Kevin Zheng

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Local-first, he thought, could eventually elicit the same excitement, but with software that was actually good.
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? | WIRED
You can’t just build a tech system and wait for participation. You need “community entrepreneurs.” This could be rephrased as the 80/20 rule of small social networks: 80% of the work and impact is social and institutional, 20% of the work and impact is technical.
Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
if you missed out on ordering, not to worry — Chef.Pii says she’s working to bring Pink Sauce to stores.
Nobody knows what’s in Pink Sauce, TikTok’s latest viral product - The Verge
To save ourselves from this current crisis, and the ones ahead of us, we must forcefully reject the dangerous populist science of Yuval Noah Harari.
The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Urban takes a childlike delight in numbers and the relations between them, in the fact that some things are big and others are small. There’s nothing wrong with this on its own, of course. But as is the case with Musk, the obsession with scale and time, with pushing beyond the frontier of the planetary, serves a much more nefarious purpose: it becomes a justification for dismissing politics, questions of the public good, or whatever else is consuming humanity at any given moment in the early 21st century as cosmologically inconsequential.
Wait but Why Is Tim Urban Back?
Instead, we are members of dozens of small communities, each with its own rules, practices, and governance structures. Creating social media that works more like human society may give us clues on how to create these healthy spaces.
Social Media Can Be Reimagined for the Good of Society