I am confused. Lying every day on Twitter is ok, but misrepresenting an identity is bad.. What kind of parody is labeled “Here morons, this is a joke.”
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2022, at 11:05 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Musk *is* the joke. A joke of a person ... like we now use the verb Borked. > "Musk" could be shorthand for Poe's Law, exquisitely explained in the recent > Onion friend of the court filing. > > "You were totally Musked, man. It's not even bad faith. That guy couldn't > joke his way out of a paper bag." > > >> On November 7, 2022 10:33:38 AM EST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Where’s the sense of humor now? >> >> <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> >> [64260315-0-image-a-4_1667788476734.jpg] >> Musk threatens to boot Twitter account >> impersonators<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> >> dailymail.co.uk<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Nov 6, 2022, at 5:53 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That you call Mastodon 'twitter-like' is discomforting. ActivityPub is >> fundamentally different.I guess the premature registration is reasonable, >> given the politics of the moment. But the 'fediverse' really is distributed, >> very unlike twitter. I really love that the Gab twits ported to Mastodon. >> That, unlike Musk's perverted conception, is a real example of free speech. >> You really are free to turn open source and open protocol to your weirdo >> subculture. We just don't have to link to you. >> >> Don't think 'twitter-like'. Think 'decentralized'. >> >> On November 6, 2022 5:51:40 PM EST, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Trying to understand BookWyrm vs StoryGraph vs GoodReads and Twitter vs >> Mastadon (and beyond), I found this aggregator of alternative >> recommendations: >> >> https://alternativeto.net/ >> >> which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious how >> challenging "too many choices" can be... >> >> After a lame attempt to go with Mastadon I decided to abandond Twitter-like >> things altogether. I doubt I will be willing to throw GoodReads over for >> anything else because of the participating base of my own personal/family >> network there. I can at least avoid clicking through a GoodReads >> recommendation to order from Amazon. >> >> https://alternativeto.net/software/bookwyrm/ >> >> I haven't begun (tried?) to evaluate AlternativeTo.Net itself... >> >> Is this the tragedy of the "free market" (subset of "commons")? >> >> >> On 11/4/22 3:00 PM, glen wrote: >> I'd forgotten about this until the release yesterday: >> >> https://joinbookwyrm.com/ >> >> >> >> On 11/2/22 14:52, Steve Smith wrote: >> >> On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >> Thanks, Glen. >> >> It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url that one >> could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in itself. Goodreads >> was that once, then Amazon bought them. Ditto for video and audio >> recordings and other objects of public interest. >> >> I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two problems... >> the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the too often spotty >> reviews... I don't provide many nor particularly good reviews myself, so >> I've no room to complain really. >> >> So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url" point. >> It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't done the work to >> understand how new entries are made... are they always required to be made >> by a citizen of the community who is NOT affiliated with the book >> (publisher, author, etc)? I find a *lot* of the books I seek in Wikipedia >> and prefer them for reference when their book-description (and cross links >> to related works, author, etc) are particularly apt, but that is also >> spotty. I use Goodreads mostly to follow what family/friends are reading >> and what *they* think of their reads. >> >> The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by private >> interests (even public corporations are private interests) is disturbing (FB >> <-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)... Twitter->BoringCo, etc) >> >> >> Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos. Interestingly, >> her primary institutional affiliation is the Art Institute of Chicago, where >> as resident scientist she teaches math to art students. She has a public >> reading for kids scheduled in Jersey City this month. Her definition of >> category theory is "the mathematics of mathematics" which she expands as >> "the logical study of the logical study of logical things." >> >> Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to index on >> his amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a blistering price in >> every available format. I found a pdf on the internets. It's details the >> history of working out the chemical identity of water. Two themes are that >> 1) the consensus answers to scientific questions often change in >> anticipation of the arrival of corroboration, 2) there are often multiple >> acceptable answers to scientific questions. These are possibly consequences >> of being a realisitic realist. >> >> Interesting set of recursions... we CS types tend to love our >> arbitrary-depth recursion, but the special cases like double-negatives, and >> Rummy's unkown unknowns and now Chang's logical logicologoy of logics and >> realistic realists are ... *special*? While some may prefer "turtles all >> the way down" sometimes just a few turtles deep suffices? >> >> - Steve >> >> PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first reading of >> this thread. >> >> >> -- rec -- >> >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen >> <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There. I fixed that for you. 8^D >> >>> On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>> Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned some books of >>> interest, and while looking for them I discovered yet another book. >>> >> >> >> https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222 >> >>> Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224> >>> Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category >>> Theory, and Life, published October 2022. >>> >>> A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying algebra basic. >>> >> >> >> https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389 >> >>> Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress >>> >>> An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns taken along the >>> way, more detail than even the author cares to read again. Poetic justice >>> to examine the operation of the pragmatist's ratchet and pawl over the >>> centuries as it rescues workable definitions of temperature from thermal >>> confusion. >>> >> >> >> https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384 >> >>> Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of >>> Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022. >>> > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . 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