🔗 Make 2023 the year you help destroy Twitter
…you don’t need to stop posting to Twitter to destroy it. Although that should be the aim.
Get rid of all the bigot-supporting centralized networks in 2023.
🔗 Links
Links from around the Internet that I’ve shared, archived or bookmarked.
🔗 How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg - The Verge
I believe open-source is a fundamental human right. As technology takes up more and more of our lives, it’s just as important as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or any other freedom.
Bold.
A desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a public TiddlyWiki.
🔗 The fediverse and the indieweb
So instead of Publishing on my Own Site and Syndicating Elsewhere, I plan to just Publish and Participate. I want my site to connect to the indieweb; to the fediverse; to people who are connecting via RSS; to people who are connecting via email. No more syndication to third parties. My own website sits in the center of my online identity, using open standards to communicate with outside communities.
🔗 GitHub Copilot investigation
A potential lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for violating its legal duties to open-source authors and end users.
🔗 Semi-invisible: LOOP, Spacemen 3, and UK psych’s hidden history
Is there space for the return of Spacemen 3?
“People always have this ‘Oh, it’d be so awesome’ attitude,” says Kember. “Maybe it would, maybe it fucking wouldn’t. I mean, did you see the Velvet Underground?” Kember seems content with the legacy of the band as it is. “I’m touched. If someone would have told me way back then the way the band would be thought of over the years we would have just all laughed our heads off and said, ‘Whatever dude, you’re tripping harder than we are.’”
I would love to see a Spacemen 3 reunion, but often think the reason it won’t happen has more to do with morals than Spaceman and Sonic personal differences.
I mean, take a song like “Revolution” for example, as cool as the riffs are I doubt these guys would still stand by its lyrics. I’m a fan but it’s hard not to cringe at such revolution during an opioids crisis.
