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This wasn't particularly what I wanted, and certainly wasn't a conscious decision I made. I had (technically still have, though I'm erratic with it) a blog, for which I did want a passive audience, but that's not what I wanted for my socials.

But the auditorium is where Twitter extracted value. The forum is where we give value directly to each other, which was not Twitter's bread and butter. It wanted us producing Content, because that was Content it could sell.

And I don't know if it was organic or not, but a lot of the implicit values in Twitter culture also privileged the auditorium. Ratios and engagement and all that bullshit didn't matter one iota to forum mode.

And a lot of the harassment was also often justified by pretending someone in forum mode was actually in auditorium mode (while paradoxically pretending the harassers themselves were in forum mode, Just Wanting a Discussion), which was directly enabled by Twitter's discoverability features.

I feel like one of the strengths of Fediverse is that it is a forum. Same could be said of other platforms/networks, but other platforms/networks are trying to be both forum and auditorium. They're sitting between two chairs and it doesn't quite work.

When I started on Twitter (for the second time, post-transition) it was in forum mode. Insofar as social media is a performance, it was very Theatre in the Round. My "audience" was my fellow performers. We talked to each other. And flirted with each other. So much flirting. Anyway...

Over time something happened and I shifted (or was shifted) to auditorium mode. My audience was bigger, but more passive. Sure, they 'liked' things (and I had a pretty decent engagement ratio where that was concerned - nothing huge, but certainly above average), but they didn't talk to me much. I had become a - ew - producer of Content. And my audience had largely gone from interlocutors to consumers of that Content.

https://sociale.network/@oblomov/113351743687929596

I HAVE AN HTML FILE AND A .JS FILE AND THEY ARE FRIENDS

my package manager is... I don't need one? until I wanted to use this one library, apparently

essential observability engineering

Fashion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cv-VUHMxH4

( Link via @ghoulnoise )
( Photo shoot with model at 15:55 in video )

web browser should have a feature where they automatically warn:

"it looks like this page has a large amount of JavaScript (>1MB) are you sure you want to load it? this might slow down your browser and could be used to track you"

watch how fast the corporate web would clean up their shit

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." — Ronald Coase

https://modrinth.com/mod/perfectly-packed

incredible

i can't stop thinking about this. they needed something that sounded terrifying but which wasn't as kid-unsafe as “death”. but to ”mista sin fantasi” (“lose one's imagination”) is like a fate worse than death. it's a genuine existential horror. did they know what they had written

become uncynical

PC-98 USER: If Sex is so good why didn't they make a Sex 2

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR:

My autistic ass: what do these have gestures and postures mean? I don't understand body language.

Also my autistic ass: I can tell when my dog is just trying to sniff something gross in the grass versus when she actually needs to do her business based on how she pulls the leash and moves her head

Windchimes

this is a good deal for a ghost and you get vintage hardware as a bonus!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375735224798

queer who plays too much Minecraft: no babe, i like your tits fine, i was just wondering if you could make them more square

From Xitter. The link is: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorrislegalfund?attribution_id=sl:d4c79a86-5e9b-4bbf-9ba3-7fc309b49782&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-weeek test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/