Stu @shoeberto@straylight.expectnomore.net

Advice from Beatles.

+ I'm old enough to remember the Web of the 1990s/ 2000s.
It was a maze. You followed hypertext links, stumbled into forums and early troll-caves, used Slashdot and GoTo, experimented with LiveJournal and Blogger.

It wasn't safe, it was filled with weirdness, appealed heavily to geeks and loners. Being on the web in that era was a serious trip.

But it wasn't corporate. It wasn't the tool of major governments, yet. It was defiantly decentralised, and when you were online...

... you felt free.

never forget.

People who like graphs, here is the recent spike of activity thanks to India discovering Mastodon in the context of the last 6 months of mastodon.social

Huge if true

As promised, mastodon.social code of conduct has been updated to add "casteism and advocation of casteism" to the list of explicitly prohibited offenses

holy
shit

Stolen from a thread by Gen X'er Xeni over on birdsite.

(Link to thread: https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1191723292249358336)

Gotta call the front desk, this stupid microwave won't give me back my hot pocket

We're happy to introduce the Code of Conduct that will now apply to all #GodotEngine community platforms, for users and contributors alike.

We've been blessed with a well-behaved community so far, but it's time to write down our values and expectations.
https://godotengine.org/article/code-of-conduct-godot-community

- CA had way less data than it was made to seem. They were using statistical sampling techniques wisely. Compared to the big players in perception bubble manipulation, they were an opportunistic minnow.

- A minnow sufficed to change the course of global history. Check that list of campaigns they were involved with again. The only difference between them and the big players is that old money directed them to choose a side.

- Right now the algorithms run the big fish, and they don't seem to care about anything other than sucking your brainmeat out your eyeballs. But injecting a desire into an AI is very, very simple. We have no idea who will make them want what tomorrow.

- The only people who can become whistleblowers are by definition those who were fool enough to work for the other side at one time. Stop demanding saints and stop canonizing them after the fact.

- No matter how well they can model you, as creepy as that is, you can only be manipulated directly if they have access to your perception. Access de-f•••ing-nied. This is the ghosthack; and this is why we fediverse.

Self-help books are great