Daojoan

Daojoan, 7 months ago to random

I shitcanned my Twitter 2 weeks ago.

Left behind 30,000 followers.

Only have 1000 here.

But I still get more traffic to my writing...

Which should tell you something about Birdchan.

Anyway, repost to support an indie transgender tech writer and journalist! ✍️🍕🏳️‍⚧️

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

Own your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed.

This is the stuff that works in the long term.

Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.

Daojoan, 7 months ago to random

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

Daojoan, 8 months ago to random

Never forget.

The single greatest Twitter exchange of all time.

Of.

All.

Time.

A beautiful, realistic sculpture of a young woman in a flowing dress
Rollo Tomassi @RationalMale - 2d Is there an example of a female sculptor who committed herself to the same level of detail that a male does with a woman? Q 8 Ti2 Q 23 [} Ivan Throne @DarkTriadMan - 2d ; None that come to mind. ) That sculpture is an act of worship before Heaven, and it shows. Q6 2 Q12 B Platonic Solid Snake @Pliny_theElder Replying to @DarkTriadMan @RationalMale and 6 others the sculptor is a chinese woman you dork ass losers 2:13PM-17 Oct 17
A photo of the artist Luo Li Rong, wearing a striped black and white shirt, sitting next to the finished, full sized version of her sculpture of a young woman.

Daojoan, 10 months ago to random

I miss the internet

I know this is going to make me sound old – but I miss the internet.

The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much less – and somehow so much more – complicated.

I went online for the first time around 2001. The 90s had ended, and the world was coming online while I was coming out of my shell and becoming more self-aware.

Daojoan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

After Substack's decision to platform Nazis, I deleted my newsletter and my account and made a clean break.

I'm now publishing my work on tech, economics and humans on a platform I control.

In a year where I've already lost 30,000 followers by deleting Twitter, this is a tough one.

Unless my paid subscribers resubscribe, I'm down $500 ARR and paying $400 in hosting fees.

But it's worth it to stand by my values.

Subscribe (free) here or sign up as a patron!

https://joanwestenberg.com/subscribe

Daojoan, 5 months ago to random

Blocking someone isn’t about denying them their right to speak.

It’s about asserting your right not to listen.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-block-button-is-the-ultimate-source-of-dopamine-use-it

Daojoan, 5 months ago to random

Excellent. Via @parismarx

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

We can't keep transferring attention and wealth to billionaires while blindly hoping they will selectively choose to focus their attention and resources on the world’s actual problems. It's like giving a room full of 5-year-olds a tub of ice cream and an iPad and hoping they retile the kitchen.

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Capitalism is when you're more familiar with brands of bottled water than the names of local rivers

Daojoan, 7 months ago to random

Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers.

Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730

Daojoan, 6 months ago to random

Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order)

1. The obsession with short-term profits severely undermines long-term positive impact.

2. The lack of diversity among founders and investors propagates harmful exclusion.

3. The prevalence of poor work-life balance and burnout culture is inhumane and unsustainable.

4. Too many products optimized for addiction show callous disregard for user well-being.

…And more.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/everything-wrong-with-tech-in-2023-in-no-particular-order

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

It's 2030. Twitter, now named Xtube Premium Pro Plus, is run by 5 employees in a bunker on Elon Musk's compound. The gaming / video / live streaming / podcast / NFT platform boasts dozens upon dozens of users every month.

The bunker doors open.
It's Musk. He is wearing a panther fur coat.

"I've got it," he rasps."We should be a microblogging platform."

4/5 employees cheer. Not Harold. He has seen too much.

Daojoan, 6 months ago to random

You know what’s even more amazing than an AI generated headshot?

A professionally taken headshot.

By a freelancer who knows what the fuck they’re doing and will make it their professional mission to represent the best version of you.

Support photographers.

They’re worth the money.

And they won’t make you look like a soulless carbon copy.

Daojoan, 7 months ago to random

A library is more than just a home for books.

For some families, those who don’t have a lot of cash, it’s still the only place they can go to get connected to the internet, to watch a movie, to listen to music.

Growing up, my library was my second home.

I didn’t have much. But I had that.

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

Conservatives: JESUS didn’t need “pronouns”

Jesus (John 18:6): I am He

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

I love that “you sound scared” has become a way to shut down critics of AI.

…yes.

yes, I absolutely am scared of it.

No, I’m not ashamed of that.

I don’t hate AI. I don't believe it’s going to destroy us terminator style.

But I’m scared half to hell of the misinformation, political divisions, unemployment, manipulation, spam and deepfake porn and what it’s going to do to our world.

Like it or dislike it, everyone should have a healthy level of fear about what this technology can do.

Daojoan, 5 months ago to random

I fucking love mastodon.

Some days I just use an entirely different client app because the vibes are Ivory or Mammoth for a day and I can just do that and there is zero friction.

The community is full of people who are just doing their best.

Makers and builders and folks who still read and ask questions.

Activitypub is awesome.

I don't miss anything about twitter.

Daojoan, 3 months ago to random

To combat chatGPT generated books on the kindle store, Amazon only allows users to publish 3 books ~ per day.

What the fuck kind of human author is publishing 3 BOOKS A DAY.

Daojoan, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Mozilla and Automattic really duking it out for who can lose decades of community goodwill the fastest

Daojoan, 6 months ago to random

A thousand pop-sci anthropology hacks and TERFs just felt a disturbance in the force 🫡

Daojoan, 22 hours ago to random

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

Daojoan, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

The death of the writer has arrived. Vox have pretty much nailed it in their piece on self promotion.

In the social media era, writers must become podcasters, graphic designers, videographers, and conventionally attractive TikTok models to gain an audience.

The profession of "writer" no longer exists - only the "influencer" remains.

A thread on the demise of the solitary writing life…

Daojoan, 2 months ago to random

Capitalism is when your tax dollars pay to bail out the bank that foreclosed on your mortgage