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> Stripe: Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol

https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol

Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol

We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.

Phil Wolff Mar 11

Anca Mar 11

Hey peeps. If there were a workshop track at a FediForum, what kind of fedi-stuff would you want to learn?

@fediforum

Phil Wolff Mar 8

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116194398720416621

#Cerner is up for grabs from Oracle? Aside from Epic (the privately held #EHR software #saas), who'd be in the market?

Phil Wolff Mar 4

Ben Werdmuller Mar 4

If you’re a small, resource-strapped team, for example in a newsroom, how can you figure out what software is feasible for you to build and maintain? I wrote a guide. https://werd.io/can-we-build-the-dog/

Can we build the dog?

What resource-constrained teams need to ask before writing a line of code

Ben Werdmuller

Phil Wolff Feb 24

Hanse Mina Feb 24

Ukrainians have now lived with four years of war. They have lost limbs, loved ones, livelihoods and homes, but not hope. Here are some of their stories. All posed with photos taken before Russia’s full-scale invasion changed their lives.

https://apnews.com/photo-essay/ukraine-photo-essay-portraits-anniversary-war-d7bb463924e7cad9cfaa45e59600fc60

#Ukraine #Russia

Phil Wolff Feb 20

Bruce Sterling @bruces Feb 20

Phil Wolff Feb 3

Josh Shapiro, #PA governor, calls for data center developers to "commit to pay for their own power, hire locally, be transparent with #Pennsylvania communities and adhere to high water-conservation standards." ALSO: they should put down a security deposit to pay for when they abandon their facilities (like the fracking companies), leaving toxic ruins. #AI chips/servers go obsolete fast, the economics are high risk, and the negative externalities are large.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/josh-shapiro-unveil-plan-managing-data-center-boom-pennsylvania-rcna257087

Josh Shapiro to unveil plan for managing the data center boom in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential 2028 presidential contender, will unveil a set of state guidelines Tuesday for dealing with the explosive growth of data centers as he wades further into an issue that is playing a growing role in politics and election campaigns

NBC News

Phil Wolff Jan 21

FediForum Jan 21

On March 2, we are going to try something different. Something in addition to the regular twice/year FediForum un-conference (so don't worry).

We will run an un-**workshop**, on a topic that many in the community have told us is very pressing for them:

How do we grow the Open Social Web?

When Elon bought Twitter now over three years ago, and every time X has been rocked by scandal since, many people expected a big exodus to decentralized social media platforms based on open protocols.
1/3

Phil Wolff Jan 19

Show thread

Jason Shellen Jan 19

Sympathy without transformation is insufficient.

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” - Martin Luther King Jr. in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Do_We_Go_from_Here:_Chaos_or_Community%3F?wprov=sfti1