You forgot getting Bushed twice. On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:59 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> We been Musked, we been Trumped, the Russians and Ukranians and much of > Europe has been Putined and perhaps Balsinaro (and his followers have > been sumarrily Lula'd)? One of the more satisfying targets for my own > doomscrolling is to find examples of Corporate Execs and Republican > AHoles being KatiePortered. SNL fans love watch loving people get > McKinnoned. > > I'm probably just begging to get Ropella'd here... > > On 11/7/22 12:04 PM, glen wrote: > > Musk *is* the joke. A joke of a person ... like we now use the verb > Borked. "Musk" could be shorthand for Poe's Law, exquisitely explained in > the recent Onion friend of the court filing. > > > > "You were totally Musked, man. It's not even bad faith. That guy > couldn't joke his way out of a paper bag." > > > > > > On November 7, 2022 10:33:38 AM EST, Marcus Daniels < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Where’s the sense of humor now? > >> > >> < > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html > > > >> [64260315-0-image-a-4_1667788476734.jpg] > >> Musk threatens to boot Twitter account impersonators< > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html > > > >> dailymail.co.uk< > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html > > > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Nov 6, 2022, at 5:53 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> That you call Mastodon 'twitter-like' is discomforting. ActivityPub > is fundamentally different.I guess the premature registration is > reasonable, given the politics of the moment. But the 'fediverse' really is > distributed, very unlike twitter. I really love that the Gab twits ported > to Mastodon. That, unlike Musk's perverted conception, is a real example of > free speech. You really are free to turn open source and open protocol to > your weirdo subculture. We just don't have to link to you. > >> > >> Don't think 'twitter-like'. Think 'decentralized'. > >> > >> On November 6, 2022 5:51:40 PM EST, Steve Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Trying to understand BookWyrm vs StoryGraph vs GoodReads and Twitter vs > Mastadon (and beyond), I found this aggregator of alternative > recommendations: > >> > >> https://alternativeto.net/ > >> > >> which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious how > challenging "too many choices" can be... > >> > >> After a lame attempt to go with Mastadon I decided to abandond > Twitter-like things altogether. I doubt I will be willing to throw > GoodReads over for anything else because of the participating base of my > own personal/family network there. I can at least avoid clicking through > a GoodReads recommendation to order from Amazon. > >> > >> https://alternativeto.net/software/bookwyrm/ > >> > >> I haven't begun (tried?) to evaluate AlternativeTo.Net itself... > >> > >> Is this the tragedy of the "free market" (subset of "commons")? > >> > >> > >> On 11/4/22 3:00 PM, glen wrote: > >> I'd forgotten about this until the release yesterday: > >> > >> https://joinbookwyrm.com/ > >> > >> > >> > >> On 11/2/22 14:52, Steve Smith wrote: > >> > >> On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> Thanks, Glen. > >> > >> It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url > that one could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in itself. > Goodreads was that once, then Amazon bought them. Ditto for video and > audio recordings and other objects of public interest. > >> > >> I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two > problems... the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the too > often spotty reviews... I don't provide many nor particularly good reviews > myself, so I've no room to complain really. > >> > >> So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url" > point. It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't done > the work to understand how new entries are made... are they always required > to be made by a citizen of the community who is NOT affiliated with the > book (publisher, author, etc)? I find a *lot* of the books I seek in > Wikipedia and prefer them for reference when their book-description (and > cross links to related works, author, etc) are particularly apt, but that > is also spotty. I use Goodreads mostly to follow what family/friends are > reading and what *they* think of their reads. > >> > >> The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by > private interests (even public corporations are private interests) is > disturbing (FB <-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)... Twitter->BoringCo, etc) > >> > >> > >> Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos. > Interestingly, her primary institutional affiliation is the Art Institute > of Chicago, where as resident scientist she teaches math to art students. > She has a public reading for kids scheduled in Jersey City this month. Her > definition of category theory is "the mathematics of mathematics" which she > expands as "the logical study of the logical study of logical things." > >> > >> Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to index > on his amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a blistering price in > every available format. I found a pdf on the internets. It's details the > history of working out the chemical identity of water. Two themes are that > 1) the consensus answers to scientific questions often change in > anticipation of the arrival of corroboration, 2) there are often multiple > acceptable answers to scientific questions. These are possibly > consequences of being a realisitic realist. > >> > >> Interesting set of recursions... we CS types tend to love our > arbitrary-depth recursion, but the special cases like double-negatives, and > Rummy's unkown unknowns and now Chang's logical logicologoy of logics and > realistic realists are ... *special*? While some may prefer "turtles all > the way down" sometimes just a few turtles deep suffices? > >> > >> - Steve > >> > >> PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first reading > of this thread. > >> > >> > >> -- rec -- > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen <[email protected]><mailto: > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> There. I fixed that for you. 8^D > >> > >> On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> > Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned > some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered yet another > book. > >> > > >> > >> > https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222 > >> > >> > Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224> > >> > Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, > Category Theory, and Life, published October 2022. > >> > > >> > A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying > algebra basic. > >> > > >> > >> > https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389 > >> > >> > Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific > Progress > >> > > >> > An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns taken > along the way, more detail than even the author cares to read again. > Poetic justice to examine the operation of the pragmatist's ratchet and > pawl over the centuries as it rescues workable definitions of temperature > from thermal confusion. > >> > > >> > >> > https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384 > >> > >> > Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist > Philosophy of Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022. > >> > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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