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Johanna, CanCon variant

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Yer crabby #GenX Internet Auntie. Technology dilettante, feral tech support, fills potholes in the infohighway while trying to make it more human-usable *before* […] 🌉 bridged from https://cosocial.ca/@johannab on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 44m

Shit I almost forgot I’m back on my data sci nonsense as of this week and a course in machine learning started while i was here. Should probably grab the recording i missed

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 53m

Hey, this is neat… just noticed the Ice Cubes app lets me add “remote local timeline” feeds. So i can view the public posts from other small and interesting instances without following everyone directly or needing to find them on the firehose.

This is what I live about the modular tech stack in […]

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1h

@linc

Those 5 principles are spooking me because I don’t think we’ve met but you’re narrating my own thoughts…
I’m at the beginning of a bumpy meander trying to pitch community-first social tech to urbanism and climate orgs. May I add your page to my reference heap?

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2h

@julian well, flair is worse except for the part where they leave from waterloo.😁

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4h

This article i shared the other day has something really important in it that i think fedizens are better prepared to address than most… municipal employees and councillors are not prepared, cognitively, to deal with LLM generated slop.
Many people at #lcf2025 talked about the hours of work time […]

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5h

If this bus route is going to insist on a 40 minute layover in the middle of a 6 km trip, they need a damn coffee counter and a foosball table at this terminal.

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@phillycodehound @anca

Can we have a holiday party? Winter is long and cold.

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@reiver getting something going that could bridge people out of Google Scholar or Academia.edu would be nice. Bonfire Networks test community was academics, no?

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@j12t 🎉🥳🎉🙌🍾🍻😴💤🛌

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7h

@j12t Every session I attended seemed to have a common principle with many of our FediForum topics, and that is *community* is foundational. And this much of what we talked about in “climate action” was community, and what we do to build resilience into community. If your community has […]

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7h

@j12t my 3D conference was subtitled “Acting On Climate Together” and nearly every session was about increasing, rebuilding, or even building for the first time what systems and planning research calls “resilience”. Resilience in a system is not the same thing as resistance to all pressures […]

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Wheee! On top of the poutine binge, I won the sticker bingo draw and got a $500 Air Canada gift card #lcf2025.

But next year’s LCF is a bus ride away, so where’s #fedicon next??? 😝

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@ricmac @jesseplusplus oh, sweet! *yoink*

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@julian

Poutine Bar with Lobster-Emmental Cream Sauce.

See y’all after my cardiologist lets me back out of the ICU.

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@travisfw and here I am being the crossing point of those and the sole weirdo at either… 🤣

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Alright, I’m so sorry #fediforum but #lcf2025 wins in the conference food category. The wrap-up happy hour came with a drink ticket AND A POUTINE BAR.

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

OMG neighbourhood building in action: Okotoks AB has a Block Party Trailer any neighbourhood can borrow for summer weekends. BBQ, chairs, barricades , shades, tools and toys all packed up and they deliver it to your street.

#livablecities

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@reiver @yawnbox

Different needs, different models!

Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@narF , the 3-d conference session I had to run off to is called “Resilience Rooted in Social Connection” and like much of what I went to yesterday, it is all about making community connections first, before we integrate our technologies or our programs. It’s so aligned with what you do and talk […]

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Today I will be doing a quick 10 minute demo of CrowdBucks at FediForum.

#crowdbucks #fediforum

FediForum Demo
CrowdBucks

https://crowdbucks.fund
https://crowdbucks.org

@crowdbucks@mastodon.social

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16h

It really needs to be said - if a number of labour groups are striking, putting their livelihoods on the line, perhaps it's not the government in the right here.

Perhaps these folks don't deserve to be ignored.Just a thought.

#canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@narF oh, no, don’t work around me - it’s too prone to going off-track here, it all depends on how engaging I find the room I’m in. Literally each LCF session overlaps with a FF session.

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #doi.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]

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Johanna, CanCon variant @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@narF I again don’t know how in-and-out I will be, but I really need to apprentice with you and figure out how I can do this sort of thing, here.

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Anca @anca.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Meanwhile, over in ATProto land, we are seeing BlackSky splitting off more formally from BlueSky's AppView and becoming a full-fledged ATProto instance. Will decentralization through splitting work for them? And will there be a @bsky.brid.gy for BlackSky?

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

While not at all trivial to do, Blacksky is in the fortunate position to have the technical talent and money in the bank to make this a trivial decision to do this week

This is different from our community.blacksky.* API which is going on hold (less Barnes & Nobles, more invite-only Book Club) 8/11

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