@tx@shroom.party A lot of the original ‘text’ on social media is already an image, so sharing it as screenshot is not even the root cause.
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099
Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social
Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization
Socially Conscious Sci-Fi | The Smart Set https://thesmartset.com/socially-conscious-sci-fi/
How Wikipedia dodged public outcry plaguing social media platforms https://medium.com/wiki-strategies/platform-a3b8c3ce901e
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).
China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween - Socialism 2013 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCqiY1jwqc
Band name of the day: social anosmia
Hot take: the ‘rule of law’ is only possible because social norms have made deviations from desired behavior rare. The policeman in your head does the heavy lifting. When norms diverge from law, norms win.
periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques
article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition
Algorithmic glass ceiling in social networks: the effects of social recommendations on network diversity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/24/algorithmic-glass-ceiling-in-social-networks-the-effects-of-recommendation-on-social-diversity/
Against trendism: ipfs://QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQDqrz8Asn3wPbiTHFH9pyAXPNxwbeytJgzWUHF1PZup2 / gopher://fuckup.solutions/1enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-04-01_Against-trendism–how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956.txt / https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956
GitHub - evbogue/starboard: Scuttlebot distributed social in your terminal https://github.com/evbogue/starboard
Returning to the Original Social Network https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html
Have you tried pretending not to care about the problem in order to gain social currency among people who believe that the outgroup only pretends to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Have you tried only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of only pretending to care about the problem in order to gain social currency?
Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media https://tedium.co/2018/05/31/webring-history/
DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348
Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.
pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.
Googleâs Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk, Adam Riggio « Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/
Social Anarchist Futures – Solarpunk Anarchist https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2018/05/02/social-anarchist-futures/
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/
I tried leaving Facebook. I couldnât - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
Against trendism: how to defang the social media disinformation complex https://medium.com/@/against-trendism-how-to-defang-the-social-media-disinformation-complex-81a8e2635956
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/
Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133
Tracing fake… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/02/19/tracing-fake-news-footprints-characterizing-social-media-messages-by-how-they-propagate/
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
Beyond the Black Rainbow & Social Oppression - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTtTaQfB99U
Deleting the Human Clause, Damien Williams « … https://social-epistemology.com/2018/02/13/deleting-the-human-clause-damien-williams/
The truth about social media and “influence”: it’s a scam we‘re al… https://theoutline.com/post/3443/devumi-twitter-bots-savviness-gap
The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory | Aeon I… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-tech-bias-why-silicon-valley-needs-social-theory
There are legitimate open questions: should we maximize minimum happiness? Should we maximize mean, or median, or total happiness? But, no existing social system optimizes for any of these metrics or any combination of them.
In an equitable society, social problems are a matter of individual choice. We don’t live in such a society, and never have. If we want to, we should be honest about this. Pretending to have achieved equity is a good way to amplify shitty power relations.
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
Social structure is a technology, but it’s one that most self-identified techies are ill-equipped to debug, mainly due to bigotry against properly studying it.
People make the obvious comparison to Blade Runner, but seeing as how Blade Runner is a famously shallow & aesthetically-focused adaptation that strips the social & political elements from its source, Altered Carbon comes out the winner here
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
How extreme rituals forge intense social bonds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-extreme-rituals-forge-intense-social-bonds
@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff
Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social | … My heart’s in Accra http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/11/16/who-filters-your-news-why-we-built-gobo-social/
How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion
Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good
Social network tarot cards / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/social-network-tarot-cards.html
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-is-the-us-so-susceptible-to-social-media-distortion
Neanderthals With Disabilities Survived Through Social Support https://gizmodo.com/neanderthals-with-disabilities-survived-through-social-1819801216
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
"Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change" by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU
Not drinking or driving, teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/neither-drinking-nor-driving-more-teens-are-putting-off-traditional-markers-of-adulthood/2017/09/18/b46027a0-93f1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html
Why the Media Refuses to Understand Antifa - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/social-justice/understanding-antifa?curator=MediaREDEF
Unpopular ideas about social norms – Julia Galef https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/
Why does U2 irk so many people? A look at their struggle for pop hits and social justice | America Magazine https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/07/17/why-does-u2-irk-so-many-people-look-their-struggle-pop-hits-and-social?curator=MusicREDEF
The Splintered Mind: The Social-Role Defense of Robot Rights https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-social-role-defense-of-robot-rights.html
Inside the extreme Facebook fandom for old rental VHS tapes http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/07/inside-extreme-facebook-fandom-old-rental-vhs-tapes
I recently tried to write a command like client to GNU social, but after reading the specs on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon i soon lost interest… :)
I recently tried to write a command like client to GNU social, but after reading the specs on ActivityStreams, Webfinger, PubsubHubbub and Salmon i soon lost interest… :)
twtxt: The only social network where every new user starts by writing it’s own client.
twtxt: The only social network where every new user starts by writing it’s own client.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.
Felix Schwenzel über IndieWeb und reclaim social media ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1xo
The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem Schöner Artikel von Ben Werd über das IndieWeb und Idno! ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1W6
A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/11V
Federating the Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/zM
OpenWeb-Notizen: Open Social, OExchange, Portable Contacts ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/wr
The Federated Social Web ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/ws