After my own heart right here. I followed some version of Luca Hammer’s guide to categorise everyone I followed on Twitter into communities, then created rss feeds of them using nitter. It was fascinating seeing how they clustered together. I think I still have an old gephi file with that output. I did this before Musk bought Twitter, since I knew he was going to wreck it.
Basically, I would have killed for this tool.
(I’m now wondering if anyone’s published a guide on this for bluesky.)
The Wikipedia article on the Human Biodiversity Institute cites the term human biodiversity as becoming a euphemism for racism sometime in the late 90s and Marks’ book is from 1995, so there was apparently a pretty quick turnover. Which makes me wonder if hijacking or if independent invention. The article has a lot of sources, so I might mine them to see if there’s a detailed timeline.