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Olu Niyi-Awosusi

@olu.online

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web dev, writer, "content" creator, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Nov 15

hey, i'm olu 👋🏿

by way of intro, like on olu.online, you're getting a word cloud:

web developer, writer + researcher, video essayist, tech ethics obsessive, foodie, mad/disabled/nd, black af, queer, ~brit, luddite, hoopy frood, amateur sewist, cute, smart.

always open to collabs and convo, hmu

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hopeful. tech ethics nerd. luddite. video essayist. coder. prison abolitionist. social/environmental/tech justice advocate. solarpunk and permacomputing ent...

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josh (with parentheses) @joshwithparenthes.es · 3d

I think often about the inverse to Clarke’s famous observation: if sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, it follows that sufficiently basic magic is indistinguishable from technology.

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 3d

new blog post:

olu.online/technopagani...

technopaganism

what do i mean when i say technopagan?

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 9d

new blog:

olu.online/sensual/

sensual

bodies, online and afk

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 14d

STSers live and die by the maxim that we must explain both successes AND failures to truly understand technological innovation.

In this case, it's a reminder to remember the forgotten critics as well as the boosters who successfully sold their cause

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 17d

olu.online/relationships/

relationships

bread, roses, needing, getting, on the internet.

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 23d

thank you!

Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · 23d

olu.online/weeknotes-52/

weeknotes #52

shutdown, aural diazepam and chicken pancakes in this week's weeknotes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Spook Davis 👻 @lukealexdavis.co.uk · 29d

YouTubers amongst you: has the A/B testing thumbnail thing worked for you? It's giving mental whiplash as a viewer!

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Sep 8

ha ha ha, I knew what you meant! I need to stare at more pictures and think if I really need 26 tbh

Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Sep 8

I looked yesterday and there wasn't much but that's encouraging, just need to be patient!! thank you

Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Sep 8

new weeknotes:

olu.online/weeknotes-51/

weeknotes #51

bikes, backpacks and beans in this week's weeknotes!

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Sep 4

but looks like it doesn't matter so long as there's a ton. if you're unable to find anything the web is useless, and people don't fight for useless things.

the story: www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/18/1...

my post: olu.online/knowledge/

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Noon in the antilibrary

Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Sep 4

feeling a bit down about (the future of) the web.

writing a script inspired by a post i wrote a little while back on knowledge. i refer to a story in it, noon in the antilibrary, he assumes that ai slop being indistinguishable from real stuff is the scary part. 1/2

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 4

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead

The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yo come over! We got some of the master's tools and we're gonna wreck his shitty house hahaa

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 31

olu.online/weeknotes-50/

new weeknotes!

weeknotes #50

chips, zines and moving house in this week's weeknotes!

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 26

yes we're on the same wavelength! scrolling through Goodreads quotes looking for good reasons to stick around was my version lol

Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 26

do you have a habit of keeping quotes that resonated with you? i used to do it much more in the days i actively updated my life plan on trello; stop laughing okay!

i have fallen off with since i fell off pkm/commonplacing/obsessive note-taking, but it's a habit i liked so:

olu.online/quotes/

quotes

quotes that have resonated with me, that i am comfortable sharing with you.

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 24

new weeknotes!

olu.online/weeknotes-49/

weeknotes #49

project researching apps, personal site design and all or nothing people in this weeknotes!

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Aug 23

This looks great. And I recommend Lola Olufemi & Françoise Vergès books, also from @plutopress.bsky.social

"Feminism for the World"
by Lola Olufemi, Françoise Vergès, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia, Djamila Ribeiro

Transl. Sophie Lewis & Fionn Petch

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 23

yes exactly, I'd love something like that!

I'm always surprised more stuff isn't built on top of RSS/atom

Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online · Aug 23

ah right, that makes sense!

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · Jul 30

I try not to call them “Internet cables,” partly because it isn’t accurate, but also because the first subsea fiber communication cables were built primarily for voice traffic. Capacity was measured in the number of simultaneous voice calls you could make, not in bytes of digital information.

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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · Jul 30

There are a few hundred tubes at the bottom of the sea, hugging the planet, sending beams of light that carry things we need to do just about everything in our daily lives. It’s fun to realize that even industry vets feel that sense of the near-miraculous.

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