Jelly things!: Recent Episodes
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Hello we are Cindy and Denny. We are sharing our progress through weekly audio updates where we talk about whatever we want, which usually means our favorite kind of mangoes, new science trends, exciting technology, fancy product design, federated networks, steward ownership, and the downfall of capitalism for the liberation of the scientific proletariat towards a new industrial revolution.
Cindy makes tl;dr papers, a service that turns science abstracts into short summaries, and it goes viral on social media.
We continued to talk about taking smart notes, digital gardening, and Zettelkasten techniques after discussing with some friends in a monthly journal club.
We talked about blowing up secret spots, Vannevar Bush, and our offline first Trunk progress.
We discussed some recent things and events, like the end of Rap Genius and why it's so hard to use the internet these days.
Is trunk more like pinterest for science or an immutable chain wikipedia? We're not really sure...
Cindy is running a half marathon so updates on that progress. Also updates on trying out new tools like replicache.
This one is also late, sorry again. We talked more about some ways to get better about communication stuff.
Cindy and Denny chat about digital gardens, which is a new way of thinking about note taking.
This week we got to take care of a rabbit named Mac, short for Macaroni Salad. He is a bunny only 6 months old. So, we talked a little bit about Mac.
Cindy and Denny discuss the events of this week around the European Super League and what it means for governance of public goods. What if we had 50+1 but for science journals and publishers?
This week's chat is a bit different as we recapped our training for breath-holding underwater, and talk about some of the techniques we are using so that we can feel more confident in the ocean.
Our friend David joins us again as we discussed the post mortem report from Funding Exchange (https://fex.org), a philanthropic network for radical activists and causes that shut down in 2018. The work continues today through the individual partner funds that operate independently. Democratic grant making processes is a theme we like to discuss, so enjoy!
Our friend David Lang is hanging out with us and we chatted about all kinds of things - recent Hawaii floods, science funding experiments, and more.
We chat about an old 2008 blog post by Steve Yegge about 'prototypal inheritance' and the prototype design pattern. We also discussed Datasette (datasette.io), a project that makes it easy for people to share data. Also Denny is embarking on a new project to make Hawaiian amaro. This week Cindy spent 14 hours in Jelly, and Denny spent 4 hours.
This week we actually came prepared to talk about a big topic - unions in tech and in general. We discussed the Kickstarter union oral history podcast from the NYU Engelberg Center (https://eclive.engelberg.center), and a deeper discussion about when a union is good and what it means for tech. Denny also goes into depth about the hidden but different business models between Fedex and UPS, and how organized labor affects their bottom lines. Lastly, we cover briefly tech companies like Instacart firing all of their recently unionized workforce to look more like Fedex's franchise model.
Here are some links mentioned in this ep:
Comparison between Fedex and UPS: http://www.braunconsulting.com/bcg/newsletters/winter2004/winter20041.html
NRLB vs. Federal Express: https://casetext.com/case/fedex-home-delivery-v-nlrb
Last week we did not post our jelly log, for a variety of reasons which we discuss on this recording. So, we turned our discussion onto the topic of social cooling, how to encourage honesty in science, and the gaps that are still missing in the indie science pipeline today.
This week we talk about the anime "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" and the difference between a thought and an idea.
We recap our year of experiments and learning, and describe a new idea for a Onlyfans for science, kind of.
Sake is made with rice that is polished because the outside is ugly but the inside is beautiful.
This past week, we hung out in Laie for a few days as we holed up and worked on side projects and prototypes.
This week we celebrate the never ending election, and we discuss Cindy's experiences with NSS board meetings.
This week's theme is Cindy asks questions: we talked about Washington state politics, surfing backhanded, rum, and whether or not Denny believes in God™️.
This week is a short update on our progress, where we did not make much. Instead we did a diversion of updating Experiment's payment code. Did you know if you have working code and you let it sit for a long time, it will just rot because of some reason code must rely on other people's code. When that code changes, it breaks all your code. So working code left untouched will end up not working.
We also ate some local caught Taape fish, which are an invasive species to Hawaii.
Denny turns into Groucho Marx and Cindy doesn't understand volcanos. We're joined by cybernetician Skander Mzali, as we read and dissect the recent report on Interweb Decentralization https://decentpatterns.xyz/report/.
We talk about steward ownership and that it really means management and ownership, and how steward ownership might change how we think about our data.
We hang out with our friend Alex Krolick to chat about things happening in the open source world.