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Inside: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pic…
#Pluralistic 1/
Inside: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pic…
#Pluralistic 1/
On 3/7 I'm doing a remote talk for #TUWein:
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373
On 3/9, I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
On 3/10, @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373
On 3/9, I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
On 3/10, @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation: You CAN please all of the people all of the time (sorta).
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Why Graphcommons is a misleading name and why I will not use @graphcommons for publishing #dataviz in my research anymore.
#commons #datavisualisation #graphcommons
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#commons #datavisualisation #graphcommons
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The website was always buggy, I could only import through google-sheets and not directly through CSV, even by using the spreadsheet they provided. Using Graphcommons meant using Google. Which is not what I want to do in research+teaching because of their business model.
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What did "commons" mean for Graphcommons? Mostly you named a node, it would become a shared thing, you could find it in graphs by others. Not through unique identifiers, or any open data standard, but just as a playful thing. Basically useless for computational analysis.
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Last week, @Gizmodo's @lincodega caught a killer scoop - a leake Hasbro's plan to revoke the decades-old #OpenGamingLicense, which subsidiary @Wizards promulgated as an allegedly #open sandbox for people seeking to extend #DungeonsAndDragons:
gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of… 1/
gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of… 1/
The report set off a shitstorm among #DandD fans and the broader #TTRPG community - not just because it was evidence of yet more #enshittification of D&D by a faceless corporate monopolist, but because Hasbro was seemingly poised to take back a #commons. 2/
No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically. 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/sem… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/sem… 2/
🧵 Group project presentations begin today for the 2022 SFI Complex Systems Summer School! We will share bits and pieces over the next two days...
#CSSS #ComplexSystems
#CSSS #ComplexSystems
First talk this morning by a team including @JenniferKBriggs @gatesdupont @maikemorrison @davidogara_ @simon_rella Ian Harryman & Haoyuan Luo on their contagion model ("Hopefully you'll see this published later" may as well be the official slogan of this summer school)
Our next group considers online #pornography a strangely under-examined domain for quantitative research & wants to bring #digitalhumanities approaches & multilayer network analysis to bear on it. @gulsahakcakir @AnaVybor @thomas_bssnt @prt_thibault @simon_rella
Take their poll:
Take their poll:
Surfing waves are a great example of a #commons, complete with local rules for who is allowed to ride the waves. But in the age of Instagram and social media, these rules are breaking down. 1/12
nytimes.com/2022/06/06/spo…
nytimes.com/2022/06/06/spo…
Surfing waves are a commons - a resource that is rival and non-exclusive. If unregulated, they can be overused.
"An overcrowded wave means fewer waves for everyone, and the one-surfer-per-wave etiquette tends to break down, leading to accidents and confrontations." 2/12
"An overcrowded wave means fewer waves for everyone, and the one-surfer-per-wave etiquette tends to break down, leading to accidents and confrontations." 2/12
Regular surfers collaborate to establish and enforce rules to avoid overuse.
"Some surfers have long guarded against this situation by enforcing their own rules at their local spots, deciding who can catch waves and making those rules crystal clear to newcomers." 3/12
"Some surfers have long guarded against this situation by enforcing their own rules at their local spots, deciding who can catch waves and making those rules crystal clear to newcomers." 3/12
#同文Commons 2022-04-11 Facebook
//#區家麟——現屆學生、後輩眼中的好老師、說故事的人
cmmns.co/VrzKj
區家麟除了是「資深傳媒人」，亦是不少傳媒行家眼中的好老師，他在母校中大新傳學院教授的科目「新聞敍事技巧（Storytelling in Journalism）」，
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//#區家麟——現屆學生、後輩眼中的好老師、說故事的人
cmmns.co/VrzKj
區家麟除了是「資深傳媒人」，亦是不少傳媒行家眼中的好老師，他在母校中大新傳學院教授的科目「新聞敍事技巧（Storytelling in Journalism）」，
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多年來都是學生的搶手科，一席難求。無論課堂內外，大家都可見到他對新聞和教學的執著。他總向後輩強調，說得出好的故事，才有好的新聞；若題目無法令你著緊，沒有「火燒心」的感覺，不如不做。《同文》訪問了數名區家麟的現屆學生和過去的後輩，講講他們眼中的這位良師...
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全文：cmmns.co/VrzKj
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#同文 #Commons #同文Commons #香港 #區家麟 #國安法 #國安處 #立場新聞// 3/
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追蹤同文以獲得更多海外港人故事及新聞精選。
🌍 commonshk.com
📸 IG：cmmns.co/ENEeW
🔔TG：t.me/commonshkmedia
#同文 #Commons #同文Commons #香港 #區家麟 #國安法 #國安處 #立場新聞// 3/
#LandGovernance: Today is DAY 1 of the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa short course.
The class of 2021 comprises 88 land professionals from 29 African countries.
Thread 👇
Read more: bit.ly/2V5iLZB
@NELGA_AU @PLAASuwc @UWConline @ECA_OFFICIAL @giz_gmbh
The class of 2021 comprises 88 land professionals from 29 African countries.
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Read more: bit.ly/2V5iLZB
@NELGA_AU @PLAASuwc @UWConline @ECA_OFFICIAL @giz_gmbh
Colonial conceptions of customary tenure continue to inform conceptions of the customary today. The "customary" is not fixed from some time immemorial; it has been reshaped for ideological & political purposes.
Prof. Kojo Amanor, African Studies, Ghana
@UnivofGh @IASUG
Prof. Kojo Amanor, African Studies, Ghana
@UnivofGh @IASUG
@UnivofGh @IASUG It's thrilling to get to know the land officials, activists, professionals and academics from across the continent.... The next generation of African land expertise.
The Political Economy of #LandGovernance in Africa short course - now online.
The Political Economy of #LandGovernance in Africa short course - now online.
If you believe Ethereum is for and by people, this @EthCC talk might be relevant.
Code can be unstoppable but Planet, People & Projects really are not.
Get out of your filter bubble and stay vigilant.
Embrace complexity & build for the long term. 👇
Code can be unstoppable but Planet, People & Projects really are not.
Get out of your filter bubble and stay vigilant.
Embrace complexity & build for the long term. 👇
1/ If you have no time to watch my full #EthCC talk ☝ and you're into doomscrolling (!) the below might be just the thing for you. 👇
This is a personal talk. I often feel a lot of FUD about the world, my/our place in it, and whether blockchain provides (timely & apt) answers.
This is a personal talk. I often feel a lot of FUD about the world, my/our place in it, and whether blockchain provides (timely & apt) answers.
2/ I've crashed many times, I oscillate between hope and disappointment whatever I work on, always have, always will.
Will we be able to make a difference with Ethereum? Or any blockchain for that matter?
(✍ @otherinternet__ )
Will we be able to make a difference with Ethereum? Or any blockchain for that matter?
(✍ @otherinternet__ )
In the 19th century, a Bengali Shudra widow had outwitted The British East India Company & protected the #Ganga as a #commons for fishing rights, using Anglo-Saxon #capitalism’s potent weapon — private property. My story on Rani Rashmoni.
thehindu.com/society/the-sh…
thehindu.com/society/the-sh…
I have grown up with this understanding that Bengali's are bad at business, we are somehow too intellectual & idealistic to survive the rough & tumble world of commerce. Poppycock! If you study 19th century Bengali capitalists, they amassed huge wealth & power through trade.
Rani Rashmoni thrived in an upper caste male dominated world of commerce with a strong moral compass. Her philanthropy was legendary. She was deeply empathetic of the plight of the underprivileged - the only landlord of her time who actively divested from indigo cultivation.
#WEF & Prince of Wales: The Green Horizon Summit: Nov. 9-11 2020. Attended by 2500. Led by 100+ corporate & climate "leaders" including "Prince" Charles, UN's Guterres, Lagarde, Carney, BlackRock, etc.
#GreatReset
#FinancializationOfNature
#SavingCapitalism
Thread/highlights
#GreatReset
#FinancializationOfNature
#SavingCapitalism
Thread/highlights
Let's start w/ the ruling class imperative to rebrand #capitalism (Oct, 23, 2020) - in order to save it.
Schwab: "At the forefront [we need] to create a new model,
a new concept, a new definition of capitalism...
Schwab: "At the forefront [we need] to create a new model,
a new concept, a new definition of capitalism...
Schwab, continued: "the old definition comprises only financial capital. But actually human & social capital, [] & of course natural capital - is as important as financial capital."
#GreatReset
#CorporateCoup of the #Commons
#NewDealForNature
#VoiceForThePlanet
#GreatReset
#CorporateCoup of the #Commons
#NewDealForNature
#VoiceForThePlanet
"The recent radical ideas to save nature; namely ‘half earth’ (nature needs half) and ‘new conservation’ further threatens biodiversity conservation and community livelihoods" - Wilhelm Kiwango #pollen20
Challenging the mainstream narrative at this crucial time
#rewilding
Challenging the mainstream narrative at this crucial time
#rewilding
George Iordachescu highlights the long history of collective management of large forested and pasture areas. #Commons management goes back 1000 years, transcending nature-culture divide and drawing on local #knowledge. Conservation not the main goal (it's #livelihoods) #pollen20
Emmanuel Akanpurira unpacks some of the assumptinos Fortress Conservation is based upon.
He draws on Butler and Membe to deconstruct assumptions about human-wildlife conflict.
Work from Uganda shows conflict not inevitable but due to authority-grabs by conservation NGOs..
He draws on Butler and Membe to deconstruct assumptions about human-wildlife conflict.
Work from Uganda shows conflict not inevitable but due to authority-grabs by conservation NGOs..
MPs now voting on @UKLabour amendment to reject #internalmarketsbill at second reading because it ‘undermines the EU withdrawal agreement’ and ‘breaches international law’.
This is seriously gripping stuff for UK law, constitution & politics fans.
#commons
This is seriously gripping stuff for UK law, constitution & politics fans.
#commons
.@UKLabour amendment to reject #internalmarketsbill at second reading because it ‘undermines the EU withdrawal agreement’ and ‘breaches international law’ DEFEATED.
Sigh.
Sigh.
MPs now voting on #InternalMarketBill at Second Reading.
"We're failing the world's #oceans. Businesses can help save them"
#WWF & Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder/CEO, #WEF trustee, Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, owner of TIME) - team up to "save" oceans w/ a #4IR tech & #NewDealForNature.
#WWF & Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder/CEO, #WEF trustee, Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, owner of TIME) - team up to "save" oceans w/ a #4IR tech & #NewDealForNature.
"The Friends of #Ocean Action is convened by the World Economic Forum & the World Resources Institute."
World Resources Institute is a founding partner of #VoiceForThePlanet, sister campaign of #NewDealForNature
#FinancializationofNature #WEF #GreatReset
World Resources Institute is a founding partner of #VoiceForThePlanet, sister campaign of #NewDealForNature
#FinancializationofNature #WEF #GreatReset
"Some economists say the ocean economy is set to double in value by 2030."
#Nature4Sale #Privatization #NewDealForNature
#Nature / #biodiversity will be bought, sold & traded on Wall Street.
#EmergingMarkets
#Nature4Sale #Privatization #NewDealForNature
#Nature / #biodiversity will be bought, sold & traded on Wall Street.
#EmergingMarkets
Today in @Akien's ramblings:
How to make a #FOSS project successful?
(Or more truthfully, some factors of @godotengine's success story, and what are key takeaways to reproduce it?)
A thread ⬇️
How to make a #FOSS project successful?
(Or more truthfully, some factors of @godotengine's success story, and what are key takeaways to reproduce it?)
A thread ⬇️
@Akien My focus here will be quite specific to non-profit, non-corporate #FOSS projects.
#FOSS projects run by companies, with their own employees paid to write and maintain open source code, have their own dynamics which I won't cover here into detail.
#FOSS projects run by companies, with their own employees paid to write and maintain open source code, have their own dynamics which I won't cover here into detail.
@Akien With @reduzio (creator of @godotengine), we often get asked about the secret recipe for #FOSS success.
Godot was released as a rough, niche engine in 2014, and grew exponentially with ever more users, contributors, and now paid devs, to go rival proprietary alternatives.
Godot was released as a rough, niche engine in 2014, and grew exponentially with ever more users, contributors, and now paid devs, to go rival proprietary alternatives.
Our new book 🚀🐌✊🏾 #Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformtion
A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination. 📘Published @Zer0Books & with CC licence. Whats it about, whos in it? 👉🏽THREAD 1/
A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination. 📘Published @Zer0Books & with CC licence. Whats it about, whos in it? 👉🏽THREAD 1/
There have been many books on the concepts of alternative economies, on the #GreenNewDeal, a #wellbeing economy, #postcapitalism or #degrowth. But what about the practices?
How can the transformation of society be conceptualized? And how can we built alliances for this? 2/
How can the transformation of society be conceptualized? And how can we built alliances for this? 2/
Degrowth is not just a new term for an ongoing discussion on alternatives or a thriving academic research paradigm.
Its also an emerging social movement that overlaps considerably with other social movements – from #BasicIncome to #commons #unions #cooperatives #Feminism /3
Its also an emerging social movement that overlaps considerably with other social movements – from #BasicIncome to #commons #unions #cooperatives #Feminism /3
Heute gehen wir als Netzwerk Ökonomischer Wandel an die Öffentlichkeit.🚀
Unser Positionspapier skizziert Fluchtlinien für Systemwandel
1⃣ Commons ausweiten
2⃣ Märkte am Gemeinwohl ausrichten
3⃣ Staat umfassend demokratisieren
#AndersWirtschaftenNOW 1/
netzwerk-oekonomischer-wandel.org
Unser Positionspapier skizziert Fluchtlinien für Systemwandel
1⃣ Commons ausweiten
2⃣ Märkte am Gemeinwohl ausrichten
3⃣ Staat umfassend demokratisieren
#AndersWirtschaftenNOW 1/
netzwerk-oekonomischer-wandel.org
#Corona- und #Klimakrise machen die Absurdität des jetzigen Systems für viele offensichtlich. Dies ist auch eine historische Chance für eine grundlegende Neuausrichtung von #Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.
Aber wie können bestehende Alternativvorschläge zusammen gedacht werden? /2
Aber wie können bestehende Alternativvorschläge zusammen gedacht werden? /2
There Are Many And Real Alternatives (TAMARA): #Commons, #Gemeinwohl, #SolidarischeÖkonomie, #Degrowth, #Postwachstum, Wirtschaften jenseits von #Tauschlogik, kollaboratives Wirtschaften u.v.m.
Wir haben diskutiert und einen Vorschlag für gemeinsame Wege erarbeitet /3
Wir haben diskutiert und einen Vorschlag für gemeinsame Wege erarbeitet /3
Yet another scorcher of #degrowth by @Leigh_Phillips. Comes in handy to equate degrowth with problematic documentary by @MMFlint, right? More of this straw-man critique in article. I really appreciate your book on planning, would love to discuss relation to degrowth, but...
We'll have a book coming this May on degrowth & progressive movements, same publisher as your rant against eco-austerity @Zer0Books. Hope it helps discussion: it shows how many activists on the left - from @Ende__Gelaende to #commons - are open to real debate about degrowth
World heath organization defines 6 conditions for ending a #COVID19 lockdown npr.org/sections/goats…
1. Disease transmission is under control
Cases must have decreased sufficiently to confirm that the lock-down is effective
Cases must have decreased sufficiently to confirm that the lock-down is effective
2. Health systems are able to "detect, test, isolate and treat every case and trace every contact"
This is a tough one which requires infrastructure scale-up in many countries and sometimes establishing new processes
This is a tough one which requires infrastructure scale-up in many countries and sometimes establishing new processes
Much to commend in #UK2070 work. Clearly a serious academic type regional planning orientated contribution to issues of regional inequality and what we need to do about it. Good stuff! However, whilst extensive, there are some serious omissions/lack of emphasis.
Few thoughts 1/6
Few thoughts 1/6
💷Financialisation with wealth extraction? The great 'unleveller' of the UK economy. This is a hugely significant omission by #uk2070? Needed bravery here. It hasn't been.
🌳 #GreenNewDeal? Surely worthy of consideration as basis to industrial transformation/ rebalancing?
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🌳 #GreenNewDeal? Surely worthy of consideration as basis to industrial transformation/ rebalancing?
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👨👩👦👦Local economies? Weak section. And no mention of #communitywealthbuilding(I declare an interest!). However, this is a key local economic approach adopted by dozens of areas and growing in anchor institutions (I.e #NHS)
👋Brexit. Barely mentioned.
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👋Brexit. Barely mentioned.
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Early election under the FTPA defeated again, by 293 to 46. Does BJ have other tricks up his sleeve? No doubt we'll find out soon. Next act is to lock MPs out of Parliament for 5 weeks. #GeneralElection #Commons
(Reminder: a 2/3 majority of all MPs was needed, so that was very very short of the mark.)
A deeply unhappy man...
There seems to be a bit of #Bangalore love on Twitter. So here is a a list of books about/on Bangalore that I've either read or enjoyed (in no particular order). Please do share your favourite book(s) other Indian cities. #booksoncities 1/n
Do you have patience? The Gazetteer from the Govt. of Karnataka (karnataka.gov.in/Gazetteer/Page…) is a treasure trove. Do read their home page for more information. There is one from 1990 (karnataka.gov.in/Gazetteer/Page…) and another from 2016 (karnataka.gov.in/Gazetteer/Page…) 2/n
Sharma, Yashaswini. Bangalore: the early city, AD 1537-1799. Diss. Cardiff University, 2012. I have read the thesis from orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/48787. In case you'd like to know how the ಪೇಟೆ's are named and the list of them, skip ahead to page 73. 3/n
Excited to be in Cardiff today with @shared_assets for the public event to share the inspiration and learning from the @imaginemyvalley project #ProjectSkyline
Loving these poems about the future of Treherbert
... what would you put in your magic box of the future #5waysplace
Thread:
I doubt the EU-27 will accept the PM’s new 22 May date for the extension of #Article50 #Brexit deadline for at least four reasons:
I doubt the EU-27 will accept the PM’s new 22 May date for the extension of #Article50 #Brexit deadline for at least four reasons:
- They’ve been stung before by #TheresaMay saying she needs “just X weeks”, with that then turning out to be longer
