I want to introduce the term "Territory" to cyberspace. A Territory is a subset of cyberspace that is governed by the same entity.

E.g. when I visit a website, I enter the Territory that the website belongs to, necessarily subjecting myself to the governance in effect in that Territory. That may include TOS, content moderation policy, required payments and fees (e.g. app store cuts) etc

This makes it easy to talk about "the rules", because it's just like crossing borders in the physical world.

Not a good graph. Antisemitism is exploding in the US.

@spreadmastodon@mastodon.social : Given the considerations here: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110260436878159223, have you considered not steering new Mastodon users to mastodon.social at all? Otherwise your very efforts to bring new users to a "decentralized" social network makes it more centralized, no?

/cc @tchambers @davidslifka @feditips @spreadmastodon@venera.social

Hey @SocialCoop, I have 40 notifications but regardless what I do, they never go away in the web interface. Something strange in your Mastodon server configuration?

@davew OmniOutliner Pro, current version, has an option to export the data to file format "Plain text (Symantec MORE 3.1)". Thought you might get a chuckle out of that.

What?? https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern

Ohhh ... The "law of requisite variety" is actually something that exists. I had, for a long time, had a hunch that this is most likely true: as I thought of it, to effectively control a system, the controller's complexity has to be in the same order of magnitude as the system being controlled. Which IMHO is profound if you apply it to the world around you, and explains a few things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_requisite_variety

With surgeon generals such as these, who needs quacks? https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/health/florida-covid-vaccine-analysis-ladapo/index.html

My take on Murdoch’s firing Tucker Carlson: it was simply that he wasn’t profitable after all. He might have brought in $100m in ad revenue per year (not all of it profit) but at almost $800m in this settlement, and another lawsuit in the pipeline, his lifetime profit contribution for Fox may essentially be zero or even negative. So they get rid of him … and clearly communicate to the next guy that they better not do that stuff again. Stuff=endangering profit. Sufficient explanation imho.

Clayton Christensen, sadly not with us any more, described the “law of the conservation of attractive profits” in his 2003 book “The Innovator’s Solution”. It’s been intriguing to me ever since. I wonder whether we can apply it to the revolutionary impact the #fediverse can/will/might/has on the #social media industry.

I think it can, and should be applied to understand opportunities and perils — by everybody who has a stake in the fediverse project, even if you want business to stay out.

Sea surface temperatures right now. This looks beyond bad. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Imagine if Tucker Carlson ran for president. Now that he's jobless and we know he hates Trump, what else is there to do? (Can you imagine a TV debate between them plus DeSantis?)

In #mastodon, sometimes, my notification count in the standard web interface does not go away. Right now, it's stuck at 40 (the max?), and whatever I do, it doesn't budge. What's going on here?

“Welcome back to Clubhouse! People who get the most out of Clubhouse do these 0 steps – check them out! …” Hmmmm.

California reservoir levels are in real good shape. Not sure I ever saw San Luis anywhere close to full. https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

Really hard to make reasonable product suddenly embarrassing. Elon managed. https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

I so much prefer cleaning the pool filter at 75F, like today, over at 40F in the rain, like in January.

Idea/definition: a “single persona zone” on the internet is all the places / sites where you’d like to be known as the same persona, use the same attributes, avatar etc.

You can use many of those and keep them separate, such as personal vs work. The new idea here is its more natural to think about this single persona zone than how to refer to accounts on other sites as “me, too”.

Note that in most cases, a single persona zone is much larger than a single website.

It feels like summer in California. Video calls done for today. I declare the shirt optional. Working from home is great.

"Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany, documents show". Yes of course. What would *you* do if you were the Kremlin?

With exactly the suspects that you would expect from the German political spectrum.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/germany-russia-interference-afd-wagenknecht/

P.S. I'm certain it's happening in your country, too.