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I am mentioned on Sailing Uma

names of patreons written inside the hull of Uma

I am happy to be a patreon of “Sailing Uma”, the sailing channel run by Dan and Kika. They make great videos where they sail around the world. Currently they are improving their boat Uma by rebuilding it.

In February 2025, they wrote the names of all Patreons inside the hull, including “Leo Sauermann”, as you see in the features image of this post. This will never be visible again, but knowing my name is written in Uma gives myself a physical representation within the boat I follow on YouTube.

This direct relationship with the artists I pay and follow is another example why I watch Sailing Channels, as I have longer written in Why I watch Sailing Channel Videos and not Netflix or TV anymore – because this is the future of media.

↬www.leobard.net/blog/2020/02/01/why-i-watch-sailing-channel-videos-and-not-netflix-or-tv-anymore-because-this-is-the-future-of-media/

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Project Xanadu and the missing editor for the Semantic Web

The world wide web is great to publish and find information, but it suffers from fake news and quality journalists not getting paid for their content. Wouldn’t it be great to finally have an editor that allows authors to charge micropayments and quote their sources?

This post is inspired by @vrandecic sharing “Project Xanadu – The Internet That Might Have Been” and seeing @nichtich picking it up.

Denny Vrandečić

@nichtich that's really cool! The world is so densely interconnected.

2025-10-17, 06:38 0 boosts 0 favorites

Right, Denny, and it should be connected even more.

Technically, the web is a perfect basis to share information and it can well be extended to add the parts from Xanadu that were identified as making it more humane:

I already wrote that I am willing to pay for content, and the more people pay for content they want to see, the more positive content will follow. I also want a Semantic Web editor. In this post I share some thoughts about this.

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My “Tenet” interpretation: instead of war, the future is peace

Ives, the algorithm, the protagonist sitting at rest

Have you seen the Christopher Nolan movie “Tenet” from 2020? I did. After a couple of days, I realized that main elements in the movie are distractions. Beneath the lies, I found a positive story about nuclear disarming leading to world peace. This changed my thinking about planning the future and acting in the present.

Spoiler Alert: Please do your future self a favor and use this text in the following order:

  1. watch Tenet
  2. watch Tenet again
  3. combine all clues in the movie and write your own answers to below questions
  4. then read this post

My main questions:

  1. How is the Tenet organization financed?
  2. Who built the turnstiles?
  3. What does “inverted entropy” mean in the real world?
  4. What is the “Algorithm” and what is it for?
  5. What does this mean for me?
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LLM AIs will lead you to fact-based sources, if you are willing to pay for it

Su_G

@the_roamer @leobard @scottmiller42

An interesting observation in itself! The movement between automated finding to automated production… & the output quality degrades along the way…

A Spanish educator just published a multipart thread pulling together various AI-related data points, one of which tracked memory & another measured brain activity. Students using LLMs couldn’t quote what they wrote; & had the lowest brain activity (cf using a search function or native own brain).

As I see it then, the AI “disruption” is in the zombification direction.

2025-07-26, 04:05 0 boosts 2 favorites

@Su_G @the_roamer @scottmiller42 – IMHO the way out is that students and other LLM users can see hyperlinks to fact-checked sources to judge themselfes if a genai text is legit. Instead of marketing/ads, I would like to see micropayments to content creators. Good ol “explainable AI” rolled 🌯 into a business model.

1️⃣ Users 🙂

  • must be motivated to pay for “good ai system 🤖” and
  • compare the true cost of AI with “RTFM and use my own 🧠 to generate answer”

2️⃣ Generative AI LLM 🤖

  • must honor copyright on training data
  • must micropay author when generating content based on authors IP if author wants that
  • must fact check using the same criteria human fact checkers apply (author? who paid for this content? Original content or bias-generated by Marketing/Russians/QAnon…? Does it reference source? Other reliable source for same exists?
  • can use knowledge graphs for answer generation at IMHO 0.1% of the cost compared to an LLM

3️⃣ content creators

  • needs to add context metadata (i.e. schema.org or any other RDF vocab will do) about
  • author (= liable if this is 💩, payable if this is helpful 👍🏻)
  • copyright
  • links to sources where “facts” were copy pasted from
  • machine readable content representation (linked data, ActivityPub, …)

Micropayment for content use was first proposed by Ted Nelson in Xanadu in 1960 and has been refined in the W3C micropayment initiative : “Semantic Web and […] Micropayments provide an alternative to […] advertising as a source of revenue“

As an exercise for the interested reader I invite you to answer the question “how can that Leobard dude reply using hyperlinks and list formatting?” The rabbit hole out of which I communicate to you is exciting since 2019 and IMHO shows the author & markup solutions I outline above in action.

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How to reply from WordPress to activitypub/mastodon and mention people?

leobard

I just established a monthly sponsorship of @syncthing / syncthing.net/

Go sponsor those open source dependencies/projects that you want to keep!

2025-06-09, 18:24 0 boosts 0 favorites

This is a post to find out how to reply from WordPress to a post on ActivityPub/Mastodon/Fediverse while mentioning people using their mastodon handles. In this example I mention @leobard , @gromgull , and @bobschi trusting on our mutual goal to advance human knowledge in a sea of idiocracy by supporting open source and the fediverse.

How-to? Just mention the person in the text using the format “@ name @ example.com” (without spaces) in the article text.

WordPress ActivityPub will automagically transform this

  • to a html link when rendering on your WordPress page
  • to a mastodon link when publishing on the Fediverse