phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected]

anarchy, abstraction ... systems, patterns, form.

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[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

I don't like Spotify.

But if YOU like Spotify, I made you a playlist of all my most whistleable tunes :

https://t.co/NuX3ixQOg9

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Federal agents are said to have been told that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents. If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents. https://t.co/0b0uUQ2Yfu

[Dave Winer @davewiner]

This morning I'm going change the way https://t.co/HKHbBlYMVQ saves and serves its feeds. It's too hard when setting up a new instance to create and configure a location on S3 to store them, so we're going to put them in the SQL database we keep and serve from there.

The URLs of the feeds will change. I figure it's early enough in the process to do this.

Also we have a demo server up so you can try out the software now. But it is just 1/2 of the functionality of the social network -- the writing half.

Some people have asked if they can use WordPress for this. Yes, but -- it would need to have specific support added to their RSS feeds to make it work. That's outlined on the source namespace site.

We're starting over in a way -- X is on the right path here, getting rid of the character limit (mostly) and supporting links, styling, the ability to edit posts. It's still too awkward but they're going in the right direction. Imho the twitter-like systems cut too much from the web in their idea of what text is. I wrote a spec for this in 2022 called https://t.co/zCEN2QRryD.

This is what we call in tech a "bootstrap." First you take a step in the direction you want to go, and you open it up to other developers. If they don't add the thing we need (a community of social network readers) we'll do it, and keep going until someone gets the idea to steal the idea from us. Then we will do something surprising -- assuming they are respectful (ie no personal attacks) -- we'll promote their work, and when a second and third comes along we'll promote them too.

Because we're on the web not only don't we mind competition, we need competition to make the bootstrap work.

Note the web itself was a bootstrap when TBL introduced it. It was a simple version of what it would be come. But the time was right, and the demo was good, and soon we had Mozilla, then Netscape an MSIE and Firefox and Chrome and on and on.

It took a few years before RSS came along and feed readers, and after that -- Twitter, and that's when the bootstrap party was over.

We've lived in that world long enough, is the thesis of https://t.co/HKHbBlYMVQ -- time to return what we've learned to the web, and get on with the bootstrap we suspended in 2006.

So when you try out https://t.co/Eq4qFkapaH -- you will see 1/2 of the social network we're defining, the writing half. And we will provide example code that shows you how to get started with a great reader app.

And since we're in the age of AI, you will be able to create one if you have an idea, even if you aren't an experienced programmer.

The only part of this that is real today is https://t.co/HKHbBlYMVQ. But we're going to keep going. ;-)

As they say --

Still diggin!

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a lot of myth-making about Starmer's leadership, much of it unchallenged.
It is hard to support the claim Starmer 'saved the Labour party' when he got 560,000 votes fewer than Corbyn in 2019.
2024 was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge.
(via HoC Library).

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@shantirrao @swardley Now I suspect nuclear power on one of moons of Jupiter is our best option for really big AIs

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[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@shantirrao @swardley I realised this too

I used to be very keen on putting AI into close orbit around the sun to get lots of cheap energy. But then I looked into the size of radiators you needed to remove the heat. Coolth will be a scarce and valuable resource in the solar system.

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[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

I had a hot take on the whole #YourParty thing today.

And then I realized. My recommendation. Let's all chill. Sleep on it. Come back tomorrow and see what we can do to come together and NOT turn this into a bigger drama than it already is.

No need to take sides or criticize.

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@LeftieStats I'm not even going to play this stupid game. Everyone should just chill. Sleep on it and see what we can do to pull ourselves back together tomorrow. FFS!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Trump's stolen a lot of workers' wages over the years, but this week, he has become history's greatest thief of wages, having directed his FTC to stop enforcing its ban on noncompetes "agreements," a move that will cost workers $400b over 10 years:

https://t.co/f4IWhfPHSO

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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Terrorism Act was introduced in 2000.

Imagine it was suggested then that its biggest use by far in any year would be against peaceful members of the public holding placards opposing genocide.

That person would be accused of deranged scaremongering.

And yet here we are.

[United Nations @UN]

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza.

Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns @theIPCinfo.

An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives.

https://t.co/U2Dn8O0TS1 — via @WFP

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@RedCollectiveUK @DawnButlerBrent @Keir_Starmer That or Starmer doesn't really understand the meaning of words like "unconditional". Much as he doesn't understand words like "pledge" and "international law".

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

"Why are you obsessing over Gaza!!!!"

A useful summary from @Grok.

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

https://t.co/1tVxqHjl6C

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@zGuz @coinage_media @threadreaderapp unroll

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

Another Patterning pattern adapted to @fx_hash_

https://t.co/7tNd3J5c64

[deCurators @de_Curators]

@interstar teia:: https://t.co/qH4tkKLnN6

objkt:: https://t.co/TySLmmdYo9

[phil jones (he/him - ele) @[email protected] @interstar]

@de_Curators Link?

[虎哥看球 @AlexandreRangel]

I have just collected "proscryota :: genesis" by KT1Nt...WyPpo @de_Curators on @objktcom https://t.co/Mh1beJuvoy