mastodon 4.5.18Programmer turned lawyer and community guy.
Current: Sonarsource, Creative Commons, OpenET, California HDF, 415/94110, dad.
Previously: Tidelift, Wikimedia, Mozilla, Open Source Initiative, GNOME, LegOS, Duke, 305/MIA, more.
I’d love a good think piece from one of the Wikimedia organizational sociologists on why/how the only “thank” button *that requires confirmation* is on Wikipedia, a site that nominally loves pro-social behavior.
I use anecdotal stories about AlphaFold’s impact, alongside astronomy after the printing press, as an example of how new tech can change the day-to-day of research. In the wake of AF’s shutdown, I did a mini lit review:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold#Reception_and_adoption
Kudos to Software Freedom Conservancy for optimistically engaging with a new generation of people potentially empowered by software.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/
New post: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Am looking at a lot of graphs of Wikipedia readership tonight and this is the only good one.
RE: @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
literally, not all free software people. But ... yeah way too many.
Hrm. Some intrepid SF geoguesser has to be able to figure out which Mission alley this is?
@DorotheaLange@mastodon.ozioso.online
Everyone is talking this summer about @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social ’s Odyssey — and you should read it! it is excellent! — but let me also put in a pitch for Zachary Mason’s Lost Books of the Odyssey. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-books-of-the-odyssey-a-novel-zachary-mason/a56a409fbc4c6bbd
The new Montmartre finish of the Tour de France is maybe the greatest spectacle in sports? Utterly wild.
(And I had to leave Paris yesterday. Only a little bitter about that.)
I have closed up openml.fyi!
Open is still very relevant for LLM, and vice-versa. But the changes LLM is wreaking are so seismic that my theorizing feels rudderless to me. So I’m taking a break, to reground my compass in the work.
Read more about why in the post: https://www.openml.fyi/openish-is-dead-long-live-openish/
“Tyranny of Agent Structurelessness”
Is this a thing? I am afraid that by thinking it it will manifest somehow
New post: Collaboration: a Confused Story in Five Graphs
Welp just got into a screaming match with a Tesla driver who was violating several traffic laws at once, including a high-speed blind pass around two cars and some mid-street curbs, directly at me in the crosswalk.
With a kid in his back seat.
In front of a playground.
squeeeee
That is all.
Do you need a Little Guy in your life? (Hint: You do!)
Highly recommend these Little Guys.
From: @moonrabbit@sunny.garden
@moonrabbit@sunny.garden
This seems like a pretty good starting list.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhqy3k3huardpoxy7p6srekf/post/3mknslnmcwk2s
Always enjoy showing close neighbors that our streets are shaped the way they are because it used to have a street car line. In this case, the gradual curve necessary for trains means cars take it at high speed.
