Johannes Ernst

YouTube just showed me a Google Gemini ad.

I have no idea what they just said. Something something bewildering new era.

What?

Immediate reaction: I’m tempted to short them.

Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/building-activitypub-day-1/

Fascinating how quickly COVID variants still change. The currently dominant strain basically didn’t even show up on the chart in March.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-summary

The fediverse needs something like this.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/x-pushes-more-users-to-communities/

The #Fediverse is like a startup in many ways.

Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!

Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.

This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!

History of science fiction. Interesting.

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

@andre The first sentence was intended to be the positive part, didn't it come across as such?

I believe both the what-we-want and what-others-want-that-we-don't-want needs to be articulated.