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Activation (contd.)
- Running for something
Every layer down this iceberg is good!
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedActivate people! The Activation Iceberg:
- Decision influencing (inform decisions; what products to buy, what people to vote for)
- Indirect action (shares, signatures)
- Direct action - remote (calling, texting, letters)
- Direct action - in person (Protests, speaking at meetings; these don't have the same impact, but they require the same level of activation)If you haven't done this, you will be stunned by how much of an impact you can have by just showing up to local meetings. #NBPy
Mastodon FeedThe Education Data Iceberg:
- Does the data exist?
- Is the data available?
- Is the data searchable?
- Is the data localized: can you look at just your region's data? Your country, your state, your county, your city, your block?
- Is the data personalized? Can you find the data that affects you directly? (This requires the most coding, the most effort, the most data entry, etc)
Mastodon FeedAudience participation time! Turn to someone sitting next to you, and within 90 seconds, tell them something within 50 miles of where you live, that you wish were different. (If you're following along at home, go ahead. Do it now.)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
♬️ POWERMAN 5000 at DNA Lounge tonight: Sun Apr 26, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/04-26.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #powerman5000 #12stones #makesmyblooddance #diamantide #hardrock #metal #numetal #electrometal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco
Attachments:
- gifv: b7ec6cf4f7897dae.mp4
Mastodon FeedWhat is "Resistance"?
You want something to be different, for you, for your community, for the people you care about.
What is a "Shoestring"?
Little to know money. The thinnest budget possible. For any of you who have worked for campaigns or activist organizations, you know that there is often no money.
How do we fit what we want to do into that limited time / money budget?
Mastodon FeedWhy is Philip the right person to give this talk?
- Infra Lead for DevProgress; adjunct to Hilary for America campaign
- after 2016, "which was a personal disappointment for me and I'm sure many others", worked for City of Alameda Democratic Club and East Bay Young Democrats
- VaccinateCA, a volunteer open source org to help match people with open Covid19 vaccination slots
- East Bay Civic Data, which became https://civic.band
Mastodon FeedAnd now: "Running Resistance Tech on a Shoestring", by @phildini who, according to his North Bay Python speaker bio, "TKTKTK". #NBPy
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
RiaResists wrote:
😃I heard shots 😃
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:
Whoever coined the term "Nazi Prom" for the White House Correspondents' Dinner should receive a prize from the first level of the prize wall (erasers, fidget toys, packs of gum)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:
Latest comic: The post-human economy
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
ah boeing, still can't take the speed brakes off automatically when a pilot applies max thrust.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
martin_t ("Martin Taibr") wrote:
@tante Eevee described it best:
"Content" is how you refer to the stuff on a website when you're designing the layout and don't know what actually goes on the page yet. "Content" is how you refer to the collection of odds and ends in your car's trunk. "Content" is what marketers call the stuff that goes around the ads.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
gardevoir@glaceon.social ("gardevoir, pokégirl!") wrote:
NARRATOR: In fair Verona, where we lay our
BEASTIE BOYS: SCENE
Mastodon Feed"""
Saying 'no' is hard and feels bad. But it's much easier if you've clearly defined the scope of your project.Saying 'yes' feels great. But it can have a real cost over time.
"""…and …you should also *write down* the scope of your project.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
One thing I don't see anyone talking about that we probably should is the proliferation of captcha-busting anubis-busting browser-as-a-service services.
It's not that the big model companies are scraping the web and ignoring robots.txt. (Some are, almost certainly, but there are datasets to train on already and they're not scraping random sites so much)
It's that agent _users_ and the people serving them have a very large demand to access information with semi-automated systems. And they're building whole armies of ways around blocking.
Mastodon FeedI am enjoying the shout-out of the original version of Docker Swarm which successfully hid the multi-node nature of a Docker cluster, as opposed to current Docker Swarm which is "just Docker's clone of Kubernetes". For operational security reasons I cannot disclose why but IYKYK
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
is it just me or does the dynatac look like the sort of thing a baddie uses to call up his bomb in a movie?
Mastodon FeedFor JupyterHub: "Should we support Windows? No."
[more nervous laughter]
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i know, i know, the siemens wasn't in saved by the bell
Mastodon Feed"We're busy! Maintaining Jupyter is hard enough"
big mood
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
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sent from my siemens mobiltelefon C1
Mastodon FeedWhy is Jupyter a web app?
"HTML is the UI framework we could get to run on Windows"
[applause, laughter]
Mastodon FeedRE: https://hachyderm.io/@MaggieFero/116472986431768016
okay by the time Maggie is tapping out on liveblogging speed I don't feel so bad about being unable to keep up #NBPy
Mastodon FeedJupyter (writ large) is now 3M lines of code & docs, 407 GitHub repos, 17 GitHub orgs.
Sounds like we have quite a bit of scope here:
"Tools for the lifecycle of a computational idea."
Mastodon FeedMin begins:
What is "scope":
- What are we here to do?
- What problem are we trying to solve?
- What problems are we NOT trying to solve?Being clear about scope gives you the ability to say "no".
Mastodon FeedNext up: "No Project Scope Survives Contact with Users" by @minrk #NBPy
Mastodon FeedThis is all painfully on the nose as far as the mistakes being made today. This paper is going to fill half a dozen citation gaps in my case against AI; I've already written a few times that that even if your LLM automation is *extremely* successful you need a commensurate increase to your L&D budget to avoid catastrophic system collapse later, and it will be great to have such a venerable and comprehensive look at that exact problem. #NBPy
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
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Sent from my DynaTAC 8000X
Mastodon Feedmore from Bainbridge:
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Intervention requires deep expertise of the working system, as well as diagnostic expertise to recover the fault.
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When manual takeover is needed there is likely to be something wrong with the process, so that unusual actions will be needed to control it, and one can argue that the operator needs to be more rather than less skilled, and less rather than more loaded, on average.
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