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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah idk, I feel like last year's statement was good and if they said something more... questionable this year, probably some people were just being really pushy about "please shit on AI". As far as I'm concerned everyone looks pretty bad here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ah dammit, sorry about that. I think it might be dynamic because I didn't have it the first time I visited

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well it's about books. I'd be happy to crosspost to a better place if I missed it :)

 

The 404 Media team wrote about what they learned in their first year of 404 Media, and it’s full of hope.

 

An instant classic, Daniel Lavery’s How to win the battle against objects shares an extremely healthy strategy based on blaming an inanimate appliance and a person (who isn’t yourself) for anything inconvenient that happens to you. My partner and I have been practicing hard and I’m sorry to say they’re naturally gifted (and I’m naturally infuriated).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises as for-profit social media.

What has been done on the Fediverse is taking these systems and making them less addictive. Basically, they have all the problems of for-profit social media, but for-profit social media snowballs these problems and puts them at the core of their business model. The issue without the several layers of « making it worse because money » is not nearly as bad. But I do believe it's a « lesser evil » thing, at least for our brains and ability to interact with people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh, I didn't know, thanks very much for the correction!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the author, but I'm on Linux and Android and the apps I see on Notion Calendar are for Windows and Mac for desktop and for iOS on phone.

I've tried the web client a bit when it came out but it just didn't really click for me (as in, I didn't see how it would be better than any email client that has an integrated calendar). Also, calendar web clients just don't answer the issue, in my opinion. And regular Notion is slow and clunky in my experience, so I haven't given them the benefit of the doubt on the Calendar part of their tooling. :)

 

Basically asking: who is the Wikimedia Community? Readers? Developers? Contributors?

And how can we serve them if we can't define who they are?

 

We are already making change, but to make more we need to reaffirm the foundations of the web: that the web is for people. We need to go out and shout from the rooftops that the web can be different. To do so effectively, we all need to be the change we want to see in the web. I do this by being myself on my personal website, and by sharing my writing on my site actively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks I'll check out more of her work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
  1. Yes but make it co-op. Bandcamp's business model led to poor HR practices during merges and acquisitions.
  2. I really don't think it would require a millionnaire, actually - it sounds like a project that wouldn't be super complex with a team of 3 or 4 people.
  3. I've seen people do similar things on Itch.io and on their own website so I don't think the barriers are really there!
  4. I love the idea :)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

and has a PhD about it*

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Paris doesn't need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)

Otherwise yes sounds right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.

  • Industrial revolution
  • Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
  • 1946 to 1970 is "les trente glorieuses", the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
  • The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
  • The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
  • 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Just started The daughter of Doctor Moreau yesterday.

Before that, Rana Joon and the one and only now was absolutely wonderful and I really recommend it.

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