Oh right I forgot that Nixon was President silly me.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 7:06 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > After being a fly on the wall at SFI and similar places, this sounds > exactly right to me. Nixon too. > > [image: original.jpg] > > Elon. Trump. Resentment. > <https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/elon-trump-resentment/672030/> > theatlantic.com > <https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/elon-trump-resentment/672030/> > > <https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/elon-trump-resentment/672030/> > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 7, 2022, at 1:58 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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 <gil.densm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You forgot getting Bushed twice. >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:59 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> 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 < >>> mar...@snoutfarm.com> 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 <geprope...@gmail.com> 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 <sasm...@swcp.com> >>> 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 <geprope...@gmail.com><mailto: >>> geprope...@gmail.com> 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/ >>> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > 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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