This is going to be the quote the leads off my next #TwittterMigration report in Sept:

“We are heading to a kind of ‘unbundling phase’ [on social media] and it’s where I think things like Mastodon and the sort of decentralized social media stuff is really interesting. We are heading back to protocols being really interesting, & exciting, & the future of social is lots of places and not one place & I think that’s probably a good thing.”

- David Pierce @davidpierce
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834419/today-on-the-vergecast-the-future-of-sports-is-the-future-of-tv-and-it-might-just-all-be-youtube

the perfect rug for literally any room can't possibly exis...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1506224408/simpson-in-the-bush-rug-tufted-irregular

Really good post, allegedly from a Googler, that is about the revenge of open-source coming to roost now with AI and LLMs (with echoes of #StochasticParrots & @emilymbender on the folly of really large models):

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

I'm sure my mastodon reach is nearly non-existent, buuut.

I'm strapping on my job helmet. Looking for someone with infrastructure/sre chops? I’ve done a lot of different things including networking, systems automation (terraform, shell, others), refining development environments with Nix. Autoscaling CI builders (didn't even use containers!), automating manual processes to free up QA time, those are the kinds of things I dig. #getfedihired

NPR is the only major journalism org to have shown a spine in dealing with Musk. So he's threatened to give the NPR username to someone else.

Yet even now -- despite Musk's growing contempt for and acts against journalism -- most media organizations and their employees STILL pour their work and some of their advertising money in to his rancid site.

What will it take for journalists to wake the hell up?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign