Updated the #Wordpress#activitypub plugin to 2.0. Excited to see if the bidirectionality helps it work more like a proper server. Nice to see the quick progress.
I logged into #tiktok the other day and learned that #barbie is now canonically a #furry and I don't know what to do with this information so I thought I'd share.
@jeffjarvis "Having been presented with a new technology, contemporary actors voice their concerns about how the new medium will change their lives, and in so doing they reveal their vulnerabilities..."
AI, or Radio? 2023, or 1924?
(It's the later.)
(Jackway, 1995, p.154 in Jarvis 2023, p. 126)
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I'm finding marvelous associations like this within it on a first glance.
@jeffjarvis Oh nice! We have a whole chapter on Elizabeth Eisenstein! (Chapter 16).
"She cared much more about the use of the technology than the technology itself... eventually, we will understand [the story of the internet] better as the story of society's use of it." (Jarvis, 2023, p. 133).
Yeah, definitely. It feels difficult to describe the waters of the digital ocean from the POV of a cybernetic fish, but sometimes, sometimes, I feel like this is knowable in the here and now.
With looming introduction of #threads and the subsequent integration with the #fediverse I thought a quick summary of a key piece of #economics literature is in order. Likely too late, but perhaps not.
This speaks nothing to cost, "quality", or format. In fact, the cheaper this can be procured, the better. A free lunch isn't free, obvs, but someone is providing the bread and meat.