Ewan Keepers @ewankeep@octodon.social

Looking for #blog and #podcast recs!

I want to subscribe to some new Feeds!

Heaven Inc https://social.nasqueron.org/media/8H9hI-G9RgG9dWqUv2s

"Why Wikipedia works" – this is pretty good http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html

And these ones, which look like they came from a sci-fi movie about a matriarchal planet with a yarn-based economy:

@Gargron imo the entire star trek franchise exists only as background to the most important narrative of the series, which is data having a cat that he loves

drawing using my phone is kinda weird
reminds me of old oekaki boards.
except with no layers, only opacity.
🐉

Youtube, The Great Radicalizer

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html

<<Videos about vegetarianism led to videos about veganism. Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.

It seems as if you are never “hard core” enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. It promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes. Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.>>

So Google detests the AGPL license: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/ going as far as to demand this:

"Do not install AGPL-licensed programs on your workstation, Google-issued laptop, or Google-issued phone without explicit authorization from the Open Source Programs Office."

So to degooglify the internet everyone should choose AGPL for open source projects :)

Birds are weird but at least they have a sens of (bad ?) fashion which is pretty cool 😋

Shock of the Mundane: The Dangerous Diffusion of Basic Infantry Tactics https://warontherocks.com/2018/02/shock-of-the-mundane-the-dangerous-diffusion-of-basic-infantry-tactics/

😭😂 I think you're not going to have much luck getting the cat back in the bag.

Hi just your local rabid copyleft zealot here with a gentle reminder that

if @Gargron had not changed Mastondon's license to AGPL, then John McAfee could have taken his blockchain-scented knockoff 100% proprietary closed gfy source and we'd never know what shenanigans he gets up to within it. Thank you Gargron!

anyway, if you are in the areas of:

- US breadbasket
- US midwest
- new england
- deep south

and you want to help when someone marginalized is in emergency trouble, or if you want to tell me about resources to pass along, please, please let me know, i'm begging you

@Gaypow @thefishcrow also how does it even work? Language detection is HARD and even Twitter gets it wrong a lot

Articles about mastodon are always like “neat idea but how will they monetize it?! No VC will ever fund a platform like this!” or techbros complaining about mastodon working as intended (giving a voice to people who aren’t them).

Just did a quick write-up of the #Hiveway platform: https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips-off-of-mastodon-and-slaps-a-blockchain-on-top-for-some-reason-57b7aba3e84f

A-Infos: **wsm.ie: Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Globalisation - 3 Interlinked Problems**

"There are problems which are related but not very often discussed together. These are 1) climate change and pollution, 2) peak oil, and 3) globalisation - very large and complex problems which though not insurmountable require serious consideration. ---- What the author writes here is simplifyin…"

http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos36582.html

#anarchism #bot

The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection http://bit.ly/ipHkXU https://t.co/nNJDzDUm2M

Don’t fucking let the liberals sanitize Ursula K Le Guin’s legacy. She was an anarchist. She opposed capitalism.

Don’t fucking let them