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Vrimj

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It appears I owe people an introduction. I live in Seattle with a wife, a dog and a child who is now in Kindergarten. I wanted to be a marine biologist, graduated with a degree in geography and eventually went to law school. I have mapped sewer, rural electric coops and grocery stores. I have done floodplain management and emergency management. Now I do queer law which is like small town law but in a big city for a small community. I have a collegen disorder and disgraphia.

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I am really looking forward to the coming of age sit com about young people on puberty blockers and I wish someone would make it now.

Experiencing middle school when you are not going though puberty is probably kind of objectively hilarious weird and scary in a way I really want to hear about.

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Last night I found out that The Golden Girls started out as a joke about "Miami Nice" being the show instead of Miami Vice.

In that spirit may I suggest the title "Puber Tea" for this project?

Because trans kids could use some support but I also think they would have a lot to tell cis kids who are in the middle of it that would make them feel less alone and less like a freak.

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@SeaRyanC

Thank you, looking for it now!

Vrimj, to random
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I think it is interesting and says something about tech in general that even Elon understood he had to hire rocket scientists and car manufacturing engineers and neuroscientists for those projects but he doesn't appear to have hired a single expert in communication or social dynamics when taking over Twitter, the same appears to be true for every other newly founded social network where I have taken a look at the leadership.

Vrimj,
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There is a very specific sort of thing here that I don't have language for but I have noticed. People who work with things respect other people with expertise in how to work on things.

Often they do not see skills with people as real unless they are deeply abstracted and not really about people anymore but the things that make up people, eg neuroscience.

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@zompus

I mean I am not even asking for the humanities here, just social scientists!

I can give 2006 a pass because there just were not that many experts in online communication yet, but now there is a real discipline developing here and it just doesn't seem to be a thing people building networks of people think they need.

They don't model the people using it as part of the system.

Vrimj, to random
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Too much reverence for the US Constitution or the Founding Fathers can turn an attorney in to something more like a canon lawyer, someone debating theology instead of justice.

seldo, to random

What's that you say? Bluesky crossed a few hundred thousand users and immediately started having moderation issues? You don't say! Who could have possibly predicted? etc.

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@tess @mekkaokereke @Green_Footballs @seldo

I agree very strongly that no one wants to be on the social media version of big brother where you are broadcast to everyone but you don't see what they are saying about you, that is kind of worse than nothing at all.

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@tess @mekkaokereke @Green_Footballs @seldo

Social Media should, as much as possible, be a land of windows and curtains, not one way mirrors.

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Jack's a piece of work but saying he sold everyone out to Elon is disingenuous; if someone comes to a publicly-traded company and says, "I will pay you 50% more than your stock is currently worth and take that off your hands", you are legally obligated to say "yes".

The problem does lies not with Jack, but with capitalism and the amoral rules we've subjected corporations to.

(I mean, Jack is also a problem - just a different kind of problem.)

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@thatguy @tess

His duties would come from being a board member, not management.

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@thatguy

I am not a corporate governance attorney nor am I a securities attorney but my understanding is that in general the feducary duty of a director is increasingly defined as maximizing shareholder value in part because of law and economics as a trend in jurisprudence and in part because of some trends in securities law.

See for example this article arguing for a change https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/02/11/towards-accountable-capitalism-remaking-corporate-law-through-stakeholder-governance/#:~:text=The%20dominant%20framework%20of%20corporate,is%20to%20raise%20share%20prices.

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