A couple of weeks ago, I signed a petition (the site has since been taken down, but you can see it at archive.org) expressing my support…
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Make Nova Launcher Open Source, Let the Community Continue Its Development!
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Two pieces of good news for W Social: 1) I may have found the problem that has bricked their network for the past week. 2) This may very well be the LAST article I ever write about them. It's exhausting and stressful and I want to retire from this beat and go back to promoting the Fediverse. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. And to my trusted source (a Fedi friend) who found and shared with me brilliant gems: THANK YOU! It's been a real honor collaborating with you ❤️
Ditching GitHub
This is going to be some sort of a public service announcement, withside notes. This has been brewing for a long, long time (years), it’sjust that I never se...
MIT Center for Civic Media – Creating Technology for Social Change
At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center has been a longstanding collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Comparative Media Studies / Writing program at MIT. Over the past thirteen years, hundreds of students, researchers, visiting scholars, faculty members and members of communities in the Boston area and worldwide have contributed to the work that's unfolded here. I’d like to pause and recognize the work that's been done and the many people who've made it possible.
A letter to tech CEOs
A letter to tech CEOs
Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end
Using “BlueSky Elder” as a positive term is such an obvious tell that you’re not actually one Like, those of us who *were* around when it was coined remember how it was so widely mocked that it led to the OP fucking off to Nostr and this site’s first and most famous copypasta
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
I have now seen two people say "respect your bluesky elders" unironically since I woke up and look its a public site not a fraternity hazing, ppl need to relax a bit
We're so excited to support @thisismissem.social's work bringing FedCM to the open social web! atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-…
Working to Decentralize FedCM - AT Protocol
atproto.comExcited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
media.mit.eduDo you like bookmarking things and losing them in the Bookmarks hole? Or not knowing what your Bluesky peeps are bookmarking No? Then try semble.so (built on ATProtocol) and use social bookmarking to learn from the academic hivemind.
#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me
From Social Network to Sense Making
www.youtube.comIt's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Dura…
Gil Durán
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
