Mastodawn

@wilbr @nick I’ve thought about the possibility that merely possessing that much wealth is immoral/sinful because :

* Wealth that could be used to alleviate suffering just sits doing nothing.
* When Bill Gates or whoever decides to donate millions towards whatever cause, he makes a decision about society’s priorities that should instead be made democratically.
* Spending money on hiring people leverages their survival needs to replace their free will with yours.

Jason Green Apr 29

I mostly agree with this, but it does leave the possibility that a human who doesn’t have access to a massive data repository can only produce “plausible sounding bullshit” if they have some understanding of the facts and semantics. If that assertion is wrong, education has been a mess since the essay supplanted the disputation.

From: @xgranade
https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/114535812260577583

Cassandra is only carbon now (@[email protected])

Thesis: ChatGPT is destroying education, students keep using it to cheat on homework and exams. Antithesis: ChatGPT has no understanding of facts or semantics. Synthesis: Homework and exams don't measure understanding of facts or semantics, and can be fooled by plausible-sounding bullshit.

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Jason Green Apr 13

@dajb Have you seen semble.so ?

Jason Green Apr 12

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Dave Rahardja Apr 11

The most pernicious lie that conservatives promulgate is that the government is the enemy. “I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help,” claimed Ronald Reagan, were supposedly the most terrifying words one can hear.

But in a democracy—and yes, the US is a democracy—the government IS the people. We literally shape it into what we want, and when we want competence, we DO get competence. We have incredible competence in NASA, in NOAA, in FEMA, in NHTSA, in NIH…the list goes on. Denying that isn’t only cynical, it is factually false.

Those who seek to smear “the government” are smearing democracy itself; and they’re insulting your intelligence. Beware people who call everything “waste” and destroy these engines of public service. They are trying to replace the government—our common good—with something they can profit from, which is invariably far worse.

Jason Green Apr 8

@dajb I’ll look up the Google API. Since the JSON files are sitting in a local directory I can access them and attempt a conversion

Jason Green Apr 8

@dajb Is the intake format documented? I’ve got river5 running locally but like this front end and am wondering how hard it would be to get them to talk to each other.

Jason Green Apr 1

I just realize that you don’t need to restrict the functionality of a device ( see @pluralistic ‘s “war on general purpose computing “ ) if you can perfectly track everything that is done with it, say by tying each device to an individual government ID used to verify the user’s age, for example.

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Jason Green Feb 27

@mapache @badgefed You’ve piqued my curiosity. I’m interested in being a tester.

Jason Green Feb 25

Cory Doctorow Nov 5, 2025

CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)
https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative-Aid-to-Computation-/

Jason Green Feb 25

Yves Jeanrenaud Feb 23

I made an app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

The app is now open source (AGPL-3.0), the app is free and rather simple
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making. F-Droid is an option, will have to look into that