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Media was always already social. If I email my friend a link to a YouTube video, is the Internet a social network? I think what we think of when we think of 'social media' or a 'social network' is an integrated platform that lubricates particular potentials, like being able to create and share content with friends and fans. But there are other ways to realise those potentials, including ones that require the interfacing of different platforms (or media, in the McLuhanian sense), or what might be perceived as different platforms at one scale, and the same platform at another scale, as per my Internet example. And, the multiplicity of platforms, and the interfacing between them, might confer additional advantages and open up yet more potentials.

States are not inherently good, they are just large organisations with a monopoly on certain social functions. All large organisations have the capacity to inflict terrible harm.

This is exactly why it's important to find each other, so we can keep each other safe. There is strength in numbers. If you put up your posters on community notice board and use a non-personal email (I just made a new Gmail account for it) then nobody can be identified, the worst case is someone pulls the poster down.

Last year I managed to connect with 10 other trans people in my Lancashire home town. This is a place with zero 'alternative' spaces, let alone dedicated queer spaces. I made a poster using the trans pride flag as the background, and wrote a bit of blurb on it and put an email address on. Then I stuck it up on community notice boards in supermarkets and in a pub window. My idea was that if you put these things in high footfall areas, someone is bound to walk past and get in touch. And they did! Plus, more pride flags being visible, especially if they are coming from the grassroots and not a giant company, shows that we are here and not alone, and makes us feel safer. So if you want to connect with people near you, maybe go analog and put up some posters ^__^

Exactly, so I'm wondering if it's possible to detect those smaller patterns in the bigger ones?

I'd like to see this for smaller n, to see if there are motifs or patterns, which can be used to implement memoisation like Hashlife (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife), or to reveal new formulas for exploring Collatz sequences with.

Wet bulb temperatures account for evaporation, but I don't know if weather stations report wet bulb or dry bulb.

I don't use Kinopio for everything, but when I need to arrange ideas in a 2D way and think about webs of relationships, it's been an amazing addition to my set of "tools for thought". Thank you for all of your work on it <3

This is why anarchism is an important philosophy and practice. It asks, how can we build societies which operate without coercion and hierarchies?

> We still haven't found a better resource allocation model than pricing.

There are many different models. Look at Elinor Ostrom's work, or projects using participatory budgeting.

Value and price are not the same thing. Money is a form of access control which limits the availability of scarce resources to those people and organisations which have enough funds. It also collapses the value of all things to a single dimension. There are other ways to decide how much of something is produced and how it is distributed, for example participatory economics.

Or we could move away from pricing everything and the neoliberal obsession to turn everything into a market, and restructure our economy to provide everyone with their basic material needs, regardless of how much income they have.

The AI explanations for these tracks is quite amusing/disturbing:

> Based on the information provided, it appears that the user is a resident of the United States, likely living in the Onalaska area of Washington state. They are using a Windows 10 computer and the Firefox web browser, which suggests they are comfortable with technology and keep their software up-to-date.

> The user's browsing activity indicates that they have an interest in lightsaber-related content, which could be a hobby or a professional interest. Their use of the Broadstripe internet service provider, a regional provider in the Pacific Northwest, further reinforces the assumption that they are a local resident.

> While the user's specific age or occupation is not known, their choice of browser and operating system implies that they are likely an adult who is familiar with modern computing technology. They may work in a field that requires internet access, or they could simply be an enthusiastic internet user with a diverse range of interests.

> The fact that the user is accessing the internet through a residential broadband connection suggests that they have a stable living situation and the means to afford reliable internet service. This, combined with their apparent technological proficiency, paints a picture of a relatively well-off and engaged individual.

> Overall, the available information suggests that the user is a tech-savvy adult residing in the Onalaska area of Washington state, with a particular interest in lightsaber-related content. While their specific background and occupation remain unknown, they appear to be a relatively well-established and engaged member of their local community.

Somehow I ended up here: https://grabify.link/track/K0U70F

Does anyone know anything about 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF)? The last time I flew, I was given an option to pay for this, but I don't know what it actually is, how it's made, if it's carbon neutral, or if and in what ways it is 'sustainable'.

And here's an old Instructable on building your own yagi for wifi: https://www.instructables.com/Easy-to-Build-WIFI-24GHz-Yagi-...

It made me uncomfortable too, and it is ableist to talk about someone as if they are "totally insane", and to trivialise serious mental health issues.

Fortunately, it is easy to reframe EiJ as an android controlled by a bunch of aliens. That's much more lighthearted, and means you can extend John with useful or amusing augmentations! :)

Nitter link for convenience: https://nitter.net/uberstuber/status/1736494429702390264

I also have ADHD and found this thread interesting and useful.

Thank you for committing to release it all as open source, instead of hoarding it or putting it in the bin like so many other services do when they fail to achieve sustainability.

Why talk to your grandmother, teacher, or schoolmates, when you can talk to a robot instead? I'm unsure what problems this tool is trying to solve, and I'm worried that it enables isolation instead of conviviality.

I think the main difficulties here will be social, and a story of how this all started and the cultural, legal, and operational barriers they've overcome would be a valuable contribution. I am reminded of pg's advice to "do things that don't scale".

Rental services are usually privately-owned for-profit businesses, whereas this is a community initiative, and probably has lower overheads.

This is very impressive! I'd love to hear if people are using this as their daily OS

I would like to know what initiatives at systemic change the author has participated in, and what the outcomes where. There are plenty of case studies of action research and appreciative inquiry leading to more effective and fulfilling organisations.

Thanks for sharing, this looks great! Shame it is not available on Firefox for Android yet.

I don't think naming names in this post is necessarily the best action. This would only serve to reproduce the idea that the problem is individual rapists who need to be punished. Instead, Drew is pointing towards systems which need to be transformed, in order to make our communities safer.

For example, the story about the conference, why was it possible for malicious organisers to hack the safety protocols? Making spaces safer requires recognising the roles that decision-making protocols and organisational structures, among other components, have in enabling rapists to act.

What are the authors' goals, what is their intended purpose? I can't find a mission statement on their website.

My understanding is, CCDs accumulate charge in response to photons, whereas these diodes don't, is that correct?

If so, what are the current limits of these diodes which stop us from manufacturing cameras with these diode arrays instead of CCDs?

This was an early, somewhat underground, federated peer-to-peer file sharing system. It's similar to BitTorrent in that distribution is shared across nodes, but it also has 'channels' which can be subscribed to in order to stay up to date with content. This aspect of it is more like modern Fediverse. Shame it never took off, I find the architecture very interesting!

Not sure I agree, my understanding of most charities is that they aren't unconditional, and they don't transfer cash, but other things instead.

That said, charity in the broader sense of "giving people stuff" would apply, but there are affective (i.e. psychological, emotional, and social) issues with this. Instead, mutuality and mutual aid focus on building relationships between people where they both provide acknowledged value to each other. This solves issues such as saviour/unworthiness complex, by binding people together in relationships where they support each other, which are more durable in the long term.