htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext. htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react. https://htmx.org/ (more)

Practice of journaling in between your tasks to log them, and your thoughts about them. (more)

Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political analyst for CNN. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, first presidency, and inter-presidency for the Times.[1] In 2022, she published the best-selling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Haberman (more)

Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight. Alexander Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (more)

cf Hannah Arendt, "the banality of evil" (more)

Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (/ˈɛərənt, ˈɑːrənt/; German: [ˈaːʁənt];[9] (Hannah Arendt Bluecher), 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American philosopher and political theorist. Her many books and articles on topics ranging from totalitarianism to epistemology had a lasting influence on political theory. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt (more)

Erik Hoel: The banality of ChatGPT. Despite being the culmination of a century-long dream, no better word describes the much-discussed output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT than the colloquial “mid.” (middle mind) (more)

Malcolm Gladwell on Saturday Night Live, German philosophy, the Lunar Men, and other examples of the "social dimension of Innovation". When they were not meeting, they were writing to each other with words of encouragement or advice or excitement. This was truly-in a phrase that is invariably and unthinkingly used in the pejorative-a mutual-admiration society... One person's passion-be it carriages, steam, minerals, chemistry, clocks-fired all the others. There was no neat separation of subjects... What were they doing? Darwin, in a lovely phrase, called it "philosophical laughing," which was his way of saying that those who depart from cultural or intellectual consensus need people to walk beside them and laugh with them to give them confidence... Jenny Uglow's book reveals how simplistic our view of groups really is. We divide them into cults and clubs, and dismiss the former for their insularity and the latter for their banality. The cult is the place where, cut off from your peers, you become crazy. The club is the place where, surrounded by your peers, you become boring. Yet if you can combine the best of those two states-the right kind of insularity with the right kind of homogeneity-you create an environment (the BlogWeb?) both safe enough and stimulating enough to make great thoughts possible. Is this a Creative Network or Social Network? A Network Of Learning? cf Scenes, Collaborations, Inventions, And Progress. (more)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the Newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case (Murray Gell-Mann), physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the Journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?" speec. (more)

last name of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (more)

book Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd. By Frans P.B. Osinga, Copyright 2007. ISBN:0415459524

Jean-Pierre Caron: I don’t really think there is a unified neo-rationalist thought. So-called neo-rationalism is basically a label that is used to name a certain set of thinkers (which includes at least Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani, Pete Wolfendale, Daniel Sacilotto and the Laboria Cuboniks collective), that were influenced to a greater or lesser degree from a subset of rationalist concerns that were emerging at the time of Speculative Realist wave. Of course, there are more specific descriptors of what neo-rationalism could be beyond this initial genealogy, but I can get into that more easily by first revisiting it.

Yancey Strickler: How to long game. I’ve been in LA this week, an experience that always has me staring into the void. (more)

Mark McGrath: The Whirl Bookshelf. The Whirl of ReOrientation did not drop out of the sky. It rests on tight concepts from brilliant thinkers that rewired how we see strategy, economics, media, and the human condition. This page is the spine of The Whirl. If you want to understand why we talk the way we speak here, this is where it starts. (more)

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine. The digital deluge is a familiar annoyance for anyone on a Democratic party fundraising list. It's a relentless cacophony of bizarre texts and emails, each one more urgent than the last....an analysis of the official FEC filings tells a very different story. The fundraising model is not a brutally effective tool for the party; it is a financial vortex that consumes the vast majority of every dollar it raises. (more)

In Private Deal, the D.N.C. Covered $20 Million in Harris Bills Post-Election. Not long after Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, her senior advisers and the Democratic National Committee struck a handshake deal. (more)

Mark McGrath: LinkedIn Isn't for Networking. It's the Digital Day Spa for Corporate Conformity. Spend enough time on LinkedIn and the air starts to feel filtered. It's not just the self-congratulation. It's not just the corporate memes. It's the environment itself. The platform doesn't invite discovery and innovation. It rewards safety. This is The Digital Day Spa. (more)

chief founder of the Royal Society Of London (more)

Chet Richards reviews Frans Osinga's Science, Strategy, and War ISBN:0415371031 book about John Boyd. Where Carl von Clausewitz and practically every strategist since considered war as a clash of wills, Boyd sees it as “the non-linear clash of two Complex Adaptive Systems” (124). In Boyd’s scheme, this is equivalent to a non-linear clash between two learning, or equivalently, novelty-generating systems, although it should be noted that Boyd rarely uses the term "system." (more)

The Logic Alphabet developed by Shea Zellweger reminds me of the work of John Wilkins and Gottfried Leibniz. From a basement in Ohio, guided literally by his dreams and his innate love of pattern, Zellweger developed an extraordinary visual system—called the “Logic Alphabet”—in which a group of specially designed letter-shapes can be manipulated like puzzles to reveal the geometric patterns underpinning logic. Indeed, Zellweger has built a series of physical models of his alphabet that recall the educational teaching toys, or “gifts,” of Friedrich Fröbel (Froebel gifts), the great nineteenth-century founder of the Kindergarten movement. (more)