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Two anniversaries today: microformats (18y) and POSSE (11y).

Happy 18 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats!

Most prominent this past year (again) has been the littlest #microformat that could:

rel=me — AKA #relMe, now effectively the standard for #distributed #verification on the web:
* https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (originally introduced in 2004¹)

with support added in the past year for:
* #GitHub multiple rel-me links²
* #Wikipedia User page rel-me link³


#POSSE, short for “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”, as a term of use is now 11 years old³, which is surprising since when it was conceived, the #IndieWeb community was in a period of very rapid innovation & iteration.

POSSE itself replaced a previous term, “POSE”, short for “Publish Once Syndicate Everywhere”, which had only been around a year or two at most (I’m still looking for the first use of the “POSE” abbreviation for that meaning).

Since “publish once” was vague enough to include practices of publishing once on a social media silo, or in someone else’s garage⁵, we needed to clearly express the requirement to use your own site instead, first, as the source of your truth. Cross-posting to other sites & channels, is a second, optional step, ideally with a permalink linking back to your original post so viewers can easily discover and use your site.

That distinction was enough for POSSE to express a strong creator-owned-first publishing model that resonated and grew. Every time a silo shutdown⁶ at the end of its incredible journey⁷, removing posts & permalinks from the web, POSSE was there for people who were tired of losing their data, permalinks, & profiles, and wanted an alternative.

This is day 43 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days

← Day 42: https://tantek.com/2023/160/t1/mastodon-activitypub-follow-form-bridgy-fed
→ 🔮

Glossary

permalink
  https://indieweb.org/permalink
POSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSE
POSSE
  https://indieweb.org/POSSE
silo
  https://indieweb.org/silo

References

¹ https://gmpg.org/xfn/11#me
² https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
³ https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
⁴ https://tantek.com/2012/173/t1/posse-core-indieweb-approach
⁵ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
⁶ https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
⁷ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

—@tantek.com

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I’m laughing at memes about billionaires who can’t pull themselves up to the surface by their own bootstraps, but in reality I’m furious.

I’m furious I was accused of human smuggling by FRONTEX (European border agency) for being part of a sea rescue operation that saved 1000+ lives of refugees fleeing war & terrorism.

I’m furious at the money and international effort being spent to rescue these billionaires when operations like ours cost so little and save so many lives, but are punished.

—@revoluciana

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It’s not correct to say, as this author does, that all Abrahamic religions look to the afterlife exclusively, instead of life on earth. We do not reject embodiment. We don’t say to ourselves: go ahead, plunder resources, exploit the earth beyond its ability to heal. That’s not permitted.

Judaism has always focused on making the present, material life, sanctified. All of it.

In fact, eco-Judaism is original Judaism, not some modern afterthought tacked on by current sentiments. You cannot make your land into a wasteland & call yourself spiritually guided. It violates the very heart of our duties in this corporeal life.

Space is awesome, and I love it. But I have no illusions about a techo-miracle future. We’ve squandered our resources on disposable junk and poisonous convenience. Our future is here, whether we want it to be or not.

So let’s make it a place worth living in. Let’s sanctify our daily lives.

#Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #EcoFeminism #Sppirituality

https://dendroica.substack.com/p/gazing-outward

—@shekinahcancook

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I have adapted the scientific method per the latest developments in podcast science, as explicated in tweet format by Rogan, Musk, and Kennedy (2023). 
References:
Rogan, J., Musk, E., & Kennedy, R. (2023). “Debate Me Bro: Reconceptualizing science as an attention-seeking testosterone contest.” Journal of Doubt Profiteering, 1(1), 1-2.
#Science

—@rvawonk

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Once, years and years ago, the company fired a coworker of mine with 2 weeks to go before their deadline with Keller Williams, a massive realtor in the USA. (I’m pretty sure at this point it’s the largest.)

We had a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with them.

The company fired the developer, leaving us in the lurch and came to me to save the day.

No, we couldn’t ask for more time. Sorry, two weeks was all we had, we’d made promises, and if we didn’t deliver, we were fucked.

So I killed myself for that project. Even though they’d fired my friend, I felt like saving a multi-million dollar contract would lead to some kind of reward. Like even if they dropped ten grand on me! That’s nothing in the scope of a big multi-million dollar contract, right?

So I slept in the office, worked weekends, you name it, and we made our deadline.

I’m called into the office later by my boss, who hands me an envelope and has a gleam in his eye.

“You did a great job, so we wanted to send you some appreciation.”

I opened up the envelope.

It was a $50 Target card.

I was kind of stupefied for a moment. They’d asked me to do something impossible. No one else could have possibly pulled that off, even with 80 hour work weeks and sleeping at the office, it was impossible, and I’d somehow done it.

Tens of millions of dollars annually, guaranteed for five years, and I’d saved the contract.

I looked up at my boss with the card in my hand.

The gleam was still in his eye as he said, “Don’t spend it all in one place.”

I almost committed horrible violence that day.

But that day I also aggressively began sending out resumes to other companies.

And I gained a piece of wisdom:

The company will never love you back.

Never.

Edit: Yes, I did get out of there and get a better job a couple weeks later.

—@oliphant

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Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.

Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.

Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.

—@gabrielesvelto

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If I have one piece of advice for anyone with a diasbility at work who happens to have an understanding manager it’s to get your accommodations formalised _now_. It’s tempting to sit back and relax if your manager is kind and understanding and accommodates you willingly, but they might leave one day and you could end up with someone who absolutely won’t listen to you. Better to take advantage of your luck and get things in writing immediately.

—@kirsty