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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 6 months ago

Listening to Decoding the Gurus critique Naomi Klein;

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/naomi-klein-it-was-neoliberal-capitalism-all-along

... I just realised I'm really jealous of people who actually think Gaia can sustain late capitalism. Who've never look deeply into how their everyday life is produced, what energy and resources that requires, and how long they can continue to be extracted. Imagine the bliss of thinking that if you keep earning roughly the same income, your world can just chug on unchanged, indefinitely!

#podcasts #DecodingTheGurus

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

Given it a few tries, but just can't get into Decoding the Gurus. They go long, without ever getting as deep as much shorter, more tightly-edited podcasts. There's a lot of important facts they not only don't know but scoff at, which gets irritating.

For myself, I suspect I'd get better bang for buck timewise listening to the Naomi Klein interview they were playing clips from.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

"The other way I worry about the way Algorithms are changing us is just the currency of the attention economy ... of likes, of retweets. They're value-free measurements ... In the same way that money is. The question is not; was this insightful, was it correct. It's; how many, how much."

#NaomiKlein, quoted on Decoding the Gurus, 2025

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/naomi-klein-it-was-neoliberal-capitalism-all-along

This critique applies to the fediverse too.

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

We may know, in the background, that Boosts are not always endorsements. That Favourites are not always 'likes'. But we could build tools for being more specific about what we're highlighting about a post, without a text explanation in the form of a reply post.

EDIT: fixed what looked like a typo then realised I'd broken the sense od the sentence 🤦‍♂️

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

Me:
> we could build tools for being more specific about what we're highlighting about a post

Eg imagine we had a Correct button that told the network we'd checked the facts in a post against their references, and they seemed to be true. Then we could build tools to surface posts that are widely marked as Correct.

There are lots of ways that kind of tooling could be used, or misused, but I think it's worth having a conversation about how we could leverage the wisdom of crowds here.

#fediverse

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 6 months ago

Seemingly unrelated follow-on thought:

What if linking to someone's post sent them a notification, as if they'd been @mentioned? Assuming the account linking hasn't been Muted or Blocked by the account notified or their server, of course. And that it wasn't a DM.

Is the goal of linking to someone's else's post, instead of replying directly, ever to avoid that person being notified?

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Tim Nicholas

@tim@cloudisland.nz replied · 6 months ago

@strypey I feel like that might make replyguy problems even more prevalent.

Linking to someone's post could be a way of starting a new conversation that doesn't require them. Letting them opt back in only if they want to. Insulating the original poster from one's own followers.

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