On Nov 7, 2022, at 1:58 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You forgot getting Bushed twice.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:59 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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
<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
<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html>>
>> dailymail.co.uk
<http://dailymail.co.uk><https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html
<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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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/ <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/
<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/ <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]>><mailto:[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
<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
<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
<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.
>> >
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