John Abbe (aka Slow)

@slowenough
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Lover of #life, #wiki, #commons, #community, #nonviolence, #anarchy, #abolition, #accountability, #conversation, co-intelligence, #WholeSystems #Design, various people & groups, & cookies. He/they. Parts of my heart can still be found in #NewEngland, #SFBayArea, & #SriLanka, but now I'm NW of Normal in #Eugene, #KalapuyaCounty (#LaneCounty), #Oregon. #PNW #Earth Sol System, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea Supercluster, Pisces Cetus Supercluster Complex #fedi23 #WaterIsLife
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The next Solidarity Share Fair is will be on Sunday, May 31st! 12-4pm @ Eugene Park Blocks (8th and Oak)
Volunteer! Donate! Provide a service! Come get free food, supples, and services. Listen to music and hang out. <3
https://solidaritysharefair.org
Starting from a post here yesterday, I have begun a project developing a list of different kinds of lists. It's gotten quite a bit longer than it started, and will certainly get even longer. At least one other project is likely to draw heavily from it. https://eqpa.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/lists/ #projects
Lists

I’ve been collecting and making lists much more consciously for the last few years. There are many particulars to what kinds of lists I work on most intensively — reading and/or writing. I in…

Equanimous Passion
When you suddenly become aware that someone has signed you and all these other folks up for ad hoc, global, intergenerational, interspecies systems improv. #ShowerThoughts

What are some kinds of lists you make? I've covered myriad bases here, but there are definitely more:

Identification/membership/category lists - big one, includes everything from bird types, language families, car models, philosophers, …)

invitation lists - events, projects

rubrics - lists of criteria to determine who can be nominated to win a prize, or the qualities needed for a machine part

todo lists

music playlists

supply & shopping lists (for a given goal, general stock-up, or fun!)

BREAKING: Israel's parliament has approved the death penalty BY HANGING as the default for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

Meanwhile, multiple human rights orgs including Israeli orgs like B'TSalem confirm that Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity and face no accountabilty.

This is what apartheid looks like and shame on anyone gaslighting otherwise

Tonight! Watch EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show at 11 pm ET and PT. She'll be speaking with host Jon Stewart about her long history of fighting for privacy online and her new book, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/effs-cindy-cohn-daily-show-tonight-monday-march-30
EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show! Tonight Monday, March 30

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and PT, speaking with host Jon Stewart. Cindy will discuss her long history of fighting for privacy online and her new book, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
accidentally shot an album cover today

TIL Woz built his own Pong from scratch.

And his own TV Arpanet terminal. o_O

(The Arpanet more or less became the Internet.) https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl #ComputerHistory

How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a revolution.

Fast Company

If Israel (& backers) freed *and* partnered with Palestine, would that not express Jewish values better than the current relationship?

If Israel freed and partnered with Palestine, would they not make some of the best allies against any local antagonists?

If Israel freed and partnered with Palestine, would Iran not struggle to find something as compelling to target Israel over?

If...would that not support Israelis to focus on holding their own leadership accountable?

So many benefits.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@novafuture/116278692054931979

On LLMs / AI: "For me it’s more an engineering problem to fix and not a moral problem to solve. I’m not worried about it taking my job because I’m the one training the models as well. I agree with people on one thing however. It ruined the market totally for junior developers and that makes me very sad. We need more juniors in tech, please please."