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

» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/

A Psychic Healer Tried to Hypnotize Soviets to Distract From the Fall of Communism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/faith-healer-hypnotize-soviet-union

All your communication is routed through an optic link bouncing off an imaginary-angled mirror in the meridian where your spheres intersect

Human interstellar communication is tricky not because of signal strength, but because 20 years of moral drift is a lot of taboos to violate

How to secretly communicate with people on LSD | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/

Extinct memelects: The most useless yet most nostalgic knowledge, inside jokes of dead communities where even the archives have been lost

In her stream, she rents out her synapses at one token per impulse. Several internet communities end up fighting over her motor control

http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/ http://networkcultures.org/longform/2016/12/19/communication-control-communism-on-socialist-cybernetics-accelerationist-dreams-and-tiqquns-nightmares/

On Tonkatsu DJ‘s Imagined Communities - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxORW4_HNo

Back Twitter is pretty good actually. Small, tight-knit community, supported by a handful of well-picked employees. None of the execs know~

What the makers get out of it is well-tested and working colony designs and colonist communities that have already been seeded in-game

Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail – why? ⌘ https://aeon.co/essays/like-start-ups-most-intentional-communities-fail-why

Does anybody has a good idea where to do some promotion for twtxt? A subreddit or online community i haven’t thought about?

Communicate! It can’t make things any worse.

a few ideas:↵- betting on who dies next↵- communicating through a medium (optional: exactly one sentence/round)↵- reincarnation?

You have one bit to communicate to the outside. Do you one-AI-box or two-AI-box?

keystone memes as inconspicuous ideas that nonetheless hold a world view together, keystone people that play the same role in communities

Memes are agents that will eat your and your group’s communication bandwidth (a finite resource) if you let them. Treat them accordingly.

Now extinct, wild cathedrals were once popular game. Sure, it took a whole community to hunt one but its meat would sustain them for a year.