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loshmi

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balkans, urban studies, floss, communism. views my own.

history prof @ ucla, trekkie, yugoboy. baby sysadmin at coop.

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ucaccessnow, to academicchatter
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If you're disabled and part of the University of California community (student, staff, faculty, researcher, etc), what is one thing you wish people who aren't disabled knew about what your UC experience has been like?

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loshmi,
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@ucaccessnow @disability @academicchatter the countless issues with health insurance and purposeful refusal to apply benefits have almost completely prevented me from doing meaningful academic work. it’s not the disability, but the red tape surrounding the disability that’s so difficult. this includes getting accommodations from employer.

jacobward, to RSS
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Has anyone else (re)turned to since the of social media began? The level of control over my feeds and the absence of algorithms (mostly speaking...) has been a breath of fresh air.

Especially interested in how fellow , , and other are using RSS. What feeds are you subscribed to and what readers are you using? @histodons @academicchatter

I'm using Feedly purely because I had a very old account gathering dust but I'm not super keen on its slant towards business users and its AI push. As for feeds, I've got two groups - one for general blogs and sites (e.g. @thesiswhisperer) and one for and journals.

loshmi,
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@jacobward @histodons @academicchatter @thesiswhisperer i use minuflux and quite like it! It’s minimal and simple, very pleasant to use. It is self hosted software tho, so might not be for everyone.

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loshmi,
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@shauna @bookstodon “Free Solo” with/about Alex Honnold comes to mind. Tremendous film, very interesting man.

loshmi, to histodons
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Giving a talk tomorrow, Jul 13 on history and contemporary in the at UniKonstanz. It will take place via Zoom (link below).

Do you want to know why certain historic buildings are restored, and what that has to do with rising rent? Are you interested in and cities? Do you care about post-industrial ? Come check it out!

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-137438?title=imperial-history-and-contemporary-gentrification-in-the-balkans&recno=4&q=Balkan&sort=newestPublished&fq=&total=13

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loshmi, to random
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All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts:

Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there.

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loshmi,
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Meta will data collect not just public content, but also statistics like how long your eyes stay on certain text. What you hover over, what you toot and erase, what you search for. None of this is available to them now.

Regular people won't care because they have busy lives and just want something that works. Geeks won't care because we can use alternative clients (for now). After a few years, #meta's #p92 will introduce features unavailable on alternative clients.

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loshmi,
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People will be divided between interoperability with and alternative clients. They will like the no ads stuff on , but at first the ads on will be promoted posts and will actually be useful. It will be reliable. Small servers on will collapse because of rapid growth, difficulty in moderation, attacks by right-wing trolls. People will want reliability and move to the meta thing, because it's just easier.

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loshmi,
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Ultimately, Meta would kill what Mastodon has become, as everyone will mostly be using their app. They will have saved their business empire from the threat of #communization.

This is why they are doing this. It's a business move, and if you think that you somehow outsmart 500 billion $ company you're deeply misguided. In capitalist societies, smarter people are not more successful at doing what they want to do, richer people are.

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loshmi,
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A #strike / #FediPact doesn't let them do this. It prevents #Meta from entering the existing conversation with interesting content and dynamic developments. It makes it harder and more expensive for them to develop their own ActivityPub software, makes #EEE slightly more expensive.

Whoever thinks that we have somehow "won" by having them adopt #ActivityPub is deeply ignoring reality and history. We have opposing interests. They are capitalists, we are a commons. They want to eat us.

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loshmi,
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So the purpose of the #fedipact virtual picket is to stake a claim and build a common consciousness. It could grow - we could build a cross-#fediverse infrastructure to negotiate and make collective decisions. We could develop a standard for all those who want to join - a viral thing. @dk
wrote of this a long while ago.

The point of the #fediblockMeta is not to stop them, it ultimately cannot do that. The point of it is to realize what we can do together.

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