Media Query:
Looking for examples of instances where the internet piles onto someone for an INTERPRETATION of something that they said that is definitely not in the actual text.
Example: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Goalkeepers
Bill Gates got called tone deaf for saying we live in the best times so far, as if saying so implies nothing is wrong.
Which is not what he said, but people put it there.
Can folks think of other examples?
I wrote about this company that's making a decentralized approach for the entire internet, Blockstack, a long time ago:
http://observer.com/2016/09/a-second-internet-coming-soon-courtesy-of-the-blockchain/
They just realized the dev version of a new browser for a distributed web. What do folks think?
Tried to make a federated analogy last night about how we use different voices for library and bar, but FB/:bird:/etc require one one voice for all spaces.
That's not quite right. If you want a different voice you set up an alt account. (then on FB hope you don't get caught)
No what I realized just a few minutes ago was that the FB/:bird:/etc model is that the library, bar, and for that matter your living room are all one space.
The "open floor plan office" of online socialization.
ew.
This is a story about getting the drivers of those commuter #buses in #SiliconValley (to #Google and #Facebook and everyone else's giant campuses) a better deal. The story has evolved since the "Google bus" fights a while back and I tried to break it down as succinctly as I could.
With all the stories about tech bros, it's helpful to remember this new economy is also creating old school hourly #workers.
http://observer.com/2017/04/teamsters-facebook-google-linkedin/
“As a practicing pagan minister and a priest of Pan, I’ve come to feel very attached to the horns."
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article121516047.html
Let your freak flag fly.
Self-verification! On the webpage of Observer reporter Brady Dale, tomorrow morning a story about transit in Silicon Valley will appear at 6:17 AM ET
http://observer.com/author/brady-dale/
IT ME
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I was trying to map out the whole #fediverse network using kumu.io/wakest/fediverse if anyone wants to help
Yesterday I posted asking if the #goonsquad was on Mastodon today.
Then Motherboard ran this:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful
It's like they knew...
Sup, Germany?
:flag_us:?
Have you guys gotten the failephant yet? #fail https://social.tchncs.de/media/xmSConmfGeOZgBmE0to
This is the most reflective I have felt for a while...
:easter-island:
I wonder if the larger Mastodon system can't really handle two users with the same handle, even if on different instances?
did I ruin Mastodon
@bradydale I feel as tho you don't even see me
This escalator story isn't very good. It conflates "safe" with efficient. The time in system is only relevant in the rare instance when people wait at the foot of an escalator, which -- in my experience in the US -- is very rare:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/escalators-standing-or-walking.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
I just squatted on my own name on another instance because whatever it's fun I guess?
I'm really @bradydale
Did that work?
