Shawn Powers

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Shawn's head's appearance at the recent SCaLE conference and 3D printing, all while having a little too much fun. Hit play if you always wondered about our Myers-Briggs types. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: FreeCAD: Your own 3D parametric modeler — Your own 3D parametric modeler Ender-3 3D Printer Southern California Linux Expo - YouTube What the Heck is FreeCAD and why do I care? | SCALE 20x — What is FreeCAD? What makes it different? More importantly, what makes it useful to you and when? What the Heck is FreeCAD and why do I care? - YouTube

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn have fun with ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. AI tells me if AI will write novels. - vlogbrothers on YouTube — In which a text-generation AI promises John that of course it won't replace him. Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups - The Verge — / Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for security keys for two-factor authentication. Rackspace confirms ransomware behind days-long email outage • The Register — UPDATED Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers. The security snafu took down some of Rackspace's hosted Microsoft Exchange services on Friday afternoon. In its most recent update, posted at 0826 Eastern Time on Tuesday, Rackspace said it has now "determined this suspicious activity was the result of a ransomware incident," and has hired a "leading cyber defense firm to investigate."

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin discuss the ups, downs, and how-tos of using Mastodon amid Twitter's recent instability. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? | Techdirt — Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree Twitter stories at Techdirt. A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions — The nine-word tweet was sent Thursday afternoon from an account using the name and logo of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., and it immediately attracted a giant response: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.” Day #43 - Mastodon Verification, with Wordpress! - 90 Days of Mayhem! Debirdify — This website allows you to search the people you follow on Twitter for possible Mastodon/Fediverse accounts. To use it, you need to click the button below and allow it to communicate with Twitter on your behalf. This is ‘read-only’: we cannot modify anything (write Tweets etc). Fedi.Directory — A small human-curated selection of interesting accounts to help you get started, or just to spice up your timeline.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers talk communication breakdown in social media, its impact on our culture, and what technical solutions may exist. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid - The Atlantic — What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make a name” for themselves. God was offended by the hubris of humanity and said: Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech. The text does not say that God destroyed the tower, but in many popular renderings of the story he does, so let’s hold that dramatic image in our minds: people wandering amid the ruins, unable to communicate, condemned to mutual incomprehension. Democracy in the Next Cycle of History | Jonathan Haidt - YouTube — Jonathan Haidt sees that we have entered a social-psychological phase change that was initiated in 02009 when social media platforms introduced several fateful innovations that changed the course of our society and disintegrated our consensus on reality. In this conversation with Long Now co-founders Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, Haidt presses on questions of technological optimism, morality vs ethics, teen mental health, possible platform tweaks that could reduce the damage and just how long this next cycle of history could last. Prompted by Haidt's piece on Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, this discussion offers a behind the scenes look at the thinking going into Haidt's next book; release slated for the fall of 02023.

Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about religion, politics, tribalism, sexism, and viral blog posts. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0 Links: Green Hair, Mustard Seeds, and Me - The Brain of Shawn — It’s been a couple weeks now, and my green hair is starting to fade. My light brown roots are peeking through, and since I don’t go many places, most people who will see me have seen me. And while I tweeted a short explanation, I haven’t gotten too detailed when explaining why my hair is green. Mostly because I was (am) angry, and it was hard to talk about it without being mean. And that rationale is sorta the whole point.

Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers have far too much fun continuing the conversation about Mastodon and the fediverse, with a dose of photography. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube Mastodon Special Guest: Shawn Powers. Support Reality 2.0