#stufftoread — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stufftoread, aggregated by home.social.
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Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana | Gastro Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-origins-map
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Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web | a critical analysis of the impact of Perl
I’m pretty sure that the author is simply restating that Perl allowed ordinary geeks to participate in Web development & research … with a subtext that that’s unusual since the web ought to have been stitched-up as a (Marxist?) vision of industry exploiting the worker, possibly a-la Stallman.
If so, the author’s dog’s tail is somewhat wagging the author’s dog. Aside from any other reason, they have skipped the history & impact of the Unix Toolkit approach to scripting – which Perl as the “Swiss Army Chainsaw” of tools stood heavily upon.
Still, an interesting read.
First, I argue that Perl must be understood in the context of Wall’s work on previous free software projects. Drawing on Boltanski and Thévenot’s (Citation2006) concept of justificatory regimes, I argue that this body of work was notable for how it committed to a “civic world” of valuing software in terms of a uniform collective interest. However, this framework also helps to uncover differences between Wall’s free software work and that of Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. Second, I show how Perl’s success in the 1990s was tied to its culture of synthesis, or having it both ways.2 Both in terms of the language’s design, as well key actions and decisions made by Wall and others regarding the organization and culture of the Perl community, Perl’s success was tied to how it emphasized flexibility and evolution while encouraging integrity and portability, how it neutralized potential conflict, and how it balanced between Wall’s creative control and the collective efforts of an increasingly large and devoted community of volunteer developers. Most significantly, through their collaboration around Perl, Wall, O’Reilly and others instituted forms of cooperation between free software communities and the mainstream computing industry.
In short, my claim is that Perl’s significance for the 90s web goes beyond the well-documented use of the language in web development. The language’s history illustrates the kinds of material, social, economic and discursive arrangements that enabled an odd form of ‘autonomous’ production within the emerging field of new media.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810
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Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing
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From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility | …an amazing snapshot of schizophrenia
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbad173/7517011
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KOSA isn’t designed to help kids. | by danah boyd
danah boyd, on the nail:
Bills like KOSA will not help young people. They are rooted in a political agenda to look like they’re holding big tech accountable. But they pretend like they will make a difference and it’s not politically prudent to challenge the failed logic.
https://zephoria.medium.com/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids-335ab57cddae
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The Misinformation-Outrage Cycle, Part 1: “There are no Yankees here!” | …another Teri Kanefield post that I wish I had read sooner…
…although I recommend not taking it uncritically; there are (e.g.) elements of whistleblower adulation in there which I don’t feel are worthy. But it’s good, thoughtful stuff.
https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/
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“Is it time to give up on old news?” | …thought-provoking essay from Jeff Jarvis
With newspaper circulation dropping we need to ask whether they have both been out-evolved by online communication and actively made themselves undesirable to their potential new consumers. Jeff offers a community-insider perspective. I recommend reading the whole thing.
The way out of this will be to educate and empower our next generation, not in so-called media literacy, but in media leadership, in taking responsibility for the health of their communities and their public discourse. That is a big, complex, nuanced, unsure order that will require marshalling the wisdom of disciplines far beyond journalism: history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, community studies, ethics, design, and the arts.
I am afraid to say that the newspaper and TV and commercial radio station of today are inadequate to the task. Their news was invented in the long century of mass media, which began (as I recount in Magazine) when Frank Munsey realized he could sell his eponymous periodical at a dime and a loss, but profit by selling his audience’s attention to advertisers. Thus was born the attention economy that now corrupts not only old media but new. The internet isn’t killing news. It is killing the mass and the myth that kept media alive all these years: that our attention is a commodity to be owned, bought, and sold.
https://buzzmachine.com/2024/01/24/is-it-time-to-give-up-on-old-news/
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Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food | …I was vaguely aware of Nicholas Saunders but had no idea of the extent of his impact on British food – and where we are now
An excellent little reader on one person and how they influenced foodie Britain, bootstrapping both Neal’s Yard and Borough Market and many of the retailers which got their start there:
Malcolm Veigas, an assistant director with Bolton Council, once gave an interview to the BBC’s Food Programme in which he cited Borough as the lightbulb moment for councils that wanted to harness the new interest in food to rejuvenate their areas. “Market professionals up and down the country, when they heard about what was going on in the Borough, realised that the future of retail markets in the UK was going to be predicated on food.”
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/jan/23/nicholas-saunders-forgotten-genius-changed-british-food
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Need a #reminder of all the #FreeToRead (#free) #speculative (#sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror) #stories (#fiction) and #poems (#poetry) that #Kaleidotrope (#webzine) #published in #2022 (#EligibilityPost #Roundup #StuffToRead)?
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Need a #reminder of all the #FreeToRead (#free) #speculative (#sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror) #stories (#fiction) and #poems (#poetry) that #Kaleidotrope (#webzine) #published in #2022 (#EligibilityPost #Roundup #StuffToRead)?
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Need a #reminder of all the #FreeToRead (#free) #speculative (#sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror) #stories (#fiction) and #poems (#poetry) that #Kaleidotrope (#webzine) #published in #2022 (#EligibilityPost #Roundup #StuffToRead)?
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