drew mca

pretty stoked for this. i really like the motivation behind semble, but haven’t quite gotten it to click yet in terms of actually using the platform. i have been making use of obsidian though, and publishing some notes.drewmca.net, so being able to intersect those things would be neat.

i’m going to need somebody to help me figure out how to vote in the panama city beach municipal elections

okay this is a cool feature: “no official announcement yet, but a bunch of you guys are asking about it so maybe there was something?”

ha neat, M5.4. only one or two back-and-forth shakes, small enough that it was casual but big enough that it couldn’t have been caused by anything else. only other quakes i’ve been in have felt like a truck driving by.

This is maybe one of the spaces where i feel forced interoperability could make decent progress. one method of anti-trust is to say “hey you’re the big player, you have a responsibility to open up your api / a protocol / etc. what happens if Epic is required to open its equivalent to atproto?

in this case i lean more toward the responsibility falling with epic than individual providers - the method of adoption should be “this is the easiest and best tech to use” rather than being forced to use subpar tech/processes.

This is maybe one of the spaces where i feel forced interoperability could make decent progress. one method of anti-trust is to say “hey you’re the big player, you have a responsibility to open up your api / a protocol / etc. what happens if Epic is required to open its equivalent to atproto?

The Homeless Community That Became a Self-Governed Village

“Dignity Village’s annual operating budget: $60,000, or about $1,000 per person. He said Portland’s city-run tiny home villages cost taxpayers approximately $40,000 per person annually.”

The Homeless Community That Became a Self-Governed Village

Really cool piece from the @subvert.fm coop annual general meeting (at 1:35:20): They went for an optional contribution at checkout, rather than taking a percentage of artist's revenue. They saw an average contribution of 27% per transaction, almost twice as much as bandcamp's mandatory 15%.

"We make more by allowing people to give, rather than taking"

Really cool piece from the @subvert.fm coop annual general meeting (at 1:35:20): They went for an optional contribution at checkout, rather than taking a percentage of artist's revenue. They saw an average contribution of 27% per transaction, almost twice as much as bandcamp's mandatory 15%.

i’m trying to be better at thinking out loud / writing more of my thoughts down, so i put this up in response to a recent piece out of New Consensus on AI and the economy that’ll result from it. @zackexley.bsky.social would love your thoughts 😄 notes.drewmca.net/Thoughts-on-...

Okay so I have an obsidian vault that publishes its notes to my PDS as @standard.site documents, and builds the notes as a static site with quartz.jzhao.xyz. I've hacked it a little bit to also fetch backlinks from the atmosphere via @microcosm.blue, so if you look at this note, you'll see a link!

The MA senate is putting forward the PROTECT Act, as a response to ICE. Part of that is introducing liability of federal officers for violating civil rights like the 4th amendment. Here’s state senator Brownsberger on “so-called qualified immunity.” willbrownsberger.com/protecting-t...

automation is good, the problem is capitalism. reduce the working week, jobs guarantee, a livable minimum wage (or better yet, UBI) all to constrain the labor market and raise wages so that automation targets jobs nobody wants to do.

bro has never heard of the buddha apparently