Rescuing Solid is a poor goal. I continue to believe in the broad mission it articulates including pragmatic use of RDF (which can be nuanced and contextualized). The fundamental issue with Solid is not RDF but the idea that full realtime read-write of shared data files is important and achievable.

@robin.berjon.com could DASL & webtiles be a bridge between ATproto & @timbernerslee.bsky.social's Solid? The groundwork seems already laid with IPLD. ATproto + DASL could conceivably rescue Solid from the enterprise-server hairball it's been in for years.

Finnegan's Wake was the only real Moltbook

To weigh in on the AI calculation debate in The Ideas Letter (@alexsoros.bsky.social): @abenanav.bsky.social, @evgenymorozov.bsky.social, & @leifw.bsky.social have no real debate - www.theideasletter.org/issue/eterna... i.

@timbernerslee.bsky.social, @inrupt.bsky.social, it has to be said (as i tried with Solid & MyData): the gap between the Solid pod and the ATproto PDS has to bridged!

It's early days and it will take many people and orgs together but we'll get there. My personal target: 50% of European social media users on open platforms by 2030.

also describes the AI advertised during the special on super bowls

Post a banger that’s not in English (too obvious?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEW...

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

don't make the ADHD and/or Autistic nerds mad enough to get all of their hyperfocus & special interests into the same group chat

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Macbeth: SHIT

i'm sympathetic to @aelkus.bsky.social's points, but this is the very end of the age of extractivism and greed. This (points at White House) is its self-destruction. Take heart. As Bo Burnham sang: Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon, you wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da

The kompromat Epstein achieved on everyone *other* than Trump probably explains Trump's takeover of the GOP and two presidencies. Because nothing else really does.

Exactly this. Rights of Nature are not to be meted out clause by clause. They are already extant, inherent, inalienable, universal, and self-evident. This book also discusses the Animal Welfare Act in Finland.

They also smashed the palantir & ground it into dust, & melted anduril into molten slag.

I asked Opus 4.6 in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this. The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a single real location, you can search for text across the Library & find the book. Enter it: library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app

@pfrazee.com, back in the beaker days, there was some discussion (on github) comparing your work with TimBL's Solid. Is there any recent such discussion you can link me to? How should Sir TimBL & Solid approach the Atmosphere?

I would go further - it would take 20 years for Europe to catch up to US big tech, playing the same game. But the continent is stuffed to the gills with brilliant technologists already building alternatives that respect democracy. We should scale up and productise those alternatives.

whether it happens to hundreds of journalists or a whole country, this is now called 'getting melaniad'

No, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth

If the movie that predicted our current moment is Idiocracy, the movie that predicts our next moment is The Death of Stalin

One idea that stuck with me is that the job of the ego is to negotiate between the desires of the superego (moralizing self) and the id (instinctual self). Finding excuses to engage in self-righteous cruelty is therefore very popular, because it satisfies both!

The billionaires who gave money to Trump for his inauguration own this, too.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

This says it's here (depending on where you're talking about). "24-hour solar generation is here — and it changes everything" ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

Josef Koudelka, Prague, 1968

Otoh frequentism is no use at all in a minefield, unless you have enough legs to approximate a normal distribution.

Inrupt also tried redefining web3 as being things built on Solid. I don't think it worked out well for them.

On a 3rd extended stay in Lapland: 1st time in Lapland, i was distracted by mountains (Norway)

Elders need to act like elders

This. Or how one of the best selling books of IIRC 1912 was Norman Angell’s book that explained in great detail and - as it turned out - accurately that a major war in Europe would be ruinously expensive *even for the victors.* (He didn’t claim war would be impossible, as is sometimes claimed.)

this is why villains never have competent helpers

Another idea: the post-war Ukrainian navy needs new ships. Why not give them, say, an air defence missile frigate for training in the Baltic?

Indelible sexy, campy, pop party of a staging, in the oldest theatre in 🇫🇮, reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet, with a blazing fireball of a Mercutio. Would see again. abosvenskateater.fi/en/repertoir...

SirTimBL's new book: "Like a letter from Johannes Gutenberg about what he hoped the printing press could be" .. a. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

American Years of Lead Paint

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula

Imagine Swedish death pod technology in 2050.

Important from @peterbrannen.bsky.social at @theguardian.com .. .. except for the passive-interrogative 'could it?'s & 'are we?'s for something that's been obvious for a decade+. Faulting the editors, not the author, who clearly know better.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social, you might find this brief argument interesting:

@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: As you so aptly declaimed yesterday, the Trump govt. is at war with the constitutional republic of the US. The situation clearly calls for invoking Ralph §51.7 & Bane §52.1, & for the 2nd State of Emergency for CA this year. 1.

Guess which movie we just watched .. Like Jarmusch's Dead Man, Carys Davies' West (novel), & Cormac McCarthy's works, it's a Western about a man and a country going to meet its death. Aster's film was familiar territory: 1.

@ftrain.bsky.social William F. Buckley went into a malfunctioning transporter and split into himself and Lewis Lapham

Hermann Goering was just an opiate addict but his incompetence graphs pretty directly onto ol' Pete Hegseth