Mastodawn

I really enjoyed this video on network science from the #Veritasium YouTube channel. These are some fun and important ideas for living in the modern world, and it's also a great explanation for why the #fediverse works.

Turns out, how quickly information and behavior spread in a community have a lot to do with the structure of the network. This video has some fun interviews with the researchers who discovered the math that describes these phenomena, along with some great online demos!

This stuff is pretty fundamental for understanding society and how it changes, especially in the age of the internet, where we see fundamentally different dynamics than what our species and societies evolved with.

Also, to my small world: if you know someone who knows someone who works on Veritasium, reaching them could be a good way to spread the word on why federated servers are a good idea.

AwSweetDonuts Oct 14

Lady Laura

Oct 13

"My buddy lost his job to AI. It was his job to chug thousands of gallons of water at a data center"

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AwSweetDonuts Oct 14

@Daojoan we should run all these books through an AI so it can spit back the median experience of having a dad.

AwSweetDonuts Oct 11

When cartoon mailboxes yawn, I yawn. That’s how I know I have empathy. #parenting #bluesclues

AwSweetDonuts Oct 11

JA Westenberg Oct 11

researcher: we gave people $1000/month and measured happiness

me: and?

researcher: they were happier

me: surprised pikachu face

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AwSweetDonuts Oct 11

@Daojoan I’m waiting for a todo app that will just give me money. It’s amazing how productive you can be when you can pay someone else to do it. Call it a productivity hack!

AwSweetDonuts Oct 11

JA Westenberg Oct 11

every "life-changing" productivity system is just:

- write things down
- look at what you wrote
- do those things

we've reinvented the todo list 47 times

AwSweetDonuts Oct 11

I want a #fediverse protocol that begins at the individual level. Then I can federate slowly with the 7 people I’ve known since high school. And then we can monetize our cohort as a microtargeted niche subgroup of aged nerds who profess to like ttrpgs, but never have any time to play them because of work and parenthood, but keep buying sourcebooks for some reason, who are also lowkey worried about their blood pressure. It’s our data! Pay us! That’s the #decentralized American dream.

AwSweetDonuts Oct 9

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Chaotica Oct 9

@metaphil
I just started converting my #Obsidian notes (md) into static websites using #mkdocs_material https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/.
It works quite well.

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AwSweetDonuts Oct 6

evacide Oct 6

I deleted my post about the Discord hack because the compromise was a third-party support service and not a third-party dedicated age verification system. Collecting user IDs is still bad and they are hard to protect, but being accurate in my posts is also important.