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travisfw

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Always showing up for the conversation on designing, in Doctorow's words: an "enshittification-resistant digital nervous system."

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travisfw, to random
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I am feeling that urgency again to shift culture to value life over our usefulness. I do believe engaging in some kind of healthy work is a necessary part of being well. But what we do must be secondary to the identity we have in relationship to our community outside the workplace.

Somehow this needs to translate into social and material security. But it can't with dominant meritocratic values.

travisfw, to random
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Chemical release at San Bruno jail sickens schoolchildren

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/san-bruno-jail-pepper-spray-san-francisco-19471476.php

mhoye, to random
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Software is just other people's decisions.

travisfw,
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@mhoye @onepict that's EXACTLY why each tool should do one thing only. YES. unix philosophy FTW.

travisfw, to random
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Federated, p2p, and social technology identifying as decentralized needs polycentric algorithmic moderation.

In polycentric algorithmic moderation, each human combines four things to their personal satisfaction:

① the proverbial firehose of everything, including how the system narrows it down (EG who you follow)
② default filters (EG nsfw or hateful)
③ the moderation preferences of the majority (EG fediblock), and
④ personal preference (EG more this, less that, and absolutly nothing from X)

travisfw,
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Note, by X, I mean a variable filled in by the user.

alcinnz, to random
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The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens - Baldur Bjarnason:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/

Personally I'm not bothering keeping up with frameworks...

travisfw,
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@alcinnz really good article. Great points about deskilling. I don't disagree with the final points on Big Tech, but I wish for a different finish.

travisfw, (edited ) to random
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Google is an advertising company. Android is a billboard. ( iOS too, of course)

travisfw, to random
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volunteering for this tomorrow morning. watch the stream if you like. celebrate the internet with the Internet Society and the originals like Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn who developed tcp/ip and the engineers who designed ethernet and wifi. https://i50ieee.com/

BoscoLab, to random German
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good morning from the lab

travisfw,
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@BoscoLab this is the labbiest lab photo I have ever labbed my eyes at

travisfw, to random
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who is going to ?

travisfw, to fediverse
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#softwareConcept TwoTags: an #ActivityPub enabled bookmarking service where the first two tags you give a bookmark are hashtags, and also the combination of the two.

travisfw, to Logseq
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I have been experimenting with using as a database, but it's not working out. Maybe I need to write a new bookmark service. (lol, aw me, you crack me up.)

RickiTarr, to random
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Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

travisfw,
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@RickiTarr @matthewtoad43 very nice. Yes we are in it together. My personal childhood traumas would have been survivable except for toxic masculinity, though sexism may not be directly to blame.

Long_live_rock_n_roll, to strangetrip
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Released today 17th May 1976

travisfw,
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@Long_live_rock_n_roll @hanscees I miss art like that.

KevinMarks, to random
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“As tech gets more complex, things seem to get more intuitive locally, but overall the arbitrariness keeps going up. The number of YouTube videos explaining arbitrary shit keeps going up.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/14/arbitrariness-costs/

travisfw,
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@artlung @KevinMarks I don't know how to enterpret this except as a failure of the entire field of

travisfw, to Life
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Starting in on and it's a heavy-hitter. This is the book for we, the burnout generations.

slott56, to til
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#TIL #nps #NationalPark

The New River is the second oldest river on the planet. I’ve only recently come to understand the real significance of the Appalachians. I was born and raised in and around these mountains, and they were always just — you know — mountains.

They reach back something like 350 million years. Predating dinosaurs? Really?

travisfw,
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@slott56 ok so the first one was just called River?

ajroach42, to random
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The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.

Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)

travisfw,
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@ajroach42 search, crawling, curation, and rendering of interfaces to those systems needs to be disintermediated. Individuals need to each have powerful tools for navigating the world they are connected to.

I.E. if "algorithms" are individually chosen and controlled, you don't have a platform problem.

travisfw, to random
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Fascinating. Nobody talks about breathing much.

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/41666)

travisfw,
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James Nestor's stories may be a bit hyperbolic, but the fundamental points he drives in his , , are nonetheless eye-opening (and nose-opening).

PixelChris, to random

Pheonix Yard, Monmouth, July 2021.

Assorted vintage storage tins.
A stock room of wooden furniture.
More wooden furniture.

travisfw,
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@PixelChris @ChrisWere desiccated soup. In the times before plastic everywhere.

travisfw, to random
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you have to choose between "don't put all your eggs in one basket" and "put all your eggs in one basket AND WATCH THAT BASKET"

travisfw, to random
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what other fediverse software do you use?
I also use Bookwyrm, and I'm considering finding a good Lemmy instance.

travisfw, to random
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"Accountability as I mean it is more about ourselves in the context of the collective. … about recognizing that we are necessary and wanted. … when we are not working to live as our best selves, we are devaluing the time and care that our loved ones offer us."
— Mia Birdsong in her book, How We Show Up

FiveSketches, to UX
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An AI function I would use:
During video calls, generate video of my face that always looks at the camera – not slightly down at my laptop keyboard, or sideways at the cat – in the interest of better interpersonal communication through eye contact.

travisfw,
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@FiveSketches 💯 I've been saying that for years.

In my version you get a generated 3D avatar that looks like you (no choice) and rather than streaming video you stream facial expression. You don't have to worry about lighting, your hair, or anything so you can just take the call. No more black screens in meetings.

fission, to random
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We just posted a farewell to our blog about winding down operations of the company https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

Thank you to everyone for your support, interest, & collaboration over the years.

We're proud of the UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM stack we developed, and hope to see them have continued growth across different ecosystems as open source standards and implementations.

travisfw,
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@fission Sorry I didn't get to connect more with you all while the project had more steam. I presume you all have not disappeared in a puff of smoke though.

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