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When was the last time you felt like you learned something?

Not "oh yeah, that's a neat fact" that you forget a few minutes later, but really feel like you've learned something, no matter how small.

Bonus points: What did you learn?

May Likes Toronto @mayintoronto@beige.party
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I've been thinking a lot about organizational structures, people within them, and how we work and interact together.

Between the talks of Blue sky/Black sky/Fedi, Discord, and everything else going on today, this article helped me understand a lot about how tech (and capitalism) sees and divides communities as fungible people as opposed to individuals with ties and context. I'm still thinking about it.

joanwestenberg.com/communities

Communities are not fungible

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

www.joanwestenberg.com · Westenberg.

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