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.
The Case for Lowering Your Expectations
It may be the key to happiness and sustainable performance
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…
Steward-ownership is capitalism 2.0
In my previous post, I explained why we need to change incentive structures if we want to build companies that are a force for good in…
How to Build a Community: Starting with "why?".
To build a successful community, you have to be aligned on the why behind it. Turns out, there's a lot of wrong answers to this question!
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…
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?
