csgordon

@csgordon@zirk.us

partner • writer • night owl • he/him

Current Studies: #Semiotics and #Linguistics • #ConstitutionalLaw #Jurisprudence and #EqualProtection • cognition, ontology, and epistemology in #Parmenides #Plato #Aristotle and #ProcessPhilosophy

I will also boost cats.

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#Austin, TX

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davidallengreen, to random
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Here is a question.

If the impeachment process had worked properly against Trump, would all (or some) of these indictments have still happened?

csgordon,

@davidallengreen 1st or 2nd? If he'd been ousted with 1st, not sure any of alleged crimes around 2020 election meddling or Jan 6 insurrection plots would have had occasion to play out as they did, as he wouldn't have run from position of WH. Stuff around documents in FL probably would have still occurred, and I think he'd maybe catch light charges for this still. Concern for risks to state secrets seemed like a crime too far for institutionalist conservatives.

dmoser, to random

Is there a better Mastodon iOS client than Ice Cubes or Mammoth by now?

csgordon,

@dmoser Made a switch to Mona Pro (one time buy) and it's good stuff—smooth, quick, fully featured

raccoon, to internet

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So, we jumped from to , after a man with a sink showed us how fragile centralized platforms really are. And now there's wanting to convince us that their AT Protocol is even more robust than . But is it really superior and would it have been better to build the on top of this protocol, instead?

Thread time!

csgordon,

@raccoon

Adventure Time Rubbing Hands GIF

csgordon, to fediverse

My $10 take on this vs dustup is: Maybe algorithms are a net good?

I've always scrolled chronologically—maniac that I am—so this isn't the issue I'm getting at. Looking at the unintended consequences of how design influences practice: I think I waste more time on Mastodon than I did on because I'm seeing the same couple dozen popular (unarguably relevant) posts reboosted x10000.

And this seems to be a consequence of "People are the algorithm" design.

csgordon,

For those more in the know: Is there a version of where engagement algorithms play a role? And I mean more than just at the individual server lever—I wonder whether people (just me?) have a deeper preference for algorithms feeding them engagement based posts from all fedi servers.

csgordon,

@BrianJohnson @codesmith Maybe—But seems egalitarian merely in a nominal way like how the "marketplace of ideas" is egalitarian. Like, conversations like this rarely occurred for me on Twitter; definitely a lost in the engagement algorithms effect there. But here, people with time + resources do dominate my feed with posts and boosts.

csgordon,

@BrianJohnson @codesmith The term that pops out to me when I read about is some notion of a "marketplace for algorithms." Despite the homo economicus logic-jargon, if they can eventually enable users to make choices on how or which algorithms effect their feeds, they'll have design advantage.

csgordon,

@codesmith @BrianJohnson Yeah this is a truly shitty paradox for elevating marginalized communities. And where I have zero trust in a Dorsey led project.

And I think this is why my personal bias is for to succeed somewhere because at the design level people here seem, at a bare minimum, aware and involved with these social problems and not just sweeping them away with selfserving, libertarian bromides.

csgordon,

@fell This is probably a good first idea for what I'm scratching at because I think there is value (at tradeoff) for elevation by engagement. But it would have to compliment a less collective reliance on boosting, or better tools to filter boosts so repetition doesn't soak up timeline attention real estate.

csgordon,

@smallcircles @codesmith @BrianJohnson That being said, my limited understanding is there are pre-existing shortcomings to fedi culture, has its own toxicities, could also grow, or at minimum enable more plurality of communities to flourish here. Tending a fenced in garden might be pleasant but at what tradeoffs, what exclusions—

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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I don't know... maybe we should mess with it... Wow.

Stunning video on the 2012 Texas Blackout Deep Freeze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Xhk_gZ27o

csgordon,

@futurebird I'll never forget our gov going on tv to lie to the world that the blackout was caused by the Green New Deal, that thing that didn't exist in US law. That and filling our bathtub with snow from our apartment balcony so we could flush toilets. But mostly the idiot gov thinking he could convince the world our small petrostate hadn't experienced a tragic, foreseeable, embarrassment of oil & gas infrastructure failure.

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