Random thought: I don’t eat anywhere near enough potatoes
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Eleanor Sandry (elsand)
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Some of the time I'm a researcher in human-machine communication (#HMC). Up to November 2024 I taught #WebComms and #WritingOnTheWeb. My research is listed and linked from the About on my website. Email me or ask me here if there is anything I've written that you'd like to read. Still finding out who I am and who I'll become: my posting here reflects that process.
🇨🇦 robyn 💜oh ok so *here's* a neat feature of #Mastodon lists that I had hitherto been unaware of:
You can set them to include replies from list members to:
- No one
- Members of the List
- Any followed user
This is REALLY COOL. The 🤯 option for me personally is to be able to include only replies that members of the list sent to other members of the list. Great for "Local" lists, or lists for a busy topic bubble!
You can also change this setting later!
Guilty of marking this as “read it later” because I want to read it again before deciding how to respond: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/a-metabolic-workspace/ (by @Daojoan)
A Metabolic Workspace
In 1895, a Belgian lawyer, bibliographer and information scientist named Paul Otlet started building what he would call the Mundaneum: a vast repository in Brussels containing over 12 million index cards cross-referenced by subject, designed to hold the entirety of human knowledge. Otlet had already predicted hyperlinks, search engines, and
A blogpost from @Daojoan on #WritingOnTheWeb and why to write a blog (something I do, although the reader I’m writing for mostly feels like future me): https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked
RE: https://mastodon.social/@elsand/114968083044535911
Thinking about this again as the season of social events looms
@scroeser owwwwwww! I hope it is ok
myrmepropagandist@michaelgemar @alexwild @MyrmecolNews
It's very contrived how we keep trying to get animals to do "tests" that are centered around things humans care about. People think it's significant to see "yourself" in a mirror.
I suspect that "ant ideas" don't have exactly parallel concepts. That is, I don't know what the test would prove if it worked.
Ants *do* care a lot about having the same pheromone profile as their colony.
Ants do some things we can't. No one likes to sit with that truth.
Matt T.@futurebird Maybe ant scientists are like “Are humans even conscious? Their collaborations are spotty and conditional, and they seem not even to notice their own scent, let alone recognize it. Incredibly, they must resort to simple heuristics, such as identifying as the source or ‘dealer’ of an odor the first individual to sense it. (They appear to react to reflected light but their primitive water-balloon eyes are clearly insufficient for true image capture)”
A very helpful analysis and critique of what’s been written about AI in 2025 https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-about-ai-in-2025/
What I Read About AI in 2025
From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order by keyword. I acknowledge some weak spots here, chiefly on the environment, data
@scroeser this is great!