Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 4

yo fediverse, who's got a pirate radio station streaming online? i'm making a #FediRadio playlist for use in VLC.

so far:
vantaradio http://wolfgirl.engineering:8000/vantaradio (@vantablack)
aNONradio http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio (@snowdusk_)

pls boost!

#TootRadio #PouetRadio #NowPlaying #radio 🐘

He War

Better a social craft than a social industry I think. Small tech and social software can be part of a that I think, but re-repurposing or even breaking some of the frames that industry co-opted and mechanised.

Writing a blog post, or a considered reply to someone else's, takes more time and emotional craft than a like. But it's more rewarding overall.

Analagous in some ways I feel to how Taylorism abstracted the movements of skilled labourers into smaller and smaller discrete motions, which could then be mechanised and repeated monotonously without skill or craft.

Digital time-and-motion men have abstracted social interactions into meaningless facsimiles of real interaction, real desire and affection.

Seymour talks about how when using social media (controlled by the social industry) you are in some ways interacting more with a machine than with other people. Likes, retweets, etc, are part of this machinery. These have become industrial abstractions of actual social relations.

https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/novarafm-screen-capitalism-the-twittering-machine-1

Twittering Machine by Paul Klee (1922)

Really want to go deep into the political history of the textile industry, any good book recommendations? It's incredible and horrible lesson from history. Manchester is wrapped up in it.

Like before the industrial revolution, people had spinning wheels and hand looms in their homes. The industrial revolution brought in spinning frames, power looms, centralisation, mass production and a whole shitload of exploitation around the globe to go along with it. Why? Where's that tendency come from?

Happy packet switching!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/29/arpanet_50/

And then Cat Power.

So there's a lot of bad in the ol' YouTube comments, no doubt, but sometimes you know you stumble across a video where someone has revealed something deeply personal and tender in the comments that the music means to them, and lots of people leave incredibly supportive responses. That's lovely to see. I feel like you don't see a lot of genuine warmth on the Internet and it's nice to know the medium doesn't strip it out altogether.

Some days, you just got to put Mazzy Star on repeat.

Testing Mastodon POSSE via brid.gy Also on: (https://doubleloop.net/t/1kF)

Reimagination of the party structure through digital platforms. Populism through digitality.

'emerging organisations such as Momentum, the Five Star Movement, Podemos, France Insoumise and many others as “digital parties”, or “platform parties,” [...] following the logic of the digital platforms of contemporary capitalism and mimicking operations like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.'

-- https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/momentum-labour-online-digital-activism-social-media-party/

@nolan Worth mentioning https://micro.blog, which is a turnkey microblogging platform that uses most of the IndieWeb stack (but as a user of it, you don't need to care about that)

Saw a couple of meteors from the Orionids shower, boom! Get out there if you've got a clear sky, they peak tonight.

@nolan I blogged a little about the overlap a while back - https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/01/bridging-the-indieweb-and-the-fediverse-with-bridgy-fed-part-1/.

I agree they're complementary and I do both. I actually feel like they're converging on the same featureset, just coming from slightly different angles.

They were almost the same thing, too:
https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/