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@bentarnoff @moiragweigel And if you want to know more about the California Ideology @giunitpod has you covered:

https://t.co/4EE872ghCr

 

The book is out, and very very good. A must read. If you have more time than money I have some paid-for Play Books gifts I can give. DM me.

https://rushkoff.com/books/team-human-book/

 

Buy your copy of Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" while you can.

https://computerlibbook.com/

 

I wonder which internal systems fit into this category?

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html





 

Only 1 week left to enjoy Youtube Annotated videos...

https://waxy.org/2018/11/a-tribute-to-youtube-annotations/

 

Looks like you can still watch Eric's BOD Town Halls.

Watching the last one now. Lots of interesting places where the rhetoric diverges from what actually happened...






 

"Without the efforts of the workers the company would not have value so
the idea that the workers and owners ought to be the same cohort has a
great deal of attraction."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/1/233510-a-people-centered-economy/fulltext





 

"Without the efforts of the workers the company would not have value so the idea that the workers and owners ought to be the same cohort has a great deal of attraction."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/1/233510-a-people-centered-economy/fulltext

 

Is Google doing anything special for all the works entering the Public Domain in 2019?


For example the 1923 version of this Book is now freely available.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Dnt8DwAAQBAJ





 

Finally! a way to re-platform your Google+ data before the April 2019 shutdown.

https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/ exports to Wordpress, Blogger and other places. Hoping that this allows for communities to transition to new hosting or for individuals to go

 

Godwin's law; but for content recommendations..

h/t to Ray Cromwell who had the movie Iron Sky recommended in Google Feed..... (which has hitler riding a dinosaur on the moon....)





 

I started selfhosting my Known instance at https://1500wordmtu.com

The folks at withknown.com are nice, but their focus isn't on end-users these days and I need to get this on SSL, plus would like to use more plugins. [And if all goes well this posts to my social.coop mastodon account!]

 

Dark Agile and the importance of making space for diversity.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html





 

~2010 Google History Video

This is worth 4 minutes of your time....





 

Surprised it took until 2018 to get an Interviewing Moma badge.

/me looks at badge... looks at CLs-submitted-through-Cider badge.... looks back....





 

 

 

"I don’t just believe in miracles,” says the father of the internet, “I use software — so I rely on them"


https://twitter.com/mpesce/status/1071917179094818816





 

 

A group of dependencies is called 'a liability'

https://twitter.com/teabass/status/1069580787694084096





 

Would love to see the Ads team run retro banner/video ads on April 1st.

Or offer this as an option in Google Contributor...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-first-ever-banner-ad-on-the-web/523728/





 

@SarahJamieLewis The @worldbrain Memex system is working well for me. Full text index of all the pages I visit. Injects search results in Google/DuckDuckGo. Recommended. (https://t.co/7f4pklLb9M)

 

The @worldbrain Memex system is working well for me. Full text index of all the pages I visit. Injects search results in Google/DuckDuckGo. Recommended.

 

about fashion filter masks.

Tempted...


https://www.vogmask.com/products/8bit-n99cv





 

 

Before there was Commons Clause or Affero the University of Minnesota Gopher team tried to license the server code with carve-outs for non-commercial use.

https://t.co/1rcNIjN8bo
(https://t.co/xLP7jqv09E)

 

Before there was Commons Clause or Affero the University of Minnesota Gopher team tried to license the server code with carve-outs for non-commercial use.

http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/vms/networking/gopher/gopher-software-licensing-policy.ancient

 

So in these trying times it's always good to celebrate -- those little things that make life good.

My moment of joy is recently finding Computher and 8 Bit Weapon in my music stream.

https://computeher.bandcamp.com/album/bliptastic

https://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com/album/the-8-bit-weapon-collection-1998-2012





 

go/tacotown is now deprecated code wrapped in a dead product (Buzz) and contained in another deprecated product (consumer G+).

content warning: excessive food.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc

And I sure hope it doesn't get wrapped in a big Apps deprecated blueberry pancake.





 

@BrokeAssStuart @Benioff @markpinc @zynga I'll never forget when High-level Zynga folks bragged about the 1247830millions they made from the "Tip the Dealer" feature on Texas Hold'em.

That was in 2008 -- so yeah, sorrow all the way down.

 

"Turns out G+ was a load-bearing member holding up YouTube"

h/t https://social.coop/@jjg/100909481088731798





 

 


Reviewing a doc and looking for suggestions on an evocative way of conveying non-technical user of a product? Here's the passage I flagged:

And not just a lot of people, but everyday people -- people like our mothers, our gym-buddies, that one friend that DMs you all the funny tweets.

I didn't see any specific replacement suggestions on:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_could_do_it






 

So yeah, SSDs can die too...





 

Hello Seattle!

Here for the rest of the week...





 

Backup and Sync at 1-2 file/sec after deselecting a large folder.

filed details b/111688571

Try harder lil' ChangeBufferPersisted.GetEntriesWithDirectionAndAction, you can do it!





 

With Inbox out of the way Hop might gain traction.... (and then will likely be acquired by the Assistant team /s). That said it's amazing what .5m in seed funding can do these days. Pretty impressive given those constraints.

https://gethop.com/





 

This is a fascinating discussion between Danah Boyd and Douglas Rushkoff. It Covers:

- "Amplification, Freedom of Speech and platform paternalism.
- Networks vs Groups/Community and how to stop tribalism.
- Why Media Literacy isn't enough to combat fake news.
- Google's Original Sin:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/business/technology-google-and-yahoo-settle-dispute-over-search-p...

Actual interview starts around 13 minutes in.

https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-102-danah-boyd/





 

Short writeup of the dweb summit. Dragonfly makes it a bit too easy for reporters to draw contrasts.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentralisation-next-big-step-for-the-world-wide...





 

Javascript module loading is giving me deja vu for the old a.out vs elf vs.coff..

The solution then, as now. Statically link everything...





 

A ton of great content here including Vint's talk on Digital Preservation.

As a Googler you'll want to have a thick skin and open mind for many of these.

https://decentralizedweb.net/videos/





 

The feature that Facebook shipped in response to G+ is being retired...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/facebook-is-shutting-down-friend-list-feeds-today/





 

The Talk: "Internet Infrastructure Challenges with Decentralized Web" was really quite good. The associated article that goes with this is also worth a read, especially as 5G arrives and ISPs try to become "The Cloud".


http://thenewstack.io/game-nodes-network-operators-vs-cloud-operators





 

Lotus Concept Video (2014)

Missed this one the first time..

I do have some issues with this. I agree with the goal of having technology help us be more human. However to achieve the goals of this system one would have to restructure our lives to have most activities be technology-mediated. That means conforming our norms to the technology platforms which makes us less than human.

Oh and it was a pre-Uber world....

http://go/lotusprinciples
http://go/lotusvideo


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RwipB98dLpdDgyNElWZXlSbkM2d2t0LUlTOGZjdw/edit





 

about git worktree -- super useful, but I must resist writing a g4d equivalent....





 

*Fearless Cooperation: Giving eval() to your worst enemy for fund and profit*
_Tidbits form the Decentralized Web Conference 2018_

Brian Warner described a new Javascript Secure Execution Environment from Agoric.

"Imagine if you could have safely executable json"

This is based on early Caja work done at Google by many folks. Looks pretty interesting:

https://github.com/Agoric/Jessie

Looks like Mark Miller left Google to work there too...





 

@YellzHeard @codecooperative Donated. Might be interesting to connect these coders to the new @codeforamerica "Clear My Record" project https://t.co/YBY82mZCcY that @lourmoore is running. (https://t.co/OGrEo8eXZM)

 

@SIMSdoomtree I'd love to see you and the rest of the @DOOMTREE collective on the @resonatecoop streaming service some day.

 

Interesting day at the Distributed Web conference.
- spoke to knapsack for hope which sends data over satellite into Iran.
- at a workshop for Mesh networks where the Catalan blocking was front and center
- with people from the DAT and IPFS community who are building p2p systems to circumvent censorship.

Another world is possible.





 

It's a Mailbox...

My wife's aunt/uncle use a shared email account. They use it for everything including personal conversations.

I wonder if our identity PMs take *that* into consideration!