Notices by Howard Rheingold (hrheingold@mastodon.social), page 2

Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains
Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war

#disinformation #memes

https://www.theframelab.org/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003215929/routledge-handbook-collective-intelligence-democracy-governance-stephen-boucher-carina-antonia-hallin-lex-paulson

30 years ago, a 19 year old Swarthmore student started blogging EVERYTHING that happened to him. In 2004, New York Times Magazine declared him "the founding father of personal blogging." I mention this because this is the 30th anniversary of his site:

#socialmedia #blogging

https://links.net/

For 5 years, I taught an online course on intro to #cooperation studies: what we are learning from converging biological, evolutionary, psychological, sociological, economic, computational, political inquiries into how humans and other critters get things done together. I've compiled the videoconferences, lectures, syllabus in a free pdf

http://rheingold.com/texts/IntroToCooperationStudies.pdf

@evan you know 1491?

Huge ancient city found in the Amazon

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671

"Platform cooperatives are businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol. They rely on democratic decision-making and shared platform ownership by workers and users.'

https://platform.coop/

#coop #cooperation

I also made him a spaceship

We're building a time machine in my back yard. http://pataphysics.us

My grandson operating the work-in-progress

"According to Margulis and Dorion Sagan, “Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking” (i.e., by #cooperation). #networks

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Book%3A_General_Biology_(Boundless)/23%3A_Protists/23.01%3A_Eukaryotic_Origins/23.1C%3A_Endosymbiosis_and_the_Evolution_of_Eukaryotes

"Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture" Langdon Winner

Whole Earth Review, Winter 1991

#technology

https://www.wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-review-winter-1991?format=spreads&index=19

Among the important ideas Langdon Winner has introduced is the notion of technology "regimes," expanding our definition of #technology beyond the artifact to include the economic, political, ecological, infrastructural scaffolds that make each artifact possible. The politics of sugar and colonialism, the mining of aluminum and energy that goes into creating metal cans, the politics and economics of water are all inextricably involved in a simple can of cola -- the "regime" of a can of cola.

New study suggests attending in-person lectures (rather than online) makes no difference in student achievement.

#education #edutech #pedagogy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00472395231166592

60 years ago today, at age 16, my friend and I got out of school early (this was Phoenix, where several students in my high school chemistry class cheered when they heard JFK had been shot), so we peeled peyote buttons, put them in a blender, downed the foul mix, and spent the night on a mountain in the desert. We had pledged to do this, our first psychedelic trip, "next Friday, no matter what," as 16 yr old boys are wont to do. The vision of America I had that night has proved to be accurate.

@Gargron @dangillmor This would be useful: list of journalists already on Amazon:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?pli=1#gid=132089

There are a number of guides like this. Which one is the simplest for getting started?

https://indubitablyodin.medium.com/a-respectful-guide-to-everything-you-need-to-know-about-mastodon-f726d8181e48

@Gargron @dangillmor So what do we need.

1. Why journalists should join Mastodon

2. How to join

3. What to do upon joining.

4. Someone or someones to answer onboarding questions

@dangillmor A single page URL that describes exactly why and how journalists should use Mastodon could be sent to journalism schools and others.

@dangillmor happy to help

I wrote this about using LLMs for writing 2 1/2 years ago:

#technology #ai

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ai-writing-50912728

@evan I wrote this not long before the Wired article:

"What technophiles need to know."

http://www.rheingold.com/texts/techcrit/technophiles.html