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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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evan, (edited ) to random
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"Public opposition to the War in Gaza is due to manipulation of social media."

evan, (edited )
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@Jonathanglick I think for many anti-war protesters, they see an equivalence between the experience of racialized and underrepresented people in the United States and those in Israel/Palestine.

It's a fair question, though.

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I'm still mad about this. How did Atari win? They were the worst.

https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-acquires-intellivision-brand

evan,
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Look at this shit! Atari sucks so bad! Intellivision is clearly more sophisticated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLly625cXE

evan,
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Everybody loves Intellivision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMIV8I3BRfM

evan,
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Disclaimer: my dad was SVP at Mattel Electronics. I'm still right, though!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stav_Prodromou

evan, (edited ) to random
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What is your relationship with your instance owner?

evan,
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@lumii I publish a poll about once every day, so you should follow to make sure you don't miss it!

evan, to random
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Every once in a while I start feeling like I'm a big deal and then I read that my Crunchbase rank is 151,395 and I feel a little more humble.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/evan-prodromou

evan,
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I didn't even know what a Crunchbase Rank was until 90 seconds ago and now I am determined with every fiber of my being to win at Crunchbase.

evan,
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I'm pretty sure @timbray took that photo, too.

evan,
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@mlinksva i just rechecked and now I'm at 13K so I think it may be more about web hits than anything else.

evan,
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@mlinksva it is fun, though, to read very old articles about identi.ca and realize that the shortcomings mentioned are just as relevant today as they were then.

https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/04/the-problem-with-identica-is-that-it-is-not-twitter/

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I liked this observation from Holly Herndon on the Ezra Klein Show this week, talking about the Berlin electronic music scene.

evan,
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"I mean, this might sound strange, but music is a kind of coordination technology. So 4/4 techno beat is maybe the most clear communication of that. It’s so easy to participate in. It’s fairly easy to make. It’s also fairly easy to dance to and understand. So I feel like as a kind of — if I want to call it a kind of protocol, it’s an easy way to communicate what to do in that scenario. So I think that that’s why people have organized around it so much."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-holly-herndon.html

chockenberry, to random
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I’m calling it now: the slop feedback loop is going to ruin the Internet.

Look at the second toot in this thread: Google’s AI Assistant got the gasoline recipe from AI generated content.

We’re playing the shittiest game of telephone ever.
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

evan,
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@chockenberry there's only one solution: mentat training.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat

evan, to random
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Nothing quite as ephemeral as the chat log in a videoconference.

evan,
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All the links that were important enough that we had to share them in the meeting are lost like the snows of yesteryear.

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That Jackie West debut album that just dropped is very beautiful.

evan,
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@kissane dang, The Trinity Sessions is such a good album. I'll check this out.

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"I don't know if the Fediverse is going to take off, even if I'm being optimistic and all signs are pointing toward that being true. What I do know is that a protocol-based solution is likely the right one if we want the next generation of social web products to be owned by us, the humans. To me - that's worth rooting for."

Fediverse Threads, more below 👇🏼

RE: https://www.threads.net/@quillmatiq/post/C7UXfJrJvCJ

evan,
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@quillmatiq spoiler alert: it has already.

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HEY HEY! HO HO! SAM ALITO HAS GOT TO GO! I am fairly certain this is not the first time I have posted this.

evan,
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@gretared endorse

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The lathe was once cutting edge technology

evan,
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@brooke BROOKE

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long has it been since you last posted a photo on a fediverse account?

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#never

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

evan,
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@dneary ha! No, it's fine. We're friends.

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no ytboi, go fuck yourself for disrespecting Sonia Sotomayor and Kentanji Brown-Jackson. with or without spoons, not on my watch.

evan,
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@blogdiva GET EM LIZA

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