Visakan Veerasamy ebook. I’m a fan of the phrase “constructive ADHD”, more so than say “productive ADHD”, because it makes me think of building things. (making) (more)

sarcastic name for Collapse in the Jackpot Series

If you're on a software Product Team, in any role, you should read scifi books to see futures. (Movies could work in theory, I think, but rarely are as deep, and require more re-viewing to learn anything from.) Why? For pattern-recognition in seeing-futures, side-effects, ethical issues, and raising the bar in human progress. (more)

Ben Hunt's proposal for the US economy: (more)

Treasury bills (T-bills) are zero-coupon bonds that mature in one year or less. They are bought at a discount of the par value and, instead of paying a coupon interest, are eventually redeemed at that par value to create a positive yield to maturity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security#Treasury_bill (more)

"Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and that they therefore must be supported by governments when they face potential failure.[1] The colloquial term "too big to fail" was popularized by U.S. Congressman Stewart McKinney in a 1984 Congressional hearing, discussing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) intervention with Continental Illinois.[2] The term had previously been used occasionally in the press,[3] and similar thinking had motivated earlier bank bailouts.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail

"Defund the police" is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources. Activists who use the phrase may do so with varying intentions; some seek modest reductions, while others argue for full divestment as a step toward the abolition of contemporary police services. Activists who support the defunding of police departments often argue that investing in community programs could provide a better crime deterrent for communities; funds would go toward addressing social issues, like poverty, homelessness, and mental disorders.[1][2] Police abolitionists call for replacing existing police forces with other systems of public safety, like housing, employment, community health, education, and other programs.[3][4][5] The "defund the police" slogan became common during the George Floyd protests starting in May 2020.[6] According to Jenna Wortham and Matthew Yglesias, the slogan was popularized by the Black Visions Collective shortly after the murder of George Floyd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police (more)

Jordan Hall: Defund (and redesign) everything. We have now reached a very interesting point. At least at the narrative level we have reached the point that “defund the police” is a real proposition (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 10/14: Less Long Covid. The pandemic has become predictable, which is the world we much prefer to live in. Cases and deaths continue their slow but steady declines, vaccine approvals for boosters and children continue to slowly move forward. Mandates continue to make people angry but mostly work when used, while also not that often being used. Same old, same old. The big news story was that one of the studies of Long Covid was revealed to be vastly overestimating frequency due to a methodological ‘error.’ It’s an important update. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 10/07: Steady as She Goes. For the second week in a row little has changed. (more)

Despite referring to plugin at (2021-07-20) Renewing SSL, I decided to stubbornly do it by hand 1 more time. (more)

heh, a book nobody would buy/read voluntarily (more)

could refer to (more)

Mobile TelCo; also Scrum Iteration

character/series of books by S L Huang https://www.slhuang.com/book-series/cas-russell/

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by Bucky Fuller, first published in 1969.... The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. Noting the lack of any user manual to help Earthians steward this ship, Fuller offers some reflections, prognostications, and guidance, based on contemporary concepts of linked relationships, that may help in the understanding, management, preservation, and sustainment of this ship. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth

Or, "many data objects and the relationships among them can be effectively modelled as graphs". Social Graph, Interest Graph, Work Graph, Object Browser, Graph Theory (more)

content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context. Differs from a meme: whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a shitpost is funny simply because it isn't a predictable repetition of an existing form. Shitposts can become memes, but memes cannot become shitposts. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitpost (more)

WikiEngine/Issue Tracker Wiki/SoftwareForge https://trac.edgewall.org/ (more)

Time for Implementing WebMention (more)