@ Windswept we just celebrated our 10 years birthday (registration day?)
With it also being the solstice , Christmas, New Years… it’s time to get soppy and sentimental and reflective and insightful.
We’ve set up some plans for developing and testing automation systems in the coming year.
Our AWEC Milan presentation is online
Yay - fun - better deliver some results before @dougselsam calls me out.
Don’t worry Doug We took no group selfies
Thank you all for the courage you have taken to speak your minds, and for continuing to explore the possible world of AWES in 2023.
Thanks for challenging each other and challenging orthodoxy - That’s been tricky this year.
We didn’t succeed at enabling freedom of speech for all. Social censure affected us, with our first forum suspension.
We have however continued to raise diversely related topics and report on AWES progress.
We can only be creative if we are remain free to explore and challenge norms.
Let’s make sure we stay free to delight in physical reality and question conformity of opinion - don’t let the mass opinion bots win.
AWES at an industrial community level seems to have come closer together - especially with the loss of Ampyx as was.
We haven’t gobbled each other up competitively.
There has been good respect for each others understanding and expertise.
Dudes - Party on and I hope your kite line tension is well set in 2023
Should I go now and get a bot to rephrase this message into more intelligible chat?