I wonder if mastodon is going to hit that sweet spot where enough people use it regularly to maintain it - but it doesn't become huge like Twitter and Facebook? Also, still working on my Blake mastodon bot. I got sidetracked and now have to grade. #AcademicLife
Roger Whitson
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Assistant Prof at Washington State U. Author: William Blake & DH; Steampunk and 19thC DH.
How many times do we have to get to know Amy Acker only to watch her die?
Jeffrey Moro<3 this review of John Berger's work and life.
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/book-review/a-monument-a-world-of-his-own/
Matt Schneiderriverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from
Constance VariableHow can there be no ads? Because your admins are paying for the servers and run them as a hobby. It's not crazy expensive, but it does take up free time. They still do it because they enjoy the communities that develop. These instances are free with no ads because nice people are running them as a gift for you because they like you. Now, is that better than Facebook's or Twitter's business model or what?
I started Seb Franklin's CONTROL yesterday. It's mostly a really good take on control society as a cultural (not technological) logic — based upon the computer as a metaphor of social activity. So, the notion that anything can be represented mathematically (including life) is central to control society. It gets a little obsessed with secondary sources in the middle of the first chapter, but is mostly really interesting.
I don't quite get instances. How do they work? I saw some account that listed octodon as an instance? :/
It doesn't look like my FB IFTTT is working yet, but maybe I did something wrong.
OK, staring a thread to see how it works. Peeps, tweeps, twoots? What's the best academic book you've read recently? I'm about to start Seb Franklin's CONTROL: DIGITALITY AS CULTURAL LOGIC (MIT, 2015) and I just reviewed the really great second edition of Jussi Parikka's DIGITAL CONAGIONS: A MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY OF COMPUTER VIRUSES (Peter Lang, 2016). #FBmastadon