Jacky Alciné's linklog

As I continue to look for work in this poisoned industry, I've tried to pay attention to what folks in the space are saying about it and determine if I really need to consider stepping out.

Ever since listening to the first episode of Revolution Social with rabble and Jack Dorsey, my opinions on Dorsey have slightly changed.

Erin Kissane is launching "Cloud Atlas" — an interview-based guide to the apps and projects emerging on the AT Protocol/Atmosphere, intended to make decentralized social media infrastructure more legible to people interested in alternatives to centralized…

According to this piece, reading rates in America have collapsed - fewer than half of adults read a book in 2022 (which - eh - I feel like this is hard to assess), daily pleasure reading fell from 28% to 16% (which is both real and wild; if reading is dead

Patrick Iber opened up this issue in an almost prophetic way with the editor's opening: The semiquincentennial celebrations planned by the White House will not be a demonstration of unity.

I enjoyed every moment of I Love Boosters.

This will have spoilers for the TV show, For All Mankind.

Well, well, well - this is a bit of a doozy.

Over the last few days, I've been speed running (at 1.75x) a podcast by Evan called https://revolution.social/, which is a bit of a build-up to what his company is building; a "permission-less" social media network.

Ghost is demonstrating the power of independent media being able to fight in a landscape of venture capital capture and corporate consolidation.

I've been paying attention to changes in this company's attempt to create open e-paper technology.

Drew makes a lot of good points in this piece regarding self-hosting.

This thing opened up with something that I couldn't relate to: putting questions, big or small, into a generative text tool to get an answer from.

Provocative title aside, Tante's derived point about free software being optimized for those who are comfortable for hackers is astute.

Cory's interview with DemocracyNow came across my reader this morning and I was glad to hear someone speak on the internal class struggle of tech workers: especially software engineers.

The video's creator warns early that this is a "old man yelling at cloud" kind of video and I think they do themselves a disservice with that.

The concept of colonialism, the expanding of control of a people, their environment and culture, is foreign to the American populace; at least those who are "citizen-native"[1].

The CEO opening with a statement that "we're the only company that can announce a product and it look the same each year with applause" made me smile but Apple has definitely locked in that title.

If you've been in the industry since 2020, the notion of the leading executives in the industry being in favor of right-wing policies shouldn't be surprising.

I appreciate that Muan's so transparent about this post.

One thing I find about authors; good ones, is that they can give a good talk.

Jose Vilson's reflection on the role of how education, as a marker of status, of identity and of self-direction gave me a bit to think about.

As much as I understand some folks for wanting computers to reduce the amount of rote tasks we employ, I still can't shake the pending nature of violence that's happening with the reallocation of funds in favor (or rather, at the whims) of corporate propg…

I have no intention in reading Swisher's book.

Dash opens this piece with level setting about his position of wealth[1] and balances that with his own background.

I listened to this episode while doing some cleaning this morning.

Anil writes briefly about the nature of billionaires and tech venture capitalists from his experience around them.

Karla's piece finally came on my radar after reading about the grift of the founder of Raheem AI.

Pacifism as a concept perplexes me[1] so this reading of the role that these two concepts, anarchism and pacifism, had in contributing to the anti-war movement was interesting.

Facebook is an advertising company.

I understand (to a degree) how photo editing works.

This book review immediately introduced me to quite a bit that I had to look up.

This is another hit from the Fall 2023 issue of Dissent; following the previous one about the Supreme Court and union striking power.

This piece by Veena Dubal for Dissent has been the longest read in this issue for me.