Safety is fatal ⌘ Read more…

xn–dw9h.social is taken :-(

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science ⌘ Read more…

Slavoj Žižek: We Need a Socialist Reset, Not a Corporate “Great Reset” ⌘ Read more…

The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem ⌘ Read more…

@prologic @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don’t think I have been this involed in a open source project before.

“is socially constructed” is socially constructed

On the blog: The Parler Problem https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/17/social-media.html #socialmedia

Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.

Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News

A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204

Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586

En ce qui concerne les matières sociales, j’ai constaté que le fédéral est bien plus déconnecté des réalités de terrain que les régions, c’est comme si le fédéral découvrait la crise sociale. ⌘

interesting read : How democracies can claim back power in the digital world ⌘ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009088/democracies-power-digital-social-media-governance-tech-companies-opinion/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207

Twt.social Hacktober 2020 ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/10/04/twtsocial-hacktober.html

Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559

We still need to unlock the web by @benwerd@benwerd ⌘ https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web

New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.

Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025

Why an open, decentralised social media network like Twtxt and Twt.social matter ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/09/10/why-an-open.html

dokieli - dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. ⌘ https://dokie.li/

ANN: Twt.social is now live! Join the new self-hosted, decentralised privacy focused social media network! ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/08/15/ann-twtsocial-is.html

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social is there anything else than death metal? 🧐

Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social rebel.

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social are you using emacs as twtxt client or something? does it render the org markup for you into links?

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy UP ⌘

A Guide to Using RSS to Replace Social Media ⌘

Are you thirsty for some Social Media Upcummies? ⌘

The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News

A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197

the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social I always thought hg was better than git but no one else used it

Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069

A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886

A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343

A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612

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Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.

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