lextenebris

The problem with this argument is that it is an excellent position against allowing free publication of books. After all, some books are advertised by some publishers, and if we allow publishers to advertise books – you might be "influenced" by …

> It pained me to block a brilliant follower over the summer because he tweeted something that you can’t take back. I would have been happy to fill out a form that allowed me to provide a check box form of reasons why he was blocked and then having …

> If you’re not interested in what someone writes about, you can ignore them, and they don’t need to know. If someone keeps popping into your convos and harassing you or making you feel bad, you can mute them. If someone posts something spammy, off …

> You block someone and have the chance to rate (1-5) the person on several attributes the platform finds desireable: posts on-topic consistently, quality of content is high, argues respectfully, allows others to contribute to the …

> I am well aware of the underlying message you are sending me and hints of a former problem that i was involved in. I want to be really clear about this – I don't know you and I don't know anything that you may have been involved in at any …

Yes PDCA came out of the same sort of process thinking that OODA did. The big difference is the intended linchpin of OODA is the action. Everything is intended to drive the action. PDCA is intended to drive the adjustment. Which is not bad, let me …

> What if it is just a comment that the poster didn't agree with or the tone of the comment was misinterpreted, or they wanted to clean their feed from the dreaded "noise" I sure as heck wouldn't want to get into an email discussion over it. Even …

And while we're amplifying… Personally, I'm very fond of the military concept of OODA. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. In the early Naughts, it made its way into corporate management as the buzzword of the week and subsequently into the rah-rah …

> Or do you see this differently? I see it very differently. For instance, I don't start with the assumption that others have an obligation to perceive me in any way. No more obligation than I have to perceive them in any way. Why should they? …

> I have to pipe up here because the brilliance of your white male privilege is blinding me. I am a severely physically disabled male. Your kind has been killing my kind for tens of thousands, potentially millions, of years. In the identity …

I have a much simpler methodology and it starts with a very simple question: Do I actually care enough to act? This is something that often goes without question but shouldn't. There are many things that we have a preference for, many things that …

It's only ethically dubious if you believe in ethics. I thought I'd made it clear that I don't. However, it's a trivial computation figure out that no one will buy a product that doesn't protect them if they're in it, so making that the hierarchy …

> A few weeks ago, I went back through the introductions to the beginning of August and quickly noticed a huge percentage were individuals from the LGBT community explicitly stating they left Twitter/were looking for a safer home. Is this where …

> In this case, I'm not sure you can separate logical/practical from the implictly ethical. What would a purely logical rule look like? "Minimize damage to those in the car. Following that, minimize collateral damage to surrounding objects and …

> When we're there (often, and on the phone every day), we hear their fears and anguish. The invaders in Mexico have leprosy and smallpox with ISIS members hidden among them. We don't know if the troops will be enough to stop them because they're …

> Like a lot of us, I've been focused on the role of Facebook and Twitter in worldwide elections. But according to a book by 3 Harvard professors who analyzed a whole ton of data, in the U.S., Fox is far more influential. Of course it's more …

> The same thing has happened on Facebook, I frequently see the same post multiple times due to it having being crossposted in many groups. The real solution to this problem is to have the system aware of which articles you've seen and to unify …

Here's the problem: The real thing that all of this discussion is circling around without actually saying aloud is "discovery is a thing that we want to happen to our content." It's the one part of the traditional social media architecture that is …

> I think one of the ideas expressed on Cake and elsewhere is the benefits of having a directory of topics and subtopics, whether in an ugly outline list format or a more elegant graphical sphere drill down format. Having some way to explore the …

> We have various tools in place to moderate topics, such as merging them. For example, the other day I noticed the topics fitness and getting fit seemed to be used the same way and each had about 130ish followers, so I merged them with the …

> I’ve read several of your comments here and I am often simultaneously intrigued and overwhelmed by the depth of your platformosphere analyses. I've had a lot of time to think about social media networks, the interaction of users within the …

> The owners of sites like Mad World News say they are writing what the customer wants. It's what Sean Hannity does. Why should they be shut down? They say Facebook's efforts to tone down the outrage won't work because it's what people want. What …

I would be really careful with systems which use automated thresholds before that sort of thing. They immediately become obviously gameable, and there is no system on earth in which human beings will not use a gameable system in order to mess with …

Because I am a complete another geek, I'm fascinated by an alternate database approach called Neo4j, which focuses on modeling data as graphs as a first order operation rather than as an emergent phenomenon. They recently had an article linked from …

> Mastodon is my replacement for Twitter: I follow/followed by less than 50 people on Mastodon and have more meaningful conversations in a week than I do with 450 follow/1,500 followers on Twitter. The problem with Mastodon is that it's …