The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here!
(Well, for ghost(pro) users…)
Drawing towards the end of several months of quite intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The best decision I’ve made in a long time. I finally feel equipped to make the very most of the second half of my life.
For all its faults, the NHS has been there for me when I needed it.
Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of four-teen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them.
From Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
This explains a lot about Facebook:
Javi’s my favourite of the coworkers here tonight; Javier Olivan, in charge of “growth” at Facebook, which means he’s the person responsible for getting the billions who still aren’t on the platform to sign up. Javi’s a laid-back Spaniard and one of the few people in top management with a sense of humour.
From Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Just found a cache of old videos on my Dropbox, while hunting for something for a friend. Here’s some moments from a trip to Helsinki in the early morning, when I was doing some work with Nokia (!)
Everything we’ve learnt about technology is upended by AI: we’re used to digital technology being frustratingly literal — but AIs make shit up. They’re guessing machines, and until we learn that, we’ll keep making mistakes.
Hmm. I can’t figure out how Micro Social’s link post format works. I can see it in the settings, but can’t figure out how to invoke it when posting.
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied:
The fediverse is a jailbreak. It’s not a product, not a single platform, it’s not something you can buy stock in or use to enrich yourself at the cost of our shared humanity. It’s a network of independent, interconnected social platforms, all running on open protocols like ActivityPub. It’s an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity. Where your social graph belongs to you, not an algorithm’s shifting fucking whims.