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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Peter Watts's Blindsight is a potent vector for brain worms.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting post and corresponding mastodon thread on the non-decentralised-ness of bluesky by cwebber.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

The author is keen about this particular “vision statement”:

Preparing for the organization as a future adversary.

The assumption being, stuff gets enshittified and how might you guard your product against the future stupid and awful whims of management and investors?

Of course, they don’t consider that it cuts both ways, and Jack Dorsey’s personal grumbles about Twitter. The risk from his point of view was the company he founded doing evil unthinkable things like, uh, banning nazis. He’s keen for that sort of thing to never happen again on his platforms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

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