Michel Alexandre Salim @michel_slm@social.coop

Happy New Year everyone!

https://michel-slm.name/post/2018-12-31-new-year-resolutions/

A Conference for Digitalization and Sustainability

Reflections on Bits & Bäume
https://www.degrowth.info/en/2018/12/a-conference-for-digitalization-and-sustainability-reflections-on-bits-baume/

Interesting report.

Nice demands

I think about this Naomi Klein passage a lot:

It would be cool if there was a machine-readable way to represent various Mastodon server rules.

Then they could not only be filtered by such rules on directories like instances.social, but apps could display summaries when displaying a sign up screen.

I imagine it might work a bit like rubocop rule names (e.g. "Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment") but I don't know how practical this idea is. Don't take this as me planning to do it, just sharing thoughts.

Is there any good concise summaries of economics on measuring and adjusting for the abuses of market economies, such as externalities, power differentials, and limited or inaccurate information? I want to read more on these subjects. :/

Brendan Eich's 'Brave' seems to have just walked into a world of hurt due to its habit of soliciting donations in the name of people who have NOT given permission for it to do so (using their photograph without consent, even)

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160979388518407

Charles Pierce's scathing indictment of the NYT podcast episode headlined "The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How We Missed It", which "got dragged like Hector's corpse" on Twitter: "'We' Did Not Miss the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. You Did." https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25574930/new-york-times-rightwing-extremism-white-supremacist/

🌎 Happy solstice 🌏

- New CPUs
- Taiga 4.0
- New features in Disapp (android)
- Nextcloud14 update

More at:

https://disroot.org/en/blog/happy-solstice

We are an ethical alternative to Instagram.

The project is still young, but we are getting close to a polished v1.0 release with federation support!

We can't wait to join the fediverse. ❤️ #pixelfed

https://platform.coop/stories/protocol-cooperativism

We should view protocols as the digital means of production, more so than platforms. And that ‘protocol cooperatives’ will do more to break down capitalism than platform coops will. think the main argument being that platform coops are inherently centralised, and that as far as challenging capital goes, we should be striving for decentralised architectures.

My goal for the next 2 weeks besides releasing federation support:

- Finish Docs
- Finish Instance picker
- Updated pixelfed.org
- Finish APIs (for mobile apps)
- Real-time updates (via ws)
- UI improvements
- New privacy features
- Finish IG Import
- Launch pixelfed-debug.com
- Finish account export
- Finish account deletion

#pixelfed

@afterthehyphen
This article lists a few... maybe one fulfills your requirements.

https://www.rasmussen.edu/student-experience/college-life/15-educational-search-engines/

On the occasion of Thanksgiving, I finished David Stannard's "American Holocaust", a seminal work about the genocides of the Americas, and wrote up my thoughts.

In short, I highly recommend the book -- it was published in 1992, but remains a remarkable work of historical scholarship that draws from countless sources to present a comprehensive picture of what happened, and why it happened. Here's my review:

https://lib.reviews/american-holocaust