It would be handy for social media in general to enable people to create collaborative, wiki–style documents right within the app. Sometimes, a discussion needs to be collaborative. 

Demonstrating how Minifeed works to new folks.

I convened a roundtable with five encyclopedists to discuss how to create an encyclopedia network—an “encyclosphere,” like the blogosphere, but for encyclopedias.

Premieres in 20m!

YouTube:

Rumble:
rumble.com/vmi0fb-encyclopedists…

The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity. It is the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware. oshwa.org

Juggling my roles. This is tbc0 speaking. However, I hadn’t given this much thought. I’ll switch to tbc here soon. I’ll be tbc0 at tbc0.com. Ref. tbc0.com/archives/62

How much longer must we wait for this to come to pass? I’m especially thinking of the new law in Texas that protects unborn children after their heartbeat is detected. Clever design of the law. But this prophecy is protection for those who accuse, not the accusers. More at tbc0.com/archives/56

Big Tech took over our digital lives. Let’s do something about it.

TIL Yieldstreet via 1440join.com tbc0.com/archives/51

Life is a challenge. Either too many chips and not enough salsa, or too much salsa and not enough chips. tbc0.com/archives/52

189 numeronyms tbc0.com/archives/45

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison

Here are 878 words offering you a brief introduction to the four levels of computing power and decentralization with mention of creativity https://timchambersusa.com/2021/08/28/a-brief-introduction.html ¶ Also https://twitter.com/tbc0/status/1431713062038511616?s=tbc0 if you prefer ¶ tbc0.com/archives/40 ¶ tbch0409a

Mike at St. George’s Anglican Church COS Men’s Breakfast: Forgive them and fix yourself [or forgive others and fix yourself]. tbc0.com/archives/38

Testing testing

We’ve had enough of Big Tech.

It’s time for some serious Small Tech.

If you have an active library card, you can access Kanopy to watch thousands of classic movies, documentaries, and other educational video content here: kanopy.com

Recently discovered this wiki of alternative platforms and software to people looking to escape the clutches of big tech, while also improving their privacy and security online. Instructions designed for non-technical users as well, check it out! wiki.techxodus.org/en/home

It MMPTBAA to know that the Paralympics are under way in Tokyo and NBC is broadcasting it! Visit my community for more, including a pointer to a joke by Josh Blue. Sorry for all the redirects. Minifeed will get better. Trust me.The joke is worth it! tbc0.com/archives/34

The Knowledge Standards Foundation’s first press release:

Press Release: Wikipedia Co-Founder to Launch Roundtable Discussion on “Universal Network of Encyclopedias”

There will be a bunch of design & feature updates shortly. 👍

Comments and posting are a little sticky as we are detaching them from the system & remaking.

I’m on it.

Hey! How’s it going, I think I’m here?

Why u no press like button?! 🙁

factseek.org has a new look: word cloud is removed until it gets a new algorithm that correctly updates the word cloud with most recent searches.

We are looking into how to speed up the lag (up to 10 seconds…) after pressing the Enter key. We have a setup that posts stuff *instantly*. The cheapo server we’re using is part of the reason for the problem.

Hello to all the KSF and Minifeed people. Please feel free to post here!