bengo

bengo, 10 days ago to random

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2024May/0009.html

bengo, 21 days ago to random

“They could flame and troll with a fearlessness that was harder to get away with under the material coercion of the state, or the physical consequences of talking when you were supposed to be listening. Without the oddly providential cyberlibertarian vision to give a reason for good behavior, cyberspace looked a lot more like the history of civilization than it did an unencumbered new chapter.”

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/85/7898753/07898759.pdf

bengo, 21 days ago to random

When I was growing up in KS, we called this edge of town “the end of the world”

video/mp4

bengo, 2 months ago to random

"Percolating adaptive functionality from one level of competent subunits to a higher functional level of organization requires collective dynamics: multiple components must work together to achieve specific outcomes."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06037-4

bengo, 2 months ago to random

⁉️

bengo, 3 months ago to random

Plant Consciousness 🌳 https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/launch-thinking-plants-and-fungi-initiative

bengo, 3 months ago to random

"Whereas a cybernetician may apply the principle to the results inexorably produced by the mechanical dynamics of an activity system, a management scientist may apply it to the results produced by the self-interest of actors who play roles in a business or other institution." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does

bengo, 3 months ago to superbowl

#SuperbOwl

bengo, 4 months ago to random

new activitypub test: create-then-update-modifies-object-checked-by-get

https://bengo.is/blogging/new-activitypub-test-create-then-modify/

#ActivityPubTesting #ActivityPub

bengo, 4 months ago to random

"Open Problems in DAOs" https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19201

bengo, 4 months ago to random

"It was as he suspected: in a rigid hierarchy, nobody questions orders that seem to come from above, and those at the very top are so isolated from the actual work situation that they never see what is going on below. It was the chains of communication, not the means of production, that determined a social process.. Nothing signed “THE MGT.” would ever be challenged."

bengo, 4 months ago to random

"Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power."

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2

slow is smooth, and smooth is fast

bengo, 4 months ago to fediverse

"Apply W3 Test Methodology to ActivityPub"

https://bengo.is/activitypub/apply-w3-test-methodology/

#ActivityPub #ActivityPubTesting

bengo, 4 months ago to fediverse

"Announcing activitypub-testing: a test runner for ActivityPub Actors"

https://socialweb.coop/activitypub-testing/announcement/

#ActivityPub
#ActivityPubTesting

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"Put another way, Mastodon’s strong anti-corporate narrative resonated with people. It had a beloved open web protocol to back it up. All it had to do was nothing— bide its time, polish that iOS app, and wait for some of Twitter’s quarter billion users to come to you. But Mastodon and the greater fediverse lost what made it intriguing the moment it shook hands with Meta."
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"First, I feel you. I get it. Everything around us that falls in the pro-Meta sentiment feels impossibly coordinated. Talking points and amplification from the “everything is awesome” camp are targeted and highly visible. Conversely, resistance feels scattered and unorganized. It feels like we’re not making progress. It feels like we’re just talking and not taking action.

But we are making progress. And we can continue doing so if we all keep talking."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"Overall, Meta’s failure to protect teenagers from harmful content on its platforms has led to a public outcry and legal action. The impact of social media on teenage mental health is a growing concern, and it is clear that more needs to be done to protect vulnerable teenagers from harmful content on social media platforms."

https://facebook-receipts.the-citizens.com/2023/12/15/new-lawsuits-and-allegations-highlight-metas-failure-to-protect-teens/

bengo, 5 months ago to random

Why can't tech fix its gender problem?

> Software programming once was an almost entirely female profession. As recently as 1980, women held 70% of the programming jobs in Silicon Valley. That ratio has completely flipped. Female technicians once outnumbered male workers on the Valley’s hardware assembly lines by more than two to one. Those jobs are now nearly all overseas.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/11/1056917/tech-fix-gender-problem/

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"The internet is nothing like a cloud. It is a physical structure, geolocated and crossed by power relations. Who holds the power in this structure? Who has access to this technology? Who profits, who loses, who consumes, who regulates?"

bengo, 5 months ago to random

two dimensional semantics https://iep.utm.edu/2d-seman/

bengo, 5 months ago to random

⭐️🌳
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlike_tree

bengo, 5 months ago to random

a central committee for a decentralized social network is a bad idea

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"For if the architecture of the Internet affects values as well as bits — if the architecture is a kind of law — then as in any law-making context, we should be asking, who are these law makers, and how do they make law."

• @lessig 1999

⚖️

https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/Kent.pdf

bengo, 5 months ago to random

Happy Saturnalia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
🪐

bengo, 5 months ago to random

"Efficient data structures for tamper-evident logging" (2009) https://static.usenix.org/event/sec09/tech/full_papers/crosby.pdf