Keith W. Miller @kmill217@mastodon.social

Oh, birds,
sing your songs
from inside your
small
house.
I'll wander by
to whistle
the harmony
of your
afternoon
tune.

#smallpoems

“We in Silicon Valley like to watch the ants dig harder into their dirt. They send us money as we watch.”

-- from Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier, page 91

(Here, the ants are us. The dirt is social media. Lanier’s point is that the algorithms of social networking spaces are designed to amplify the negative, so that we become more angry and engaged. Engaged means profit.)

#smallquotes

I don't want to politicise anything here but I think all the U.S. trade war tariffs against Canada should be called 'Trumpiff's from now on.

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What's the Deepest Hole Ever Dug?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-whats-deepest-hole-ever-dug-180954349/?no-ist

(submitted by mpweiher)

Kung Fu Motion Visualization
https://vimeo.com/163153865

If I say "tissue" instead of Kleenex, people know what I mean.

If I say "microblog" instead of "Twitter", people don't know what I mean.

I'm have no issue with Kleenex's brand ubiquity, however, I view Twitter's as highly problematic.

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Let’s say facial recognition improves—that it produces correct matches 100% of the time. Then what? Well, it means we can’t walk around “without the government knowing who we are, where we are, and who we’re talking to,” explains EFF’s Jen Lynch. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/ai-has-a-race-problem

You're not going to win many arguments by making assertions, but you can win a few if you can ask the right questions.

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It was like driving straight into an image at an art gallery. A few miles ahead of me, hanging over the mountains, were some of the darkest storm clouds I have seen, with gray sheets of rain visible. I was in sun but not for long. Five bolts of lightning appeared, blasting across the horizon. One zig-zag of power after another, with such visible clarity, I had to remind myself to keep my eyes on the road. And then the rain hit, the radio drowned out by the force of water falling. #smallstories

Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉

Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.

https://www.thehum.org/events

The future is cooperative 🌶

EFF filed suit against Universal way back in 2007 when they requested YouTube takedown a 29-second clip of a baby dancing to music by Prince. Now the case is finally over. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move