Steven Ovadia @steven_ovadia@writing.exchange

Five morning rituals to increase productivity:

1) Face North, thrice chant "inbox zero"
2) Face South, thrice chant "bullet journal"
3) Face East, thrice chant "pomodoro"
4) Face West, thrice chant "soylent"
5) Throw your head back to the sky and roar "PRODUCTIVITY"

since the #tumblr stuff is happening, and it's friday, here's some folks you should follow:

@yogthos
@steven_ovadia
@pixelpaperyarn
@elomatreb
@seldo
@ElfLord
@thegibson
@acw if they ever post again
@Elizafox
@waifu
who might be dead
@jk if you don't follow you're not real
@garbados

keep in mind i only follow very good and hot people, no losers, so you should just follow everyone i follow

#followfriday #ff

Do you use any RSS feed aggregator?
Which one?

Support Conservancy as we gear up for another amazing year in #freesoftware, https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/20/90k-donation-match/

Me peer-reviewing a paper:

A mastodon fork where toots could be categorized as "publications", "presentations", "posters", "updates", etc. That would be a #ResearchGate killer

Mastodon: Mastodon is better because instead of algorithmic moderation real humans build and maintain the community with personal, human decision-making and arbitration in disputes

Also Mastodon: This week you’ll be followed by the same 20 people again from a new instance as they again got angry that a human moderator mistakenly made the wrong decision, made the right decision but only after reversing the wrong one, or took too long to make the right decision.

Upon further reflection Mastodon feels a lot like early Tumblr, before ads and spambots and "featured content", except with higher barriers to profile customization and fewer inspirational quotes overlaid on nature backgrounds

"Part of the process of writing is not so much to explain your vision but to discover it. I think that’s what you do when you write: You find out what you think." ―Robert Towne

#amwriting #writerslife #discovery

Social media should just skip all this "oh is this account a bot?" confusion & go straight to the endgame: have every single post be an unedited video of the author delivering their message while holding a copy of today's newspaper.

#sarcasm

sometimes I go to my spam folder and imagine I'm the luckiest person in the world.

your company might contribute to foss but

- are you unionized?
- why not?

So, if for nothing else than to help people learn from our mistakes, I'd like to start compiling accounts of the unravelling/failure of social.coop.

I will be reaching out to particular people over the next few days, but if anyone out there left/chose not to join social.coop for Reasons and would be willing to talk about it (anonymously if you want), please DM.

Please boost for visibility.

#meta #socialcoop