Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538866/the-social-network-illusion-that-tricks-your-mind/
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Tech writer: mastodon will never kill twitter
Mastodon users: meh, that's okay, all I ever really wanted was a place where I wouldn't be relentlessly attacked by nazis, ads or nazi ads
Tech writer: and therefore Mastodon sucks and is doomed to perpetual failure
Mastodon users: maybe you want to double-check your metrics of success, bud
Tech writer: dooooooooooooooooomed!
This is also how websites (the average person doesn't see "web apps") are seen by most people.
Why should everyone have to be an expert? Just so the beneficial social effects you insist have to happen come to pass?
Maybe hold engineers accountable and build products for human beings, like we do with cars. We build cars like people's lives depend on it, and we should do the same with software, because people's lives *do* depend on it.
I collect decks of playing cards.
When a friend travels someplace and asks me if I want anything, I always ask for a set of playing cards that depict that location. It's small to travel with and inexpensive.
If you would like to add to my collection and help it grow, please PM me. I'm always appreciative of new cards!
I just feel like posting 2 pics that are the same
https://mastodon.social/media/UnRSMcZ6TvmsioZjQ34 https://mastodon.social/media/7NPAuWm0jH9b3fxZOvI
public Nazis, ethics, doxing, question
serious question to which I would like serious discussion/answers: is it ethical to dox Nazis? like, taking pictures of the Seattle Nazi crew (and their cars, and their buddies), posting them to the internet, finding out where they live/work and posting that to the internet, that kind of thing?
I'm fine with Nazi-punching, and in practice doxing has worked to silence them. I'm curious what y'all think on the subject.
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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