Posts by natecull@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AOyfEeWe0LccxG6Fmq by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-27T01:31:27Z
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As an example of what I mean: I was specifically reading about GK Chesterton and the "Distributists", who held to an economic doctrine that seems sensible to me!AND YET.....1. Pointhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism<< Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated.. views laissez-faire capitalism and state socialism as equally flawed and exploitative, favouring instead small independent craftsmen and producers... >>
(DIR) Post #AOyfEexwMrSMJus3Ki by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-27T01:34:31Z
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2. Counterpoint! Actually Existing Distributism was all the antisemitism, and I do mean ALL OF IT.http://racemathews.com/Assets/Distributism/1999%20Distributism&AntiSemitism.pdfso like wtf and yikes and also yowIt's a bit like looking at the 1970s Punk scene and on the one hand, yay homebrew and doing it yourself and all, and on the other hand, actual fascism, and where there wasn't actual fascism because hard Tankie left, there was an aesthetic of glamorized violence that was in spirit and practice indistinguishable FROM fascism.
(DIR) Post #AOyppnqvHxcY8dwFRQ by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-27T03:36:07Z
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If the Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets came from the Phoenician alphabet, and the Phoenicians (including Carthage) were Canaanites,then the American computing base which runs the Internet basically runs on a (slightly modified) Canaanite alphabet. As opposed to eg an Akkadian or Egyptian or Chinese or Norse alphabet (though Unicode now allows those to be used in a secondary capacity).That's quite an interesting historical legacy of Canaan.
(DIR) Post #AP09g0MS7UekHKFe0u by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T01:32:16Z
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Roam looks somewhat interesting, except that it's a proprietary commercial product, so I'm no longer interested. Goodbye, and enjoy being the problem rather than the solution.But this general sort of thing is the sort of thing I want to see in the open source space.https://roambrain.com/building-the-global-knowledge-graph/
(DIR) Post #AP09g1tSQGeR1yhW64 by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T01:35:21Z
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what IS it with every kind of "mind map" tool, that they instantly become insanely jealous tiny commercial fiefdoms? It's bizarre. It's like this whole genre is only written by motivational sales speakers, and for motivational sales speakers, so they're super IP-focused?Alternatively: why, when Wikis worked so well in the formative years of the Open movement, did we not get development of any other kind of open knowledge-sharing tool than Wikis? The whole idea of "knowledge sharing".. didn't.
(DIR) Post #AP09g3POmznNjKeXWS by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T01:39:39Z
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eg shouldn't even a primitive collective-knowledge-amplification-tool, no matter how ineffective, have led to a positive feedback loop helping create ever more user-aligned knowledge amplification tools?Why did we get stuck?Our mental model (circa 2000) of what knowledge amplification and collective action was... worked for some things! We got Linux, Wikipedia and Github. But not well and not for everything, and it just isn't evolving, in fact it's becoming less and less user-aligned.
(DIR) Post #AP09g4zatuLIdsaxZw by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T01:42:04Z
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One problem perhaps is that knowledge amplification also means noise amplification, distraction amplification, addiction amplification, disinformation amplification, and abuse amplification.
(DIR) Post #AP09g6QZZ5W75qE1Gi by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T01:43:05Z
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And our response to disinformation and abuse has been centralization, censorship and surveillance, which is exactly what the 1990s internet thought it was fighting against.
(DIR) Post #AP4O6b9y6NJJvXpJPE by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:18:44Z
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meanwhile the Gemini Guidance Computer team laugh"you MIT people had 4K of RAM, we had 39 whole bits AND WE WERE GRATEFUL"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Guidance_Computer
(DIR) Post #AP4O6ckWBy8orBw10y by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:26:00Z
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ah, actually they did have 4096... 36-bit words of writeable core RAM. Weird. Was the Gemini computer *bigger* than the Apollo one ????http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.htp
(DIR) Post #AP4O6eNY8KxNuXChUW by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:29:15Z
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The Apollo LVDC is the third computer on the ship that never gets any love cos it just ran the engines and wasn't sexyhttp://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/LVDC.html
(DIR) Post #AP4O6gZJzXYshcj87M by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:30:57Z
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<< and the MIT Instrumentation Labs' antibodies flooded in to destroy the invader with critiques and reports negative of the IBM report. >>lol programmers then just like today
(DIR) Post #AP4O6i9s58ONdGppj6 by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:34:34Z
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Ah! The LVDC had no ROM at all! Good lord. The entire program sat in RAM. Aaaaaaaaaaaa
(DIR) Post #AP4O6jlU6m4ccDRNzc by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-28T23:42:13Z
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<< A so-called "bugger word" has been stuck at the end of each bank—no comments on this terminology, please, since I didn't invent it; when I asked Don Eyles some question that involved them, he somewhat-laconically stated "we called them check sums">>http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html
(DIR) Post #AP4O6lOs1pAlgesM1Q by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-05-29T00:00:12Z
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Huh, and if you have ROM and RAM I guess it literally is a Harvard Architecturehttp://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/BlockIII.htmlI never thought of that before!
(DIR) Post #APRo88BZ86hb5C0gUq by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-11-10T01:50:57Z
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Hi to all my new followers, I'm very sorry but I'm still having an existential crisis here about the supposed existence of "The Mastodon Way of Threading Posts" in which one is supposedly supposed to manually change the Privacy Status on every post (Listed, then Unlisted) to avoid "Spamming Timelines (tm)".This might seem like a little thing.But it's one in a number of weird UX hassles and/or weird street-level workaround protocols that, for me, just has finally hit my personal limit.
(DIR) Post #APRo8ANgxzaftNhOfw by natecull@mastodon.social
2022-11-10T01:52:51Z
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I'm very sorry to Eugen and all the development team at Mastodon who have certainly put in a lot of time and energy.But stuff like this.... it just breaks me.I can't use Mastodon, as a product, or as a social network, if I'm now aware that there's an entire invisible ecosystem of jury-rigged usage protocols that have somehow become "unofficial official etiquette" but are actually really difficult for humans to do.It's weird that THIS is what's pushing me off this whole network! But it is.
(DIR) Post #AiB8lUfQUUe328r8Ea by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-03-25T20:23:11Z
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That's it everyone, my timeline is now tuned (chef kiss) perfectly@Gargron @enkiv2 @kitkat @eq
(DIR) Post #AiB8lXbzXigEAMGvnU by natecull@mastodon.social
2018-08-10T03:13:34Z
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I think this was still my favourite Mastodon Moment (tm) of all time
(DIR) Post #AiB8lkqILqqVCU42Oe by natecull@mastodon.social
2021-08-09T23:38:44Z
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