"Just like labor law gave workers associational rights to meet the workplace conditions of mass industrial capitalism, so too can associational data rights give data producing communities associational rights to meet the mass, aggregate cultural production conditions of informational capitalism."

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12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?

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Plus it doesn’t need a browser context, so you can now convert mermaid to SVG server-side too!

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Not a huge user of the @winesky.app search feature myself, but glad that @knowtheory.net and @tessa.germnetwork.com insisted it was necessary, because some users rely on it heavily.

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Exactly; but we might have invented a million monkeys who are not randomly hitting the search space but are somewhat directed. It's not intelligent but it might be good enough to be a modern mechanical turk (which, ironically, was intelligent).

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