Posts by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ab3v9GA8sdqYEqdTNo by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-10-23T11:08:27Z
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In @pluralistic's terms, a whole lot more enshittification is coming with the ultimate purpose of making some rents off of software. You're going to have to pay more in more places in the 2020s to just keep getting on by.Normally, we'd have open source alternatives as an escape valve to limit the depredations that are possible by commercial software offerings, but with Microsoft casting a very long corporate shadow over that space, we could be in trouble over there as well.
(DIR) Post #Ab3v9I0e0vRBxyCurA by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-10-23T11:09:24Z
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Anyway, read Fracture, let me know what you think. It's worth thinking about.https://ghuntley.com/fracture/@pluralistic
(DIR) Post #Ab5tXvaKiGsg48RP3w by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-10-24T08:48:35Z
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@realcaseyrollins @isambardprince @taylorlorenz It's more about accuracy and references to the real world than about seniority. Seniority is kind of second. Money is a distant third, because you can pay an army of sock-puppets editors to gang up on senior admins.
(DIR) Post #Ab6HjHqqfJITD17Ct6 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-10-24T15:33:50Z
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@realcaseyrollins @isambardprince @taylorlorenz As someone who once tried to list billionaires who did not want to be listed, there is truth to that.
(DIR) Post #AbPPaIngh2MEOoSod6 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-02T21:43:10Z
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@simon I will try it and get back to you!
(DIR) Post #AbUkwbk21MbwLI1xq4 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-05T11:36:20Z
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@textfiles Fantastic! ✌️
(DIR) Post #Ac3PAKYSZkp2GooEc4 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-22T04:46:59Z
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@simon This is excellent, and very helpful! 🙏
(DIR) Post #Ac3u9lUE3Wno5S2TlQ by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-22T10:35:49Z
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@tante Holy f*ck.I expected that the money would carry the day, and I sort of expected a coup would result from this because disaster capitalism, but this is even worse than I expected overall.
(DIR) Post #Ac4FVMff69LgWzWrI0 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-22T14:34:41Z
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@stux I'm just surprised that he was dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud.
(DIR) Post #AcFjuj5E2cZke33SEK by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-28T03:18:17Z
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@nerdpr0f Better than x86 quicksort!
(DIR) Post #AcJ2XeN9s3L5yg24bg by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-29T12:23:50Z
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Think of the long-term benefits of putting these in schools, businesses and daycares."Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff, according to preliminary findings of a new study led by E3 Pandemic Response.'Children were clearly less sick in daycare centres where air purification devices were used — down by around 30 percent,' principal investigator Enni Sanmark explained."https://mastodon.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social/111491816768831356
(DIR) Post #AcLStojb0pK9brg6U4 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-29T19:30:25Z
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@kissane Absolutely, Erin.I had sort of vaguely known about this in 2021, but I didn't have absolutely conclusive evidence until half of the US disinformation desk staff joined in on the Canadian pile-on during the Convoy movement of 2022.It only slowed down for me after I tweeted out the tools and techniques that they were using, followed by starting all new threads locked down so people could only reply by quote tweeting unless I followed them.
(DIR) Post #AcLStqhtg79ZjAtm76 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-29T19:30:38Z
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@kissane I would love the chance to compare notes with you some time.
(DIR) Post #AcLSzkPS0Nrvvx5DAu by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T21:46:00Z
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@kissane It's remarkable. At work (my day job is to be a futurist for the Government of Canada), we talk about a little-appreciated change driver called the Increasingly Knowing Society. This is the idea that as we push further into the 21st Century, it gets harder and more costly to keep secrets as digital technology and OSINT improves. I suspect that part of this is that when a threat actor carries out operations in open media, often anyone can see their interventions.
(DIR) Post #AcLSzzxKCisU9M2yYa by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T21:48:54Z
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@kissane When the Convoy came to town, online spaces became *saturated* with belligerent accounts with mediocre English skills, attacking anything said in Canada online about COVID or the occupation. It was such a sea change from a month earlier, I think that half the country noticed. I didn't understand what was going on until my partner showed me this video of 45 talking about the Convoy at one of his rallies.Crazy times.
(DIR) Post #AcRxUE7oFdqoM62ap6 by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-12-03T23:08:25Z
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Apparently the folks on Mastodon aren't impressed with the "three year immunity debt" hypothesis.I'll repeat on the other two big platforms and report back.https://mastodon.social/@Wikisteff/111479311353026915
(DIR) Post #AcRxUF50hXCpJhjs6C by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2023-12-03T23:10:39Z
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93% of voters who knew about the ongoing non-COVID pandemics said "it's COVID".7% of these voters said "immunity debt sounds cool".A commanding advantage.
(DIR) Post #AdVzT6sP1zux7OU0ZM by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2024-01-04T21:22:07Z
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@textfiles It is a nontrivial problem to save games for posterity. I have no idea how you're doing it.
(DIR) Post #AkM4Oo654QxkMswVNY by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2024-07-27T11:49:55Z
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@jannem @futurebird @Edent I still think it's pretty neat that we (our ancestor species) probably evolved an itching reaction to mosquitos. Because they kill us.
(DIR) Post #AkM5peKjZzRPrM9yvA by Wikisteff@mastodon.social
2024-07-27T12:08:17Z
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@futurebird @jannem @Edent Damn, I have to use this argument with my family! 💜💜💜