book by Charles Murray - Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 ISBN:978-0-307-45342-6 (more)

Andrew Ruiz sees Robert Greene’s “Mastery” as Man’s Search For Meaning. I’ve been thinking a lot about this question of what I should do with my life. (more)

Neal Stephenson's Quick Silver is finally out. He's collaborating with Applied Minds to use annotations from the book as a basis for a MetaWeb site based on Wikipedia's WikiEngine. Neal writes I don't think that the Internet, as it currently exists, does a very good job of explaining things to people... Generally this is not a problem with the explanations themselves. On the contrary, it seems as though a lot of people like to explain things on the Internet, and some of them are quite good at it. The problem lies in how these explanations are organized. We have been looking for a way to get an explanation system seeded for a long time, and it occurred to us that a set of annotations to my book might be one way to get it started.

Time to add Postgresql Full-Text Search To FluxGarden (more)

interactive Python shell, became Jupyter http://ipython.scipy.org (more)

I cover technology at Gavekal Dragonomics, a global macro research firm based in Hong Kong and Beijing. For the most part, that means figuring out China’s technology capabilities and how quickly they’re improving. Broadly speaking, I’m trying to understand the East Asian industrialization story: the history and the path forward. I’m also a contributor to Bloomberg Opinion. https://danwang.co/about/

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 8/26: Full Vaccine Approval. Great news, everyone. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved. Woo-hoo! It will be marketed under the name Comirnaty. Doh! (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 8/19: Cracking the Booster. The news about Covid-19 is now essentially on a few distinct tracks: Vaccine effectiveness and booster shots, vaccination mandates, mandates for NPIs and other Covid-19 related crippling of the living of life, and the actual path of the pandemic. (more)

Stuff you (think you) know. See DIKW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge (more)

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.[1] Contemporary religious practice of Satanism began with the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966, although a few historical precedents exist.[citation needed] Prior to the public practice, Satanism existed primarily as an accusation by various Christian groups toward perceived ideological opponents, rather than a self-identity. Satanism, and the concept of Satan, has also been used by artists and entertainers for symbolic expression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism (more)

Cocoon’s social app for close friends gets VC backing to chase Path.com’s dream. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren’t homes for your real friends anymore because they’re too big, too commercial and too influencer-y (more)

Substack acqui-hires team behind subscription social app Cocoon – TechCrunch (more)

continuation of the Croquet project (built on Squeak Smalltalk), or a higher layer? (more)

Recent interview with Alan Kay. (more)

TeaTime is a scalable real-time multi-user architecture that is the basis for Croquet’s object-object communication and synchronization (messaging). It is designed to support multi-user applications that can be scaled to massive numbers of concurrently interacting users in a shared virtual space. The most directly visible part of this architecture is the TObject class which is used to define and construct subclassed Tea objects. All of the interesting objects inside of Croquet are constructed from subclasses of TObject. http://lispmeister.github.io/posts/2010/11/naming-and-synchronization-in-a-decentralized/ (more)

Drew Austin: #150: Bright Size Life. I haven’t really kept up with animated films lately but whenever I periodically check in, as I did last week by watching Pixar’s latest, Soul, I’m once again stunned by how much better they keep getting (more)

electronic Money - aka CryptoCurrency, Digital Cash, Digital Money, ECash, Virtual Cash, Virtual Money (more)

aka virtual economy, digicash

Benjamin Rosenbaum ponders the Trade-Offs between Currency and Whuffie for human interaction. (Real World Game) (more)

Marc Andreessen: It's Time to Build. Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. (Maker, Innovation) (more)