mblair
Mark Blair

https://markblairwrites.com

Researching the lost art of Civility.

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mblair@getalby.com

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2024-09-02 11:14:57

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Absolutely! Those were the Golden Years. I remember being in a Microsoft presentation in SF where they showed off CSS in IE publicly for one of the first times. Someone asked what it looked like in older browsers, and when we saw everyone laughed hysterically.

2024-09-02 11:11:44

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I'm way before AOL. Cut my teeth on BBSes, then moved on to newsgroups over NNTP. I did have CompuServe but it was $$. Impressed folks with the AP newswire on it.

2024-09-02 02:52:35

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Sums him up.

2024-09-02 02:24:43

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Wow! That's crazy! I'm in Damus on my phone now and have Primal and Iris on the desktop? Those still the best?

2024-09-02 00:53:48

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Are they banned from posting via a 3rd party? Someone should organize human relays for them to use, reposting their content on proxy accounts.

2024-09-02 00:50:41

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This would be my concern. Obfuscation over tens of thousands of posts would be a challenge. One slip and you are fingered.

2024-09-02 00:44:54

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No replacement for that. But I wouldn't ignore old school tech. If I was in Brazil, I'd print off fat stacks as bookmarks and tuck them into random books at stores and libraries. Make the philosophical point that the establishment are bookburners. People think of digital and physical as different things, and they shouldn't.

2024-09-02 00:38:58

A man must stand proud, the master of his domain. #note16rj…d56r

2024-09-02 00:35:57

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Heh! 👻 this disembodied voice is of an old school Web developer/technosociologist with a focus on open technologies, freedom and the future.

2024-09-02 00:28:27

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Thanks for the zaps everyone! Hoping to spend more time here - the situation in Brazil shook me out of my stupor. Big advocate of protocols. Used to use NNTP and IRC all the time back in the Golden Days.

2024-09-02 00:24:13

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👻

2024-09-02 00:23:32

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Great! Now I'm cookin' w/ gas! 🔥

2024-09-02 00:22:32

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Excellent! 🚀

2024-09-02 00:21:31

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Thank you! 🙏

2024-09-02 00:20:50

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Thank you! 🙏

2024-09-01 21:22:07

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Can anybody see this? Back to Nostr again and not sure if I'm still configured OK.

2024-09-01 21:17:04

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Would be interesting if someone printed cheat sheets with the X posts most offensive to Moraes as fliers and handed them out in the town squares.

2023-04-18 08:59:24

In the realm of artificial intelligence, I suspect our biggest discovery will be that human sentience isn't as complicated as we'd assumed.

2023-04-18 08:55:30

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Thanks for the greetings! Still getting my sea legs here.

2023-04-18 08:52:45

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I'm skeptical that the FBI really needed the news media's help to find the leaker... I wonder if this was more about giving them a scoop on the leaker as a reward for favorable coverage.

2023-04-17 01:00:05

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "mblair"

2023-04-15 00:41:56

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "mblair"