Elon Musks Reddit Retard Rebellion: parallels between White Russian political stupidity and the modern right
https://www.theconundrumcluster.com/p/elon-musks-reddit-retard-rebellion
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The Megaproject Economy
Raises the question: what’s the closest human civilization has come to the megaproject economy? Pre-industrial societies had the mindset of distributing wealth to society scale projects. But they lacked industrial capabilities, so their “megaprojects...
(www.palladiummag.com)
The Political Capital Savings Plan
I met Gallagher a while back. He's doing this training course for people interested in getting in to New York politics. He seems like a smart guy. I especially liked this article on political capital. It makes the whole thing quite a lot less daunting and ...
(www.maximumnewyork.com)
Uptrust. Another alt-social app designed to foster great conversations
This seems interesting. Someone linked it to me. Has anyone used it or know anything about it? It seems like there are multiple parties thinking in serious ways about what we might call the “alt social media problem” and how to design really great cult...
(www.uptrusthq.com)
Patchwork city states ?
With State capacity decline and movement of decentralization how probable is it that we see something like sov corp city states emerging ? First through corporations providing private security (I think this is already the case in Brazil to some extent) eve...
Freedom of Impression
Social media do not quite give us the freedom of impression. They force us into their often obscure engagement-driven "algorithmic feeds"....
(www.techpolicy.press)
4chan vs Tumblr
"In 2014, two online communities went to war. The belligerents were fairly niche social media boards: 4chan and Tumblr. While their short-lived conflict amounted to little more than a curious moment in Internet history, I have become convinced that it actu...
(synergies.substack.com)
San Francisco Reform Party Thread
With the election of some new more moderate folks into SF government and a more tractable national ideological climate, a bunch of us seem to be thinking the same thing: lets develop a new politics for san francisco. SF is uniquely upstream so this is also...
How to Control an Online Forum
This thread is for the linked post about disinformation and forum control....
(edith.reisen)