Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning@witches.town

A moratorium on the use of the phrase "people think x" without explaining who people are--eg, saying "more people don't believe in climate change" rather than "people recently endowed with massive power and a monopoly on violence don't believe in climate change"

@erico oulipo + dril from birdsite

@XOR not very catchy imo

@tinysubversions would you watch the livestream of "what if phones but too much" Darius

Minority Report is interesting though specifically because of the way Spielberg approached worldbuilding--like he literally wanted to change the visual culture of the future, and he did, and like everything else bad it's kind of Jaron Lanier and Stewart Brand's fault. https://www.wired.com/2012/06/minority-report-idea-summit/

I was originally planning a small conference about the weird effect of the movie Minority Report on tech and culture but I couldn't come up with a good name for it. Now considering a larger SF/worldbuilding in general scope, but the only good name I can think of is "what if phones but too much"

OMFG so happy #drilipo is a thing

FEAR OF SUCCESS IS NOT HUMILITY BUT COWARDICE

Just interrogating the algorithmic reality of being super behind on email

If I spend most of this "post truth and algorithmic reality" workshop that I agreed to attend like, catching up on emails, will anyone notice

@samis yeah, people had weird ideas in like, 2011. I think it had to do with how DMs worked at that time? It was dumb.

@jamesacklin the instance model allowing the platform to set some intention is part of it, i think. like i was kind of unsure if I would enjoy mastodon, but I *definitely* enjoy witches town. In the past 24 hrs I have almost exclusively said "witches town" instead of "mastodon" when asked about mastodon.

@jamesacklin sure, i guess it's more what twitter becomes as the opinions move away from it. more like a newsmedia/breaking news/boys are back in town jokes rss I guess?

Talking about if Mastodon will replace birdsite reminds me of the brief flurry of takes from a few years ago about whether Facebook will replace email. Maybe they just do different things.

Should I take the day off to go work on spells

@Danhon yep, did this for a couple of hours today.

Just got cced into an email thread with Peter Galison about long term nuclear waste storage, running the risk of saying some dumb superfan thing, please advise

@courtney insert joke about "stable" builds here

@sava I'm not on oulipo yet but might join. you can use the same handle on other instances if the handle is available!