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Food for thought: applying the human brain's limits on meaningful relationships (Dunbar's number) to social media.
Interesting to look back at this 10 years later.

"No wonder you don't feel rested after a first night in a new place: Half your brain has stayed alert while the other half enjoyed deeper sleep."

A Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund project: "Analyzing Effective Governance and Infrastructure Gaps in Medium-to-Large Sized Servers for Enhanced Social Networking"

"To be clear, the fact that plenty of people on the fediverse are happy to trade the industrial-grade trust & safety teams of the big platforms for “literally one random pseudonymous person who vibes okay,” says a lot about the platforms we’ve experienced so far."

Art depicting a fox battling against a spidery droid.

WW2 rationing, trying to save on packaging material and metal for slicing machines.
It didn’t last long.

"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. "
via https://wordtothewise.com/2013/04/goodbye-mr-ebert/

"The results are in for the Best of 2023! People around the world voted, and here are the winning space images, missions, exploration milestones, and more."

"We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI."
2017 reference to the corporations-as-AIs concept.