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robin

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Governance & Standards at @protocollabs — Former NYT, W3C TAG, science.ai — Privacy, Web, Science, Politics, Philosophy. (he/him/Ishmael)

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freakonometrics, to random French
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avec un peu de retard, en ce jour d'éclipse, j'apprends la disparition d'Hubert Reeves... https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science/799930/astrophysicien-quebecois-hubert-reeves-est-plus"L’astrophysicien québécois Hubert Reeves est «parti rejoindre les étoiles»"

robin,
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@freakonometrics Ah, c'est toute mon enfance!

robin, to random
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This is the kick-off post in a series in which I'm going to explore things that we could change about the Web. I look forward to being wrong in public a lot, hopefully in useful ways!
https://berjon.com/next-web/

robin,
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@fabrice I'm glad you zoomed in on that — there's literally a whole book behind that sentence :-D

robin,
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@simonstl It broke while I'm away from my computer 😭

robin,
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@simonstl Yes, I managed to kick it from my phone 😁

robin,
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@Edent Thank you!

robin,
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@smallcircles @u24 Yup, I don't have an email thing, only old fashioned feeds. I guess I could add an email if there's a way to automate it.

robin,
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@giardino_punk Thank you, I hope you'll enjoy the rest!

robin, to random
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This is a test of gobo.social, which can cross-post on Bluesky and Mastodon (and others):

Go read my https://berjon.com/internet-transition/, it's good for you!

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@ultrazool @PenguinJunk I think it has to start with identifying the domains where we can establish commons that readily beat extractive alternatives. Solidify those, use the margins to take over the next one.

ntnsndr, to random
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Should American English just give up and refer to organizations with plural pronouns like everyone else, and like Americans do verbally anyway?

robin,
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@ntnsndr Why stop there? 😇

ntnsndr, to random
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OMG I am so sick of bouncing back and forth between Mastodon and Bluesky, can we please just integrate them now?

robin,
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@twaring @ntnsndr AP isn't necessarily the most wonderful spec, it's a protocol built by document people. Mimicking the email model is arguably not the best idea. The Bluesky arch is to take the components of a unified social network and split them apart so they can be operated separately, then enable federation & alternative provision for each.

Without touching debates on other relative merits, there are very legitimate reasons why you'd want to try something other than AP.

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robin,
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@tiago @academicchatter Bluesky feeds are also used a lot for academics to anchor communities.

I agree that QTs are a major limit for quality discourse, you can't boost and add. Another thing that doesn't help is the mansplaining culture on Mastodon.

That said, I'm not convinced that AP federation has stronger decent properties. It's basically email and email is captured. So it might not be a major issue?

freakonometrics, to random French
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Tous les ans, c'est pareil, je suis fasciné par ces relents nationalistes dans les descriptions des prix Nobels comme cet article qui caractérise les chercheurs et chercheuses par leurs nationalités, alors que sur l'image, seule leur affiliation universitaire fait mention d'un pays...

robin,
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@freakonometrics À chaque fois les notifications des médias français ne mentionnent que la nationalité et pas le travail récompensé. Ça me rend dingue.

mariafarrell, to random
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I normally don't mind missing the IGF (internet governance forum) but this year it's in japan where I so keenly want to go, so my TL will be filling up with people there

and sure, I'm glad I don't have to be in conference-world and going from room to room listening to cliches and trying to dodge status games,

but I still kind of wish I was there!

robin,
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@mariafarrell Do you have thoughts for @chadkoh who is going but doesn't have experience? A couple of us tried to help but we've not done IGF either. https://talk.fission.codes/t/internet-governance-forum-2023-kyoto-pregame/5157

ntnsndr, to random
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Should academic journal contributors be able to vote out the editors?

robin,
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@ntnsndr What better accountability mechanism?

robin, to random
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I wonder if it isn't time for a public campaign to call out the Mozilla Board on the fact that they are doing nothing whatsoever to hold the CEO accountable despite years of obvious mismanagement.

Thoughts?

robin,
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@fabrice @dale I was about to say a lot of what Fabrice said. Yes it's a hard problem and yes people have completely dumb ideas. That doesn't mean that it's not painfully obvious that a different direction is needed and won't happen under current conditions. People like Fabrice (or me 😁) have ideas that aren't dumb, it's not like it's hopeless!

robin,
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@bkoehn And you should be open to the idea that maybe I know what I'm talking about.

robin,
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@arod Sure, a coop (but maybe not just of its workers) would make a lot of sense.

karlcow, to random French
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We often tell how terrible search engines (on the Web) became and are wondering if there is a way to improve or fix them, but we don't ask ourselves if we need them in the first place, and more exactly what do we need to access information or navigate/curate our needs for specific purposes.

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@karlcow I think they are. I think that only web nerds imagine that browsers and search engines are different products, for most users they're exactly the one same thing. (And users are right, you can't just have naming.)

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law
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Today. ‘Beyond Data Protection Conference: Regulating Information and Protection against Risks of the Digital Society’. Fun! Organised by Nadya Purtova
https://infolegproject.net/beyond-data-protection-conference-2023/

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@Frederik_Borgesius Oh wow, I love this angle, wish I could be there!

robin,
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@Frederik_Borgesius It would have been awesome to see you there! I'm considering moving back to Europe, this is another data point in favour :)

robin, to random
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Google testified in court today that click data does not matter to search.

I take it this means that we can now remove the ping attribute from HTML?

robin,
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@doriantaylor I'm tempted to file a PR against HTML citing Google's testimony. Very tempted.

robin,
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@doriantaylor No, that would make it irresistibly hilarious 😂

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