robin

ntnsndr, 6 days ago to random

What is your search engine for scholarly publications?

igalia, 7 days ago to random

🎙️ @bkardell and @Meyerweb chat with @robin about a piece he recently co-authored with Maria Farrell titled 'We Need To Rewild The Internet' and why we need to revitalize the internet, and applying lessons learned by ecologists.

https://www.igalia.com/chats/rewilding

freakonometrics, 11 days ago to random French

(via @9GAG)

ntnsndr, 21 days ago to random

Maybe the question of whether a system is governable matters more than whether it is open.

Illustration by Darija Medic. More in #GovernableSpaces

capyloon, 25 days ago to random

A couple of interesting projects to follow that we found this week:

• @robin Lucid (https://github.com/darobin/lucid) experiment with web tiles.

• Verso (https://github.com/european-browser/verso), a web browser based on the @servo web runtime.

kottke, 28 days ago to random

Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

yurnidiot, 1 month ago to random

peer-to-peer Cat6 cabling

#Caturday

cat connected to wire walks under floor of deck and appears at other end where person is holding treats

josemurilo, 1 month ago to random Portuguese

"When the web – and its browsers – were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the #W3C to secure even more dominance. As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

pluralistic, 1 month ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

#Pluralistic

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mariafarrell, 1 month ago to random

If you're new to my work, liked my piece with @robin on rewilding the internet, you might like to subscribe to my monthly newsletter:

https://buttondown.email/MariaFarrell

Expect more on rewilding the internet, links to short stories, and the writing life. oh! and dog pictures.

mariafarrell, 1 month ago to random

Not gonna lie - @robin and I are pretty darn chuffed that the legendary John Naughton has dedicated his weekly Guardian/Observer column to Rewilding the Internet.

John not only <gets it> but puts internet rewilding in historic and structural context, especially on how, to Silicon Valley platform-owners, the internet's designed-for technological diversity is a bug, not a feature.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding

gwynnion, 1 month ago to random

Upon finding out 99% of NYU protesters were indeed students, Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino decided they all have to die.

It feels like Democrats should stop helping these people in their war on students and higher education?

kottke, 1 month ago to random

Designing a 3D-Printed Rollercoaster Clock. “I used to play tons of Rollercoaster Tycoon as a kid, and I spent a good portion of my life planning to be a rollercoaster designer.” https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/designing-a-3d-printed-rollercoaster-clock-from-idea-to-reality

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

"Finding the money" https://findingmoneyfilm.com

video/mp4

freakonometrics, 1 month ago to random French

"Quickly turning what had been an orderly demonstration into a violent melee, a peaceful protest Friday was reportedly interrupted by a swarm of aggressive, black-clad militants. According to bystanders, the protesters had been marching and chanting without incident when they were suddenly set upon by the hostile militants who wielded blunt weapons and concealed their faces." 🤣 https://www.theonion.com/peaceful-protest-interrupted-by-swarm-of-aggressive-bla-1819580274

JustinH, 1 month ago to fediverse

"We Need To Rewild The Internet"
An absolutely excellent read (and great analogy) by @mariafarrell and @robin Probably the best piece I've read all year.

I often struggle to think of a term for "appearing messy from a distance is often, on a human scale, healthy actually." Comparing the social web to an ecosystem is exactly it.

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

@fediverse

tjdraper, 1 month ago to random

Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

matthiasott, 1 month ago to random

Issue 14 of #OwnYourWeb is out. 🥳

Webmentions.

With links to posts and tools by @maggie, @GIFmodel, @sia, @mariafarrell, @robin, @fonts, @mxbck, @nhoizey, @aaronpk, @pfefferle, @mauricerenck, @sebastiangreger, @belldotbz, @Aaron, @rem and many more! 🎉

✨Personal site of the (every other) week by @Robb ✨

https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/issue-14/

fabrice, 1 month ago to random

Interesting search engine project with customizable ranking and API access: https://github.com/StractOrg/stract / cc @robin

kottke, 1 month ago to random

‘Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America’, a poem by Matthew Olzmann. “Tell me what it’s like to live without curiosity, without awe…” https://kottke.org/24/04/letter-to-the-person-who-carved-his-initials-into-the-oldest-living-longleaf-pine-in-north-america

changelog, 1 month ago to random

✍️ @mariafarrell & @robin believe we need to rewild the Internet...

🔗 https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

koalie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#blog Highlights: “We need to rewild the Internet”

Today I read We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and @robin (Robin Berjon) (April 16, 2024), and I selected personal annotated highlights from it.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/04/23/highlights-we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#internet #web #sustainability #commons

svoisen, 1 month ago to random

Thinking a lot about how we fund web browser development after re-visiting @robin's Web Infrastructure Search Endowment and stumbling on the minutes from the related TPAC discussion.

We know AI-based "search for me" like Arc Search threatens publisher and content creator revenue, but I wonder if anyone is writing/thinking about how AI search also threatens to alter browser funding? Maybe it doesn’t, but I have a hard time believing it won’t alter those economics.

mariafarrell, 1 month ago to random

Chris Bertram's précis of We Need to Rewild the Internet is basically a list of my passions!

"draws on the work of James C. Scott, Elinor Ostrom and ecologists to think about how we might reclaim the internet from the tech oligopoly that has turned it into a small number of gated ad-mills"

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

albertcardona, 1 month ago to random

Rewilding the internet:

"Just like the crime-ridden, Corbusier-like towers Moses crammed people into when he demolished mixed-use neighborhoods and built highways through them, today’s top-down, concentrated internet is, for many, an unpleasant and harmful place. Its owners are hard to remove, and their interests do not align with ours."

"Apple and Google’s email clients manage nearly 90% of global email. Google and Cloudflare serve around 50% of global domain name system requests."

"For many people across the generations today, platforms like Facebook or TikTok are the internet. They’ve long dwelled in walled gardens they think are the world."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

By Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon.
@mariafarrell @robin