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by wcerfgba 1y ago
Media was always already social. If I email my friend a link to a YouTube video, is the Internet a social network? I think what we think of when we think of 'social media' or a 'social network' is an integrated platform
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Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning(jods.mitpress.mit.edu)
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.expub – Exploring Expanded Publishing(expandedpublishing.net)
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
States are not inherently good, they are just large organisations with a monopoly on certain social functions. All large organisations have the capacity to inflict terrible harm.
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
This is exactly why it's important to find each other, so we can keep each other safe. There is strength in numbers. If you put up your posters on community notice board and use a non-personal email (I just made a new Gmail account for
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Last year I managed to connect with 10 other trans people in my Lancashire home town. This is a place with zero 'alternative' spaces, let alone dedicated queer spaces. I made a poster using the trans pride flag as the background,
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Exactly, so I'm wondering if it's possible to detect those smaller patterns in the bigger ones?
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
I'd like to see this for smaller n, to see if there are motifs or patterns, which can be used to implement memoisation like Hashlife ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife ), or to reveal new formulas for explor
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Music by Belisha Beacons(music-by-belisha-beacons.co.uk)
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Wet bulb temperatures account for evaporation, but I don't know if weather stations report wet bulb or dry bulb.
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
I don't use Kinopio for everything, but when I need to arrange ideas in a 2D way and think about webs of relationships, it's been an amazing addition to my set of "tools for thought". Thank you for all of your work on it
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
This is why anarchism is an important philosophy and practice. It asks, how can we build societies which operate without coercion and hierarchies?
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
> We still haven't found a better resource allocation model than pricing. There are many different models. Look at Elinor Ostrom's work, or projects using participatory budgeting.
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Value and price are not the same thing. Money is a form of access control which limits the availability of scarce resources to those people and organisations which have enough funds. It also collapses the value of all things to a single dim
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Or we could move away from pricing everything and the neoliberal obsession to turn everything into a market, and restructure our economy to provide everyone with their basic material needs, regardless of how much income they have.
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
The AI explanations for these tracks is quite amusing/disturbing: > Based on the information provided, it appears that the user is a resident of the United States, likely living in the Onalaska area of Washington state. They are usi
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Somehow I ended up here: https://grabify.link/track/K0U70F
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
Does anyone know anything about 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF)? The last time I flew, I was given an option to pay for this, but I don't know what it actually is, how it's made, if it's carbon neutral, or if and
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by wcerfgba 2y ago
And here's an old Instructable on building your own yagi for wifi: https://www.instructables.com/Easy-to-Build-WIFI-24GHz-Yagi-...
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
It made me uncomfortable too, and it is ableist to talk about someone as if they are "totally insane", and to trivialise serious mental health issues. Fortunately, it is easy to reframe EiJ as an android controlled by a bunch of a
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
Nitter link for convenience: https://nitter.net/uberstuber/status/1736494429702390264 I also have ADHD and found this thread interesting and useful.
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
Thank you for committing to release it all as open source, instead of hoarding it or putting it in the bin like so many other services do when they fail to achieve sustainability.
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
Why talk to your grandmother, teacher, or schoolmates, when you can talk to a robot instead? I'm unsure what problems this tool is trying to solve, and I'm worried that it enables isolation instead of conviviality.
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
I think the main difficulties here will be social, and a story of how this all started and the cultural, legal, and operational barriers they've overcome would be a valuable contribution. I am reminded of pg's advice to "do t
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
Rental services are usually privately-owned for-profit businesses, whereas this is a community initiative, and probably has lower overheads.
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
This is very impressive! I'd love to hear if people are using this as their daily OS
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
I would like to know what initiatives at systemic change the author has participated in, and what the outcomes where. There are plenty of case studies of action research and appreciative inquiry leading to more effective and fulfilling orga
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, this looks great! Shame it is not available on Firefox for Android yet.
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
I don't think naming names in this post is necessarily the best action. This would only serve to reproduce the idea that the problem is individual rapists who need to be punished. Instead, Drew is pointing towards systems which need to
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by wcerfgba 3y ago
What are the authors' goals, what is their intended purpose? I can't find a mission statement on their website.

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