RGS

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[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Kudos to the Dutch king for this statement. The Dutch have, in fact, been far ahead of others in acknowledging the evils of colonialism. As early as 1900 the Dutch Queen recognized the harm that Dutch rule had done to Java. British royals? Nowhere close.

[HAU @haujournal]

responsibility for circumstances that harm particular groups is often deflected onto anonymous institutions like “the system,” “the market,” or even “nature.”

Guido Sprenger applies theories of personhood from Niklas Luhmann to compare these cases.
https://t.co/nWltBtvkPq

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Colonial apologists: "British colonizers developed India!"

Actual British colonizers: "We have succeeded in converting India from a manufacturing country into a country exporting raw produce.” (Chairman of the East India and China Association, speaking to Parliament in 1840)

[RGS @consttype]

So who's going to buy twitter from space karen for scraps next week?

[RGS @consttype]

@conways_law I’d expect consolidation around a few big instances at some point (a bit like what happened to email)

[RGS @consttype]

If your privilege makes you take trust and safety for granted, then obviously a blue mark becomes just a status symbol

[Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock]

The best solution is clearly for everyone to buy @PriyaSatia’s book so they can find out the truth for themselves…

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

Well @elonmusk now owns this place so here’s a warm welcome to him and his fans

[RGS @consttype]

So where are all the fabulous decentralized self-governing web3 twitter clones we were promised

[RGS @consttype]

@ethan_iverson One of my favorite albums. San Francisco Holiday is particularly fun to compare to the Monk version live at the Blackhawk, especially Billy Higgins’ playing

[RGS @consttype]

This is about AI but applies so well to crypto too

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

This idea that unless you know the math, you can't regulate it, or understand its impacts on society really dupes regulators as well because they feel insecure about not "knowing" how it works.

[RGS @consttype]

@OlivierJandot C'est curieux, le titre original est "The Footnote: A Curious History", j'espère que le traducteur explique en NdT pourquoi il a traduit "curious" par "tragique"

[RGS @consttype]

@PatatasSmall Lots of sick shit to unpack here, wow

[RGS @consttype]

@Wordshaper It seems that they are hell bent on insisting that the last millennium of progress on accounting and contract law and fraud protection has been a mistake that can be fixed by blorkchains. Reinventing the wheel, but this time it’s a square because they just discovered the square

[RGS @consttype]

Suddenly I feel the urge to change my job title to Staff Site Reliability Astrologist

[Daniel Nazer @danielnazer]

Wow. If you can't trust "a popular bitcoin and ether-focused astrologist" then who can you trust? https://t.co/Onq17OZdgv

[RGS @consttype]

It's possible to make the (very Latourian) point that humans did not discover agriculture; instead, agriculture was co-discovered by humans and by crops. Think in systems. https://t.co/C3TJUKveCq

[RGS @consttype]

For people who like Bruno Latour and free books (or who just want to read a nice introduction to Latour's work): "Latour for architects" by @AlbenaYaneva is now open access. https://t.co/0IIF5py2D9 (Also free on kindle)

[dirkmjk data blog @dirkmjk_data]

Albert Heijn delivery service unable to keep up with the competition https://t.co/strwF0qAIv

#cycling #amsterdam