The Great Decentralization | NOEMA What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?

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This might mark me as an ersatz dinosaur, but ESR's revisionist spin on the Jargon File really was a pivotal moment in tech.

Rebranding it as The Hacker's Dictionary and injecting libertarian ideology shifted it from a communal snapshot of hacker culture to a narrative shaped by personal politics.

Thank you!

@techconnectify.bsky.social I use my toaster oven on top of the stove because my kitchen has no counters. My roommate thinks all gas stoves have a trickle of leakage great enough to explode from a toaster oven. That amount of leakage doesn't sound accurate to me. Is it?

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #23,882, Fluidity Audiobooks ‪@fluidityaudio.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 18, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,882!

[in a tent in the rain]
[high on shrooms, dreams about the voices outside the tent, merging into reality]
[closing down iTerm2]
[I have to make a git commit]
[merge conflict?]
[why must it be "colon" "w" "q", that's the most annoying part every time]
[& yet it could be no other way]
[perfect]

Why is it not TPOB now. Why though.

I'm giving a slide presentation summarizing betterwithoutai.com tomorrow at Penguicon, and it's gonna be so awesome, guys

Oh, I'm so glad there is one! Thank you!

Is there a desktop browser client for Bluesky? There doesn’t appear to be an app for my Android phone. But I found the iOS app & dug out an ancient iPad I have.