Montessori-school-inspired High School, program designed by Michael Strong. 2017-11-17-StrongAcademyOfThoughtAndIndustry https://thoughtandindustry.com/ (more)

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Kevin Kruse: 7 Things I Learned From Building An AI Chatbot For Leadership Development. My mission is to spark 100 million leaders in the next ten years. That’s a lot of people. How can I possibly reach so many people in so little time? (more)

Akili Announces Announces Endeavor™ Digital Attention Treatment is Now Available for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (ADD) under FDA’s COVID-19 Enforcement Discretion Guidance. Delivered through a captivating video game experience, ENDEAVOR is a digital treatment that has been shown in a rigorously designed and conducted clinical research program to improve attention function, as measured by computer-based testing, in children ages 8-12 years old with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD who have a demonstrated attention issue. Attention impairments are a component of ADHD in more than 85% of children diagnosed and can significantly impact daily functioning. (cf (2020-04-14) Covid19 Digital Health Devices For Psychiatric Disorders Policy) (more)

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Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/25: Own Goals... the main event remains the race between new strains and vaccinations. (more)

Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (added by Section 9 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) / Section 509 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996) was not part of the original Senate legislation, but was added in conference with the House, where it had been separately introduced by Representatives Christopher Cox and Ron Wyden as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act and passed by a near-unanimous vote on the floor. It added protection for online service providers and users from actions against them based on third-party content, stating in part, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." Effectively, this section immunizes both ISPs and Internet users from liability for torts others commit on their websites or online forums, even if the provider fails to take action after receiving notice of the harmful or offensive content.[7] Through the so-called Good Samaritan provision, this section also protects ISPs from liability for restricting access to certain material or giving others the technical means to restrict access to that material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act#Section_230 (more)

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the United States Congress's first notable attempt to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In the 1997 landmark case Reno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the act's anti-indecency provisions. The Act is the short name of Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as specified in Section 501 of the 1996 Act. Senators James Exon and Slade Gorton introduced it to the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 1995.[1] The amendment that became the CDA was added to the Telecommunications Act in the Senate by an 81–18 vote on June 15, 1995.[2] As eventually passed by Congress, Title V affected the Internet (and online communications) in two significant ways. First, it attempted to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace. Second, Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (Section 9 of the Communications Decency Act / Section 509 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996)[3] has been interpreted to say that operators of Internet services are not publishers (and thus not legally liable for the words of third parties who use their services). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act

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Jerry Michalski's list: The years 2001 and 2002 were bad ones for a wide variety of institutions, from Enron to the Catholic Church. This year hasn't started any better. (more)

Matt Taibbi: The Prophet Of The Trump Era: what made Gurri unique is that he also predicted with depressingly humorous accuracy how traditional hierarchies would respond to this challenge: in a delusional, ham-fisted, authoritarian manner that would only confirm the worst suspicions of the public, accelerating the inevitable throw-the-bums-out campaigns. (more)

The A-List? The Oligarchy? Experts? People running BigWorld? (more)

Jason Crawford: A dashboard for progress: instead of trying for a single metric (aka GDP), what if we look at a dashboard comprising a handful of metrics (more)

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Arnold Kling: Shorter Martin Gurri. A reader asks, How would you encapsulate Martin’s thesis? Starting around 2000, the amount of information on the Internet doubles in a year. (Intelligence Increase) (more)

News from Stripe Press. This month, we spoke with Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public. In the wake of the recent short squeeze of GameStop stock, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wrote that the book explores “how the internet has empowered ordinary citizens… to discover the flaws in the systems and institutions that govern their lives”—and underscored that Gurri’s thesis is now more relevant than ever. (more)

Dan Shipper and Kieran O’Hare: Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan. (more)

Robin Sloan: Week 1, overworld. I’ll always begin these newsletters with a snapshot of what I’ve got. Right now, I have got: a prototype game that, although excruciatingly minimal, has all the things: a branching story, a map, text presentation, audio playback. (more)

Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse (analysis of their S-1). The company's engine — which makes it easier to develop a new game — is used by 53% of the top 1,000 mobile games. Though unprofitable, Unity brought in $541M in revenue in 2019, an annual growth rate of 42% (more)