@gpollara @academicchatter

The antidote to #FOMO [1] is weak ties [2] and #SixDegreesOfSeparation [3]. Let those of our colleagues willing to be raw material for selling ads and thus financially support hate speech and crimes against humanity [4][5] do so; weak ties will filter out the hate speech and get ethical content out to the Fediverse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequential_strangers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

[4] https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/facebook-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya

[5] http://archive.today/2021.11.06-053128/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technology/facebook-india-misinformation.html

These are two of Glasgow's most influential architects: Alexander 'Greek' Thomson on the left and Charles Rennie MacKintosh on the right. As a bit of Friday fun, how about a game of Six Degrees of Separation to explore the links between the two?

My attempt is below. Happy Friday everyone!

#glasgow #glasgowarchitects #alexandergreekthomson #charlesrenniemackintosh #sixdegreesofseparation #architecture

Is the #SixDegreesOfSeparation #BookMeme a thing round here? It happens on the first Saturday of the month and a bunch of #BookBloggers use the same starting book to form a chain with six more books.
Anyway, here's mine for this month.
https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-4-3-2-1/

#Boardgame people, is there ever discussion of degrees of separation of game designer? I.e. two people who've codesigned a game have a degree of 1; if designer X codesigned with designer Y who codesigned with designer Z (but X and Z haven't (yet!)), then X and Z have a separation of 2, and so on.

Essentially six degrees of separation for game designers.

#boardgames #boardgamedesign #math #erdosnumber #sixdegreesofseparation

@steko

Example of "don't rush it":

Give yourself a few months to a year or so to build up to 45 followers. Once you've got there, if you trust your followers to pass on any significant information or ideas to *their* followers, after checking and maybe improving them, then you're already influencing the whole world - responsibly.

45^6 = 8,303,765,625 which covers all of us.

#SixDegreesOfSeparation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

#FortyFiveFollowers

Humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

@CSB @progo get @adam to ask his keeper.

#sixdegreesofseparation