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Media was always already social. If I email my friend a link to a YouTube video, is the Internet a social network? I think what we think of when we think of 'social media' or a 'so…

States are not inherently good, they are just large organisations with a monopoly on certain social functions. All large organisations have the capacity to inflict terrible harm.

This is exactly why it's important to find each other, so we can keep each other safe. There is strength in numbers. If you put up your posters on community notice board and use a …

Last year I managed to connect with 10 other trans people in my Lancashire home town. This is a place with zero 'alternative' spaces, let alone dedicated queer spaces. I made a pos…

Exactly, so I'm wondering if it's possible to detect those smaller patterns in the bigger ones?

I'd like to see this for smaller n, to see if there are motifs or patterns, which can be used to implement memoisation like Hashlife ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife ), o…

Wet bulb temperatures account for evaporation, but I don't know if weather stations report wet bulb or dry bulb.

I don't use Kinopio for everything, but when I need to arrange ideas in a 2D way and think about webs of relationships, it's been an amazing addition to my set of "tools for though…

This is why anarchism is an important philosophy and practice. It asks, how can we build societies which operate without coercion and hierarchies?

> We still haven't found a better resource allocation model than pricing. There are many different models. Look at Elinor Ostrom's work, or projects using participatory budgeting.

Value and price are not the same thing. Money is a form of access control which limits the availability of scarce resources to those people and organisations which have enough fund…

Or we could move away from pricing everything and the neoliberal obsession to turn everything into a market, and restructure our economy to provide everyone with their basic materi…

The AI explanations for these tracks is quite amusing/disturbing: > Based on the information provided, it appears that the user is a resident of the United States, likely living in…

Somehow I ended up here: https://grabify.link/track/K0U70F

Does anyone know anything about 'sustainable aviation fuel' (SAF)? The last time I flew, I was given an option to pay for this, but I don't know what it actually is, how it's made,…

And here's an old Instructable on building your own yagi for wifi: https://www.instructables.com/Easy-to-Build-WIFI-24GHz-Yagi-...

It made me uncomfortable too, and it is ableist to talk about someone as if they are "totally insane", and to trivialise serious mental health issues. Fortunately, it is easy to re…

Nitter link for convenience: https://nitter.net/uberstuber/status/1736494429702390264 I also have ADHD and found this thread interesting and useful.

Thank you for committing to release it all as open source, instead of hoarding it or putting it in the bin like so many other services do when they fail to achieve sustainability.

Why talk to your grandmother, teacher, or schoolmates, when you can talk to a robot instead? I'm unsure what problems this tool is trying to solve, and I'm worried that it enables …

I think the main difficulties here will be social, and a story of how this all started and the cultural, legal, and operational barriers they've overcome would be a valuable contri…

Rental services are usually privately-owned for-profit businesses, whereas this is a community initiative, and probably has lower overheads.