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I've noticed that it's common for people on social media to assume that:

a) people are very good at things simply because they are well known
b) furthermore, that their competence extends to areas outside of their purported wheelhouse
c) conversely, that there aren't a whole loads of very competent people unknown to them

This mindset plays into the development of cults of personality, leading to the deeply problematic grift culture that's dominating society right now.

#socialmedia #grift

The European Union knows what's up

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109545164561829775

The biggest missing piece are official accounts, like corporations, media and government. I think pretty soon we'll see orgs standing up instances on their own domains, which will substitute pretty effectively for verification.

People are gonna be shocked how quickly Twitter activity falls off a cliff. The Mastodon migration has had a couple fits and starts, but at this point, there are only a couple very active independent people I follow on Twitter that aren't here.

#TwitterMigration

A rubber mallet is a very useful tool to own

#lifeprotip #protip

Somehow, I feel like this is set up to make the next step in this nightmare even more harrowing. Nonetheless, it is pretty incredible what this man has done to his own reputation in the past few months.

The best leaders I've worked with and for are OK with being wrong. They seek out challenges to their perspectives. They know great ideas can come from anybody. DEI simply gives them a language and better toolkit for things they intuitively do.

#leadership #dei

But eventually, they realized this is a game they couldn't win. No one person can be an authority in DEI, because the whole point is elevating a multitude of voices. They kept saying the wrong things, and instead of having the humility to be okay with being wrong, they started throwing tantrums. "No more politics at work (unless it's my politics!)"

Ego is what happened. The superbrain thing to do was be a thought leader. They learned the language and made small commitments. Sometimes even large commitments, even though many quietly faded away before reaching fruition.

The u-turn on DEI from the charismatic superbrain tech founder class has been illuminating. These are the same people who wrapped themselves in BLM and ERGs a couple years ago. Now they're saying wokeness is public enemy #1. What happened?

#esg #dei #woke #blackmastodon #BlackTechMastodon

Fascinating that I haven't heard a peep about Web3 alternatives to Twitter in these months of crisis.

We are living through a truly epic emperor-has-no-clothes moment in tech. So many emperors, so few clothes.

Does the Qoto web client lack the ability to follow hashtags?

I find I use both Twitter and Mastodon quite a bit.

I go to Twitter to observe the trainwreck first hand, to try to provide some perspective, and to promote alternatives.

I come here to learn new things.

#TwitterMigration #Twitter #mastodon

Every time we have to speak basic personal information into a phone or enter it into a form is indicative of massive failure of information technology. Countless hours wasted. Vulnerabilities created. Avoidable errors. It's wild to me that there's so much investment in technology but the basic plumbing is so decrepit.

#it #web #tech

With every new AI achievement, I can't help but feel we're watching the next weapon of mass destruction emerge in real time.

Is nobody thinking, what happens if you chain these things together and put automation in the loop to carry out real world actions?

#ai #wmd