[FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

[Marcus Daniels]

This sounds like Glen’s recreation of joining different groups and adopting a persona adapted to each.    Both seem to have in common the idea that a deme may evolve more efficiently than a large population.   With too many people the signal to noise level becomes too low.

What I often see in small groups is the big fish in the little tank discouraging individuality for the sake of the neighborhood – bullies.  I participate in local social media to see what reactionaries I can find in the wood pile, and to cause them as much public distress as I can.    I guess, hoping that people in other neighborhoods will do the same.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 8:32 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

I've lately run into two mentions of "group chat" as the organizing principle of social media for the day.  You keep different groups for different purposes, and you don't let social media into the chat.  I think Friam actually functions as a group chat, aside from google scanning everything.  But technically it's a Gen-Z thing, so we obviously don't know what we're doing.

It was a neighbor group chat that busted the Ted Cruz Cancun getaway plan in February 2021, while Texans froze to death or were bankrupted by spikes in electric rates.

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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:53 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com<mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
It's an interesting question. Someone posted a poll on a Mastodon server recently, something like "What is it you want from all this stuff? (E.g. Twitter, Facebook, ...)" The possible answers were things like "Friendship", "Connectedness", etc. There was an "Other", which I filled in. I wrote something like: "The state of the world. When I was younger, I read the newspaper and watched the daily news on one of the big 3 networks. Now, it feels like everything's all fractured. TV news is for ancient, out of touch people. The newspaper is neither local, nor does it tell interesting national or international stories. So, I use these media, like 12-20 different outlets just to get some sense of the state of the world."

I wish I had a better answer to "where do you find this stuff". It can be exhausting trying to stay informed. Fora like FriAM help a bit.

On 8/13/22 17:57, Gillian Densmore wrote:
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> And where do find this stuff glen >_<
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com<mailto:gepropella at gmail.com> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com<mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>     https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion <https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion>
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