Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If I thought that "Social Media" meant using X or Facebook... I might agree with "stay away" But, that isn't the whole universe (we know that here, but who else knows?) and these are the kind of people who should know!

In the future social media will be media. The end.

What will that be like? We are building it now. Please for the love of God we need smart people to participate in this project. 4/4

Is "stay away" realistic advice for young people? Or for ANY people? It drives me nuts that some of the people with the best judgement, the cooler heads, the deeper thinkers, think that just ignoring social media is a solution.

Any format of information sharing can be "bad" yellow journalism, propaganda TV networks. All media present an opportunity to control the public will and so all media can be put to dishonest uses.

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We had a really good speaker at our school last year who talked about understanding conflict resolution. Part of an effort to improve student mental health. The only thing I didn't like about her presentation was what she said on social media "Social media? my advice is stay away!" *big audience chuckle from teachers and parents*

And that laugh is because most know we won't *really* stay away. And we admire those who don't use social media like they are training for a marathon. 2/

It annoys me how people talk about using social media like it's a vice. And a female-coded one at that.

"Spend less time on social media" is trotted out a virtuous in the same way that "not eating a pint of ice cream" is.

Imagine if in the early days of movable type, there were people going around saying "don't read pamphlets, they are full of misinformation"

Social media is the primary way news is disseminated. It is superseding newspapers and TV as the primary vector of mass media. 1/

"Don't yell at people writing unauthorized scrapers and bridges" they say, while instances may have to shut down due to bills from unauthorized scrapers and bridges.

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people will literally treat queer autistic people likes dogs our entire life and then get shocked and upset when we start doing it to get each other off

@designthinkingcomic capitalists, centrists, apoliticals, rightwingers and neoliberals whenever there is a systemic problem, every time:

I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.

"With the decision to become a hard fork, [being a drop-in replacement for Gitea] will no longer be guaranteed. It will remain possible to upgrade from the latest #Gitea version released at the time of the hard fork, but versions past that will not have such a guarantee.

As such, if you were considering upgrading to #Forgejo, we encourage you to do that sooner rather than later"

#lastBoost

Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW

https://mwl.io/archives/23448

#writing #FindawayVoices
Massive license grab that will irrevocably destroy your career.

[edit to add: update below, but stay on alert]

You know who are awesome? Librarians. I put in a request 5 weeks ago to see if we can get a scanned copy of a library book so that I can run it through text-to-speech software and read it for a paper I'm writing. Accessibility, right? My wrists hurt (a lot), and this helps.

The librarians got pushback from the publisher on scanning 4 chapters b/c that's more than 20% of the book. Potential violation of copyright. Needed for access.

So they bought the fucking ebook for me. #accessibility #ally

So fucking typical. I am so sick of this happening over and over again to what could have been interesting resilient/community tech.

"Roofnet, a real mesh network deployment [...] Open participation without central planning [...] No central control over topology [...] Roofnet's technology formed the basis for Meraki, a mesh networking startup founded by members of MIT's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2012. [...] Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet. [...] Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web."

something i dont think people really get is that when development of a game is say, 80% finished you don't have 80% of a game, you have 0% of a game and 80% of the disparate parts that would make up a game if they were actually 100% done and put together