Anyone have advice for a friend whose FB account randomly disabled
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Technology changes ; humans don’t Forever @Debs
NASA Pilot Victor Glover to Mike Massimino via email from space “Let’s Invest in Togetherness” Just one of my fave quotes from the incredble humans of the #Artemis #splashdown
Shouting into the abyss for the first time in a while: NEW LAW: If either party shuts down the govt- all senators and congress people don’t get paid
I’m *seriously* fed up with AI chat bots messing up all my web tools - offering to blocking half the workable UX space and offering to “help me” 🤦🏻♀️
Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 11mo ago"A republic, if you can keep it" -- Benjamin Franklin
When explaining AI to non tech friends I have realized that: ChatGPT has become a generic Like KLEENEX for Tissues 😜
Attn GenX - finally a study that shows we have good timing in one area. We may have been born in the sweet spot for reducing dementia as we age. We say a really active brain in youth and midlife is a brain that is more resilient later,” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging - Nature Human Behaviour
The first generation who engaged with digital technologies has reached the age where risks of dementia emerge, and the question emerges how digital technologies have affected cognitive capabilities. T...
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Nostalgia overload watching #breakingthebird. Often omitted from early social web stories is how folks were driven by content/art/society etc. Hlad it’s included in arc of this story.
Popped up in an old feed. SXSW 2015. Wow Great times. Great peeps. With one bittersweet RIP.
I know ya feel me - I am extremely frustrated by our diffuse online channels these days - cognitive overload has reached max on who to reach where.
@kevinmarks.com 👋 💕 sometimes one just wants to wave across the pond
Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: Johnny Mnemonic, The Net, and Hackers. In this post I also look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website & the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace... #InternetHistory #90smovies
Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers.
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OMG. This offhand comment. “We need someone like Elon and his algorithms and expertise to fix government” - Speaker Mike Johnson on ABC this AM
You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
My reaction to the Musk memo. Federal gov’t just ain’t a tech startup 🤦🏻♀️
Yes! Our drive for efficiency and scale and productivity is sapping the soup from our lives. Reminds me of many Tummelvision.tv episodes. @kevinmarks.com www.instagram.com/reel/DFa5ZnL...
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I’m revisiting and ruminating on Granovetter’s “strength of weak ties” in 2025 — how is it holding up? A few questions to start: -Do we naturally crave stronger ties as we age, or has tech/social media changed driven change? -Are weak ties holding up in our current zeitgeist?
Observation: I’ve gotten SO out of the habit of “tweeting” over the past few years that it’s like working a new muscle to remind myself how delightful it can be to reconnect online.
The legacy of crypto isn’t a technology revolution but instead that it created a culture where get rich quick mentality, grifting and Ponzi schemes were a virtue. Then made these people rich enough that they could influence elections. That and being the financial instrument for ransomware payments
Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
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Sounds great. I did a podcast 15 years ago with @heathr.bsky.social and @debschultz.bsky.social where we talked to the people who did that work for the web 2 era sites (and other people doing the same kind of tummeling) tummelvision.tv/archives/
With every launch of a new social media app, I am reminded of High School. Really, I’m fine hanging out far away from *that* clique. Aside - anyone have that old Breakfast Club movie as social media app meme to pull up?!
“Threads feels like when a local restaurant you enjoy opens a location in an airport.” Boom.
Jason O. Gilbert@gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 3y agoI wrote about what makes Threads so depressing
there’s this sort of evangelicizing, patronizing tendency of using hateful content as evidence to get people to “wake up.” however, people don’t “wake up” by being immersed in horror. they gasp in constant shock and… that’s it. this is known as trauma porn.
you can find a billion instances of hate speech, hate crimes, etc. the difference between amplification and illumination is that illuminating something requires putting it into context, explaining what it means, what it’s a part of, and what can be done about it.
I have huge news: Ada Lovelace Day is BACK! Thanks to the Royal Institution, Stylist, Digital Science, Redgate & dxw, we'll be hosting our 'STEM cabaret' in-person once more, on Tues 10 Oct at the Ri. More info: https://findingada.com/blog/2023/06/13/ada-lovelace-day-is-back-on-10-october-2023/