A distributed social network that only works on airgapped devices using peer to peer network connections established over ultrasonic sound.
Freedom from centralized silos of wealth and power doesn't mean freedom from societal contracts, laws, obligations, or the need to be decent human beings to each other.
Seeing a lot of "review of the year" posts, which honestly, I always love. But this was also the worst year of my life by far. Should I do one? Still trying to decide.
My big takeaway from British politics right now is that I kind of want to have a cheese and wine business meeting
When my watch tells me “you did it!” when I stand up I feel like the happiest baby
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's possible to disagree with a technology without engaging in personal attacks or bullying.
You can take the man out of Britain, but you can't take the being super-glad and relieved to see the Tories lose seats out of the man.
The One Medical nurse told me to take far more ibuprofen than I’d ever be comfortable taking, so I figure I’ll give it a shot. Maybe I’ll gain superpowers, like the ability to fly or feeling incrementally better.
This cold is intense. I feel like I have the worst hangover ever.
I'm surrounded by tea, tigerbalm, Olbas oil, various vitamins, and Ibuprofen. Later there will be soup. What's in your go-to cold arsenal?
If the internet really was a force for social organization and activism more than a force for commerce and capitalism, there’s no way we would all be able to get it to our homes and pockets.
Communities should shape the technology they use, not the other way around. Building ways to empower communities to operate on their own terms, in a way that best suits them, is still a problem I’m deeply passionate about. And there is so much opportunity.
Thinking about that time my sister scandalized the hospital chaplain by singing a song about death, decomposition, and turning into a horse chestnut tree to our mother on her deathbed. (I approve, and Ma would have, too.)
Live Photos are amazing. I have 578 little snippets of my mother laughing, talking, singing. I wish I could dive into them and make them stretch to infinity.
I sincerely appreciate it when events and venues require vaccine status at the door. Thank you for keeping us safe.
I’ve found this week emotionally and physically taxing, and I would like to curl up in a ball and ideally disappear for quite some time.
Pandemic or no pandemic, I have zero desire to ever go back to the office. How about you?
Norminess: the extent to which you are willing to fit into the mainstream patterns dictated by life under capitalism, vs going your own way and refusing to confirm your identity, practices, or desires.
"Gathering statistical responses" is not the same thing as "listening and understanding".
Any institution that thinks it knows best without listening to its community, yielding ownership to its community, and making space for its community is doomed to failure. That's true if you're a company, a membership organization, a non-profit, or a political party.
I'm selling my old car (a 2015 Hyundai Elantra; I know, I'm pretty fancy). So far Carvana seems to be by far the best experience for this, by a mile. Why is everything else so clunky?
RSS / Atom / WebSub, IndieWeb, and ActivityPub aside, am I missing actively-used open protocols and standards for subscribing to published content?
If you were starting a multi-user blog for your engineering team, which platform would you pick? Let's leave both Known and Medium out of the conversation for now.
Everyone in the house is sick but me. Finally, folks began to emerge from bed, so I paused work to make soup and tea and make sure everyone is more or less OK. I make a pretty good impromptu vegetable soup, as it turns out. Now, back to work.
If it becomes common to write articles using ML, presumably those articles enter the corpus and become a bigger part of it, and over time the algorithms will start to learn to write from themselves. Like photocopying a photocopy, language will start to get weird. I can't wait
I don't know who needs to hear this, but every person on your team is a whole, three-dimensional human with hopes, dreams, and a whole set of skills and insights that lie outside the thing you hired them for. Your team is a community, if you'll let it be one.
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