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dletorey ("Dave Letorey") wrote:
@fromjason but where is the landscape version?
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedLet’s grow online greenspace for healthy sociality & mutual aid:
"tl;dr Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let’s use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."
Seems there’s a big ideological gap between the Rheingold, the person who coined “social web” some thirty years ago, and those attempting to co-opt the term today. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-grow-online-35091994
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just found out that Netlify deprecated LFS image resizing and I feel like an epic weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
We both get to agree they aren't going to fix it and move on.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances
Part 4 of Strategies for the Free Fediverses
Here's how @zkat describes caracoles: "you essentially ask to join concentric federations of instances ... with smaller caracoles able to vote to federate with entire other caracoles."
And @ophiocephalic's "fedifams" are a similar idea: "Communities could align into fedifams based on whatever conditions of identity, philosophy or interest are relevant to them. Instances allied into fedifams could share resources and mutually support each other in many way"
The idea's a natural match for community-focused, anti-surveillance capitalism free fediverses, fits in well with the Networked Communities model discussed in part 3, and helps address scalability of consent-based federation discussed in Part 2.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
lzg ("lenazun :: evil maid") wrote:
every time there's an utopian community forming (either by billionaires or any other) we should ask: who's going to clean? who will dig ditches, clean toilets, care for children and the elderly, cook and serve meals. where do they live? how much money do they make? are they included in the utopian vision? what are their rights?
Mastodon FeedEffective Altruism is fun because billionaires get to claim they’re charitable toward a broken system they themselves created.
And as a bonus, they throw in a little of that homegrown, Stanford-style eugenics talk. It’s a convo that always seems to creep back into liberal circles somehow. You know, the good stuff. /s https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-altruism-is-a-welter-of-fraud-lies-exploitation-and-eugenic-fantasies/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I'll be upset about the worker collecting three paychecks from three companies for doing three people's jobs when there are no workers collecting one paycheck from one company for doing three people's jobs.
Mastodon FeedI’m telling ya, buttons are back. People want to feel something. Even if that something is tactile feedback. I don’t hate this.
From Clicks:
"Clicks brings together tactile typing with the iPhone experience. They’re the perfect pair." https://www.clicks.tech/
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Mastodon FeedI'll end the thread with this— #Technoracket would be labeled "negative," and its creators "paranoid" if it came out today.
But of course, they were right. The "robots" came, jobs shipped off, pensions axed, and salaries decreased through stagnation.
And there's never really a good enough "I told you so" to the people who knew all along but lied.
Oh, Scrappy. You little rascal.
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Mastodon FeedI'm trying my hardest not to think-piece this 30s cartoon to death.
But come on, is there anything more prophetic to the current state of AI vs Art than two robots sawing a piano in half?
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Mastodon FeedIn the end, Scrappy is forced to destroy the switchboard and his android helpers.
Did he hire back his workers? The story doesn't say. But I would think so.
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Mastodon FeedScrappy survives the attack when a mallet slips off its handle and knocks a robot on the head. After the Deus ex Machina event, Scrappy darts to the switchboard.
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Mastodon FeedScrappy jumps out of bed to a farm in chaos. The robots, having destroyed everything they produced, then turn on Scrappy.
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Mastodon FeedThe mechanical farm hands freak the f*ck out and turn evil. They chase animals, un-plow the wheat and uproot the tomatoes.
One robot forces the robot chicken to lay all its eggs just so the robot could dive into them. Very weird. But I loved it.
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Mastodon FeedBut not everyone is happy. The pink-slipped farmers decide to revolt! They make their way to the farm house and sabotage the governing switchboard.
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Mastodon FeedFor a time, the farm is the epitome of capitalist efficiency— metal chickens lay eggs, androids till wheat, while Scrappy enjoys the surplus.
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Mastodon FeedAnd that's exactly what Scrappy does. He kicked out everyone and everything, and replaces them with robots.
He was kinda a d*ck about it too lol.
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Mastodon FeedScrappy sits in his rocking chair while workers attend his farm. He grabs his newspaper, and reads an ad for *mechanical farm hands*. Scrappy gets an idea— he'll fire his workers *and* farm animals, and replace them all with robots.
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Mastodon FeedI'm a little obsessed with this sort of "technocratic panic" of the 1930s. There was a growing concern that robots would take people's jobs. (Spoiler: it happened)
I'm not certain what caused the panic, but it may have been a response to a brief technocracy movement of the same time. Whatever the cause, the concern made its way into pop culture.
Anyway, last night, I watched the short cartoon *Technoracket* (1933)— a hallmark example of the technocratic panic.
Here's a short synopsis: 🧵
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Updating the performance inequality gap series, and good gravy, the gap in year-over-year single core performance gain for the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone 15 Pro was almost as large as the *the total perf of a moderately priced Android*.
Yes, you're reading that right.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
counting down the days til Spargelzeit
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blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:
I love finding a real "Sci-Fi book cover" sort of planet in the game. Such a great vibe, these have.
#NoMansSky #NMS #gaming #games #SciFi #screenshot #procgen #spacegames #virtualphotography #gametography #planet `#HelloGames
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
man, I loved the web
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Under-hyped benefit of moving: helps you realize how many people in your life you mostly just tolerated because you thought you'd run into them again.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As the saying goes, "culture eats strategy for breakfast" but it also eats best intentions for lunch and free resources for dinner.
Culture is *generative*. When it gets out of whack, and developers are allowed to value their own interests above users, the scale of the principal-agent problems that get generated are proportional to the tech dependence of the org. Tech companies can literally die on this hill.
Mastodon FeedI adore Jeff Goldblum. ADORE.
But, whoever thought that a Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist-type character would make an apartment website more likable was off their rocker.
The “future is apartments” because private equity is buying up all the houses 😬
If this campaign works, it’s 100% Goldblum’s charm and nothing more. Again, love him. We are best friends in my mind.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if someone is selling you "developer experience" and not "it solves this problem for users better," it's 100% pure snake oil, fresh from the source.
Solving problems for users *can* be enabled by improving things for developers! But it's a weak effect and is dominated by other factors the majority of the time -- including culture. And if the culture values solving things for developers over solving things for users, the correlation will be negative.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
Catching up on articles from over the holidays. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-wrapped-2023 is an excellent round-up of CSS features. Some proper dev-rellin from @Una @bramus and @argyleink
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Mastodon FeedPerhaps I’m biased, but this photo is worthy of an award. #throwbackthursday
This is my grandmother, Juanita, circa 1990. That’s me in the background.
In the 50s, Juanita migrated from Puerto Rico to The Bronx. She survived the Bronx burning, the Cross Bronx divide, the resulting heroin epidemic, and most of her children. Out of nine, two are alive today.
And here she is on a family trip to a cabin— Juanita, having beat the shunning of a new country, completely worn out by a rambunctious kid.
