Reading about what became known as The Shatner Test an observation is that mainstream celebrity status can only exist in a centralised broadcast system. That is, where it's possible to have a rank in the hierarchy and be able to scrupulously enforce the public use of your persona.

In a decentralised system celebrity is more like what it was before radio broadcasting in the era of local music hall stars.

Prediction: if it gets popular enough, very few celebrities of the 20th century mode will endorse or make significant use of federated systems. Instead, what constitutes celebrity itself will change.

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 20, 2017, 19:19

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 20, 2017, 19:19

Thursday afternoon rocket science. No, actually. Rocket. Science.

**jddj** · Apr 20, 2017, 06:47

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**Mike Gerwitz** @mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com · Apr 20, 2017, 06:47

Hmm...my GNU/Linux system doesn't exfiltrate _any_ of this stuff; I fear that my system must not be "secure" and may not be "operating properly"!

https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/configure/windows-diagnostic-data

(But in all seriousness, what the FUCK!)

#WindowsWasMyIdea #privacy #security

**jddj** · Apr 19, 2017, 03:09

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**trans** @u2764@icosahedron.website · Apr 19, 2017, 03:09

I don't want good, elegant, well-engineered social media software goddammit. I want trashy, broken, hacked-together pieces of shit that actually are sensitive to and meet the needs of me and my community.

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 18, 2017, 14:21

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 18, 2017, 14:21

:pineapple: spotting @acw
http://www.bettieserveert.com/

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 19:34

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 19:34

Looking for muscular music someplace between QOTSA/Them Crooked Vultures and Pixies at their loudest.

Any suggestions?

**jddj** · Apr 17, 2017, 15:09

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**Amaelle Guiton 💾** @amaelle_g@mstdn.fr · Apr 17, 2017, 15:09

So true :

RT @brunodias
Also: "If you want it you should write the code yourself" mentality is basically the #1 thing that has stopped wide adoption of FOSS software in the consumer sphere since forever.

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 15:48

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 15:48

Looks like I'm having the THX problem on Mastodon, too: The Audience Isn't Listening.

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 02:23

**jddj** @jddj · Apr 17, 2017, 02:23

I treasure these packing slips. Feel honored. https://mastoton.fi/media/YrWiI0nsZWgDnNrB79U

**jddj** · Apr 16, 2017, 18:46

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**mykola 🙃🌎🤘** @mykola@a.weirder.earth · Apr 16, 2017, 18:46

First the queers and furries build a space where they can be themselves.

Then the infosec folks find that it fits well with their values.

Then the communists flock to the first real alternative to capitalist monopoly on shortform burst communication.

Then the artists come to find new walls to paint and nobody to tell them no.

The intellectuals, the chroniclers, the priests and the prophets, singly and in droves.

Slowly, it builds. It's neat to build an oral history from inception. #mastodon

**jddj** · Apr 16, 2017, 07:32

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**Parker Higgins** @xor@mastodon.xyz · Apr 16, 2017, 07:32

"seriously, the guy has a point"

https://gregfallis.com/2017/04/14/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point/

Frankly this is good commentary on "Charging Bull" v. "Fearless Girl". It would be easy to position this as capitalism v. feminism, but that's very much not what it is.

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