ntnsndr

ntnsndr, 8 months ago to random

Mastodon running on an Apple IIc at the @mediaarchaeologylab!!!

ntnsndr, 6 months ago to random

We should all be demanding that our governments invest in open source like this.

Gnome Receives €1M from German Government https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund

ntnsndr, 5 months ago to random

Signal is a good reason (along with Wikipedia, Mastodon, and Firefox) that we need way more nonprofit tech.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/signal-meta-google-too-big-18496594.php

ntnsndr, 7 months ago to random

Ooh, I'm super excited about two new articles that I just encountered:

"Divesting from Big Tech: Alternative Possibilities for Research and Futuring in Social Computing" by @cyberlyra @natematias https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3584931.3608436

"Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular
Mastodon Instances" by Matthew N. Nicholson @bkeegan @cfiesler https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584931.3606970

ntnsndr, 7 months ago to random

I am grateful for people like Andreessen for continually making the job of media studies scholars way too easy by providing cartoon versions of what would otherwise be more challenging to critique.

ntnsndr, 7 months ago to random

Happening now at the National Mall, thousands in prayer for peace and justice in Gaza #ceasefirenow

ntnsndr, 2 months ago to random

TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations).

It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from University of California Press: https://nathanschneider.info/govbook

Animation of the cover of "Governable Spaces" along with artwork from the book

ntnsndr, 6 months ago to random

Why do people go to jail for defrauding investors but investors don't go to jail for defrauding workers?

ntnsndr, 1 month ago to random

I just had a really refreshing call with the great @mallory, and she helped me see the Threads/fediverse question in a helpful way:

The question shouldn't be

[ Threads vs. No Threads ]

The question should be

[ Just Threads vs. Everyone in the fediverse ]

If more companies/organizations/etc. were coming in and bringing their users and committing to the network, the question of Threads becomes less important. Threads will have less relative power.

ntnsndr, 8 months ago to random

That Musk has used his platform to silence striking workers is the best argument yet for abandoning his club house. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-revokes-paid-blue-check-from-united-auto-workers-after-strike-called/

ntnsndr, 5 days ago to random

Turns out when you build a co-op news org, you get awesome coverage of co-ops.

New from the @coloradosun: A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/19/undocumented-workers-sand-dunes-mushroom-co-op/

ntnsndr, 7 months ago to random

BBC gives up Threads, sticks with Mastodon: https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon

ntnsndr, 6 months ago to random

Thread: WeWork is imploding. This is a case in point about the problems of relying on venture-capital financing for everything...

ntnsndr, 4 months ago to random

I wish more people used @matrix with me. It really is a beautiful blend between Slack and Signal, except federated and secure.

ntnsndr, 3 months ago to random

Great summary by @molly0xfff about why you don't need to read a book by an investor whose company helped ruin the internet about how his investments will save the internet.

Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

ntnsndr, 3 months ago to random

Please consider lending your name in support of Amin, one of the most talented activists and teachers I have ever known.

Free Palestine, Decolonize This Place: A Statement in Support of Professor Amin Husain and Collective Speech Against Genocide https://widgets.commoninja.com/ef6c6f86-96ea-42e5-9c27-7d26dffd7bce

ntnsndr, 6 months ago to random

Who are the leading prompt engineering influencers on the fediverse?

ntnsndr, 1 month ago to random

Just saw this—my #GovernableSpaces interview with the great theorist and journalist of technology Mike Masnick is up and out on the Techdirt Podcast: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/09/techdirt-podcast-episode-386-democratic-design-for-online-spaces/

I hugely admire Mike's grounded thinking on protocols and decentralization. This was a really fun conversation.

ntnsndr, 3 months ago to random

Glorious interview in the new Logic(s) with @CaribenxMarciaX

ntnsndr, 5 months ago to random

This is as good a moment as any to remember that the United States of America is a mortal danger to the universe without a very big, very powerful antiwar movement.

ntnsndr, 3 months ago to random

I wish we could even consider the frame of respect for elders, and an expectation that elders can act in a way deserving of that respect.

What if the conversation were less "can you still bench 300" to "are you a venerable elder who can trust the young and judge with wisdom"?

ntnsndr, 6 months ago to random

Okay so now the journal my mother writes a column on Sanskrit exegesis for is demanding that she run all articles through ChatGPT and apply all of its recommendations. The world is ending.

ntnsndr, 2 months ago to random

If there were a local cooperative host for your email, Mastodon, and file-sharing, would you join?

ntnsndr, 1 month ago to random

Staying up too late reading @C__CS's dissertation: https://corinnecath.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CathCorinne-Thesis-DphilInformationCommunicationSocialSciences.pdf

What a contribution. Still early on but in awe.

ntnsndr, 24 days ago to random

I have never been to a protest that didn't have its moments of cringe, of awkwardness, of appalling ugliness. You must balance that with the beauty and the bigger picture. The mess of humanity comes out in force in struggles for justice.

The establishment news always tries to exploit that mess to drown out the truth. Don't let them. Don't do it for them. Don't self-police. Just focus attention on what you want to grow.

#CeasefireNow