It's GAME DAY! 👏
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I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Human Web Collective.
It is a #fediverse social web forum, powered by #PieFed, with the express goal of promoting #ProCraft tools, services, and creators who believe in an ecosystem for the humans, by the humans.
The power lies with we, the people. Rather than simply complain about the bait-and-switch of digital media morphing into the Torment Nexus, let's build our alternative!
Welcome to the Resistance. 😎
https://humansare.social
Hey fedi friends, I have rebooted my membership program Intuitive+. 😃
If anything I have written or podcasted in recent times has brought you joy or thoughtful contemplation, this is how to support my efforts. It's $5/month or $25/6 months.
Yeah it's scary trying to shift into a career in which very few people make money, but I am taking this quite seriously! And there aren't a lot of fediverse-first people out there doing this, so your support means the world to me. 🙏
https://plus.intuitivefuture.com
Hello friends!
Just a reminder, I often don't post about specific technologies on my personal account here.
If you're into #WebDev, follow @vanillaweb@intuitivefuture.com
If you're into #Ruby, follow @fullstackruby@ruby.social & @bridgetown@ruby.social
If you're into #Linux / #Mac and coverage of online #tech, follow @theinternet@intuitivefuture.com
Finally, I post #Portland & #PNW photography on Pixelfed: @essentiallife@pixelfed.social
Cheers! ☺
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It’s time I crank up the search for new work to 11, because wow I really need it.
Bottom line: you bring me aboard your web publishing or software team because there are many fires vying for your attention and I figure out which ones to put out first.
My CV: https://jaredwhite.com/cv/
My biz site: https://www.whitefusion.studio
I'm design-focused: smooth fast UX & providing delightful experiences. Deep frontend, full-stack, and open source expertise.
Boosts greatly appreciated!
#FediHire #GetFediHired
Sure got some high-caliber smarts over there on the former birdsite. IroncladDev, firing guns by day, posting DHH memes by night, and making fun of "angry slum-dwelling indians" along the way.
Stay classy!
The “Plan Vert” open letter to request that #Ruby on #Rails disassociate from DHH is only 7 signatures away from reaching 100.
It includes a former Rails core member, Eugen Rochko creator of Mastodon, Aaron Sumner of Everyday Rails, Ryan Bigg author of many Rails books, Lucas Dohmen author of “The Rails Way” series, Peter Boling maintainer of OAuth gems, Denis Defreyne creator of nanoc, and many others.
This is a significant milestone!
Have you signed the letter yet?
https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter
Tobi Lütke y'all. CEO of Shopify y'all. 🤡
The good news is all their blustering and peacocking is in fact a sign that the critics are getting under their skin. They simply are unable to ignore us, so they mock and jeer us.
Keep it up folks! Nothing bothers them more than the truth.
Sure got some high-caliber smarts over there on the former birdsite. IroncladDev, firing guns by day, posting DHH memes by night, and making fun of "angry slum-dwelling indians" along the way.
Stay classy!
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BREAKING NEWS 📣
The creator of the most popular #OpenSource #Rails application as measured by GitHub stars (Mastodon), none other than @Gargron@mastodon.social himself, has signed the “Plan Vert” open letter calling for Rails Core and the #Ruby community to cut ties with DHH.
The symbolic importance of this act cannot be overstated. This is HUGE. Mastodon is approaching Rails itself in stars with 49.1k vs. 57.6k.
This and more in my latest #RubyCentralTakeover update here:
https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith
Tobi Lütke y'all. CEO of Shopify y'all. 🤡
The good news is all their blustering and peacocking is in fact a sign that the critics are getting under their skin. They simply are unable to ignore us, so they mock and jeer us.
Keep it up folks! Nothing bothers them more than the truth.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 📣
The creator of the most popular #OpenSource #Rails application as measured by GitHub stars (Mastodon), none other than @Gargron@mastodon.social himself, has signed the “Plan Vert” open letter calling for Rails Core and the #Ruby community to cut ties with DHH.
The symbolic importance of this act cannot be overstated. This is HUGE. Mastodon is approaching Rails itself in stars with 49.1k vs. 57.6k.
This and more in my latest #RubyCentralTakeover update here:
https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith
It's GAME DAY! 👏🎉🥳
I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Human Web Collective.
It is a #fediverse social web forum, powered by #PieFed, with the express goal of promoting #ProCraft tools, services, and creators who believe in an ecosystem for the humans, by the humans.
The power lies with we, the people. Rather than simply complain about the bait-and-switch of digital media morphing into the Torment Nexus, let's build our alternative!
Welcome to the Resistance. 😎
https://humansare.social
Honestly! This is a daily damper on my mental health, partially curable only through a strict regimen of frequent walking and e-scooting around the charming streets of Portland. 😅
https://sfba.social/@EricBono/115022985048669465
Here it is.
I'm laying it on the line. Because I really do believe that the future of the Internet is a bifurcated one.
We are barreling towards a network completely centralized and mediated by automated "thinking machines" and the powerful elites who control them. We MUST resist. And we have the power to do so.
Solutions won't come easy, but every step in the right direction matters.
Please consider these words carefully and share with a friend. ✌️
https://buttondown.com/theinternet/archive/a-tale-of-two-cyberspaces/
You can ask a chatbot “what is it like to love and be loved" and generate endless treatises over the course of the next several years on the topic.
And yet the chatbot has no knowledge of what it's like to love and be loved. None whatsoever.
This sort of feels like Philosophy 101, so I'm surprised and more than a little concerned that a supposedly smart person is making this basic category error.
You can ask a chatbot “What color is the sky on a clear day?” and it might answer "Blue.”
That is not knowledge. That is data.
Because the chatbot doesn't “know” what “blue” is. It has never seen it. It has never contemplated it. It has never recalled the sensation of having seen it. It has no opinion on if it likes blue or hates blue—even if any extruded text happens to claim to have an opinion on the matter.
*Data.*
Not knowledge, wisdom, nor experience.
0’s and 1’s. Math. That's all.
"It makes me feel, in some sense, like a very imperfect, flawed structure compared with these computational systems that have, you know, a million times or a billion times more knowledge than I have and are a bilion times faster," Hofstadter says.
Huh, that is an odd statement. I have infinite times more knowledge than any computational system, as well as being infinitely faster at nearly all tasks humans engage in…because I am a human and not a computer.
https://hachyderm.io/@pa/114994874721549525
You can ask a chatbot “what is it like to love and be loved" and generate endless treatises over the course of the next several years on the topic.
And yet the chatbot has no knowledge of what it's like to love and be loved. None whatsoever.
This sort of feels like Philosophy 101, so I'm surprised and more than a little concerned that a supposedly smart person is making this basic category error.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊
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