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using #laravel #socialstream to authenticate users. as they use a social login, they have no password, which seems to break "remember me" since AuthenticateSession validates that the passwordHash is not empty. setting a default password fixes this but feels like a security fail

I'd never considered it before, but I'm curious if the idea of the bolt on Telos' leg bears any influence on the bolts frequently seen on Frankenstein's monster? Naturally they would seem to be

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/05/episode-40-adrienne-mayor-on-gods-and-robots-in-ancient-mythology-sean-carroll/

#Listen #Science #SocialStream #Technology #AdrienneMayor #AncientGreece #artificialintelligence #Frankenstein #Hephaestus #history #humanities #Medea #mythology #Pandora #Talos

Many talk about the right to freedom of speech online, but rarely do discussions delve a layer deeper into the idea of the "right to reach". I've lately taken to analogizing the artificial reach of bots and partisan disinformation and labeled the idea social media ma

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/05/fake-news-is-solvable-the-rockefeller-foundation/

#Journalism #Listen #Science #SocialStream #fakenews #freedomofspeech #righttoreach #socialmediamachineguns #WeaponsofMathDestruction

Earlier today I filled out a survey for WNYC Studios' podcasting. It was easy to fill out because I keep all the data on my website.

For those interested, here are the podcasts I'm subscribed to: https://boffosocko.com/about/following/#Podcasts

And here's a running historical list of what I've actually listened to: https://boffosocko.com/kind/listen/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/03/55766430/

#SocialStream #faux-cast #podcastdiscovery #podcastlistens

How is it that a major podcast producer like Pushkin Industries doesn't even have raw RSS feed link on their podcast pages? Why should I have to hunt for simple links like feeds.megaphone.fm/happinesslab on their website? If they're worried about potential UI issues, why not use something like SubToMe?

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/03/55766389/

#SocialStream #podcasting #RSS #SubToMe

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/03/indieweb-is-so-choice/

#Photo #SocialStream #Ferrari #FerrisBueller'sDayOff #fun #memes #micropub #Microsub #Webmention #WebSub

A very #IndieWeb sort of Twitter bot: @WrknOnMyWebsite! It retweets anyone who tweets "working on my website".

One thing is obvious: you are definitely not alone while you're hacking! It's like a 24/7 Homebrew Website Club.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/01/55766280/

#IndieWeb #SocialStream #HomebrewWebsiteClub #IndieWeb

Thanks to David Shanske's fabulous Simple Location plugin for WordPress, I've now got archive map pages working on my website!

For any of the date archive pages on my site you can add /map/ and get an archive of all the places I've made posts on my website with location data for that time period, so for example:

https://boffosocko.com/2020/map/
https://boffoso

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/01/55766272/

#IndieWeb #SocialStream #WordPress #administrativenote #SimpleLocationplugin

Sometimes I feel like social media and modern day technology is exactly like it was depicted satirically back in 1971. Nothing changes does it?

https://boffosocko.com/2020/02/01/55766233/

#SocialStream #Technology #satire #socialmedia #WillyWonkaandtheChocolateFactory

The IndieWeb isn't a business like many of the examples mentioned here, but it's doing doing a lot of the things mentioned in the article and doing them well. It's definitely one of my favorite communities of builders.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/31/when-community-becomes-your-competitive-advantage-harvard-business-review/

#Read #SocialStream #communities #communitybuilding #communitymanagement #IndieWeb

This article is the first time I've seen a Waze-based map embedded into a web page. It's a particularly interesting use case since the fire described is along one of the busiest thoroughfares in West Los Angeles during rush hour, so having real

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/29/firefighters-rescue-people-from-rooftop-of-burning-west-la-high-rise-building-nbc-los-angeles/

#Journalism #Read #SocialStream #eventposts #localnews #maps #Meetup.com #parkinglocations #real-time #UI #Waze

They say "history is written by the victors". I'm hoping that "the truth will out" becomes that victor.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/29/55765959/

#SocialStream #aphorisms #truth #VeritasVosLiberabit

Put me down for this.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/28/together-lets-get-some-econ-extra-credit-marketplace/

#Economics #Read #SocialStream #EconExtraCredit

I love the idea that Marketplace is planning on using an OER (open educational resources) economics textbook to do a public bookclub/MOOC/guided self-study of Economics 101. 

Naturally I worry that the participation rates will start high and end low, but the fact that they're enco

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/28/want-to-succeed-take-an-econ-101-course-marketplace/

#Economics #Education #Listen #SocialStream #EconExtraCredit #Economics101 #Marketplace #MOOC #OER #publiceducation

Certainly an interesting controversy to watch. This is also uncovering a lot of fluff promotional material by people who are endorsing books without having read or even vaguely vetted them. The upshot seems to be never to trust blurbs or reviews by famous people.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/27/american-dirt-was-supposed-to-be-a-publishing-triumph-what-went-wrong-la-times/

#Publishing #Read #SocialStream #culturalappropriation #culture #diversity #OprahWinfrey #publicity

Jan has some awesome IndieWeb-esqe plugins for WordPress, how have I not seen these before?! If David Shanske hasn't seen them yet, he definitely should be aware of them.

We should definitely add some of these to the IndieWeb wiki as necessary.

Jan if you'd like to join a group of us helping to improve

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/24/wordpress-janboddez-tech/

#Bookmark #SocialStream #WordPress #blogrolls #bookmarkposts #IndieWeb #JetPack #Mastodon #OPML #WordPressplugin

Incidentally when I read this article, I saw a pop up of a book by the paper that is an anthology of essays presumably published by the site. Is this becoming a common thing now to help create ancillary streams of revenue for newspapers and magazines? I saw one the other day for a series by Colin Woodard as the first.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/24/the-hidden-stakes-of-the-1619-controversy-boston-review/

#Bookmark #Journalism #SocialStream #1619project #history #racistpolicies

I've just noticed that in addition to my relatively obvious user RSS feed on Goodreads, there's a separate hidden feed of just my reading status updates. It's of the form https://www.goodreads.com/user_status/list/#######-user-name?format=rss where #######-user-name is the typical user number and name combination at one's profile page.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/24/status-update-rss-feed-for-goodreads/

#SocialStream #GoodReads #readposts #RSS #statusupdates

A dramatic reframing, and apparently a very much needed one. This (and the referenced article within it) are a must read.

I'll have to think about this and revisit the broader idea a couple of times to really digest it.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/24/open-is-cancelled-medium/

#Read #SocialStream #equity #justice #opensource

A fascinating experiment of taking birdsong and translating it into music. This is pretty cool!

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/23/bird-song-preludes-proof-of-concept-youtube/

#SocialStream #Watch #birds #birdsong #communication #creativity #music #translation

It's been almost a year and a half since I've done much with Instagram. As a result, in part, I take fewer photographs and mean to fix that. I still need a new set up to pull content back to my site, but I spent some time to port my backlog of photos from Instagram back to my website, so now I'm back in sync at least.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/23/55765416/

#IndieWeb #SocialStream #Instagram #ownyourdata #PESOS

I've switched over my Diigo bookmarking from posting to my website via a simple IFTTT recipe to using a Webhook in conjunction with Micropub. I quite like the results and it cuts down on some of the manual portions of the process.

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/21/55765159/

#IndieWeb #SocialStream #administrativenote #bookmarkposts #IFTTT #micropub #PESOS #Webhooks

I realized that I haven't been syndicating content to Mastodon.social in a while, but now that I've made some changes to my site and now get responses back via Brid.gy, perhaps I'll change that? 

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/18/55764956/

#SocialStream #brid.gy #IndieWeb #Mastodon