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Darius Kazemi  

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: patreon.com/posts/organizing-o

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Darius Kazemi  

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

patreon.com/tinysubversions

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Radical Thinkerz  

The Dialectics of Anarchism

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an even larger pile of cubes  

boy howdy -- mastodon makes it easy to migrate instances, that is wicked smooth

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lauren  

I hope Comradery ends up as promising as it looks. A co-op for ongoing creative support instead of having to use Patreon. Personally, wanting to focus more on my writing and having more options in the future for being financially supported is exciting.
https://comradery.co

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setphen  

@darius availability heuristic: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/fear_and_the_av.html

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Darius Kazemi  

Is there a concept (like a specific cognitive bias or logical fallacy) that describes the human tendency to see evidence of something highly shocking happening a small number of times, and then to assume that the highly shocking thing must happen often, in spite of evidence to the contrary?

A mundane example is someone hearing about a person being hit by lightning and then hyperfixating on the possibility that it might happen to them. Less mundane: the "stranger danger" panic of the 80s & 90s.

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Darius Kazemi  

I think Google should save everyone a lot of time and effort and jump straight to discontinuing new services:

"We are proud to announce that Google Kitchen Tools will no longer be available on Sep 1st 2020, nor has it ever been available. Should you wish to export your Google Kitchen Tools data, you should be aware that there is no data, as Google Kitchen Tools has never existed.

Thanks,
The Google Kitchen Tools Team"

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Alexander Cobleigh  

hot off the presses, a new scuttlebutt newsletter (edited by yrs truly!)
https://opencollective.com/secure-scuttlebutt-consortium/updates/scuttleverse-newsletter-15-butts-and-potatoes-edition

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Darius Kazemi  

You and me both, buddy

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Casey Gollan  

👋 I am going to try posting here more — specifically about all the stuff I’ve been looking into regarding cooperatives, governance, and building organizations

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Mungus Von Bungus 🔵  

portland protest safety alert, riot ribs, twitter thread 

Extremely unsettling thread regarding how the org that has been feeding people in front of the police building have had their stuff taken over by a violent grifter. DO NOT SEND DONATIONS TO RIOT RIBS, the real organizers are trying to get the word out that this guy has stolen thousands of dollars. And if you're in Portland, DO NOT go to the blue tent, riot ribs as we knew it is not operating right now. https://twitter.com/lilithxsinclair/status/1287907654501720064?s=20

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Duncan Robson  

Had to do this when I noticed David Mitchell playing a cop in Peppa Pig

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Darius Kazemi  

Free idea: a Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis type strategy game based on Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, where the point of the game is to forge nation-states through the development of national print-languages and various forms of cultural, legal, and military coercion (but with a focus on the cultural stuff)

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🔥Fire Demon😈  

If you were having trouble loading the web app or posting earlier, this has been fixed.

Meanwhile, I've been porting over @darius's support for ActivityPub Articles and inline images from the Hometown fork of Mastodon.

It has been extended to work with the changes in Glitch-soc and Monsterfork and is still highly experimental.

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Darius Kazemi  

"I've only ever struggled with docker as a dev, it might be a nice change of pace to struggle with it as a sysadmin."
- me, just now

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Matthew McVickar  

@darius Just got a real-life Glitch Logo in a Facebook tab’s favicon.

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christa  

new bloops4u: holy phone compression edition

my first drum sequence on my digitakt!

419-452-4857

(also here, bc holy phone compression: soundcloud.com/agreatdynne/07-)

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muesli  

You can now use readme-scribe, a GitHub Action I just published, to automatically update a repository's markdown files (like its README), using markscribe and its powerful template engine.

You don't even need to install or host anything!

https://github.com/muesli/readme-scribe

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Dr. Dan Killam  

"Extreme digestive plasticity suggests that eating com-
petition records are quite biologically impressive, especially in the context of
carnivorous species and other human athletic competitions." So proud of our silly species!
New article: Modelling the maximal active
consumption rate and its plasticity in
humans—perspectives from hot dog
eating competitions https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0096

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Fellas Bot  

FELLAS, is it gay to centralize? You're basically coming together at a center 😔

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Fellas Bot  

Fellas... is it gay to attract? It's literally arousing interest 😳😔

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