nonlinear

https://social.praxis.nyc/@nonlinear

the anagram of my name is anarchist fool

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2024-08-11 19:43:49

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Yeah. We’re just experiencing early settler colonialism real time.
Ask the levels of disinformation to any colonised indigenous group.
Heck, US has a holiday they celebrate friendship with the group they decimated.
Once early stage is done they’ll flip as righteous and move on with their colonization project.
Sorry, you asked. Ask any indigenous group. Colonizers lie as they breathe. They break all treaties.

2024-08-11 02:37:32

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You’re thinking like an engineer.
If by unenforceable you mean to everyone all the time flawlessly? Then Yeah.
Some things are features, they are binaries, on off, and some things are policies, we never reach them and we constantly steer towards it because it’s the values we uphold.
Also, conflict is not abuse. If anything, we endure the conflict because there’s trust between us. Trust we foster for long time in our communities. And will be lost with growth.

2024-08-11 02:22:46

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It’s hard to consider your analogies when you dismissed the very litmus test of “how do I defend myself from abusers in this community” as unimportant. When it’s the very decision people make to decide if they want to engage or not with the platform.
Why on earth id be in a platform to be ridiculed, dehumanized, and have my rights questioned by strangers? Why on earth would I stay? Or invite my peers?

2024-08-11 02:20:14

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If anything fediblocks could be the algorithm substitute we need. You create a body that deliberates who should or shouldn’t be on block list, negotiate with instances the conditions to be or not on this list, and instances engage or disengage with said algorithm if too lax/strict.
if you’re a bad node, people should be able to flag you as such, to others. And collectively defend themselves.
Did I say algorithm? I meant attention filters. Non corporate attention filters.

2024-08-11 02:13:12

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Meta has networks of scale and the (very proprietary very corporate) algorithm stimulates filter bubbles that protects groups from group-haters.
It’s the algorithm. The very algorithm we dont want.
Growth is not a solution for that. Frankly without an algorithm substitute (a computational way to separate people in groups, instead of us consciously having to choose and curate) growth will make it exponentially worse!

2024-08-11 01:44:25

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This fixation of scaling communities is myth of progress. No one enjoys a party and thinks “it would be double the fun if we had double of people”.
Curating a space is an art, trust is hard to grow and easy to squander.

2024-08-11 01:41:31

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I won’t engage or subject my queer community to low life types questioning our humanity and ridiculing us. And meta is chockfull of these types.
Safer spaces, isolated and protected, are not to be treated as less than, as refusal to participate.
Your lofty idea of what a community *should* be may as well alienate *actual* communities that are simply telling you: we won’t engage with abusers, and if you remove the tools we use to defend ourselves, we’ll leave.

2024-08-11 01:38:52

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if you think of your position, deep down you believe we’re creating one platform to rule them all and that’s not the case and will never be.
People talk with different people in different circles under different conditions of attendance in different platforms, already. Small circles with enough overlap is what at least I’m aiming for: deep connections but no filter bubble.

2024-08-11 01:35:29

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Nobody said the world is built this way. But abuse is where you draw the line on when you should disengage, so it should be front and center in discussions of community connection. It’s our litmus test.
I have way less patience than you give me credit for. I have the privilege to engage/disengage because I understand the tools.
Communities are not meant to scale. In fact, the larger the community, the less deep are the connections. There’s a Goldilocks we should aim for.

2024-08-11 00:47:36

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Unless mastodon blocks (or force-opens) via code, instances can decide on their own.
Decentralization also means decentralization of decisions.
This “electronic village” “all in the same room” reeks of “marketplace of ideas” and coerces abused to share room with abusers for the sake of… what?
Let people disengage. So what. I wouldn’t invite you all to my house and I shouldn’t expect to be invited to all parties, and that’s ok.

2024-08-11 00:47:36

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2024-08-11 00:37:43

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I don’t see why we need to decide to engage or not, collectively.
Certain instances will, certain instances won’t.
Did you guys forget how people meet in the analog world? There’s no master plan… people engage of not as they wish with who they wish.
Only the shittiest groups demand you to be in the company of others, thru coercion.

2024-08-11 00:37:43

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I don’t see why we need to decide to engage or not, collectively.
Certain instances will, certain instances won’t.
Did you guys forget how people meet in the analog world? There’s no master plan… people engage or not as they wish with who they wish.
Only the shittiest groups demand you to be in the company of others, thru coercion.

2024-08-03 00:48:40

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts.
But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.
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2024-07-03 19:31:07

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I agree.
Having contempt for the systems that provide you (in our case *urban* systems) in favor of a purity ideal (be that in heaven or nature) is counter-productive.
What we need is institutional care. Caring for the systems that provide to us.

2024-06-18 16:13:16

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Immiserating is only a new phenomena if you discount Global South. For centuries.
It's just poverty. Poverty is not an accident, but designed.
What's new is that it's now affecting the "industrialized" nations too. So it's just Imperial Boomerang.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
Welcome to the club (of poverty). You've been warned (for centuries).

2024-06-18 00:46:59

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Yesssss, that's the premise of the book. It doesn't substitute humans (that's snake oil from AIbros), it *surfaces outliers* for our revision. Augmented systems.

2024-06-16 21:26:58

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AI can be used as a layer of simulation between scientific hunch and actual testing.
And yes I'm with you, those claiming AI can replace anything are unhinged born-again types peddling to investors. It's hype, it will fall, and hurt a lot of people in the process.
For my own sanity, I separated the technology of AI from the business of AI.

2024-04-30 11:20:14

Beware of instigators in your circles
Double check. Triple check. Avoid baits.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T2seZA23c/?igsh=N3M0c2R1ZG50ZjR5