Github Social Impact: How we’re driving change with social sector organizations ⌘ Read more…

Bookmarked : LibreSocial: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Online Social Networks ⌘ Read more…

Reading now : To fix social media we need to introduce digital socialism ⌘ Read more…

How to Perform a Social Media Autopsy - Galaxy Brain ⌘ Read more…

The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.

At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more

Pinboard describes itself as “Social bookmarking for introverts”. Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.

I keep going back ‘n’ forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what’s involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.

I think I’m done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?

xn–dw9h.social is taken :-(

xn–dw9h.social is taken :-(

🧶.social

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science ⌘ Read more…

Slavoj Žižek: We Need a Socialist Reset, Not a Corporate “Great Reset” ⌘ Read more…

The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem ⌘ Read more…

@prologic @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don’t think I have been this involed in a open source project before.

“is socially constructed” is socially constructed

On the blog: The Parler Problem https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/17/social-media.html #socialmedia

Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.

Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News

A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204

Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586

En ce qui concerne les matières sociales, j’ai constaté que le fédéral est bien plus déconnecté des réalités de terrain que les régions, c’est comme si le fédéral découvrait la crise sociale. ⌘

interesting read : How democracies can claim back power in the digital world ⌘ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009088/democracies-power-digital-social-media-governance-tech-companies-opinion/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207

Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559

We still need to unlock the web by @benwerd@benwerd ⌘ https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web

New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.

Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025

dokieli - dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. ⌘ https://dokie.li/

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social is there anything else than death metal? 🧐

Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social rebel.

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social are you using emacs as twtxt client or something? does it render the org markup for you into links?

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy UP ⌘

A Guide to Using RSS to Replace Social Media ⌘

Are you thirsty for some Social Media Upcummies? ⌘

The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News

A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197

the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social I always thought hg was better than git but no one else used it

Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069

A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886

A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343

A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - And the Rest https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/11/rest.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #okuna #bitnation #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - gitgeist https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/04/gitgeist.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #gitgeist #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Matrix https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/28/riot.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #riot #matrix #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - twtxt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/21/twtxt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #twtxt #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - RetroShare https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/14/retroshare.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #retroshare #socialshowdown

Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Pump.io https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/07/pumpio.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #pumpio #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Libertree https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/29/libertree.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #libertree #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - ZeroNet https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/22/zeronet.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #zeronet #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Twister https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/15/twister.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #twister #socialshowdown

past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Friendica https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/08/friendica.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #friendica #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds

Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they’re easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372

Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973

Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Scuttlebutt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/01/25/scuttlebutt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #diaspora

Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316

First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835

Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964

Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545

Reading https://medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media-d2b95662ccd3

Reading https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat

statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.

Hello, Marhabaan, Hallo, Salut, Merhaba, שלום, qavan, Hola, 你好, Ciao, Alô, Hej, ハロー, Ej, Alla, Grüzi & Namaste Fediverse! (Das Bild ist eine abgewandelte Version von switching.social) ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/58d

Hello, Marhabaan, Hallo, Salut, Merhaba, שלום, qavan, Hola, 你好, Ciao, Alô, Hej, ハロー, Ej, Alla, Grüzi & Namaste Fediverse! (Das Bild ist eine abgewandelte Version von switching.social) ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/58d

An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855

If you want to remain unheard, use a social network almost no one has heard of

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-have-a-secret-altruistic-social-life-20190415/

I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s like 20% of my dunbar allocation.

Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

The essays I’m considering writing are all somewhat clickbaity: “A libertarian case for social justice”, “Anarchy needs rules”…

The Deep Social Justice Roots of The Twilight Zone | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/28/the-deep-social-justice-roots-of-the-twilight-zone/

A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface

School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.

Cybernetics Conference Library https://cybernetics.social/

The Social Construction of Emotions - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQUnddM5Vg

Band name of the day: the social factory

Individualism is not a sufficient foundation for social life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/individualism-is-not-a-sufficient-foundation-for-social-life

why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as ‘Eldrich’ and ‘Uncanny’

Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/

How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere

josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197

Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/