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

"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

Contrary to popular belief, many Amish are clever technologists. When I spent time with them for this Wired article -- about why and how they use mobile phones -- one local who employed Amish artisans told me: "they could build a space ship, given the right materials." They use compressed air as "Amish electricity." They evaluate technologies in relation to their effect on family, community: No to landlines, yes to state of the art gas grills.

#technology

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/amish/

I created and manage a little free art gallery

#artwork

Surveillance-based advertising, where searching for a sneaker inundates you with sneaker ads, and which perverts the sociality of social media with ad-driven algorithmic curation, has corroded online culture. I would point out that attempts to get people to pay for culture have failed. One of the reasons for the demise of the Whole Earth Review was our principled refusal to accept advertising. If you want online culture without advertising, are you prepared to shell out for it?

My 1968 Reed thesis was about neurofeedback, consciousness, mind amplification, and the noosphere.

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

Here I am with the old skool EEG that spat out reams of fanfold paper (and other stuff lying around the lab)

Twenty five years ago, I thought about my decade of experience facilitating conversations and communities online and wrote this quickly.

What would you add to it? If I revise with suggested additions, let me know how/whether you would like to be attributed in list of acknowledgements.

It might become a (more) useful document for others trying to host good conversations online.

https://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html

#OnlineCommunities

I've become convinced that understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy. This is the first in a series of short videos about how the structure and dynamics of networks influences political freedom, economic wealth creation, and participation in the creation of culture.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6UKWozzVRM

#Networks