Edward L Platt @elplatt@octodon.social
PhD student @ UMSI. Networks, decentralization, civic tech, cats, bad puns. YPSI Arbor SOUP. Past: Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, i3 Detroit. He/him.
@elplatt ohai! im in ur talk federatin ur toots
Today is the third anniversary of my favorite headline ever:
"Lavabit held in contempt of court for printing crypto key in tiny font."
Sandro is giving a live Mastodon demo at #CenterforCivicMedia at #MITMediaLab... and this toot is part of the demo...
"FCC Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/technology/net-neutrality.html
Demand Progress petition:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-pai-attack-net-neutrality/?sp_ref=297894701.325.180612.o.1.2&source=sp-other
Also, here is a random thing: https://octodon.social/media/193Mo4ecjhqvpDxDA78
Happy Wednesday to all my followers!
"What are we betting?" one person asked.
"We're betting words," Colin F replied. "If you bet a word and lose, you cannot use that word for the rest of the night."
...my friends are fucking magical.
OMG gonna be on a panel at Personal Democracy Forum about civics in the apocalypse. So excited.
The current list of ways something can get into the federated timeline:
- someone from your server is following that user
- someone from your server replied to that user
- someone from your server is following someone who replied to that user
- someone from your server liked/boosted it
- someone from your server copy/pasted the link into the search box, causing the server to load it
"On the Turing Completeness of Microsoft Powerpoint" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
@elplatt SELECT thesis FROM kant LEFT OUTER JOIN hume ON kant.thesis_id = hume.antithesis_id DISTINCT ON hegel;
Working on a philosophy paper between SQL queries is... challenging.
Looking for a good explainer on the details of mastodon federation.
Can I remote follow someone on an instance not federated with my instance? Can I boost them on my instance? Can my instance block other users/instances from being boosted?
Workers path to freedom! Show more
@CobaltVelvet This shameless self-promotion is relevant to your interests: "Towards Attack-Tolerant Networks: Concurrent Multipath Routing and the Butterfly Network." https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02426
Mastodon politics, safe spaces, and breaking the federation for fun and profit.
https://blog.xomg.net/mastodon-politics.html
Hello, Octodonners. It looks like Alice's patreon in support of our chosen instance has plateaued. Please do what you can to help our friendly neighborhood cyberpunk queen, @CobaltVelvet
Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.
Ohai @Willow !
Discussion with Loomio founders at Harvard's Berkman-Klein center happening now! https://bkharvard.adobeconnect.com/berkmancenter/
Anyone know of a good review of trust-related terminology, either from infosec or social science?
