#choice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #choice, aggregated by home.social.
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@sabrinkmann
#monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to suck up everything while the fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger?
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#choice : an act of selecting
- French: choix
- German: die Entscheidung
- Italian: scelta
- Portuguese: escolha
- Spanish: elección
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The anguish of choice
In the shattered aftermath of war, Sartre delivered a formidable lecture on freedom and meaning. Its urgency remains | by Skye C Cleary aeon.co/essays/re-re... #Sartre #choice #freedom #existentialism #philosophy #PhilosophySky #philsky
Re-reading Sartre’s lecture Ex... -
Good read on the normalization of homogenization, though the author did not get to that.
Attractors, incentives, systems...
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why
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Domain rebranded from the.kalvin.blog (RM169.99/year) to the.kalvin.click (RM53.99/year). Saves RM116 annually. The choice is not preference — it is survival within family budget constraints and chronic uncertainty.
https://the.kalvin.click/the-kalvin-click-rebranding-to-survive/
#rebranding #domain #cost #survival #budget #poverty #anxiety #uncertainty #blogging #infrastructure #digital #choice #necessity #hardship #pragmatism
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What is your favourite method of giving donations?
#donations #mutualaid #solidarity #payments #methods #choice #accessibility #support #community #fundraising #giving #finance #platforms #preference #choice
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MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-ban-TQ44G3IUCFEN5DSC22KPDE3H5U/
#news #health #ToneDeaf #MOM #MomsOrganicMarket #COVID #flu #virus #disease #contagious #illness #prevention #masking #choice #airborne -
If there is a "Play Store", why is there no "Stop Store"? Isn't that concerning?
#humor #humour #parody #meme #funny #technology #language #framing #control #consumption #platforms #Google #manipulation #awareness #truth #design #psychology #capitalism #choice #systems
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It is possible to discover and rediscover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is just a state of mind.
#FacilitatingChange #boredom #choice #flow #mindfullness #EckhartTolle
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It's a funny old world eh, as I was writing this the old black dog descended, certainly had to make some choices.
https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/08/always-look-on-bright-side-of-life.html
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If I don't enjoy doing it, then I won't. I can't code, though. I'm only interested in keeping my infrastructure stable and working. Software development is just one part of IT, someone said. The other is sysadmin. I'm not going to overwhelm myself further with software development or engineering. I have realised that my closest career path is system administrator.
#sysadmin #career #technology #infrastructure #IT #Linux #honest #choice #boundaries #self-awareness #wellbeing #mentalhealth
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On Algorithms and Impossible Conversations
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Fediverse you can follow everyone on an instance, or you can follow the people that you want to follow. Hypothetically you can follow key words, and with time follow more people, and eventually find a community.
On Threads, BlueSky, X, Instagram and TikTok what you see is selected by algorithms, so you don’t need to follow anyone because every time you scroll or refresh you will be fed something new.
This “always new” situation is fantastic, if you’re married, have children, and a strong social network, and you’re just killing time while waiting for a bus, train, or a play to start, or a film to start.
If you’re single, looking for conversation then you’re presented with a huge amount of noise. Content might be worthwhile, and it may be engaging, but it isn’t engaged. We give our attention, but our attention is not given back. If we spend 20 hours reading the Threads timeline, or X, we see noise. We see posts, and we can answer, but it is likely that our answer is just noise.
Back in 2008 or so I had a rule. If I “reply” three times, and I’m ignored three times, I unfollow the person, for two reasons. The first is that it might be unwelcome, and I don’t want to nag people. The second reason is that if I’m giving someone my attention, I’d like it to reciprocal on social media. That’s why I use social media, and social networks. For me it’s about a healthy community.
Threads, X and Bluesky are not healthy, because the people we want to follow are hidden, and the people who are most popular according to the algorithms are most visible. Being social, and being visible is turned into a popularity contest.
The problem with algorithms is that, whether you spend ten hours or ten minutes, you will get the same noise. Whether you follow ten people or a thousand. In the end your investment in time and attention is wasted.
In the past, when we invested time in social networks, and social media, we were investing in a community, and today we are not investing in a community, we are wasting our time.
That’s why today I invested in two cycling communities. One road from 8am but I had to start my ride at 06:50, and the second started riding around 10am. I invested six hours in communities, in person, rather than “social” media, because to me, the Return On Investment is greater.
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RE: https://todon.nl/@proudnb/116950220650023920
This is a great reminder. You are not obligated to continue to use labels that no longer work for you(or use any specific labels at all). If you happen to find labels that fit better as you go along on your gender(and sexuality)journey, it's more than okay to then discard old labels. It's okay to try a new label for a while, and then decide to go back to others too! It's *your* journey. You get to decide.
#genderjourney #sexuality #gender #itsyourjourney #LGBTQIA2S #lgbtqiaplus #transgender #bisexual #nonbinary #choice #gendereuphoria
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Travel broadens the (event design) mind. Event design musings triggered by living, albeit briefly, in different cultures from my own.
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Trapped in a giant trash compactor? When things look hopeless, Han Solo shows you always have a choice in how you look at life's problems.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/facilitating-change/2015/05/you-always-have-a-choice
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She asked for water -
With electrolytes and such -
"Just grab a Propel"#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Summer #July #Water #BottledWater #Choice #Propel #PropelWater #Electrolytes #TooMuch #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026
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How you program conferences depends (or ought to) on your answer to the question: Do conference attendees know what they want?
#meetings #EventDesign #sessions #choice #ParticipantDriven #events #eventprofs
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On the Emergence of Neuroforecasting
Knowledge in the neurosciences, theory and methodology, is increasingly applied to improve and deepen our understanding of consumer decision processes, affect and cognition, and behaviours, in a young field known as consumer neuroscience; practical implementation of this knowledge on consumers in marketing management is known as neuromarketing. Relevant specialisitations in the neurosciences include neuropsychology, neuroeconomics, and neurobiology. The research has largely focused on […]https://consumergateway.org/2026/07/13/on-the-emergence-of-neuroforecasting/
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The Never Ending Need to Choose
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I always have to choose between running or cycling, and for several weeks I favoured running. Recently I considered reverting to cycling because it has been a while since I went for a proper ride. At the same time the regular book discussion that is on a Tuesday was moved to a Monday, and if I had noticed sooner I would not have committed to the book discussion.
I like the running group, and I like groups that do social sports, such as running, cycling and hiking. Does it make sense to change a weekly routine for a once per month event? I am torn.
My instinct is simple. I want to participate in the running group activity, even if I hate hill repeats where we run at our max uphill, rather than simply run on hilly terrain. I feel that this group is closer to my natural preference to be active, rather than passive.
It doesn’t help that I haven’t read the book. I’m only twenty percent through the book. If I went to the discussion I would not have much to add because I don’t know the full context of the book. Going to a book discussion, to discuss a book that I haven’t read feels absurd. Usually I’m 50-70 percent of the way through the book.
I suspect that summer played a role in me not reading. First because it’s hot, so we’re distracted by staying comfortable. Second, because I didn’t realise the book was so long. It’s 500 pages, so it’s short, as an audiobook, but long during a heat wave.
I have devised an “If I was married and it didn’t matter for my private life between activities what I chose to do what would I choose test tells me “Go for the run” because I get the benefit of sport, and being social.
My only reason for going to the book discussion is “But what if…”
The fact that I am tired might help with the decision process. I know that the run will by done by 2000, but that the book discussion could be done by 2100-2200, so a proper dinner, with the book discussion is unlikely.
Time for a power nap, in the hope that it brings an answer.
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What's going on here then, @Vivaldi? I thought you where supposed to be better than this? No warning about this coming either?
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A Unified Mathematical Framework Connects Opinion Dynamics, Disease Spread, and Statistical Physics
https://1ban.news/unified-framework-binary-choice-dynamics/
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noteworthy for 2 reasons - 1) really nice use of graphics! and 2) data is starting to come in -
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/trump-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-medicaid-snap-one-year/
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Choose with purpose, work with love, and let passion sustain every meaningful effort. #Purpose #Choice #Passion #MeaningfulWork #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #Success #GrowthMindset
https://stayingalive.in/thought-of-the-day/the-heart-behind-every.html
