Notices by Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop), page 5

@flancian @ktoddbrown @edumerco @MarieVC @Matt_Noyes @threads Interesting to have that data on hand.

@taylorlorenz Do you have a favorite longform piece (by yourself or others) on the global dynamics of influencer culture? Asking for an intro class at your old CU Boulder:)

@flancian @ktoddbrown @edumerco @MarieVC @Matt_Noyes Thank you for doing this. I suspect lots of people will agree with you that the time has come, and I welcome the discussion. I'm personally still on the side of Limit, I think, just because there are people I want to follow who are on Threads and have yet to move. But I would not block such a move if the community wants to go this way.

Wow it is striking how many CLI utilities and apps start making sense once you learn vim keybindings.

New interview with me in CU Boulder Today: "Why Meta fired its fact-checkers and what you can do about it" https://www.colorado.edu/today/2025/01/10/why-meta-fired-its-fact-checkers-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

Basically, shilling the fediverse.

@kyle_pegasus @mcc only @pop_os_official can save us

@Matt_Noyes That's fair. Though I think it's also important to read Waterfront through the particular context of Kazan's anti-communist testimony. There are some good papers on the comparison, eg: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07393180216562

I hate to say it right now, but democracy depends on obedience. The question right now: Where does your obedience lie?

Just out in America Magazine: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/01/08/democracy-trump-inauguration-249630

Now up—my conversation with Mary Camacho on the Terms of Service podcast, a really fun exchange on decentralization, governance, and power online. Enjoy! https://termsofservice.xyz/episodes/dynamics-of-digital-spaces-rethinking-democracy-o-7g_H6TrnPAq/

@douginamug > Even from the 1930’s, DIN 1451 had been used on all German military objects – on its planes and tanks, even bomb shelters – but the DIN institute carefully kept itself out of political affairs. Perhaps because of this, DIN 1451 never appeared in Nazi propaganda and never was connected to the Nazi Party. Instead, Futura was usually used for this unfortunate chore.

https://eleven-seventeen.com/thinking/type-notes-din/

Opinion: DIN is the best system font. And it has a history of resisting Nazis.

@luis_in_brief @JMarkOckerbloom I'd love to learn more about that history. When I take students to the @mediaarchaeologylab, I always make sure to stop at the library of old software manuals—relics of a time when it could be assumed that a user would read a paper text to learn how to use a computer program.

@rose_alibi That sounds wise. I needed to get here in my own way:)

@luis_in_brief @JMarkOckerbloom Honestly I'm pretty impressed by the level of UX innovations in the emacs space. So many things were radically reimagined—remote file management, git, file viewing, browsing, etc etc. It is really fascinating to explore how that ecosystem enabled a wholesale parallel universe of how computing could be done differently.

@JMarkOckerbloom Oh yes, I've been reading these histories obsessively too! But it seems to me it was under the dominance of GNU Emacs that it shifted from being an extensible text editor to an everything-machine.

Update: The current state of my winter break deep dive into Emacs is that actually for all these years I've been using Emacs like Vim (as a text editor for just a few files at a time), and maybe I don't actually need to learn how to use a whole new computer, I just need to learn Vim.

I was honestly lying awake at night feeling icky about Stallman's authoritarian imagination. Why did the great advocate of the Unix philosophy then try to create an end-run around it?

@pjaml Yes! I'm trying it—my new years project is working through Mastering Emacs

@guitargabe @HippieScubaSteve Haha that's a good one. "Human rights. Why, the very name is racist."

@pjaml @bignose Why terminal:

- I am in the terminal a lot of the time already (tho I could just do my terminaling within emacs)
- Integration with system fonts/colors
- I don't feel the need to use images in emacs but I guess I could
- Forced simplicity

@HippieScubaSteve Those of us who consider 6 the undisputed champion are grateful. "Shakespeare in the original Klingon" FTW