It is easy to hate on intellectuals over rich people, cause for many it is easy to dream that someday they will be rich, but very difficult to dream that someday you will be smart.

@pvonhellermannn Thank you. I am so tired of my work being treated as content for mining. ;-(

@vincentbiret @misterjoshua Ha! I love it. For my ancestors it was all about money. ;-)

@misterjoshua Me too. Many voices in my head as I leave each room too! ;-)

Do you ancestors influence how you turn off or leave on lights around your house?

Poppy is 99% watch dog, with very little do anything about it dog. Just watch. That is it.

@remoquete Do you have to wear retro clothes when operating?

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Modern cars have sensors, cameras, GPS for location tracking, and more, all collecting data—and it turns out in many cases, sharing it. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/cars

Poppy and I wait outside of the Alvin Ailey dance studio every Friday night in Hells Kitchen waiting for Audrey to finish her ballet class -- you can see them dancing in the cracks of the window.

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Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: write.as/fediversalist-papers/

Paper: fediverse-governance.github.io

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm

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