid and #degrowth.

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TFW you look at all your open tabs, to try to clean some up, and all the pages still look interesting, and you don't close any of them.

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In reading Orwell's Roses I was surprised to learn that, for a time, George Orwell lived quite close to where my Dad grew up.

Solnit describes a walk from Baldock Station to Wallington, along a public footpath through fields of wheat that were

> enormous, and the furrows curved to follow the contours of the land, and the land was a series of billows and swells, like the surface of the sea far from shore, a sort of ocean I drifted along...

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Her detailed description of the flint in the fields, and in the walls along paths, made me remember my early childhood there, a more than half forgotten memory, brought back in a flash by someone else's remembering.

edsu,
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Dad read Animal Farm to my brother and I as a children's story :-) He was (and is) a good egg.

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But, back to Orwell's Roses, it's a beautiful book, about Orwell's relationship to the earth, nature and his garden, alongside his development as a writer and activist. I think I heard about it first in this interview with Solnit:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/orwell-s-political-writing-was-grounded-by-his-love-of-gardening-says-rebecca-solnit-1.6473492

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I like how Solnit uses Orwell's story and his time to talk about our own.

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🔖 When data became big: revisiting the rise of an obsolete keyword: Information, Communication & Society: Vol 27 , No 3 - Get Access https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2227673

"This article unpacks the short-lived but momentous buzz around big data. Although talk about big data was once widespread, little is known about the efforts animating its semantics. Tracing this sociotechnical imaginary, we revisit how business insiders and IT commentators fueled the ephemeral y

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I’ve heard grief is only love
with nowhere to go.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/162456/against-distance

tip: it helps to listen to the author read it

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ugh, I'm very sorry for that onslaught of posts. a cron job apparently started to work again and decided to play catch up :-(

I'm trying to delete them, but I got rate limited for 30 mins...

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A good review of what looks like a pretty bad book.

https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/113

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I used to come away from feeling inspired, proud of how much we were able to do with very little resources, and frustrated that we didn't have more resources.

These days I don't even have time to watch the stream. I can't remember the last time I did any significant coding. The admin of this server should probably politely ask me to find a new host.

edsu,
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@dbs I can't shake this feeling that libraries could use a bit less code these days.

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Who else is making a note of the authors of rah-rah-AI-everything, rah-rah-GPT articles so as not to believe anything these chumps ever write again?

Just me? Huh.

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@dsalo I'm doing this more so than I did with blockchain for some reason. Maybe because the frenzy pitch is higher and more pervasive.

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It's pretty creepy (but not at all surprising) that the distinguishing feature between ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Team seems to be that Enterprise lets you surveil your users and Team does not. Enterprise has no price tag, and just says just to contact sales.

Note: I'm not seriously considering either product.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

Who can view conversations and chat history in ChatGPT Team? Within your organization, only end users can view their conversations. Workspace admins have control over workspaces and access. Our access to conversations stored on our systems is limited to (1) authorized employees that require access for engineering support, investigating potential platform abuse, and legal compliance and (2) specialized third-party contractors who are bound by confidentiality and security obligations, solely to review for abuse and misuse.

shekinahcancook, to sustainability
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How to unite local initiatives for a more sustainable global future

By Vasilis Kostakis, Nikiforos Tsiouris, originally published by ScienceDirect May 1, 2024

"...In a state of emergency, it is audacious to place all our hopes for tackling the ecological crisis and wealth inequality in technology –worse even, in technology that is yet to materialize... High-tech is not unsustainable in its essence, but its scale and mode of production in the capitalist realm are.

...the crux of the matter is profoundly political. The development and production of technology in the modern era are intricately interwoven with wealth inequality and environmental deterioration. Technology is not being produced in a vacuum, thus it is not neutral. On the contrary, it is highly influenced by the decisions of manufacturers, legislators, consultants, designers and everyone else involved –directly or indirectly– in the process..."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-01/how-to-unite-local-initiatives-for-a-more-sustainable-global-future/

#Sustainability #Economics #Resources #DeGrowth #Climate

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@shekinahcancook thanks for sharing this!

I like the idea of a "mid-tech" that isn't constrained by high/low-tech dualism. Using a new word like "cosmolocal" is helpful so that it's a different approach, rather than simply just a midway point between the two poles.

One reason I liked @debcha's How Infrastructure Works is that she spends quite a bit of time in the book focused on how important it is to localize energy production, which is something that article touches on as a challenge.

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Circulating word is that plans to disperse Palestinian solidarity encampment at 6. A number of groups including faculty and campus unions are planning on rallying in defense. Meanwhile an administrator has entered the camp to negotiate

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@jonny thank you for all that you are doing, both to actively engage in the protest, and documenting the experience here. I see it being talked about in the news, Democracy Now mostly, which is good, especially their interviews. But hearing about it from someone you trust, who is on the ground, as it is happening is very powerful. I know we are all saying it, and it's a balance, but please stay safe.

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Copernicus firing up a notebook to do some pandas analysis.

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Yesterday I got so old
I felt like I could die.

edsu,
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Take your shoes off
and throw them in the lake.

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Watch me drift and watch me struggle
let me go.

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This post from @mnot has some interesting observations about how robots.txt for AI ingestion bots is markedly different from search bots. It reminds me a bit of how using robots.txt for controlling archiving and replay of web content (e.g. Internet Archive) is a bit awkward.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/21/ai-control

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DemocracyNow interviewed the Google employees who were protesting the use or Google Services and Infrastructure in the targeting of civilians in Gaza..and have since been fired.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/no_tech_for_apartheid_google_israel

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I rigged up the hypothes.is annotation bookmarklet for qualitative coding of some Whisper transcripts. Yes, I'm trying to avoid doing the actual work.

The output of a small Python program that reads the annotations from the Hypothes.is API and prints them out so that I can enter them into the communal spreadsheet of results.

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Basically the annotations have tags of the form code:line-number, like accurate-proper-noun:5. Kinda like "machine tags" from back in the days of folksonomy/bookmarking systems.

I guess there's enough info in the annotation metadata to figure out the line number in the HTML, but that would've taken longer and I needed to actually do some coding (not that kind).

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There's a lot to enjoy in @debcha "How Infrastructure Works". But I particularly enjoyed the details about the Dinorwig Power Station. The UK's largest battery. Had never heard of it before!

Here's an article she wrote about it for the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/02/beauty-of-infrastructure-electric-mountain-dinorwig-power-station-north-wales

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@ldodds @debcha yes, it's such a beautifully simple concept, especially in how she describes it. I think the book closes with a powerful call for more decentralized energy systems that work in similar ways, at different scales, that are tuned to their particular local setting.

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I just noticed that browsertrix-crawler got its (voluminous) docs moved from the repo README.md to a nice new website:

https://crawler.docs.browsertrix.com/

If you haven't used it before browsertrix-crawler is an amazing tool that lets you create standardized #webarchives using a browser-based crawler on your computer using Docker.

It's kinda like wget but it actually renders the pages, and lets you write site specific, customized behaviors for archiving especially difficult to collect content.

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