Big #scifi, #tech, #climate, #library, and #book nerd. Exploring on #poetry and #swingdancing. Lapsed coder and gamer. Husband and father of two. Product manager by day
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Friends on FB started asking why is the feed full or complete junk (ads and communities that they didnāt subscribe to). I proselytized āenshittificationā (1) and of course @Catvalente ās timeless āstart buying thingsā article (2). But I donāt think theyāll move to Mastodon, and where else to move? Sigh
Articles:
1) https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1amp65h/enshittification_is_coming_for_absolutely/
2) https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
If you want to give the impression that you can type computer code very fast, like a hacker in a movie, then visit
and type anything.
Always boost/repost animal cognition breakthroughs, especially cephalopods!
From: @cyrilpedia
https://qoto.org/@cyrilpedia/111329215284092059
"Cephalopod cognition also considerably widens the evolutionary gamut of intelligence, showing that it can evolve without a vertebrate Bauplan ā without an internal skeleton or skull or vertebrate brain architecture. An intelligent animal so radically different from us somehow makes our place in evolution seem a little less special. To us, oh so sapient, humans, cephalopods are a distant mirror, one that may reflect ā and deflect ā some explanations for the evolution of intelligence generally." https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01302-7
Morgan Library in NYC has an exhibit āShe Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamiaā focused on Enheduanna - the first recorded named author in history (itās a woman), whom I discovered through @MariaDahvana (thank you!) on the davidnaimonās podcast. Should be interesting
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/she-who-wrote (see video overview)
She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C. brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of artworks that capture rich and shifting expressions of womenās lives in ancient Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium B.C.
What happens when a seaweed need some psychological support? - mental kelp
Given that itās all #public posts (keep in mind that even @ āmessagesā arenāt private here at all), even with auto-delete messages (which I like), this will never feel āprivateā like my chat groups with irl friends.
Is it right to assume that for the āfriend groupā feeling Iād need discord, or something along those lines?
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3-week impressions on #mastodon
Long-term twitter addict here. I got excited for idea of something smaller, with community. Imagined I could make some closer online friends (that I read about other people making)
But itās still mostly twitter-like, with the main feed a jumble of all of my possible interests (which I feel promotes #addiction), and a kind-of āshout into the voidā feeling (not that itās bad, and I *like* async comm in theory) but still largely performative?
#UX #community š§µ 1/3
Just here to say that the #KennedySpaceCenter is impressive - great immersive presentation for the #SpaceShuttle and definitely for the #Apollo program.
But most importantly we confirmed that the new #OrionCapsule for the #Artemis program will have a lavatory! #PoopingInSpace
David D. Levine