We could be building a better world with our students. Why are we disempowering them instead?
And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?
On Making
TLDR: I gain a lot of fulfillment by making things. I don't consider things built by others at my request to be made by me, and are therefore much less fulfilling. And then I feel sad. This article starts strong and then heads off into the weeds.
The Future Worth Building Is Human
AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Don’t change the subject
Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to th…
The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and undermined Western corporate profits.
What will be scarce?
The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work
I wonder who runs W and what interests they have. This is the typical right/far-right response when anybody complains or protests about anything, start speculating about someone paying people to... complain?
W Social
As we have communicated. We did the update on Septemebr 17th. Now a question back to you @wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social Who have funded you and what is your connection to other PDS operators? What is your motive to create a site framing public information as a "data-leak" what's your motive?
This is a rough draft of a thought, but my sense of #WSocial is that it is an attempt to enclose the commons. By cultivating the idea that WSocial is only humans and bots are the primary drivers of mis/disinformation, they're establishing a framework which accomplishes two things:
Elena Rossini ⁂
Some thoughts on #WSocial, how they have been responding to criticism and why I believe they are showing the limits of free speech absolutism. I agree with @echna.bsky.social that "W Social seems to be on an X speedrun - without ever having been like Twitter." 🔗: aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01M0SDV98GRDW…
even if you take AI and investment out of the picture anyone making sustainable MRR is a target if your reply is "yes that's how capitalism works" then you're not trying to create an ecosystem or a better world you're making Facebook "community is the only moat" - @rude1.blacksky.team
Trezy
Finally done. I was able to talk with @pfrazee.com, as well as a handful of other folks with insight on the situation. #atmosphereconf trezy.com/blog/the-marshmallow-test
