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Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Serco’s immigration detainees, The Guardian
'Imagine there’s a secret rating that dictates where you sleep and whether you are forced to wear handcuffs to a doctor’s appointment. And imagine that rating is based on incorrect information or unfair assumptions about the type of person you are.'

As the Dad of a 21-week preemie who died, a 23-week preemie who lives, and as a 30-week preemie myself.
No: not if it means offering more traumatized parents more uncertain efforts to save ever smaller babies.
It is already soul-flaying to have an early preemie. Many die. How a 23-week preemie *or a 30-week preemie* fares is a dice toss.
(My attempt to elaborate on that was just too hard.)

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image An artificial womb could build a bridge to health for premature babies Artificial wombs could someday save babies born very prematurely. Even though the experimental technology is still in animal tests, there are mounting questions about its eventual use with humans. #press https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/12/1241895501/artificial-womb-premature-birth?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Revealed: the secret algorithm that controls the lives of Australia‘s Serco’s immigration detainees
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2024/mar/13/serco-austral…

Q&A with Claire Leibowicz, the head of the AI and media integrity program at the Partnership on AI, on male domination in the industry, responsible AI, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/09/wome

Women in AI: Claire Leibowicz, AI and media integrity expert at PAI | TechCrunch
Claire Leibowicz, profiled as part of TechCrunch's series on women in AI, is an AI and media integrity expert at the Partnership on AI.

Animation, rooted in imagination, has long had the power to amplify human feelings and heighten reality.
But in “Particle Ink,” animation enters our reality,
as #Particle, for instance,
leaps from wall to pillow,
dashes across a bed curtain
and cries into a physical bucket.
“I wish I was 3-D,” Particle scrawls at one point on the wall,
but the show makes us beli…

'Particle Ink' in Las Vegas: Animation enters its live-theater era
Think of "Particle Ink," an exploration-focused production that invites guests to wander from room to room, as a sort of next-generation “Sleep No More.”

kwh, wealth, old age,
examining something reminds me diverse backgrounds can uncover weird discrepancies in averages of data, or in what you yourself consider "typical".
asked contact list about how much power they use.
one of them made an order of magnitude more kwh than the rest (they're also a c-level executive)
talked about how 3 fridges, a pool, and a hot-tub "stuff comes with age" (but also that they're "trying to be energy efficient")
I mean... not all of the old people on the list have big houses like that. I think that might just be an executive thing?
but it's also like...
I think comparison is a useful tool to realize some parts of our lives go unchallenged.
also, some mistakes in my methodology:
- heating/cooling in different regions vastly changes
- not including power usage from gas heaters vs all electric houses
- not controlling for heating/location
I actually don't think the point would be to get grumpy at them, but to understand that they had zero clue they were 10x energy users

Going back to 1970, 560 people died on Norwegian roads. Now, there may be years in which fewer than 100 people die in traffic accidents.
These statistics are even more surprising when you consider that there are three times as many cars on the roads in Norway now as in 1970.

The Glasgow Embedded CoC also doesn't make any binary nor categorical moves. The categories listed are clearly examples, stated with the resigned sigh of "you're going to make me list some specifics aren't you? Fine, here's some things, you get the gist.” — this is good! Problems aren't always covered by a specific list, and it leaves enforcement much more qualitative than quantitative or categorical. Not "if (bad) yeet()", but “hey, you're being a jerk, can you tone it down?”
For the scale of project this is absolutely the right way to go.