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Does Alphabet have a 30 year or 300 year plan?
The Softbank 30 year plan from 2010 is pretty thought provoking. (It's already 8 years old, but still feels forward thinking.)
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Blender put all their videos on PeerTube after getting shut down on Youtube.
PeerTube uses ActivityPub standards and WebTorrent to serve up videos. It's under rapid development and has progressed a lot since the last time I checked in with them..
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RT @SarahJamieLewis: In the Dat protocol white paper under Network Privacy, there is a section that reads: "There is an inherent tradeoff i…
Protip: don't fill your GCP disk 100%. Instance starts but you can't login since there's no place to put an ssh key..
The fixes are.. Not good. (resize not supported on OS, so have to clone, mount on new VM, and then build a new VM with the cloned disk...)
Probably just going to burn it down and start over...
This is Nancy O'Malley scaremongering in the Alameda County DA race. Also check out the bowl of Cheetos and the ashtrays.
*Wildfire* was quite the system back in the 90s, seems like the Android Dialer or Google Voice could easily implement the best features today.
Some tidbits:
- When summoned Wildfire says "I'm here"
- Whispering in your ear could be done on phone, but also in real life if you had, say Google Glass.
More details from an old Fortune article:
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_For now, Wildfire is only for those willing to shell out big bucks. A business with a dedicated server pays an average of ,400 per user to get set up. Independent subscribers who buy the service from authorized service providers generally pay monthly charges of between 50 and 00. Lowering prices is the company's top priority. Competition is looming, but to date no one else has as sophisticated a product on the market._
*The Right Kind of AI*
Really enjoyed the wide-ranging discussion with Google's own +104315190395846060684 on the Team Human podcast. I'd love to see a TGIF covering these deep topics sometime, and hope there are more Kenrics in our midst.
You also get Douglas Rushkoff's entertaining rant on Facebook. (!)
I don't know much about co-ops and education. But this is an interesting development:
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Recruiter pitches from Facebook and Amazon on the same day.
Day is young maybe Apple or Microsoft can chime in too...
Who can beat this [[ping] * [market cap]] record?
*Memes are the Building Blocks of Perceived Reality*
PDF added to my reading list...
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brb, closing my Tumblr account instead of clicking 320 checkboxes...
Tumblr tried to sneak in data collection under the radar. After a few taps, you can get a list of who they're sharing data with.
The list takes 19 screenshots to see all the names on my phone.
NINETEEN.
*Incognito by Default*
Redesign all of our systems to operate without direct access to user data while maintaining quality.
This is my dream after reading and filing data retention plans for the past month....
Ambitious enough?
_"The web is being used for engineering society"_
_"Browser vendors cannot avoid taking a side"_
Finally watched that Selfish Ledger video...
I didn't find it "unsettling", to me I found it to be your basic tone-deaf techno-utopianism.
Especially given the ugly fact that the research of Hamilton and Dawkins supports eugenics.
I'm curious if +102251792736752917169 is aware of _All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (ep3)_?
Treating humans as programmable computers is a dangerous path to go down. We're already seeing the negative externalities of this today. Filter bubbles, Facebook Ads, Deep Fakes and more show the non-altruistic version of the ideas presented in this concept video.
That said, the user-data story for Fuchsia (which this was an input to) is a good one. And I suspect we won't be breaking out virtual brain calipers any time soon.
Wired UK with some good coverage of the #platformcoop movement including @resonatecoop
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Hi German folks! Please vote out racists like @c_lindner. I'd rather be mistaken in my mentions for singer @patricklindner_.
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and also listen to the wisdom of +Micropixie aka MPX reminding us that we are all immigrants.
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@freiheit_chris @ulfposh @Markus_Soeder @jensspahn @janfleischhauer @sebastiankurz @janboehm @RobertHabeck @c_lindner Most people mistake me for @patricklindner_
@KeineWunder bah! @ulfposh did you mistake me for @patricklindner_? I suppose that rebels are against Volksmusik too....
_Tracking the illustration style of choice in our tech dystopia_
Warning: once you see this you'll notice this design pattern almost everywhere you look.
Will be interesting to see what Chrome team does with this.
It sure feels like a rollback situation, especially when we're breaking our own stuff.
This was 6 years ago and here I am still using emacs with a fuzzy copy of a Guice dependency injection graph in my head.
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Thought provoking presentation on how Information Architecture impacts user behavior. Also a great anecdote about how Open Plan offices were intended to _"give the company’s clerical workers a sense of community and nobility."_
Strong finish with this call to action:
_"Are the things that I’m designing creating conceptual structures, distinctions in the world, that are viable? Are the systems that I’m working with respectful of the broader context that they’re in? And are they sustainable, economically, socially, and ecologically?"_
Fantastic performance tonight in San Francisco by @[email protected] She's a fabulous performer and member of Doomtree Collective. Here's a thoughtful interview from 2015 about Doomtree's unique path to success:
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RT @bradfitz: The video of the @PerkeepOrg talk from @lejatorn and me at @lfnw the other day is already online:
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Because social networks are what we do, you should understand how the bonds Google+ creates can spread contagions (both the good and bad kinds...)
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At my desk you can read the paper version of "The Best of Creative Computing" v1/v2. What's really eye-opening is the large amount of privacy related articles that were published in the mid 70s, post Watergate era.
Here's one about logs processing. Maybe we can use this for the next BYCTWD...
Stop by or you can read volume 1 here:
Reading "The World of Knowbots" from "The Digital Library Project". circa 1988
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, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
Paul, I'd love to speak with you about the intersection of #coop and #decentralized web worlds. We're building this map with both communities: diglife.com/our-ecosystem/
, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
You rang?
, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
I just thought you'd like the knowbots idea in the paper above.
, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
Absolutely! So cool.
, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
I'll reach out; but just wanted to say that I'm looking forward to seeing your map with the edges populated between them.
, May 24 2018 on twitter.com
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Thievery Corporation's Treasure from the Temple is on Resonate Coop:
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Give it some mutual aid :) If you're a member it's a good album, if you're not a member plz sign up!
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Also: _"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance, however, any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."_
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It'll be a a rich tapestry of technology, philosophy, ethics, and activism.
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Added "Zot Protocol" from Hubzilla to my reading list.
cc Brad Fitzpatrick for the webfinger ref.
Zot is a JSON-based web framework for implementing secure decentralised communications and services. In order to provide this functionality, Zot creates a decentralised globally unique identifier for each hub on the network. This global identifier is not linked inextricably to DNS, providing the requisite mobility. Many existing decentralised communications frameworks provide the communication aspect, but do not provide remote access control and authentication. Additionally most of these are based on 'webfinger', which still binds identity to domain names and cannot support nomadic identity.
The primary issues Zot addresses are
- completely decentralised communications
- independence from DNS-based identity
- node mobility
- seamless remote authentication
- high performance
I've had a deja vu feeling about Maven for awhile and finally was able to put my finger on it...
I present to you a clip from the 1985 film _"Real Genius"_.
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Cleaning up my Xmarks bookmarks so I can import them into @pinboard before they disappear forever. Interesting look back at the default bookmarks that came with Safari/IE etc.
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Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
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Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
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MLS provides a security layer for group messaging applications with from two to a large number of clients. It is meant to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.
Whoa, Ratchet trees...
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Self-redacting your messages on Hangouts Chat? think again....
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In an alternate timeline Google Gadgets survived and iGoogle evolved into ARCS.
But seriously, go read this and think about how the world might be different if we could split up the data hosting (into Google Cloud) and the Application Serving. What kind of world would we have then?
Once you've digested that read the User Sovereignty doc
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I think efforts like this are key if we want Google to grow even larger than it's current size without being regulated to death.
While not strictly social, this did use the underlying Shindig code based used for social gadgets. It also allowed for Cooperating Gadgets in the browser via gadgets.pubsub and distributed Prefs system using gadgets.prefs
In fact one of the use cases was 'add the Google Gadget to your container' so your other gadgets could have enhanced functionality. The only thing missing is a user-owned, portable data store. We're seeing a return to this model in ARCS and Fuchsia.
Trap my contacts? If only... (2010)
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Feature request for OnePick
_To make sure that whatever aspect ratio a thumbnail is displayed in, it doesn’t cut off important bits, the new “crop” function allows you to select a focal point (or “focus” point) on the uploaded picture._
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Sherlog broken, caldav broken. Oh yeah 5110 group memberships (again)
#pupp right +112225569907336841303 ?
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Everything in our world will soon be technology-mediated. @anildash offers some wisdom on how we can make these changes in a net-positive way. Recommended.
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Having an open gadgets proxy seemed like a good idea at the time ....
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... now I want to see Pong at TGIF via paddles. Oh and please be aware of the control you have and unintended consequences of the the systems you design. kthxbye
_It was a blistering July day in Las Vegas, with temps hitting 109. Inside the SIGGRAPH 91 convention hall Yello's Rubberbandman looped on the speakers. On each chair: a red/green paddle._
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It was a blistering July day in Las Vegas, with temps hitting 109. Inside the SIGGRAPH 91 convention hall Yello's Rubberbandman looped on the speakers. On each chair: a red/green paddle.
I was a student volunteer, stamping the finest hands in Computer Graphics. Those hands (and my own) each controlled those paddles. Then 5000 people looked up and saw a Pong Game appear on the screen.
And then.. the machine started playing us.
In response to visual stimuli we changed the color of our paddle. The ball moved left, then right. The crowd shouting "red red red", "green!" and cheering as the game played on.
The rules of the game and the feedback loops directed our actions. It was a complex adaptive system with emergent behavior.
And luckily there is some footage of this moment. Watch this excerpt from "Machines of Loving Grace" that talks about this moment in history:
Loren Carpenter Experiment at SIGGRAPH '91 from Zachary Murray on Vimeo.
Loren Carpenter cofounded Pixar. Check out the TurboGopher appearance at the 5:00 minute mark.
Today the simple pong game is now the multilayered technological environment we interact with on a daily basis. Instead of red/green paddles with 1 bit of data we carry phones that generate a wealth more. These devices also provide the aural/visual and haptic stimuli. With that our collective actions power all kinds of "games" today:
As technologists we need to remember that by controlling the game, we are indirectly controlling the players. The choices we allow (and forbid) define the behavior. The game "plays" the player. And often the only way to be free is to not play at all.
Except that is if maybe, just maybe, the people start playing a different game than the one we designed. In the giddy demonstration it was assumed that people wanted to win at Pong. But we didn't play long enough for abuse or scheming. It would have only taken a few people to cross over to sabotage the other side, or for trolls to have changed the outcome.
Finally this level of power and control demands great responsibility. The only thing worse than control used for malicious purposes is control wielded without thought, without thinking of the consequences. So the next time you're designing a product think about the whole system and all the inputs and ask "who's really in control?".
h/t to the General Intellect Unit podcast and their Machines of Loving Grace episode for reminding me of this unsung moment in history.
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The latest @giunitpod podcast made me remember and ponder on a forgotten moment at @siggraph 1991 with @macktronics @RussellCattelan @SaunaAika 1500wordmtu.com/2018/when-pong…
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