Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/10/22: We Have a Plan. Covid situation continues to improve, although Covid remains a thing. There’s a new executive plan that I did my best to read with incomplete success, that checks off lots of boxes and doesn’t have anything horribly wrong with it. (more)

Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir, sold under the brand name Paxlovid, is a co-packaged medication used as a treatment for COVID-19.[3][5][9] It contains the antiviral medications nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.[3][5] It is taken by mouth.[3][5] In December 2021, the co-packaged medication was granted emergency use authorization by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19.[5][6][7][10] The co-packaged medication is not authorized for the pre-exposure or post-exposure prevention of COVID-19 or for initiation of treatment in tho se requiring hospitalization due to severe or critical COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir

Researchers have established the existence of three sublineages of Omicron variant. The 'standard' sublineage is now referred to as BA.1 (or B.1.1.529.1), and the two other sublineages are known as BA.2 (or B.1.1.529.2) and BA.3 (or B.1.1.529.3).[47] They share many mutations, but also significantly differ. In general, BA.1 and BA.2 share 32 mutations, but differ by 28.[48] This makes them as different as some other major variants,[49] and it has been suggested that BA.2 should receive its own name based on the Greek alphabet.[48] BA.1 has itself been divided in two, the original BA.1 and BA.1.1, where the main difference is that the latter has a R346K mutation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Sublineages_and_BA.2_subvariant

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/3/2022: Move Along. The good news is that this is rapidly ramping down in many places, and perhaps coming to an end. The CDC has revised its mask guidelines to target a much more sensible metric, and now recommends unmasking in a large portion of the country. I would go farther, but the offer seems acceptable (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Convoy Continued. We continue to have ourselves a convoy (more)

Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP (/ˈtruːdoʊ, truːˈdoʊ/; French: [ʒystɛ̃ tʁydo] (audio speaker iconlisten), born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark; he is also the first to be the child or other relative of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau

Zvi Mowshowitz: Convoy. Many truckers do not like vaccine mandates. (more)

Climate Risk Assessment and Management (climate change) https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktrexler/ (more)

aka Smallest Federated Wiki, Federated Wiki

Rusty Guinn: Starry Eyes and Starry Skies. the importance of post-secondary college education in America IS a myth – one of our most powerful. (more)

see post-modernism

The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial (the "bailey").[1] The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position.[2][3] Upon retreating to the motte, the arguer can claim that the bailey has not been refuted (because the critic refused to attack the motte)[1] or that the critic is unreasonable (by equating an attack on the bailey with an attack on the motte)... Philosopher Nicholas Shackel, who coined the term,[1] prefers to speak of a motte-and-bailey doctrine instead of a fallacy... Shackel's original impetus was to criticize what he considered duplicitous processes of argumentation in works of academics such as Michel Foucault, David Bloor, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Rorty, and Berger and Luckmann, and in postmodernist discourses in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy (more)

PartyBid is a product that lets groups of people combine their capital and bid on NFT auctions together. (DAO) https://party.mirror.xyz/ https://twitter.com/prtydao

Friends With Benefits: A New Model for Social Tokens. The Ethereum community gets to ask itself everyday, “what is money?” Before cryptocurrencies and tokens even emerged, a rich intellectual history has been written on the anthropology and sociology of money. Nigel Dodd in The Social Life of Money (2014) argues that money is a “claim upon society” since it expresses a form of debt between an individual and society as a whole. (more)

Term from Eric Raymond's Cathedral And The Bazaar. When you start community-building, what you need to be able to present is a plausible promise. Your program doesn't have to work particularly well. It can be crude, buggy, incomplete, and poorly documented. What it must not fail to do is (a) run, and (b) convince potential co-developers that it can be evolved into something really neat in the foreseeable future. (more)

My interest is in tools/processes to increase the likelihood of survival/success for a SmallCo of thinkers. (more)

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), known professionally as Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity.[2] His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce (more)

now Glitch: Joel Spolsky's software company: FogBUGZ, Trello, etc. (more)

Shadow Government? Fourth Branch? (more)

May'2014: Darius Kazemi has shifted to keeping his Side Project-s small. It does not matter how or frivolous a project seems: everything you do adds to your body of work. I can’t stress this enough: you are not just creating a bunch of small things. You are creating an EcoSystem of projects... If you make lots of small projects, you can approach the same idea from many, many different angles. This can be really interesting... Making lots of small projects means you stay constantly excited. You literally cannot be bored with work if you stop working on it the moment become bored... Having lots of projects means you can watch your aesthetic develop over time very quickly... You make stuff, and you’re going to like certain things, but you can’t predict what other people will like. So even if you make something and you think it sucks, put it out there. Maybe people will hate it, maybe they’ll ignore it, or maybe they’ll like it. But just put it out there... Out of my 72 projects last year, I’d say 10 of them were successful in some substantial way. That’s 1 out of 7 projects. At that rate, if I made one project a year, it would take me SEVEN YEARS to make something that caught on with the public. By focusing on small projects, I can experience 10 major successes a year. (Quantity Beats Quality) (more)