Posts by johannab@cosocial.ca
(DIR) Post #B466dB7xHt3o5AT2G0 by johannab@cosocial.ca
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@azonenberg @iftas Every day I am more and more aware that I am An Old now.Because yeah, WHY WOULD YOU NAME YOUR SKIPPY-HAPPY-AI-BUT-NOT-BAD-AI COMPANY AFTER XENOMORPH LARVAE...apparently The Kids These Days mean this thing: 🤗
(DIR) Post #B4fgPeIiQAwjOHwhFo by johannab@cosocial.ca
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Horrible, evil situation in a very well written article.Another reason to hate the hype of so-called “AI” is that it lets us all get distracted by a false veneer of misplace blame, and the real life-or-death problems the US is failing to fix go unquestioned. Yeah, there was so-called “AI” involved here, in an encoded algorithmic bureaucracy that Google noped out of almost a decade ago, and Palantir implemented instead in 2018.It’s still using decade-old inputs.https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
(DIR) Post #B5lvOtMPefmNrx2z9U by johannab@cosocial.ca
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116484128621840238This is a very important thread full of thoughts on funding, and hence governance, if you are in the chronically cash strapped space of innovation for social good. Highly relevant to both the conferences I tripped into today. #fediforum participants I think have many concerns here, collectively.RT: https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116484128621840238
(DIR) Post #B5lvOtcMhMXWfQVj16 by johannab@cosocial.ca
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You know what would fix nearly all of our governance problems?Universal Basic Income.That, and proper proportional representation, but UBI first so people can eat well enough to think about voting.
(DIR) Post #B5lvOwn6truwVcYqgK by johannab@cosocial.ca
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Hey there. I'm picking up new followers "here" (from various Mastodon etc instances) and "there" (now at least 3 services running on AT Proto). It's probably time I review my technical context because my fragmentation can be confusing.I have multiple accounts across 2 AT Proto hosts and ... I've lost track, 7? active ActivityPub instances. And the @anewsocial bridge that connects those two standards-based frameworks. I appear as "johannab" on most, but not all. It's weird, I know, ... 1/2
(DIR) Post #B5lvOxn9BDXbc1aONU by johannab@cosocial.ca
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... and if you're finding my blather incoherent, but are still interested in some of it, I recommend you ONLY follow:ATProto: @johannab.ca (Bluesky, Blacksky, Gander, etc)ORActivityPub: @johannab Those are my single, most active account via two views. I reside in the ActivityPub realm but appear across the bridge in the ATProto realm, same posts. Follow one, not both, or you'll see me cloned."Normal" folks, you can exit here.Open web nerds, next post ...
(DIR) Post #B5lvOyjdfkKSXQx6Y4 by johannab@cosocial.ca
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... I have, in a not entirely orderly way, made myself a self-documenting guinea pig for testing open social integrations. If I can be a useful though chaotic, entirely human and not automated, workflow trial for anyone actually developing apps, platforms or connectivity tools, let me know. I'm a nearly-finished grad student who will be working on a "social infrastructure" capstone May-Aug, and I really want to retool my professional leanings into open social spaces.
(DIR) Post #B5q6gKcbQblJT8yhKy by johannab@cosocial.ca
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OK, because I've now gotten into 3 unintendedl #UBI dust-ups in a week, I kinda got my take on why *I* think it's do-able down to something a bit more concise. We cannot have it work if we argue that it should be needs-based, value-based, time-limited, it should be services instead, it should replace housing or health or anything, or if it is in anyway "for me but not for THAT GUY THERE". (in fact that last one is fascism, I will not take further questions on that).Universal.Basic.Income.
(DIR) Post #B5q6gL0hyz2ofuFwuW by johannab@cosocial.ca
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Universal: yes we mean everyone. Me, you, my rich old great-aunt who's going to leave me her mansion when she dies, even the asshole who was selling his US warehouses to ICE.Basic: It assures you of adequate calories, livable shelter for your climate, and a week's worth of clean knickers, thrift-store clothes and the toonies for the odd laundry day.Income: It's cash. It's not coupons, vouchers, charity, a socialist take on crypto, workfare or anything else that leaves a recipient beholden.
(DIR) Post #B5q6gNzOuImTuifRmy by johannab@cosocial.ca
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So, the initials are non-negotiable. Some other things are non-negotiable too. You do not fund it at the expense of any, and I mean *ANY* other social benefit program, and you do not fund it out of *anyone's* pension, or anyone's *registered* savings (RSPs, pension funds, Canada Pension, RDSPs - off the table).Basically, you cannot trade a *non*universal basic *anything* for the U.You do not trade anyone's *personal* Basic anything for B.Cash is cash. no trading the I.
(DIR) Post #B5q6gOtPY3aGiQsB5k by johannab@cosocial.ca
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Where's the money? We have it. You shift the structure.1) are there other benefits to which we have universal *entitlement* but not universal *access*? Those are a *guaranteed* Basic Income, and become absorbed into *universal* Basic Income-- Old Age Security-- EI/Federal Disability Leave/parental leave/caregiver leave (with a stipulation that provinces and companies *absolutely are not permitted* to cut their benefits in kind, as those are not Universal nor Basic in the first place).
(DIR) Post #B5q6gPpC5DnxbduK9o by johannab@cosocial.ca
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2) are there top-up, sorta-not-quite-basic programs that only some people can access? CCB, Education grants, I probably don't know all the other *refundable* tax credits that you can only claim if your 12-year-old plays enough hockey to be scouted by the NHL. Roll all those in, *provided* a UBI assures the same or better to the recipients. That is, you yoink the Canada Education Savings Grant, but yes, *children* get UBI (at a lower, graduated rate in trust to their parents).
(DIR) Post #B8OYfcUQFDEtrl3sPY by johannab@cosocial.ca
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@Gargron send them your consulting rates and terms, 50% retainer due up front.