I have mixed feelings about some of the investors, and I'd rather see #microcities publicly arranged and organized, but I'm glad to see experiments like this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city ht @realcaseyrollins
( my piece on microcities: https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html )
I’ve just started to use #jitsi in place of #zoom. They are taking some heat for requiring third-party authentication (google, facebook, or github, hopefully others soon) to create new conferences on their free https://meet.jit.si/ site.
I never considered using their site. I am fleeing the architecture of centralized platforms, not particular “bad” firms.
#jitsi continues to support #selfhosting (and there authentication—or not—however you like). So I remain quite delighted with them. 1/
Here’s their announcement of an authentication requirement: https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/ ht @raccoon
Here’s my recent write-up of setting up a self-hosted #jitsi installation: https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/21/getting-started-with-jitsi/index.html /fin
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When people IRL say IDK, they say “I decay.” I don’t love it.
if he’s re-elected the mugshot goes on mt rushmore.
enmity thrives as a mutually enforced equilibrium.
it confuses me that a plane is a flat surface while a plain is a flat piece of land they both refer to flat expanses yet they have different spellings.
@selmins @failedLyndonLaRouchite you gotta think outside the box! (and inside the floodplain apparently.)
i did feel like the insult of #ChatGPT was a bit gratuitous and uncalled for.
@selmins TL;DR in a county whose politics is dominated by single-family-home builders, they are eviscerating protection of wetlands essential to filtering pollution before it reaches estuaries and lakes and preventing floods.
some loosenings of land-use regulations are not a great idea. https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/08/24/florida-countys-swampy-politics-lead-to-bad-decision-on-wetlands/
Actually I stand corrected. #RonDeSantis did give one straight answer, that on “Day One” of his administration he’d greenlight an incursion of Mexico by armed, formal agents of the American state exercising lethal force against Mexican citizens without process. Why, you might even call it an invasion.
#RonDeSantis never gives a straight answer.
so far the most persistent misstatement in the #GOPDebate has been understating the Biden Administration’s Buy American and sanctions policy towards China.
the candidates are avoiding every question by pretending the most economically hawkish administration towards China ever (much more than Trump’s) is actually dovish.
says something about the perceived balance of risks in American politics on China now.
never fly private.
"I’d make it illegal for any C-level exec (or similar position) to make 10x or more than the lowest-paid employee tier in the company, with very strict and frequent enforcement." http://www.technologyasnature.com/10x-rule/
(from an anonymously authored blog)
It's just nuts.
[tech notebook] Getting started with HedgeDoc https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/23/getting-started-with-hedgedoc/index.html
(thanks @hedgedoc!)
whatever i remember of my dreams is usually pretty bad.
i like to think that is selection bias.
“In many cases, the binding constraint is not a lack of innovation in the most advanced firms, but rather the large productive gaps between them and the rest of the economy.” @drodrik https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-technological-innovation-does-not-necessarily-raise-productivity-living-standards-by-dani-rodrik-2023-07
