La tuile pour Macron et sa com’ autour du Débarquement: l’AFP vote la grève ce jeudi, à l'unanimité de plus de 300 votants, pour 24h. Les journalistes dénoncent un projet de la direction de créer un statut au rabais pour les collègues en poste à l’étranger. Le statut actuel qui offre un certains nombre de garanties (frais de logement, scolarité etc.) est devenu « trop coûteux », affirme la direction.
I really need to get back on reading Pluralistic. Been a while since I've seen writing so concise and well-sourced. Journalistic, if I might be so bold.
"Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense" by @pluralistic
There are a lot of companies and ideas competing for space on the post-Twitter internet, and Jay makes a convincing argument that decentralization — the idea that you should be able to take your username and following to different servers as you wish — is the future. It’s a powerful concept that’s been kicking around for a long time, but now it feels closer to reality than ever before. You’ve heard us talk about it a lot on Decoder: the core idea is that no single company — or individual billionaire — can amass too much power and control over our social networks and the conversations that happen on them.
There are quite some reasons that leave me very cautious about Bluesky, one being for sure the fact there's one commercial entity currently backing this service / protocol, especially one that has risen from the same ecosystem that caused a lot of the trouble we do experience with current social media platforms. But, I've then and now been at odds with ActivityPub as a protocol, which gets worse the more I dig into it, and from that perspective, it seems the AT crowd gets a lot of things right, considered a lot of things that don't just seem obvious at least in the 2010s but actually surprising to see them missing from ActivityPub, a spec that has been established at roughly the same time: Full account portability (the idea of comparing personal data, conversations, comments, posts, ... to a github repository which "of course" you want to easily be able to take, backup, move around, ... seems both stunning and painfully trivial), support of custom domains for users (which Tumblr has already been supporting for years now), distributed curation and moderation (because most obviously community structures will be different to server or domain structures and not necessarily live on one instance exclusively) - in a way I really do hope they "show don't tell" by submitting that protocol to some standardization body anytime soon. Maybe this, too, could provide a good option for the "open" fediverse to counter the problems that might arise the very moment platforms like Meta / Threads fully embrace ActivityPub. (I also found it rather interesting to listen to what she had to say about why Meta might be more into ActivityPub than AT - being "server-centric" rather than "user-centric" - but that might just be a loose end of things.)
If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.
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Why are we paying so much attention to Silicon Valley pump-and-dumps and ignoring all this incredible, potentially planet-saving, real innovation? Cooper cites a plausible explanation from the Apperceptive newsletter:
Silicon Valley is the land of low-capital, low-labor growth. Software development requires fewer people than infrastructure and hard goods manufacturing, both to get started and to run as an ongoing operation.
(No wonder Indian techies joke that "AI" stands for "absent Indians,")
Contrast this with climate tech: this is a profoundly physical kind of technology. It is labor intensive. It is skilled. The workers who perform it have power, both because they are so far from their employers' direct oversight and because these fed-funded sectors are more likely to be unionized than Silicon Valley shops. Moreover, climate tech is capital intensive.
This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
@J12t Seems like this question is largely analogous to "would you like salad, or would you like a burger and fries?" We all say we'd like a healthy meal, but not enough of us actually order it to make it a viable option when we're road tripping.
Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
@benroyce regarding Gaza, I really wish everyone studies Trump's track record. If his repeated use of the term "Muslim problem" doesn't send chills down your spine...
Not to mention, Trump's political debut started by his being known for one of the biggest propagator of "Obama being a Muslim and not American" conspiracy theory.
Then came his "bullets dip in pig blood will rid of the problem for 25 years" campaign story.. https://medium.com/nilc/86-times-donald-trump-displayed-or-promoted-islamophobia-49e67584ac10
🔴 À eux seuls, quatre dirigeants de la FNSEA, dont deux Bretons, cumulent 50 mandats. De l'Anses au Cese en passant par les innombrables instances agricoles, ces cumulards défendent partout la ligne du syndicat productiviste. Avec succès !
Une enquête menée dans le cadre d'une collaboration européenne avec Lighthouse Reports.
Tackling late-life homelessness in Canada
Jillian Alston, Stefan Baral, Aaron Orkin & Sharon Straus
Many #OlderAdults experience #homelessness in #Canada, yet current shelters & temporary #housing are not designed or resourced for them. We outline the magnitude of this large & growing #PublicHealth & #social challenge, describe the social & #HealthCare needs of older adults experiencing homelessness, and suggest potential solutions.
Il faudra bientôt avoir travaillé minimum 8 mois sur une période de 20 mois pour ouvrir des droits aux allocations chômage (contre 6 mois dans les 24 derniers mois). Jusqu'à fin 2019, c'était à peine 4 mois sur 28 mois... Pour les chômeurs de 53 et plus, la période de référence reste à 36 mois mais pour combien de temps? Que la force soit avec nous... https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/la-reforme-de-lassurance-chomage-dans-la-derniere-ligne-droite-2095778
depuis sa création en 1998, la maison d’édition a pour nom tahin party
souvent écrit sans majuscule sans logo, ni identité visuelle (au contraire, chaque livre a sa forme et ses couleurs !)
pourtant depuis le début, une définition de dictionnaire figure à la fin de chaque livre
cette note d’intention présente les valeurs de l’association :
historiquement « érémiphile » sans recherche de profit et #DIY