Here's something I've been working on since 2020:

A Google doc with links to resources (broadly construed) at the intersection of #technology, #philosophy, #politics, cultural studies, and the #socialsciences

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0rzXGXqDoYN-GWecOzMwUtCCXJ-r7TJ6AKitQZbsyI/edit?usp=sharing

It's divided between the academic and the non-/para-academic (tho that line isn't always clear). Originally I made it for my students- maybe others will find it useful.

Amable recordatorio de que uno de los fundamentos ideológicos que volvieron #Twitter la cloaca de la que terminamos arrancando fue algo que podríamos llamar el capitalismo de / la economía de la indignación.

Jaron Lanier explica bastante bien de qué se trata en su libro "Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now".

La premisa es simple: outrage sells. Hatred goes viral. La paz y la amabilidad en #Mastodon son formas de resistencia anti-capitalista.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Yo ahora mismo estoy entre un 50% de que Twitter se va al guano y un 50% de que va a acabar gentrificado.

Pero ni es una gentrificación como la de ahora donde las tiendas del barrio son sustituidas progresivamente por una tienda macrobiótica donde te venden legumbres que abren tus chakras a 50€/kg, sino como cuando llegan los israelitas a un barrio palestino y echan a los residentes a hostias, demoliendo todo lo que no les gustaba y aplicándoles leyes de segregación