Annalee Newitz 🍜Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?
taylor hatmaker@annaleen it’s such a confusing sentiment bc it’s basically the same experience (without a few refinements) except you pick a server??
@Tayhatmaker Right? And as tech journalists, shouldn't we be, you know, curious about new tech and not scared of things that seem hard to understand?
@annaleen new technology without an obvious potential for corporate abuse, idk folks try it out could be fun! personally thrilled for potentially viable products not made by big tech 🙏🏻
@annaleen i guess it’s my beat tho so maybe i’m biased lol
@Tayhatmaker it reminds me of the early days of open source software going mainstream, when most publications couldn't wrap their minds around how BONKERS it was that there was a thing inside their software that wasn't owned by a company
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕@annaleen So, @pluralistic has been making the excellent point in his recent round of Chokepoint Capitalism interviews that there are things of value and merit which are not well served by framing in property and financial terms.
Children, as one example (he uses this).
It's not novel, but is jarringly discordant with much mainstream narrative.
Edit: Removed repetitive repetitititive phrasing, used better words.
John Mastodon@dredmorbius @annaleen @pluralistic @Tayhatmaker
Give us the link Doc. Do you expect us to find ourselves?
@n00b Hah.
Give me a sec, he's done a lot of podcasts, and I've listened to a bunch as well.
There's some discussion in the book (Chokepoint Capitalism), chapter 19, though not quite the same as he framed it in the interview.
I think this was either the New Books Network or Pitchfork Economics interviews:
PE: https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/chokepoint-capitalism-with-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/
@n00b Might also have been Darts & Letters:
https://dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep70-chokepoint-capitalism-ft-cory-doctorow/
I've got that queued up for a re-listen as well.
@n00b OK, not Darts & Letters either.
This may have been an older interview.
(I'm wishing AntennaPod had a notes/tags feature, because I'd have noted or tagged this if I could have.)
@dredmorbius @annaleen @pluralistic @Tayhatmaker
I fell like I gave you a job over christmas. And that makes me a bad person.
If you are still having fun I am enjoying all the things and will consume them as I can
But the running commentary is the best. Love you.
@n00b Hah!
No, really, my pleasure, and question-directed exploration of topics (and revisiting discussions or articles) is handy.
I'd be listening to pods anyway, it's just a matter of which ones.