Posts by aredridel@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AZjDeoaotS7VexZCCG by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-09-12T23:40:00Z
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And when they have a good point, if you support it, you support them. Then when they do the thing they so often do, you're painted with their brush.It's a totally unintentional thing sometimes, but people weaponize it too, and deniably. You'll never be able to know if it was on purpose.With allies like those, who needs enemies?
(DIR) Post #AZow8Ng6ZNs1rUd6J6 by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-09-16T03:10:23Z
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(DIR) Post #AaAAkenEgQQuroS8si by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-09-26T15:25:53Z
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@lowqualityfacts Frustrations Georg is an outlier and should not have been counted.
(DIR) Post #AbjcrThSbgD3gyGnWy by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-11-12T15:38:37Z
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I think a lot of technology of the last ten years has been Anti-Librarian Technology. Not necessarily on purpose, but I think there's an economic feedback loop that happens.When we build systems around files and folders, an external agent can help build organizational structure. The core competency of a librarian is that: how to organize and retrieve information.Ever since the search engine, tech companies have been gunning for the librarian job. But they can only do it with totalizing influence over the problem. They have to own the data. They have to provide the informational structure. And they do this at great cost to longevity of information, and the ability to comprehensively organize.This is done in service of users who don't have staff librarians, or who don't want to do their own maintenance of their information structure. That's most people, really, but it's a shame, because what we've been left with now is that the dominant technological tools we have for information are controlling, and unorganizable. How many organizations are there where there's a bunch of google docs, most of them made with organization accounts, but sometimes shared from people's personal accounts. Which we find by searching our email for links, not consulting organized directories?How many do we search for? how many do we end up with conflicting copies of half-baked versions? How many times do we confuse last year's edition for this, because they're both named “Board presentation”? How often do both get edited, and both end up with a date of “last week”? And the feedback loop that drives this is the UX and user retention loop, since most users don't have organizational drivers, companies who build any system at all, even if it's bad, win out over those who don't. But what's lost in the totalizing effect of that is the ability to organize systemically for those who can, or wish to learn.
(DIR) Post #AccexL4CeZmQUaK2yG by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:02:47Z
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I'm not the first and I won't be the last to call it, but the next decade is going to be defined by an unending wave of fake bullshit in every avenue of our lives, a cheap extractive general fraud that is so cheap to perform that it'll be everywhere. Real information will be lost in the morass, and a whole lot of people will take advantage of the chaos.And a defining feature of almost everything will be referral networks, and what will succeed, though small time, will be anything giving access to authentic relationships.
(DIR) Post #AccexN6P5MjEnzMpg8 by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:03:56Z
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It will be absolutely normal to assume everything is fake until proven otherwise. We will form into cliques of belief about which things are true rather easily. This will absolutely be exploited.
(DIR) Post #AccexOHmgXQUTZhR3Y by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:05:43Z
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The people most harmed by this will be already marginalized: without access to those referral networks, people will struggle. Without connections, all their achievements will be assumed to be fake.
(DIR) Post #AccexQ424dc9zVHTto by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:10:33Z
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And the obvious outcome is that fraud will increase.But that's not the real harm.It's the relationships broken and never formed because of the erosion of trust.
(DIR) Post #AccexSaMhOfLoMQKZc by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:15:28Z
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Like: you'll see a profile for someone or something. You'll find a real person who mostly looks like that, and since retouched photos are trivial and many people have them, that won't mean much. Is there a real person involved? Probably! Is it the person you think? Maybe. Is that person who they say they are? Maybe. Will their stated accomplishments be real? Maybe. Will there be evidence for them? Absolutely.
(DIR) Post #AccexTeIkFPP6rGzLc by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:19:13Z
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The way to survive the information war is to develop relationships proactively.Go talk to your community. Face to face. Introduce people. Meet new people and connect them up. You don't have to vouch for them, just start establishing relationship history now. being able to answer "Do you know them?" and "is this connection legit?" accurately is going to be very important.I don't mean that meatspace is necessarily better, but online relationships bootstrapped from profile alone will not suffice. We'll have to connect people into our networks and find connections between us.
(DIR) Post #AccexUvhz0vX58QP7Q by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:20:39Z
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And we are going to have to distrust basically all branding. No longer is 'recognizable name and image' worth anything. _Only_ the relationships matter.It's almost already to the point where when I see something carefully branded, I _know_ I'm being manipulated.
(DIR) Post #AccexXFHNDloGPb3tw by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:27:27Z
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"developing a personal brand" is dead now."Fitting in" is going to put you in real difficult position sometimes. Nobody will know if you're for real.Real people have quirks. (Gotta say this one is nice for those us who are autistic or have ADHD: our lack of filter and lack of 'fitting in" are going to, weirdly, be assets in this information space.)It won't be perfect because people in power still believe in 'fitting in' and vibe checks. And the vibes are gonna be real weird for a while.
(DIR) Post #AccexYWKdJ0MDaaC7U by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:33:32Z
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Want to hire? Go build relationships. Ask people you find to apply.Want to improve the diversity of your company's employees? Go follow your network until you find the people who aren't like you _and then follow their networks and connect with them_. There will be no shortcuts. Want them to actually work for you? Connect them to your networks.Want to get a job? Get your friends to watch out for you. (by the way, hire @jalcine. He's good people. _and he is part of a good network of people you want to connect with too_)Weirdly, honesty and _openness_ in companies is going to be valuable now. "Everything is proprietary information" no matter how banal will no longer benefit you. Trying to control the narrative will in many ways backfire. You'll be seen as branding. It'll be fake. Companies that learn to thrive in the open won't grow huge, but they will endure better.Startups already learn this a bit. The time from carefully crafted hip image to being found out to be posers is dwindling.
(DIR) Post #AccexZY8o42vPUR9Zw by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:41:56Z
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In the '00s, we were taught that if it's on the internet it's forever, privacy was gold, keep it all controlled. Control your image, keep your info close. Lock your doors.Those days are gone. (They never really existed.)But now we're coming to realize that the power relations of our modern society mean that all the economically valuable data is extracted anyway. It isn't your kid's face that we needed to keep off the Internet, it was your medical data (oops, Google Analytics and Facebook got copies from your healthcare provider or pharmacy when you accessed their pages), it is your driving record (available from the DMV), your court records (so often open in the US), your shopping history (gleefully kept by your credit card and at the till every time you swipe)We can only put that genie back in the bottle politically, with laws that prohibit data brokering. What we gave up though, in trying to keep our basic humanity secret, was our relationships. We lost a whole generation to trying to _avoid_ developing relationships online, out of fear. Where would we be now if we hadn't?
(DIR) Post #Ackn6DYIJdZEgqozRI by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-13T02:27:01Z
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A useful lens right now might just be asking "does this lead toward or away from peace and justice?"
(DIR) Post #AcsRal5MfqEb8qRZmi by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-16T19:41:07Z
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Serious question for leftists: what is the difference between the successor government or country to one that has done terrible things, a government or country that has stopped doing terrible things, and a government or country that has been stopped from doing terrible things?(Like, at what point do you philosophically say "that wasn't us?”)
(DIR) Post #AcsRamIABk4AspRJNA by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-16T19:44:14Z
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What does it mean for an ever-changing group of people to atone for horrors they've committed, some deeply unwillingly, some complicit, some only nominally included, fighting as best they know how?
(DIR) Post #AcsS8TQYph1yDoR0zI by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-16T19:52:07Z
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@mttaggart Yup. But also its still unreckoned-with racism, legacy and profit from Manifest Destiny policies and actions, and sexism. Like the US is still undeniably the same state that committed those horrors. But also, the US is changing. Both of these things are true.
(DIR) Post #AdXqMQGu0mFHyNbBx2 by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T14:34:39Z
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If your website is still http only, no https...... are you okay? Do you need help doing archival work? this isn't shade, we just saw the long tail of the web forced offline with the move to https everywhere.Are you holding on to an http only site for someone who's passed? DM me and I'll help you save a copy some place more durable than a personal or academic server sitting on someone's desk or in a closet. Let's save the remnants of the old web before they go offline entirely.
(DIR) Post #AdXqMRg6mY0CKqOpsW by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2024-01-05T15:26:11Z
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Same goes for personal servers, all the little places people stick web pages. Let's archive things before they're gone! Bits don't save themselves.