Alright, @mirlo, a #Bandcamp alternative who hangs out here in the Fediverse, is just $55 short of making its Kickstarter goal! Seems very likely they'll be funded at this point, which is great news for musicians and music fans looking to create a better music industry.
If you want to kick in a few dollars (and maybe your donation will be the one that puts them over the top!), here's the link:
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
Some day soon a child will ask “what is the smallest ant in the world?” and discover that, unless they want to become an expert they simply can’t know.
This is the death of polymaths— a hurdle for interdisciplinary learning— and a return to a kind of human gatekeeping for real information: you best ask someone qualified if you are not expert enough to tell on your own. (this was already true for contentious topics, but now it will be everything)
would take any couch to crash on or room to rent practically anywhere in New York or Vermont at this point please boost or inquire within to help a queer couple doing very very bad
Weird that we can't explain a few kubic meters heavy radioactive waste from the NL each year but somehow we can justify pumping our Atmosphere full with toxics each day with our burning engines
"Oehhh all things radioactive are soo scary, we can't setup our grandkids with that" is what they say
But apparently they are totally fine with ruining the climate and expel toxic next where you breath
Until we have something better like fusion we should stick with fission also, but what do I know!🤷
💮 The grant from NLnet has been extended! And @andre 's frontend work is now funded
💮 We're in 2nd review for a new grant, to allow more work thru 2024 & 2025
💮 I'm working on the final piece of the OCAP system vision! Finally!
💮 2 new blog posts! Including a demo!
