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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 12h

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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 13h

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 56m

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AI in project management: Large-scale planning made easy | We Love Open Source • All Things Open

Discover how AI can simplify large-scale project planning. Learn practical lessons from using AI to manage personal and professional projects, streamline tasks, and stay on track from start to finish.

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 57m

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Finding hidden package groups using DNF - Both.org

For some reason, the Fedora packagers are hiding a large number of package groups so that you can't see them when you search using dnf group list. In case you don't know, a package group is, as its na...

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 22h

"The first-of-its-kind study shows that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to global renewable energy — contradicting industry claims to be pioneers in the energy transition."

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 16h

The icon of intrasigence!

Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 16h

I'm at: State of the “Open” AI • All Things Open 2025 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/sta... #AllThingsOpen #AI #Licensing

State of the “Open” AI • All Things Open 2025

The AI boom, driven by unprecedented investment and access to tools, has spawned a flood of models claiming to be “open.” The October 2024 release of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) sought to an...

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 20h

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2 for 1: The Hidden Heroes: How Non-Code Contributors Find Their Place in Open Source Communities / Content That Connects: How to Build Trust and Grow Open Source Communities • All Things Open 2025

The Hidden Heroes: How Non-Code Contributors Find Their Place in Open Source Communities – Lahari Chowtoori & Miaolai Zhou In the open source world, while code contributions often take the spotlight, ...

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 21h

GitHub Next | Continuous AI githubnext.com/projects/con... via @bizza.pizza

GitHub Next | Continuous AI

GitHub Next Project: Exploring LLM-powered automation in platform-based software collaboration

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Don Watkins @linuxnerd.bsky.social · 21h

Finding Future Maintainers • All Things Open 2025 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/fin... by @bizza.pizza | #Keynote | #AllThingsOpen

Finding Future Maintainers • All Things Open 2025

AI has made writing code trivial, but it has also created an open-source crisis: maintainer burnout is at an all-time high, while trust and ownership have hit rock bottom. We’re drowning in AI-generat...

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