Howard Rheingold

Mostly complete digital works at http://rheingold.com and https://patreon.com/howardrheingold -- Iwrote books about tools for thought, virtual communities, virtual reality, smart mobs, taught classes at UC Berkeley & Stanford on digital journalism, social media issues, social media litertacies. Now I make art. I'm interested in all of the above & like to follow knowledgeable ppl about current events, science, humor, community. #technology #onlinecommunities #art #socialmedia #learning #edutech

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2024-11-13 04:25:22

about 30 years ago, on the WELL, I started calling it “disinfotainment”

2024-11-11 17:56:43

“Polling data show that Donald Trump’s supporters were deeply misinformed about most of the campaign’s defining issues. Only if this is attributable to bad actors exploiting a broken information ecosystem, rather than an electoral majority that chooses to be misinformed, can there be hope of a healthier politics in America.”
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/2024-election-surveys-show-trump-voters-misinformed-on-major-issues-by-j-bradford-delong-2024-11

2024-11-11 05:45:19

“AI-assisted researchers discover 44% more materials, resulting in a 39% increase in patent filings and a 17% rise in downstream product in- novation. These compounds possess more novel chemical structures and lead to more radical inventions. However, the technology has strikingly disparate effects across the productivity distribution: while the bottom third of scientists see little benefit, the output of top researchers nearly doubles”
#ai #technology #innovation
https://aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innovation.pdf

2024-11-11 05:26:09

“Amelia… was recently looking at the famous triptych painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch with a friend when they noticed a man on the right-hand panel with musical notes written on his butt. Highly amused, Amelia then transcribed these notes into modern notation and created a little sound clip that has been colloquially called “The Butt Song From Hell” — which is available for listen on her Tumblr.”
https://www.tumblr.com/chaoscontrolled123/76305632587/luke-and-i-were-looking-at-hieronymus-boschs

2024-10-22 19:21:46

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Onine (1998)
#OnlineCommunity #socialmedia
https://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html

2024-10-22 18:57:24

h/t @npub1hsp…trdj
"Joanna shares her vision for smaller, more intimate communities of around 100 people that grow naturally without heavy promotion."
#OnlineCommunity #socialmedia
https://plutopia.io/joanna-price-building-community-online/

2024-10-21 15:59:46

Amish have a sophisticated method for evaluating whether and how to adopt #technology or not
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/amish/

2024-10-07 20:56:33

This nonpartisan playbook is designed for civic leaders, community organizers, & passionate individuals who believe in the power of collective imagination to shape a vibrant, participatory democracy.
https://www.futures-happening.com/playbook

2024-10-07 20:41:47

Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical #cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside customers' houses – to train the company's #ai models.
#technology #privacy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

2024-09-28 18:59:35

Nearly thirty years ago, we attempted to create a directory of #OnlineCommunity
http://www.rheingold.com/electricminds/html/vcc_landing.html

2024-09-19 18:22:25

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.
https://www.wholeearth.info/

2024-09-11 00:51:00

How to inoculate your #mind against #disinformation
https://asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-35-how-to-inoculate-your-mind

2024-09-10 20:07:35

wow — and we are just at the beginning of generated cinema
#ai #cinema #technology #media
https://youtu.be/QYck5xQO2bM?si=EtkmReAXqL9PgnU5

2024-08-28 20:06:41

1996: "Will the Web become a social medium?
#future #socialmedi #OnlineCommunity
https://people.well.com/user/hlr/tomorrow/webconf.html

2024-08-17 22:04:29

I painted a couple dozen blocks for my grandson.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/979/619/388/071/190/original/95b46f496b7cee58.jpg

2024-08-12 18:13:38

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@npub1grx…uxfe I had to cut down the beanstalk you see in the foreground because it was climbing up the try you see in the upper right.

2024-08-12 14:27:34

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@npub18p2…6j6h compost

2024-08-11 22:09:14

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/945/594/417/971/557/original/f0402387f879fe6d.jpeg

2024-07-30 19:18:42

I have never posted anything political on this site because of my "why bother" motto that has saved me so many hours of fruitless debate. However, I do want to spread the word about postcards to voters. In addition to canvassing and contributing financially, this is one effective way to support democracy. We have postcarding parties every other week -- we will break 500 mailed next week. Please boost!
https://postcardstovoters.org/

2024-07-22 14:29:33

“Researchers have shown that a computer virus can use #ChatGPT to rewrite its code to avoid detection, then write tailored emails that look like genuine replies, spreading itself in an email attachment.”
#ai #technology
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2438132-computer-viruses-can-spread-by-using-chatgpt-to-write-sneaky-emails/

2024-07-13 22:03:36

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@npub1grx…uxfe I think a lifetime of freelancing lit a fire under me that hasn't gone out -- I need to accomplish something creative every day.

2024-07-13 21:56:37

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@npub1grx…uxfe Retirement helps!

2024-07-13 21:05:13

I decided to strip the old paint and paint a rocking chair. I will probably start selling painted chairs on Etsy.
#art #artwork
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/781/201/584/964/308/original/752a2462ad0838a6.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/781/203/819/335/490/original/86f50c0c0bfdbef6.jpeg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/781/204/616/299/620/original/2ccabdc44407be22.jpeg

2024-07-12 21:26:21

h/t @npub1lrv…tth9
At its moment of peril, democracy needs journalists to be activists
#journalism
https://dangillmor.medium.com/at-its-moment-of-peril-democracy-needs-journalists-to-be-activists-8776aa9c99c3

2024-06-20 16:53:51

Meet the creators of the Whole Earth Catalog and the community they inspired. This video history of the Whole Earth culture covers 50 years of collective innovation in just a half-hour.
https://vimeo.com/294878432

2024-06-13 14:21:29

Discourse is a 21st century forum
platform I like a lot for #OnlineCommunities and now they provide a site for finding Discourse communities
https://discover.discourse.org/

2024-06-12 20:12:38

longnow, grayarea, internet archive, on 55th anniversary of Whole Earth Catalog, announce publication of digital archive of Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review
http://wholeearth.info/

2024-06-02 01:12:30

“The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates”
Mariana Mazzucato
(who I consider a credible source)
#ai #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/30/ugly-truth-ai-chatgpt-guzzling-resources-environment

2024-05-26 22:50:15

Please consider supporting my art and writing via http://patreon.com/howardrheingold

2024-05-14 16:27:28

“We hope that this list of design principles for risk pooling systems can be a resource for scholars and students, helping us all go beyond the assumption that generosity requires reciprocity. Because when the shit hits the fan, it turns out it’s the cooperators who thrive.”
#cooperation
http://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/in-case-of-apocalypse-follow-these-7-steps

2024-05-07 22:13:34

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/402/099/137/526/364/original/5e373a6081370dc4.jpg

2024-04-26 23:31:33

#OnlineCommunities
http://communalytic.org

2024-04-25 19:59:26

I made a portal to another dimension
#artwork #magick
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/333/625/963/887/712/original/6afd564bd92eb6a2.jpg

2024-04-24 18:22:44

The work of running a small social media platform is primarily social, rather than technical.
Unlike big platforms, which are largely differentiated by technical affordances and whose work mostly involves building and maintaining technical infrastructure, small platforms are largely differentiated by social factors and most of their work involves building and maintaining social infrastructure.
#OnlineCommunities #socialmedia
https://idpi-umass.beehiiv.com/p/8020-rule-small-social-media

2024-04-23 16:25:08

Like words, molecular sequences in biological components are tokens that can be manipulated by #LLMs:
“Here, using large language models (LLMs) trained on biological diversity at scale, we demonstrate the first successful precision editing of the human genome with a programmable gene editor designed with AI.”
#ai #technologyinnovation
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1

2024-04-23 16:11:31

We Need To Rewild The Internet
The #internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

2024-04-07 22:26:15

Western agronomists changed the traditional agricultural system in Bali, and when that caused crops to increase and then the whole system collapsed, Stephen Lansing from Santa Fe Institute organized an interdisciplinary effort to find out why. They discovered that the quasi-religious traditional water temple system was a sophisticated socio-cultural solution to complex social dilemmas.
#cooperation
Perfect order -- recognizing complexity in Bali: John Stephen Lansing
https://t.co/nNo8pUwjUc

2024-02-27 00:11:42

Why did Massachusetts Route 128 -- fat with government contracts and home to industry giants such as DEC -- lose out to Silicon Valley? Anno Saxenian (who was dean of UC Berkeley School of Information when I taught there), made her reputation by demonstrating that "open systems, social and technical" were the reason.
#technology
https://www.patreon.com/posts/77246524

2023-10-14 21:11:04

Surveillance-based advertising, where searching for a sneaker inundates you with sneaker ads, and which perverts the sociality of social media with ad-driven algorithmic curation, has corroded online culture. I would point out that attempts to get people to pay for culture have failed. One of the reasons for the demise of the Whole Earth Review was our principled refusal to accept advertising. If you want online culture without advertising, are you prepared to shell out for it?

2022-11-17 22:53:41

One of my favorite Engelbart sayings might relate to the "Mastodon is too confusing to learn" claim. Paraphrasing, he said that if ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. #technology