Notices by Rusty (rusty@scholar.social)

Folks always say, 'oh social media is so toxic.' And it's true, but I was stuck at the laundromat forced to watch local TV news and let me tell you, that shit makes social media look like a kale smoothie.

Folks know of any Fediverse poetry bots? I found these so far: @iceboxbreakfast @poem_exe @quasihaiku

In "Heat," H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] voices my thoughts on South Carolina heat:

O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop
through this thick air—
fruit cannot fall into heat
that presses up and blunts
the points of pears
and rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat—
plough through it,
turning it on either side
of your path.

"Why does everyone think Wikipedia is such a big fucking deal? It took 100,000 people over a decade to slap this thing together. Samuel Johnson wrote the first definitive English dictionary on his own, in nine years, by candlelight, in an 18th century world riddled with wolves and syphilis." - Sam McPheeters for Vice.

My new @RhizomatixBlog post: "Computing into Autonomous Spaces." Can computers help create spaces free from exploitation? I explore some possibilities with help from Italian Autonomist thinkers. Available thru Tor, Gopher, & Gopher web proxy:

Tor: http://kse5vsklszkdm6tnqzbrd6ry2ohrqlljnpz65qkno63goqzzsjahazad.onion/posts/Autonomy.html

Gopher: gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/rusty/Post07-computing-autonomy

Gopher proxy link: https://alexschroeder.ch/soweli-lukin?url=gopher%3A%2F%2Fsdf.org%3A70%2F0%2Fusers%2Frusty%2FPost07-computing-autonomy

My latest post for @RhizomatixBlog is out: "Against Complexity in Computing." You can find through these 3 avenues:
Tor: http://kse5vsklszkdm6tnqzbrd6ry2ohrqlljnpz65qkno63goqzzsjahazad.onion/
Gopher: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/rusty/
Gopher Proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=sdf.org+70+302f75736572732f72757374792f506f737430362d616761696e73742d636f6d706c6578697479

I wish to gather a loose-knit writing collective of academics, tech-folks, & other professionals interested in the intersection of education & technology [particularly the use of open-source or decentralized techs]. Maybe focusing on a group blog where issues can be raised in detail, initiatives documented, & resources shared. No professional affiliations needed; just abiding interest. If this sounds interesting, holler at me.