mastodon 4.5.18Programmer turned lawyer and community guy.
Current: Sonarsource, Creative Commons, OpenET, California HDF, 415/94110, dad.
Previously: Tidelift, Wikimedia, Mozilla, Open Source Initiative, GNOME, LegOS, Duke, 305/MIA, more.
I’d love a good think piece from one of the Wikimedia organizational sociologists on why/how the only “thank” button *that requires confirmation* is on Wikipedia, a site that nominally loves pro-social behavior.
I use anecdotal stories about AlphaFold’s impact, alongside astronomy after the printing press, as an example of how new tech can change the day-to-day of research. In the wake of AF’s shutdown, I did a mini lit review:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold#Reception_and_adoption
Kudos to Software Freedom Conservancy for optimistically engaging with a new generation of people potentially empowered by software.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/
New post: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Am looking at a lot of graphs of Wikipedia readership tonight and this is the only good one.
RE: https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116424709251813699
literally, not all free software people. But ... yeah way too many.
Hrm. Some intrepid SF geoguesser has to be able to figure out which Mission alley this is?
https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/116995343749765008
New post: Collaboration: a Confused Story in Five Graphs
Everyone is talking this summer about @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social ’s Odyssey — and you should read it! it is excellent! — but let me also put in a pitch for Zachary Mason’s Lost Books of the Odyssey. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-books-of-the-odyssey-a-novel-zachary-mason/a56a409fbc4c6bbd
I have closed up openml.fyi!
Open is still very relevant for LLM, and vice-versa. But the changes LLM is wreaking are so seismic that my theorizing feels rudderless to me. So I’m taking a break, to reground my compass in the work.
Read more about why in the post: https://www.openml.fyi/openish-is-dead-long-live-openish/
The new Montmartre finish of the Tour de France is maybe the greatest spectacle in sports? Utterly wild.
(And I had to leave Paris yesterday. Only a little bitter about that.)
“Tyranny of Agent Structurelessness”
Is this a thing? I am afraid that by thinking it it will manifest somehow
Welp just got into a screaming match with a Tesla driver who was violating several traffic laws at once, including a high-speed blind pass around two cars and some mid-street curbs, directly at me in the crosswalk.
With a kid in his back seat.
In front of a playground.
squeeeee
That is all.
Do you need a Little Guy in your life? (Hint: You do!)
Highly recommend these Little Guys.
From: @moonrabbit@sunny.garden
https://sunny.garden/@moonrabbit/116482706364417112
This seems like a pretty good starting list.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhqy3k3huardpoxy7p6srekf/post/3mknslnmcwk2s
Always enjoy showing close neighbors that our streets are shaped the way they are because it used to have a street car line. In this case, the gradual curve necessary for trains means cars take it at high speed.
