202103230000, March 23, 2021

  • Kevin Drum: Why have blog audiences declined over the past decade? #blogging

  • Short (theoretical) answer: RSS impacts the insertion of advertising.

  • You can’t separate the software from the community that built it. Therefore, true openness must dictate how that community is formed and run. We are what we choose to tolerate; in the same way that free software communities do not tolerate proprietary lock-in, they should not tolerate exclusionary social practices that lock people out.

Ben Werdmuller Equitable Community Software

  • Computers and Creativity, Molly Mielke:

  • “Computers and Creativity” asks: How can we utilize the full potential of creative thought and computational actualization to enable human innovation?

In fewer words: How can we make computers better bicycles of the creative mind? — @mollyfmielke