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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 12:43:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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   @me no, you're absolutely right. Once the content is delivered to a remote server, it's hard to force it to do the right thing.

   It's one of the reasons we're doing e2ee messaging.

   https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 19:15:59 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Curiosity is your most important asset." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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   Be like Curious George.

   I'll often share that quizzical observation on stage to an audience of serious business executives - and the fact is, I mean it.

   Here's why: curiosity is not a personality trait that allows you to accelerate innovation, spot trends before others do, or think differently in a world in which everyone is thinking the same thing.

   It is an economic asset. And in 2026, with the acceleration of AI, it could very well be the single most valuable thing you can own.

   Why? In an AI economy, almost everything you can know has been commoditized. Information is free. Expertise is downloadable. Knowledge has lost most of its scarcity. Everyone is pumping out the same stuff as everyone else. Heck, I'm feeling it with what I write and speak about.

   In that context, what remains scarce, and therefore valuable, is a mindset of exploration, the ability to explore new ideas, and a willingness to let go of the norms and find new ones. That's curiosity - the actual human drive to follow things down a rabbit hole, to spend an evening reading about something you have no business reading about, or to tinker with something simply because it seems interesting. That drive to explore cannot be outsourced. It cannot be downloaded. It cannot be faked. It is intrinsic to your value.

   In the era of AI, curiosity is the one asset that does not lose value.

   And it's powerful. I learned this almost by accident. In the early 1980s, I spent thousands of hours on obscure BBS boards, clunky early communication software programs, and bizarre online communities most of my coworkers had never heard of, via. 300-baud and 1200-baud modems. I didn't know what was going on, but I wanted to know more. To a casual observer and to my co-workers, I was wasting my time sitting up till 2 am or 3 am exploring online worlds. They often told me so in blunt terms. I was throwing away my career. I should be doing more important things.

   I didn't care. I just wanted to know what this strange new "thing" was. That apparently frivolous curiosity became the foundation of my entire career as an Internet author, a futurist, and eventually whatever it is I am now.

   I wasn't lucky. I was curious.

   So here is the practical version. Weaponize your curiosity. Schedule it. Defend it. Block thirty minutes a week to chase something you have no business chasing. Read the article outside your industry. Try the tool you don't yet need. Ask the question that makes you sound naive in the meeting.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll is looking forward to reading the entire Curious George series to his new grandson.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-35-curiosity-is-your-most-important-asset/

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   Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2026 14:39:21 JST Doug Webb

   Saw this slide in a fosdem talk https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/GNKEPR-burnout_in_open_source_a_structural_problem_we_can_fix_together/ and immediately thought of the "with great power comes great responsibility" spiderman thing.

   It sums up why I generally think it isn't desirable or possible to have orgs where all members have the same power/autonomy: I am a member of way too many orgs to take top-level responsibility in all of them!

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   Ben Pate 🤘🏻 (benpate@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 08:19:11 JST Ben Pate 🤘🏻

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   @bengo

   … that maybe showing “like” counts and other “engagement” stats isn’t a good thing.

   It’s counterintuitive for software designers trained on surfacing as much data as possible, but it’s probably true.

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   Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Apr-2026 02:43:06 JST Milcom Miasma

   What's the strangest job you've ever had and did it change how you saw yourself?

   I wasn't officially on the books but when I was in high school, I would routinely go with my next-door neighbor to his job at a mausoleum and crematorium.

   Apparently I was Goth before Goth was a thing.

   It's not only fair but accurate to say seventeen year-old me didn't understand death or what it does to the survivors.

   It also gave me an abiding hatred of organ music.

   #JobDescription
   #ModernLiving

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   Book (book@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 23:37:08 JST Book

   Mama Taber put out a new vid yesterday. In case you don't know, she is a working-class, small family farmer, with a Ph.D in munch, plants, and spotting bullshit, and she and her extended support network do amazing progressive things in the rural south.

   Her new video is about botanical sexism. How it came about, how it's being used, how to counter it, and what to do when you see it happening. No major movements are in this space yet, but with sex and sperms and prejudice all in the mix (seriously!), it won't be long until some alt-right smooth-brain fuckwit jumps on this and makes it a thing.

   It's a long one; 90-ish minutes, I think, but Mama Taber don't waste no-one's time. Give her a click and an ear. She does amazing work.

   https://youtu.be/TLp9NX-fLmw

   #VideoRecs #YouTube #VideoEssay #FarmToTaber #BotanicalSexism #Sexism #BioEssentialism