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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 1d

plz can someone study mechanisms for safe back pressure in NHS primary care? disabling web based contact forms outside of GP hours seems unhelpful. disabling them after exceeding a maximum number of requests, on the grounds of "safety" sounds like a veil over rationing.

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 3d

3 themes from #HETT conf from software vendors who sell to the NHS about adopting open standards

😿 "why? what's in it for us?"

🫂 "the centre needs to bless a standard so i don't have to convince my boss"

🌞 "we already do openEHR. the clinical domain modelling is done for us, we focus on the UX."

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 6d

a wonderfully humane take on the real consequences of our choices around ai and teamwork and diversity and pretty sure i would have been ugly crying by the end.

Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 11d

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

mechanicalsurvival.com

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · May 2

we've been working on a weather/tourism web app, check out weatherspread.com!

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 6d

why else are any of us here?

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 6d

them: increasing national debt is bad!
also them: only-up stonks pulling value of presumed productivity from the future is new and good yes.

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 8d

are you using a computer again

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 8d

work as a team!
we assess your individual performance!

later: wtf these outcomes!? they are perverse!

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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 13d

"common needs need commons"

and:

"We believe in proliferation, not scale"

Both statements got me right in the cockles. 🫀

Check out the folktechnology.org Principles and come to Vancouver on Oct 18 for their event at Z-Space.

#folktech #technology #event

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dietrich @burrito.space · Sep 3

i don't enjoy the romanticizing

of some golden past of the web

that web never died

you made all the decisions

about where to publish

and where to spend your time

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 13d

"Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value."

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/...

Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written: 1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them appro...

hachyderm.io

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 15d

no longer sure i interpreted the "ui as pure function of the state" screed correctly.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 17d

www.crabmuseum.org/blog/do-crab...

Crabs exhibit complex pain response, stop poking them already.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 17d

They said the same of crabs and look how that turned out.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18d

some great doors in Yorkshire, lad. you should come visit.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20d

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing: