Brendan Howell @praxeology@post.lurk.org

Any self-hosted jsbin / jsfiddle / codesandbox like, preferably compatible with @nextcloud?
#m

Here's how #AI will take over the world, slowly and inconspicuously:

Various white collar employees and politicians not understanding their domains of work, using software that helpfully suggests insights to be drawn and courses of actions to be taken. It's easy to look at what the software suggests you to look at, and if you don't understand the domain, you can't tell what the software isn't noticing.

I realized this playing with the recent version of MS #Excel.

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made a lil infographic

"I also got a bad taste in my mouth from Twitter supporting kinds of speech that I don't particularly agree with, and I began to feel like putting my toys and art there was just adding value to the network. For a while I felt that the tradeoff was that the art I published there still enriched my life and the lives of my friends. At some point, though, I started to feel like the balance got out of whack, and I could do more good by putting my work on alternate networks and giving people a reason to get off Twitter. "

All cultural producers with some degree of audience and influence should really think about this: what structures do I validate by my presence? What and whose structures do I reinforce? What other places can I advantage?

@darius in https://logicmag.io/security/party-at-my-house-darius-kazemi-on-human-scaled-social-media/

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Woman Redefining Difference”, 1980

“Yet even the form our creativity takes is often a class issue. Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper.”

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#frgmntscnr #drawing #fragment #MastoArt #art

Germany: half of the population live in 11.74% of the country http://dlvr.it/RZb8nM

In 2016, Deb Verhoeven described the term digital infrapuncture, where infrapuncture is a portmanteau of "infrastructure" and "acupuncture". Tomorrow she will be speaking about it again. @manetta and I will be thinking through addressing stress points in a digital infrastructure with bot logic during a workshop that follows right after!

With @creativecoding

https://www.uu.nl/en/events/online-event-bots-digital-infrapuncture

Very very interesting long read about the possible future of ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and Queer Haus.

Many of the concerns mentioned here in this proposal is why we chose to limit the connections that Queer Haus has to the rest of the fediverse. To build our own curated slice of the fediverse.

This proposal aims to solve this descent into fediverse nation states by making the network itself aware of consent.

Fascinating stuff! Thanks @rra for the link!

https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub

… and if you want to know the cool and complex history of the Sleng Teng riddim, take a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpjGXH4umQ

RT @PlutoPress@twitter.com

⚡OUT NOW!⚡️

What is the human cost of our digital future?

Based on undercover research, 'Dying for an iPhone' reveals the shocking conditions endured by workers employed by Foxconn, the world’s leading manufacturer of Apple products.

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341293/dying-for-an-iphone/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PlutoPress/status/1276879220745043968

something arrived today, definitely a holy grail for me...

a Weather Star 4000! this is the box that at one point, among other things, generated the Local on the 8s graphics for the Weather Channel

(small thread)

still going through old lives... lmao

Hey Follower,
wir haben 12 iMacs 21,5" aus Mitte 2011 geschenkt bekommen.
Wir bekommen auf das Gerät kein Linux drauf. Verbaut ist eine Radeon HD6450M Grafikkarte
Was wir bisher gemacht haben:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mit nomodeset option = freeze im grafikinstaller
Manjaro 18.0 XFCE bleibt in der Console hängen

Offensichtlich passt was mit den Treibern von der Grafikkarte nicht.
Wir freuen uns auf Hinweise 😅

#followerpower #linux

The first live performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona, newly reopened after coronavirus lockdowns. A string quartet gave a performance of Puccini’s Crisantemi to an audience of 2292 plants. As you can see from the pictures, it was a full house, because plants have excellent taste, obviously. The plants were later adopted by healthcare workers.

Will a federated reddit be any better than reddit? It's doubtful. There's a fundamental flaw in the design of those systems, and it's the assumption that via voting the cream will rise to the top [insert wrestling meme]. But this doesn't happen in reality. Instead, scum floats.

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