Hey #fediverse devs check out this from nostr:npub1nd86x5za0ascfmvmsxqyrzk4xc7l48h6gfmlcf5d3e9munenydys4g2zkd;
"A few days ago I shared around an idea for an ActivityPub API product...
https://werd.cloud/ActivityPub+API+service
...If you’re a developer who is interested in building on the fediverse using this kind of API platform, I’d really love to talk to you. Enter your email in the form above and I’ll get in touch. If we have a conversation about this, I’ll send you a $50 bookshop.org gift certificate as a token of my appreciation."
https://newsletter.werd.io/p/sup-a-managed-api-for-the-fediverse
#ActivityPub
Got good news and bad news nostr:npub1nd86x5za0ascfmvmsxqyrzk4xc7l48h6gfmlcf5d3e9munenydys4g2zkd.
Bad news first...
... your naming idea has been claimed by nostr:npub1f9fd738mny4rh95466l75u3raq4t65hcg2zm0qdcc0qgqn7g20lqn0dgxv for his new fediverse messenger app:
https://wedistribute.org/2023/08/sup-by-pixelfed-is-coming/
Good news...
... a lot of what you seem to be proposing is possible right now, by building new apps on top of the existing back-ends of any of the existing ones. This list may be incomplete but its being actively updated and you can browse by language and app types (micro-posting, blog, media-sharing etc);
Hey #fediverse devs check out this from nostr:npub1nd86x5za0ascfmvmsxqyrzk4xc7l48h6gfmlcf5d3e9munenydys4g2zkd;
"A few days ago I shared around an idea for an ActivityPub API product...
https://werd.cloud/ActivityPub+API+service
...If you’re a developer who is interested in building on the fediverse using this kind of API platform, I’d really love to talk to you. Enter your email in the form above and I’ll get in touch. If we have a conversation about this, I’ll send you a $50 bookshop.org gift certificate as a token of my appreciation."
https://newsletter.werd.io/p/sup-a-managed-api-for-the-fediverse
#ActivityPub
nostr:npub17ncsrs9w3s477cwu4ekuhw0h6nkely9lgmeakklsjjza5tq6dukshc9dam
> you might do pretty well registering a “None of the above” party too
That's kind of the idea, but our ficus groups and our intestinal polling answered all our questions with Don't Know, so we went with that ; )
When I hear Sarah Pallett, the Labour candidate for Ilam, talk about how every little bit helps...
... I have to ask, does she honestly expect a standing ovation for a bunch of little bits? From a second term Labour government. After 3 years of having a clear majority to govern alone. They barely deserve a slow clap.
#NZpolitics #Labour #SarahPallett #Ilam
"[Alicia Kennedy] recognizes that discussing food means discussing 'appetite and nostalgia', and that major changes to the way Americans eat won’t happen if those pressing for them refuse to take 'culture, gastronomy, and taste into consideration'. She also sees that creating ethical food systems requires attention to class: Food-industry laborers need fair pay and safe conditions, and healthy, varied ingredients need to be made available in all communities."
#LilyMeyer
"Industrial meat is a major source of the emissions causing global warming. Eating it regularly, [#AliciaKennedy] argues, is unsustainable. Yet for many in the United States, meat has long represented security and prosperity; in the 1920s, Republicans promised voters 'a chicken for every pot'."
#LilyMeyer
#ClimateChange #IndustrialFood #BigFood #meat #vegetarianism
nostr:npub17ncsrs9w3s477cwu4ekuhw0h6nkely9lgmeakklsjjza5tq6dukshc9dam
> I'm not sure what the political statement is. Maybe it's that elections need more humour?
That is pretty hilarious, and they definitely do. I'm determined to get the Don't Know party registered for the next election. What's the strategy for that? Three guesses... ; )
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
> Baker was recommending a story condemning “tribalism,” when what we are really seeing here is the vitriol of an authoritarian movement and the increasing condemnation from those who are appalled by it
Yeah, nah. We're seeing two brands of authoritianism duking it out for control of an Empire in its post-Death Star decline, and two tribes of partisans, each only recognising the danger of one of them. True, only one of them has full control of a political party. So far...
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
But Robert Reich reminds us that the Democrats' commitment even to its own internal democracy has hardly been unwavering;
"... such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016"
... and that;
"Without two parties committed to democratic means to resolve differences in ends, the party committed to democracy is at a tactical disadvantage. If it is to survive, eventually it, too, will sacrifice democratic means to its own ends."
#TIL that CSAM images can be inserted into crypto-token BlockChains, and that once this happens they can never be removed, due to the way #BlockChains are designed. Also that this has allegedly happened:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47130268
#crypto #CryptoCurrencies #CryptoTokens
nostr:npub1asc0gzagk0dzeqepa442r42d644x3eezrkgn5s64uhm52k86rx0q43vqdd
> I won't mention what I'd do if left alone for five minutes with a Luxon poster and a marker pen
... or for that matter a sleeping Luxon and a marker pen... : P
nostr:npub1ghg6vg383an4kjyhm70nvpu6asrhjann92wy6yvp30vpp25xalmqc4y74f
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
Sanders, as usual, is bang on. Like Michael Moore, he reminds us that Agent Orange and the GoP can only make hay out of white working class anger, for as long as Democrats refuse to see its legitimate *economic* causes, and make meaningful changes to address them.
Sanders endorses re-electing Biden. Given Biden's enacted economic policy (see my recent link on #Bidenomics), this is the only sensible thing for a moderate social democrat in his position to do.
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
We can only hope the Democrat apparatchiks reward this loyalty in 2028. By giving Sanders - or a younger candidate he endorses - a shot at replacing the outgoing Biden. Thus keeping the GoP from hauling the US back into the black hole of Reagenomics that it's only just starting to climb out of.
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
> Baker was recommending a story condemning “tribalism,” when what we are really seeing here is the vitriol of an authoritarian movement and the increasing condemnation from those who are appalled by it
Yeah, nah. We're seeing two brands of authoritianism duking it out for control of an Empire in its post-Death Star decline, and two tribes of partisans, each only recognising the danger of one of them. True, only one of them has full control of a political party. So far...
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
Sanders, as usual, is bang on. Like Michael Moore, he reminds us that Agent Orange and the GoP can only make hay out of white working class anger, for as long as Democrats refuse to see its legitimate *economic* causes, and make meaningful changes to address them.
Sanders endorses re-electing Biden. Given Biden's enacted economic policy (see my recent link on #Bidenomics), this is the only sensible thing for a moderate social democrat in his position to do.
One of the most clear-headed analyses of the current political environment and the ongoing campaign for 2024, from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"What we are building toward on Nov. 5, 2024, might have the outward trappings of an election, but it is really a show of force. What we call the Republican Party is barely a political party in any sense of the word, but a dangerous antisocial movement that has embraced many of the tenets of fascism, from calls for violence to its dehumanizing of “others” — from desperate refugees at the border to transgender youth."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html
nostr:npub1t66vz8xd336tw9d67x2hjavdm480txgpn3jtj2gj9fjqdkql3sxsuheayl
> Baker was recommending a story condemning “tribalism,” when what we are really seeing here is the vitriol of an authoritarian movement and the increasing condemnation from those who are appalled by it
Yeah, nah. We're seeing two brands of authoritianism duking it out for control of an Empire in its post-Death Star decline, and two tribes of partisans, each only recognising the danger of one of them. True, only one of them has full control of a political party. So far...
nostr:npub1rh0ymccwhzajdtfu4leelcq6rz0ggtd7gjczyvu9a346nna5stksppsjsf
> Not sure if I should just block these folks
If their feeds are full of vitriol, maybe unfollow them (presuming you're following them at all). But Blocking is the nuclear option. I wouldn't even Mute someone unless they're actively annoying me in my @mentions, and even then, usually only temporarily.
"Following the adoption of a motion at our Party Conference in 2017, the Labour Party supports the principle of legislation for the legalisation of cannabis for recreational and medicinal use in Ireland."
#AodhánÓRíordáin, Justice Spokesperson, Irish Labour party
https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/30/fundamental-reform-of-drug-policy-needed/
#Ireland #DrugLawReform #CannabisLegalization
Hey Ireland, swap you? You can have cheery old Chippy and the gang, and we'll have your Labour party. Please make sure you send that impressive backbone along with them though. NZ Labour seems to have left it's spine in its other coat...
"The Labour Party do not believe we can solve the issue of drugs through criminal sanction against the user. The issue of decriminalisation of the person should and must be at the forefront of our approach. Addiction needs to be treated as a health issue, not a legal one."
#AodhánÓRíordáin, Justice Spokesperson, Irish Labour party
https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/30/fundamental-reform-of-drug-policy-needed/
#Ireland #DrugLawReform #DrugDecriminalization
"Following the adoption of a motion at our Party Conference in 2017, the Labour Party supports the principle of legislation for the legalisation of cannabis for recreational and medicinal use in Ireland."
#AodhánÓRíordáin, Justice Spokesperson, Irish Labour party
https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/30/fundamental-reform-of-drug-policy-needed/
#Ireland #DrugLawReform #CannabisLegalization
"The Labour Party do not believe we can solve the issue of drugs through criminal sanction against the user. The issue of decriminalisation of the person should and must be at the forefront of our approach. Addiction needs to be treated as a health issue, not a legal one."
#AodhánÓRíordáin, Justice Spokesperson, Irish Labour party
https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/30/fundamental-reform-of-drug-policy-needed/
#Ireland #DrugLawReform #DrugDecriminalization
nostr:npub1ghg6vg383an4kjyhm70nvpu6asrhjann92wy6yvp30vpp25xalmqc4y74f
> someone had pasted on a delightful Victorian crinoline dress under Seymour's Rimmer-looking mugshot
Priceless, what a shame you didn't get a pic! I have to admit that I can't go past an ACT billboard without a feeling an urge to draw an H on Seymour's forehead. But of course I'd never do something so cliché ; )
nostr:npub1maaa08ty0cveja5vyk59s0276wzxu42r3np862x9z636wf3sv5gsk29k6p
This seems like a lot of work. Two questions.
1) Why do you think electronics manufacturers would be so unwilling to make useful life claims they can back?
2) Even if some companies did go to the trouble of playing shell company games, to avoid backing their useful life claims, wouldn't that give a free competitive advantage to the ethical hardware companies who wouldn't? I'm thinking of FrameWork, ThinkPenguin, System76, Vikings, FairPhone, Purism, Pine64 etc.
nostr:npub1maaa08ty0cveja5vyk59s0276wzxu42r3np862x9z636wf3sv5gsk29k6p
Bonus question; do you think builders were winding up their companies and starting new ones specifically to avoid standing behind their work? Or was that just a side effect of the dysfunctional structure of the NZ construction industry driving huge numbers of building companies to the wall, and not just small ones (think Mainzeal).
nostr:npub1maaa08ty0cveja5vyk59s0276wzxu42r3np862x9z636wf3sv5gsk29k6p
This seems like a lot of work. Two questions.
1) Why do you think electronics manufacturers would be so unwilling to make useful life claims they can back?
2) Even if some companies did go to the trouble of playing shell company games, to avoid backing their useful life claims, wouldn't that give a free competitive advantage to the ethical hardware companies who wouldn't? I'm thinking of FrameWork, ThinkPenguin, System76, Vikings, FairPhone, Purism, Pine64 etc.