Seddon

Just made up a new metric and I'm extremely concerned about the new Andor series.

Trailer Time to Destruction.

Andor Season 1 trailer: 104 seconds before an explosion.

Andor Season 2 trailer: 2 seconds

Season 2 runs the risk of abandoning everything good about Season 1

#Andor
#StarWarsAndor

Press: The ones that are safe?
Duffy: Yeah, the ones that don't crash into other planes.

Duffy: Well there are a lot of these helicopters going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that helicopters aren’t safe.
Press: Was this helicopter safe?
Duffy: Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

Press: Senator Duffy, thanks for coming in.
Senator Duffy: It’s a great pleasure, thank you.
Press: This helicopter that was involved in the incident over the Potemac River
Duffy: The one that hit the plane?
Press: Yeah.
Duffy: Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

This. The Wikipedia mobile app is amazing!

Don't try to read tsunami's. Don't try to take a selfie with one. Walk away, briskly, from the beach.

Rotisserie is just a lathe for meat.

Honestly, for all the critique of #agile and #sprints; as someone who has helped a team transition to that approach, it has felt transformational.

The space people still live on twitter. The wikipedia people live on Mastodon. Who lives here?

YouTube video by Off-Nominal Episode 163 (with John Conafay)

we're live with john conafay from integrate!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hgF...

A high school kid reverse engineered #Apple #imessage; made it #opensource; which then got used to build native a iMessage app on #Android for $2/month.

Credit: #snazzylabs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24T...

Have we checked that David Attenborough is okay?

I'm concerned that there is an imbalance in the force and there is now too much wholesomeness in the world...

A tower of blocks. At the top all of the AI chat tools and businesses that exist. All balanced precariously on a small block, Wikipedia, that if removed would result in the whole system collapsing down.

Many AI Model's like ChatGPT are based on #Wikipedia and #Wikidata.

Google, then Siri and Alexa, now its ChatGPT.

All rely on the sum of all human knowledge that, written by volunteers, hosted by a non-profit, the Wikimedia Foundation.

And available for free.

Source:
xkcd.com/2347 (CC BY-NC 2.5)

A wandering mind is a part of my existence that I battle with daily.

Today's example:

The website WikiFeet popped into my mind for no reason whatsoever. I felt compelled to google if someone had created girthipedia... they haven't.
Nor should anyone.

I am sorry for besmirching your feed today.

What does it take to change a long standing Wikipedia policy about not pre-emptively protecting main page featured articles?

Apparently two days of dick pics

Imagine a #discord server... but with everyone on the planet.

Welcome to #threads.

Quick test of IceCubes mastodon/bluesky bridge

BlueSky's tagline should be:

"Everything here is in beta and what isn't is experimental"

Keeping a community like Wikipedia and an organisation like the Wikimedia Foundation moving in a positive direction, takes the efforts of thousands of volunteers and whole lot of patience.

Whatever criticism of the Wikimedia Foundation people have, and whilst staff and volunteers should always ensure the organisation strives for excellence, there are alternate realities where Wikipedia the website dies due to a lack of appreciation of the people who built it... reference by reference.

"Reddit's decision to start charging for API access was introduced as a method to stop tech giants from using Reddit data to grow AI chatbots for free.

The decision killed most third-party apps, including many that Reddit moderators say are critical to their volunteer work."

AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war "Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."

When the Wikimedia Foundation started its Enterprise API project to fund Wikipedia without solely relying on web traffic, I ensured we did so in a manner that was as respectful of the community and our values as was humanly possible.

Reddit and Twitter failed to appreciate what fuels their success

One shot of a kidney protein gave monkeys a brain boost An early experiment suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory.

But will it help motivate me to do the dishes?

NASA to add fourth pair of roll-out arrays to ISS After completing an upgrade to the International Space Station’s power system in June, NASA is moving ahead with plans to add two more solar arrays.

The ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays are 20% lighter and 40% smaller in volume than the original solar arrays but provide just as much power.

4th pair plan to be added to the ISS in 2025 and this technology will be use on the Lunar Gateway.

Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.

The gas cloud that birthed our sun likely protected us from a nearby supernova down to essentially a phase boundary

Today in the UK's covid enquiry we found out that Welsh Government knew that its pandemic preparedness was subpar.

They also knew how they might be able to improve that.

They then reassigned all the people who normally do that work to deal with the shit show that is Brexit.

Seddon is a wikiphilosopher and a scholar, and knows his way around a rock core, a rocket hangar, a mop & bucket, and the wikimedia codebase. Give him a follow: @josephseddon.bsky.social #WikiBlueSky

https://bsky.app/profile/josephseddon.bsky.social/post/3jzmtd75zy522

The failure to understand the public domain to me mirrors the issues that exist with understanding copyleft (free/open) licenses like Creative Commons attribution licenses.

Some people are going to very painfully come to understand what it means to integrate AI works and how it affects IP ownership

Valve says Steam games can’t use AI models trained on copyrighted works "Legal uncertainty" over models means many devs can't establish "appropriate rights."

How AI might be used relies on interesting copyright exercise that is playing out. Real precedents exist that establish content not produced by a human is not copyrightable.

Whilst you might be able to create and sell an AI generated work, if those precedents hold up anyone else could it too.

Europe’s venerable Ariane 5 rocket faces a bittersweet ending on Tuesday After nearly three decades, the Ariane 5 rocket reaches the end of the line.

ESA and the European Space Launch industry find themselves in a real Jam. Ariane 5 is about to have its last launch. Vega-C is currently grounded. Ariane 6 is at least another year away.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/europes-venerable-ariane-5-rocket-faces-a-bittersweet-ending-on-tuesday/