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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 1d

a wonderfully humane take on the real consequences of our choices around ai and teamwork and diversity and pretty sure i would have been ugly crying by the end.

Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 6d

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

mechanicalsurvival.com

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · May 2

we've been working on a weather/tourism web app, check out weatherspread.com!

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 1d

why else are any of us here?

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 1d

them: increasing national debt is bad!
also them: only-up stonks pulling value of presumed productivity from the future is new and good yes.

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 4d

are you using a computer again

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 4d

work as a team!
we assess your individual performance!

later: wtf these outcomes!? they are perverse!

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Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com · 8d

"common needs need commons"

and:

"We believe in proliferation, not scale"

Both statements got me right in the cockles. 🫀

Check out the folktechnology.org Principles and come to Vancouver on Oct 18 for their event at Z-Space.

#folktech #technology #event

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dietrich @burrito.space · Sep 3

i don't enjoy the romanticizing

of some golden past of the web

that web never died

you made all the decisions

about where to publish

and where to spend your time

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 9d

"Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value."

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/...

Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written: 1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them appro...

hachyderm.io

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 10d

no longer sure i interpreted the "ui as pure function of the state" screed correctly.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 13d

www.crabmuseum.org/blog/do-crab...

Crabs exhibit complex pain response, stop poking them already.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 13d

They said the same of crabs and look how that turned out.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 14d

some great doors in Yorkshire, lad. you should come visit.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with
the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully
with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman-
der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be-
havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable,
fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many
political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a
philosophy out of a personality defect.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 17d

it works on their machine.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18d

permissionless publishing for the og web heads.

self certifying data and signing for the p2p crew.

big world apps that actually work for the second web serfs that actually like doing things rather than discussing Kleppmann Tradeoffs.

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18d

splitting out the store so you have the option to host your own data and big public relays mean you are free to post something popular without melting your machine.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18d

lazy trust means we can meaningfully verify what happens to our content as it is aggregated so each apps reputation depends on it accurately representing you.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 18d

atproto/bluesky is out here considerately weaving together the principles of the og web, the second web, and p2p. it's so damn reasonable about everything it just might work...

daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · Apr 4

This is an article that I've wanted to write for over a year, and I finally got the chance to do it!

Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted

Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol

A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.

atproto.com

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 29d

BROCKFEST this Sunday!

A free, community event in Brockwell Park showcasing the best bands from the JOM Youth Music events.

www.instagram.com/p/DMYnDcEoCM4/

We're gonna fire up the Suena Bien Soundsystem and have a dance.

Event poster for BROCKFEST. Midday till 9pm on the 14th September in Brockwell park.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · Sep 9

@infraclub.bsky.social you might like the EXCHANGE EXIT PROGRAM data. All the telephone exchanges! some will go. some will remain! www.openreach.co.uk/cpportal/con...

www.openreach.co.uk

olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · Sep 4

_this website is optimised for the jira browser_

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Samuele ～ ImTheSnack @imthesnack.bsky.social · Aug 30

Solar panels are basically wireless receivers for a nuclear fusion power plant.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · Aug 29

if left alone for too long, browsers become sullen and uncooperative.

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olizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · Aug 28

I'm workshopping here