Oh and SCOTUSed, the tech sector getting Biden'd and Demed. The Sunshine Protection act getting tantrum'd. Yes I will stay petty about the dems and the house have a chance to do *something * other than complain about other people and be in campaign mode all the time I get news'd a retarded poloticioned (so poloticion.) your a senator that's 900 years old acting like a 3 year old eh? congrats on being a waste of air.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:47 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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