Notices by christina b (christina@social.coop)

@ntnsndr haha yep

I asked ai about’ai enablement’ and it responded with strong cautions, advice for very narrow deployments and those only after understanding how to test ROI throughout

Even it knows it’s not going well

@ntnsndr
Well said.

Did you see this? It seems like it’s possible for AI use to lower productivity

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

I will boost this whenever I see it #ItsNotHoardingIfItsBooks https://saturation.social/@clive/109315140587566077

@tommi

@dajb can you shed light on this? Lots of bonfire interest
@quillmatiq @bonfire

A friend who went through hell worked with me on this and I’m proud of the result.

It’s a 20 minute read. If you dive in, I’d love to hear your takeaways!

https://www.socialroots.io/when-waters-rise-networks-matter-orchestrating-disaster-response-across-scales/

This is so important. Thank you Carol Cadwalladr

Standing up to call out the digital coup for what it is:
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114387471312340431

Learn about the sad demise of the Guardian and follow what’s next for Carol here

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/fuckity-bye

@jeffjarvis

Public social media is so strange.

We scroll through all kinds of folks’ thoughts 💭 on genocide,
bad puns,
structural racism,
good jokes,
cute furry friends,
gorgeous pictures,
current political clusterfucks,
climate breakdown,
mental breakdowns,
astonishing luck,
trolls,
economic desperation,
friendly conversations,
and more.

Within a minute.

Emotional rollercoasters!

Why do we accept this digital strip mining of the context in which healthy communities thrive?

The amazing @dweb is hiring a part-time social media and community manager!

Details here. Apply before Feb 7th.

https://getdweb.net/social-media-comms-job-2025/

#job #FediHire #hiring

#WorthRereading from @DGI on the machinery of hopelessness

https://voidnetwork.gr/2011/09/22/the-machinery-of-hopelessness-by-david-graeber/

Hey fediverse, hive mind question:

Who is your preferred domain name service? Anyone doing this particularly well/ in an aligned, non enshittified way?

#technology #question
#EthicalTech

Our tech cooperative, https://www.socialroots.io/, is building a social coordination network for cross-group work.

I’d love to talk with more #SociotechnicalStack nerds about aspects we consider key to ethical social network dev and ownership:

What parts of group data governance are vital?

What are the biggest hurdles to humans with the agency necessary for self-organizing?

What intimacy gradients matter most to you? How do you navigate them?

Reach me here; boosts for reach much appreciated!

Been thinking a lot about intimacy gradients and human groups and relationships this month, both digital and otherwise.

Do you have thoughts/ good takes/ source links/ etc for interesting and useful ways to investigate this concept?

@blaise

Also my dad made a 10 minute documentary on Mondragón:

https://vimeo.com/119020232

@GANitak @quintessence

Hey what are your favorite tools and processes for coordinating and resource sharing?

I’ve been pondering on this article contrasting the network state with a network society and want to discover how folks think about doing things that support this kind of distributed sharing.

https://www.cip.org/blog/network-societies

@ntnsndr

The second: “On Stupidity”

by Robert Musil
from “Precision and Soul”

“We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul.”

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3774426.html

“…totalitarianism was the most menacing and murderous political form of stupidity, in the sense that individual qualities and needs, including different elements of stupidity, became socially imitated and turned into collective ‘arrogance’ by and in the ‘body politic’.”

@chmod777

@jalcine share your #bookstack ?

1/2 #LearnFromEurope
Anti authoritarian lessons from the bird site years ago. May they help us now:

Money in politics.
Corruption in courts.
Racism.
Misogyny.
Gerrymandering.
And more..

This is the legacy of trying to do democracy while sweeping genocide and slavery and, well, actual democracy, under the rug.

We need to relearn #HowToCitizen

Are you a #mycopunk?

If so - yay!
If not, why not?

See also https://mycopunks.gitbook.io/mycopunk-principles