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My whole life I've been haunted by one and only one question How do bands coordinate when improvising, are they telepathic? Watch the magician reveal the trick IT'S THE DRUMMER

Learning to program and learning to communicate effectively are much the same The first phase is breaking problems down into itty bitty concise pieces The Twitter 140 character limit did this The second phase is organising the pieces, adding complexity back to represent the problem => long form notes

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EU legislating decentralization "Another rule requires those tech gatekeepers to offer interoperable gateways that other platforms can plug into - so you can quit using a chat client, switch to a rival, and still connect with the people you left behind (similar measures may come to social media in the future)."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier f...

Being gentle with yourself sometimes means recognizing that you've gone too far too soon in facing life's challenges Backing off isn't a failure Not backing off is If you're in for the long haul ya need to pace yourself Recognize your limits and work with them Being brutal with yourself doesn't build a survivor 99% of the time it makes a wreck

Today's life tip: In a region which experiences tropical storms Never, ever, plaster a bathroom cabinet over an air vent

Enshrining atproto as a standard would help drive out competing protocols The issues surrounding decentralization are highly political and it's not clear that the IETF are equipped to handle it This would create an opportunity/vulnerability "Bluesky controls the AT Protocol right now, and Graber is keenly aware that isn’t tenable if it’s going to be something lots of other companies build on over time. She says the plan is to eventually hand over control to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force. "

The Verge

Bluesky is ready to open up

Is there room for another kind of decentralized social media?

If Bluesky 'is' decentralized social media how on earth did they manage to deplatform ppl @mmasnick ? No one has been or can be deplatformed from Nostr To resolve debates over the meaning of 'is' Maybe we need to duck type decentralized social media * A property of decentralized social media is censorship resistance Bluesky quacks like a duck but doesn't walk like a duck Maybe it is learning to be a duck

Techdirt

Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It

There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey ha...

The swan song from Omegle is something haunting and I regret not ever trying their service Every word is highly relevant to #nostr and corporate media moving forward "If something as simple as meeting random new people is forbidden, what’s next?"

Omegle

Nostr is right now the best social network for political dissidents