Week 30, 2023

New research suggests social media doesn’t fuel political polarization. Oh really?

This is interesting, but it doesn’t represent the reality for one simple reason : 3 months in social media is a snapshot in a much more complicated issue. Second, the elephant in the room is the fact...

So what makes a "good" guru? #TibetanBuddhism

Context : someone in a survivors support group was asking this question and this was my reply, I’m archiving it on my blog in the hope people stop looking for guru’s, stop losing their discernment in...

Holy Crap, that’s so cool! #AI #Khoj Yes Locally! docs.khoj.dev

The #War Won’t End Until #Putin Loses Offering the #Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future #aggression. archive.is/202208011…

We have to stop it! Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification #googlebeingevil vivaldi.com/blog/goog…

Chatter on Science Fiction and International Relations on the #Lawfare podcast, have a great weekend everyone! #starwars #startrek #battlestargalactica #GOT #apocalypse podverse.fm/episode/y…

Seriously? Damn it, we’re not out of the wood, I wouldn’t totally rule out the US becoming a religious theocracy. Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do ground.news/article/d…

Another interesting #mastodon tool Combine Remote And Local Timelines combine.social

Interesting tool for devs Explore the #ActivityPub protocol interactively ActivityPub.Academy is a learning resource for ActivityPub. The protocol is brought to life by showing Activities sent between...

Interesting…#activitypub Vocata/vocata: Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent - #vocata codeberg.org/Vocata/vo…

Amazing #drone view of the Litli-Hrútur #Volcano eruption youtu.be/LLHl6ZfYk… Yeah that Drone suicide itself!

The whole point of the #fediverse is to enable “mutual coexistence” on top of a protocol that everyone can build with. We don’t need to agree on everything & we won’t but we can speak & unders...

Interesting & exciting times! Next step for ActivityPub by @manton@manton.org Is it possible to implement a social web platform by reading the suite of #ActivityPub specs, and have that new platfo...

If #Meta was honest. realaboutinstagram.netlify.app

Such an amateurish and improvised identity switch is, I think, the epitome of the Mollusk way of thinking/working : used to have dogs at his mercy that just have to do things based on his whimps masha...

I wish the Twitter cross-posting feature from micro.blog wasn’t centralized to one API access to Twitter, since anyone can get 1500 tweets a month, it would make sense to allow configuring our own API...

How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism archive.ph/2023.07.2…

Interesting… #cloud #serverless #wasmer #wasix wasmer.io/posts/ann…

It’s almost funny to watch the X drama enfold on Twitter and being able to talk about it from the open web, where a delusional “genius” isn’t able to dictate the rules, much less destroy 16 years of t...