Mastodawn

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…“If the game repeats, if actions can be known, if there are consequences for exploitation and exits for the exploited, then ‘being good’ becomes a rational equilibrium, not a sermon.”

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“The difference between a commons that endures and one that collapses is not the moral fiber of the herders but the existence of rules that fit the place and the power to enforce them without humiliating people into exit.”

https://bolesblogs.com/2025/09/11/why-cooperation-beats-competition-if-you-design-it-right/

Dubious Blur 11h ago

Jonathan Schofield 16h ago

From @boles:

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“Creatures survive not by bravado but by patterns that let help outlast opportunism. Across species, cooperative behavior takes root when kinship, reciprocity, network structure, group dynamics, and reputation meet a simple condition: the benefits recur and the cheaters are visible.

Translate that to our lives and it says something unromantic and liberating. Cooperation does not require sainthood; it requires scaffolding…

Dubious Blur 11h ago

The Manchurian Idiot Apr 27, 2024

Wild how the Patriarchy, a system designed by, and for the benefit of, uptight middle-aged straight white cis men, has singularly failed to make any of them happy

Dubious Blur 2d ago

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦4d ago

OMG this whole “patriots“ #solar generator marketing is pure evil genius, but for the common good.

i see these #ads during baseball games and they really go out of their way to hit all the MAGA redneck prepper notes; while selling the one thing the petromafia sugardaddies & their politician stooges dont want their base to embrace: solar energy.

it’s #solarpunk machiavellism and it feels weirdly refreshing

Dubious Blur 2d ago

smitten 3d ago

vax n relax was when the anti-science right wingers and the professionalist libs merged. they joined forces to create a singular vibe of haughty denial, they found one thing they could agree on. as long as it still came in two flavors: vaccine-good and vaccine-bad. maintain the appearance of disagreement while the core belief of anti-masking and anti-maskers could be shared. it was extremely effective, whichever think tank came up with this was so clever. and now the professionalist smarties get to talk down to both the maskers (filling the slot of 'far-left' in the standard liberal mindset), and the ivermectiners (filling the tea party righties obviously).

Dubious Blur 2d ago

Farah 🖖🏼🧶🏳️‍🌈3d ago

View from my window -

Dubious Blur 2d ago

Information Is Beautiful 3d ago

Ever heard of the Butter Line?

Dubious Blur 2d ago

Greg Knauss 3d ago

I’m an atheist, so the only parallel I have to the cosmological beatdown that the Pope is giving JD Vance is if science discovered a species of bacteria that looked exactly like me and repeatedly punched itself in the dick.

Dubious Blur 2d ago

Quixoticgeek 2d ago

Looking at the RFC for the IPv8 surveillance system, the author is simply credited as "J. Thain One Limited" a brief Google suggests a very minimal footprint for such a name. There's an accountant with that name. That's about it. There is an item Author page, which shows the name as James Thain, who's never contributed anything else to the ietf before. This feels an awful lot like the guy who took over xz. Who are they? Which shady organisation(s) are backing them.
Who is James Thain?

Dubious Blur 3d ago

Elena Rossini ⁂3d ago

Yesterday I had the incredible opportunity of giving a presentation for the service numérique of the French Ministry of Culture, as part of their experiment with the Mastodon instance @cercle

My talk: "The Fediverse: the original promise of the internet"

It was super inspiring to listen to all the talks of the participants, from the @palaisdetokyo to @LeMuseum. And the results of the poll by @imacrea were fascinating! I will write more soon. For now: THANK YOU for having me there ❤️