Paris’ editors are awesome and made my hesitant rambling sound snappy and lively too. This came out extremely well.
“you join google+ because … a bunch of your friends have just moved from facebook”
point of order: pretty sure most people joined g+ because of that weird-ass “we’re going to force EVERYONE with a google account to have a g+ account” shit (you know, that dumb shit which came around at the same time as the disastrously harmful g+ realname policy)
yeah, i’m talking about the happier times just after launch, when the attraction was “facebook but it’s not facebook”
immensely rare that I get to listen to podcasts because auditory processing derpery makes spoken things extremely effortful, but giving this a whirl because I’m doing a lot of electronics bullshit this morning so I can actually headspace words for once
regarding the bit at 33:00, that’s actually something I’ve noticed remarkably starkly in fedi so far. the effects of being able to go “lol nah, fuck these clowns” and have some chud server cut off from federation just makes such a remarkably strong collective improvement. it’s so thorough that I constantly see people posting about “know what I love about masto? that there’s no racists here!”. which, y’know, isn’t entirely factual, there’s absolutely chud instances out there. but the fact that there’s no single Arbiter Of The Post Flow just makes so, so much difference
also I passively knew @dgerard was australian but somehow didn’t expect quite that accent. keeps momentarily sounding like I’m hearing someone on comms in $game, but nope, not that
my accent veers uncertainly between middle class London bloke and much more extreme strayan than i spoke like when i lived there
As a longtime listener to Tech Won’t Save Us, I was pleasantly surprised by my phone’s notification about this week’s episode. David was charming and interesting in equal measure. I mostly knew Jack Dorsey as the absentee CEO of Twitter who let the site stagnate under his watch, but there were a lot of little details about his moderation-phobia and fash-adjacency that I wasn’t aware of.
By the way, I highly recommend the podcast to the TechTakes crowd. They cover many of the same topics from a similar perspective.
I enjoyed this. I wondered how Australian you would sound, and you sound reasonably Australian.
You packed a lot in to the allotted time. Certified banger
I was actually a lot slower and more rambling. Paris’ editors actually cut a lot of gaps between words and made me sound a lot more animated than I really was that day. (The result works great!)
If I had the credibility to be on one of these shows I’d definitely give the editors a challenge.
Nice to hear you mention this warm spot, too