Mike Laursen

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Mike LaursenNov 21, 2022
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Nov 20, 2022

Meet Eugen Rochko (@Gargron), founder of @Mastodon, who just got a profile in TIME magazine. I encourage you to really read the entire excellent interview, bc not only will you learn more about the ethos behind Mastodon, but you can also hear what it’s like for an intelligent human being to talk about social media.

“Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media.”

https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/

Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindication

Time
Mike LaursenNov 21, 2022
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️Nov 21, 2022
One of my favorite lines in the early Buddhist texts comes from the Upaddha Sutta, where the Buddha says, "Admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie is actually the whole of the holy life."
Mike LaursenNov 20, 2022
Tea PainNov 20, 2022
Politics ain’t nothin’ but horse sense. Horse sense is what a horse has that keeps him from bettin’ on people.
Mike LaursenNov 20, 2022
Michael StancliftNov 15, 2022
Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
Mike LaursenNov 18, 2022
Bunty Nov 18, 2022
I'm feeling emotionally crappy and my response to that is wanting to go clean the bathroom. Which is very extremely unlike me. Curious. 🤔
Mike LaursenNov 18, 2022
Howard RheingoldNov 17, 2022
One of my favorite Engelbart sayings might relate to the "Mastodon is too confusing to learn" claim. Paraphrasing, he said that if ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. #technology
Mike LaursenNov 17, 2022
Howard RheingoldNov 17, 2022

I wrote this almost 10 years ago about Engelbart's unfinished revolution:

#ToolsForThought
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/07/23/177246/douglas-engelbarts-unfinished-revolution/

Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution

The pioneering Doug Engelbart invented things that transformed computing, but he also intended them to transform humans.

MIT Technology Review
Mike LaursenNov 17, 2022
Howard RheingoldNov 17, 2022

Today is the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's mouse patent

(Excuse the 1995 html)

http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/09.html

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