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Here’s a great example of how the decentralized web can be awesome – WordPress now integrates with ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon (and soon, maybe, Threads) allowing your blog posts to be pushed into the social web…. and then have the social replies added automatically to your wordpress post as comments!
I’m jazzed to try it out.
TechSoup Connect Western Canada is hosting a free online workshop for nonprofits on June 20. This will be a practical workshop about how to write better prompts. I hope to see you there!
“The guide to everything Impact DAO, the future of organizing for good. A book written by a DAO for those who want to build their own DAOs”
How do we value Public Good Technology? — crank.report“My monetization strategy is to ask you for money over and over.” I’m not kidding. That’s exactly how the grant system is set up. It doesn’t work well for any of us.
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
By Ted Chiang
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
“We should all strive to be Luddites, because we should all be more concerned with economic justice than with increasing the private accumulation of capital. We need to be able to criticize harmful uses of technology—and those include uses that benefit shareholders over workers—without being described as opponents of technology.”
After several years on hiatus, TechSoup Connect Western Canada is returning to in-person events. If you’re in the Metro Vancouver area, I’d love to see you in person for an exploration of emerging nonprofit technology, including Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Virtual Reality (V.R.), and Mastodon. Jai Djwa is presenting, so you know you’re in for a fascinating discussion.
Elijah van der Giessen 