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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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evan, to random
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If you hear something from a protest that you don't agree with, keep listening. You're the person whose mind they're trying to change.

EricAlper, to random
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On this day in 1982, Vangelis went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Chariots Of Fire', his only U.S. chart-topper.

evan,
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@EricAlper hell yeah

evan, to random
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Buenos Aires is so welcoming. I don't know how they knew I was coming but I keep seeing signs that say "Hi Prodromou"

evan,
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Really thoughtful

evan, to random
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It's perfectly OK for Palestinian Americans and other Arab Americans to organize and lead protests in the US.

evan, (edited )
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@bjb true. I think what I was trying to say was, this should be OK.

evan,
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@dneary matching any string of arbitrary length!?!?

migurski, to random
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I don’t know what RFKjr’s voice sounds like, but I hope it’s something like Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby. “I er ah no longer have live worms in my er ah brain”

evan,
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@migurski His voice is really distinctive! You are in for a surprise.

evan, to random
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Good.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-us-weapons-biden

evan, (edited ) to random
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How important is equality?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan,
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If you are concerned about definitions or vagueness, please read the FAQ first!

https://evanp.me/pollfaq

evan,
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@brooke what do you think it means?

evan,
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@brooke You are doing a terrible job of dissuading me from posting vague, poorly-defined questions. Thank you so much for this! 🙏🏼

evan,
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@Bodling c'est égal

evan, (edited )
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If you're really having a hard time with it, I guess the best thing for me to do is use a more exact language than English. I think the musical language Solresol best captures the essence of this question. I'm attaching a whistled version of the word which I hope clarifies the topic. Here is also a link to the Wikipedia article on Solresol if you need to learn the language really quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol

evan,
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@brooke hth

evan,
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@sean It is supercool, I agree! I think it would make a great secret language.

J12t, to bluesky
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So is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.

I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe is next?

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-07-2024-product-roadmap

evan,
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@J12t @tomcoates cool.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Has the Trump campaign coordinated with the Netanyahu government to keep the war in Gaza going because it hurts President Biden's re-election prospects?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan,
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@panos Absolutely fair point. Sometimes, I do that on purpose, but not this time.

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"I'm so angry at Biden over Isreal/Gaza that I'm going to help Trump destroy democracy, weaponize the Justice system, send millions to deportation camps, lower the taxes on the wealthy and shift the burden to the middle class, cut Social Security, track and prosecute women having abortions, pardon the people who violently attacked Capitol police, dismantle NATO, help Russia, AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT do even more harm to Palestinians" is a take--it's just a really awful take, IMO.

evan,
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@FLGLchicago @augieray

That said: I'm sorry I said buh-bye when you said I was so childish you were going to block me.

I didn't think my post was far off in tone from Augie's. You obviously disagreed.

I could tell you were pretty upset, and I shouldn't have acted as if a block from you didn't matter to me.

Every time someone disagrees with me, it's a chance to learn something new. So, I should have engaged better.

evan,
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@textualdeviance @augieray

In 2016, I was worried he was going to use nukes.

He didn't.

That's why it wasn't as bad as I was worried about.

That doesn't mean it wasn't very bad.

"Not as bad as I was worried about" is a pretty low bar here.

evan,
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@FLGLchicago @augieray 🙏🏼

evan,
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@bananarama @FLGLchicago @augieray OK. Well, I got a chance to say where I stand on a lot of things, which I needed to do at some point anyway.

Flipboard, to fediverse
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Flipboard curators have seen over 100,000 boosts, likes and replies from people across the fediverse since April 11. Given this positive signal from the community, today we're federating another 100 accounts representing more than 2,500 Magazines about everything from climate to culture. Read more here:

https://flipboard.medium.com/over-100-000-social-interactions-from-the-fediverse-to-flipboard-f76465dee4f8

If you’re an active Flipboard curator and you would like to federate your account, let us know by applying here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PB69W6L

And if you’re still getting up to speed on what the fediverse is and does, please check out our Fedi Curious Magazine:

https://flipboard.com/@mia/fedi-curious-fdg527fez

evan,
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@Flipboard thank you for this great work!

evan, to random
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I just dropped my Summer 2024 semester class for so I can concentrate on the Summer of Protocols grant for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I'm pretty bummed; this is my second semester in a row that I've had to drop out. But I just can't hold down a day job, work a full-time role on the grant, and do graduate school classes. It's just too much.

evan,
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@ylarrivee @ConFooCa I can't wait! Will be there.

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