A community can be classified by whether the primary goal of community members is to increase the total value of the community to its members or increase their value with respect to their peers.
The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html
Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/
societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes
#now-playing ‘Better Oblivion Community Center’ by Better Oblivion Community Center http://0x0.st/s4b
How ‘90s Cybersex Pioneers Looked for Action and Found Community https://gizmodo.com/how-90s-cybersex-pioneers-looked-for-action-and-found-c-1831079932
Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html
What’s a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don’t have? - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/cathodion/whats-a-useful-programming-language-feature-or-concept-that-a-lot-of-languages-dont-have-2ep1
Dystopias Now • Commune https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.
A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext
Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’
Discussing Isekai, Part 1: Overlord, Isekai Maou, and Isekai Smartphone as Communicative Images - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtHFGK0hm4
GNU Kind Communications Guidelines https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7
In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.
Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext
Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvajn7/meet-the-community-keeping-obsolete-supercomputers-alive
when gods commune, dimensional portals open in their worlds and in come ideas from the other’s mind: stalking tangles of crystal, shy ripples in space, sentient smells, just about every type of elf, the occasional human
Beheadings as honest communication devices – International Cognition and Culture Institute http://cognitionandculture.net/blog/radu-umbres-blog/beheadings-as-honest-communication-devices
Hot take: anything with more than 200 people in it is necessarily too diverse and internally schismatic to be called a ‘community’ – if it has shared norms, it’s at best a ‘subculture’, & if those norms are being imposed by a corporation, it’s not even that.
Vision for a new, truly decentralized Web | Empowering People. Uniting Communities. https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-decentralized-web/
Nobody knows if there really is a network behind the terms and conditions or has even found their end, but there is life: In a box in the lower right corner, squat communities have sprung up (“35 other people also stymied by § 4.23.7, chat now”)↵#invisiblenetworks (day 16)
Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/russian-cosmism-versus-interstellar-bosses-reclaiming-full-throttle-luxury-space-communism/
Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).
Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b
Donald Glover’s ‘Community’ Exit And The Evolution Of The End Tags https://uproxx.com/tv/donald-glover-end-tags-giant-hand-dan-harmon/
The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community
Neighbouring Communities - ICCC 2018 Talk - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cP4X3OZcf8
Inside the calming communities of YouTube’s lo-fi hip hop scene | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene
Announcing Tildes - a non-profit community site driven by its users’ interests https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Band name of the day: community vibrancy index
Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?
Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9gxd/electric-scooters-san-francisco-limebike-the-commons
two approaches to cyborg love: shut down the silicon and rely only on your monkey wetware, or open all senses at once and commune at maximum bandwidth
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the communication link!
The merits of taking an anti-anti-communism stance | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-communism-stance
Community/Creative Commons - J Wiki http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Community/Creative_Commons
As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
The Alt-right is recruiting depres… https://theoutline.com/post/3537/alt-right-recruiters-have-infiltrated-the-online-depression-community
How We Make Gods - Issue 57: Communities - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/57/communities/how-we-make-gods–
METAHEADCANON: Harmon’s Head - An 8 Circuit Model of Community http://www.metaheadcanon.com/2018/02/harmons-head-8-circuit-model-of.html
More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Int… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map
Sustainable community education through WTFM http://web.archive.org/web/20170416184606/http://www.roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks
Scaling Dunbar’s number up to billions of people is hard even with augments, so you can lend your voice to an Übermensch: A meta-person that represents you and thousands of others, which talks to other Übermenschen to get person-years of communication done in mere minutes
In the machine quarters, they make their trees out of silicon and rust. Under their canopies, many-legged mechanical druids commune with andryads, bodies covered in verdigris glyphs
Josh Millard - Keeping Web Communities Healthy in a Dark Timeline - DonutJS October 2017 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhun8OzAmfg