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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

@julian Canadians were Vanilla Forums; it was a Montreal-based startup.

I joined with @agorakit because they had a simple working foundation (I do poorly starting from scratch) and I was prioritizing philosophical alignment over snazzy tech (e.g. Vanilla's plugin system that wowed me). Wrote […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

@johannab Not at all, happy to help. I think (hope?) they are a natural place to arrive with enough critical thought & experiences. There are deep conflicts between "enterprise community" and its VC-directed goals vs community that prioritizes people. There is a lot of money invested in papering […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I'm curious what you think about them. If you're interested in talking, reach out!

But, if you just want to know if I'm more excited about #atproto or #activitypub... you've missed my point. 😅

No protocol can save us, because the challenge is not existing technology, it's unexamined […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I’ve been thinking about community software most of my life.

23 years ago, I started organizing communities.

15 years ago, I joined the wave of "next-generation" forums that popularized community as an enterprise feature.

7 years ago, I began reflecting on everything I'd learned in a notebook […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Unemployment, week 10: I read an entire 300-page novel yesterday.

Started it over lunch, between rounds of work on @agorakit, then stayed up til 4am finishing it after two hours of martial arts in the evening. I was going to call it a bit past midnight, but my dog joined me. He was chilly — the […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Raise my taxes until the #detroit transit system is reliable and we have safe walk & bike paths everywhere.

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@blog 💯

I wrote a 10,000-word essay on a modern MAMP localhost setup because I was so tired of barebones instructions that never give enough context because engineers always want to make it *look* easy instead of acknowledging and helping with the parts that aren't.

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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 2d

Kinda proud I came up with this independently yesterday, though "tax escrow" is a much more compact phrase for communicating the idea! See 1 and 4 here.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-funding-to-16-dem-states?r=5w913v&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His?

Within 72 hours of the October 1st government shutdown, the Trump administration weaponized federal funding against Democratic states with surgical precision.

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Congratulations to DHH & Shopify for
forking the Ruby ecosystem with nothing but their egos, paranoia, and pile of money to burn. Truly legendary.

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@nuthatch I cancelled my subscription over nickel-and-dime upsells like that. I was spending as much effort trying to opt out and work around their shit than learn.

Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I saw a LinkedIn post that started "I wasn't expecting a leadership lesson today..." and I stopped reading because you aren't trying very hard then, are you?

Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I was asked how I successfully got budget for engineering tools for a third time this year, so I thought it was time to write it down.

It's pretty simple at its core: Assume $100/hr labor + annualize a guess of how much labor it'll save to automate / improve the process.

Once you've […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling “police.”

She had a gun pointed in her face.
She was handcuffed.
She was held until 3 AM before being released.

Fisher isn’t suspected of any crime.
She lives in the building.

Alicia Brooks […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done it. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together effectively."

Me: :Downloads the stupid app:

Notification: "You have a message!"

Notification: "Here's […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

If you follow #detroit or #michigan politics, the city council 7th district race deserves your concern.

Denzel McCampbell faces a real problem candidate: State Rep. Karen Whitsett.

In Lansing, she voted AGAINST paid family leave, increasing the minimum wage, AND public school funding, and […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Me: Raphael-in-a-tub is one of the most iconic moments in American cinema and I will absolutely fight about it.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

🚨 **BREAKING NEWS** 📣

The creator of the most popular #opensource #rails application as measured by GitHub stars (Mastodon), none other than @Gargron himself, has signed the “Plan Vert” open letter calling for Rails Core and the #ruby community to cut ties with DHH.

The symbolic importance of […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@jaredwhite @Floppy Pleased to be a counted as a hysterical anti-social nutjob, as ever.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

News update re: #rubycentraltakeover

Shopify's Tobi Lütke and DHH have weighed in on an open letter written by @Floppy requesting #rails core & the #ruby community cut ties with DHH.

Tobi thinks such critcs are “divisive clowns” who “spew bullshit terms” and should be ignored.

DHH thinks they […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

I have very bad news for you if you think #laravel won't take its turn in the next 5 years. Otwell's already gone "no politics on social media" and took VC. 🤡⏱️

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

We have created & incubated a generation of paranoid fascists running software projects because of the permission structures we have built into that software from the beginning.

Every smug “got root?” meme accidentally exposes the truth of it: Either you’re the feudal lord of the system, or […]

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Lincoln Russell @linc.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

I see Ruby is having its big WordPress masks-off moment.

It’s almost like we have system governance problems in software. 🤔

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

Shopify在Ruby中心牵线搭桥，迫使Bundler和RubyGems被收购

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (joel.drapper.me) 09-23 ↑ 146 HN Points

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