Unique-but-abandoned Mac-only product, developed by Bill Atkinson (following an LSD trip). Could be a HyperText engine (Beyond Cyberpunk), could be a (mainly single-user) data-backed GUI CardDeck-based development environment. Launched 1987. (more)

I've been programming and designing software for over 25 years. My chief interest is in systems that allow end-users to visualize and manipulate complex systems. I've designed and built many systems that involve both complex user interfaces and an AI/KR component (such as a visual knowledge entry for medical expert systems, and a spatial visualizer for the Cyc knowledge base). I've also built many systems that involve end-user programming, for many different types of users including both children and scientists. My approach: the goal is to make software that lets people be smarter (Augmenting Human Intellect). http://hyperphor.com/ammdi https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdtravers/ (more)

30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web. This piece originally ran on May 30, 2012 as Hypercard approached its 25th anniversary, and it appears unchanged below. (more)

Stanislav Datskovskiy: Why HyperCard Had to Die. do you now know why Steve Jobs killed HyperCard? (more)

Inside the Koch Brothers-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century. In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. (more)

In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.[1][2] The legal term PAC was created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States. Democracies of other countries use different terms for the units of campaign spending or spending on political competition (see political finance). At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Act).[3] At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state's election laws. Contributions to PACs from corporate or labor union treasuries are illegal, though these entities may sponsor a PAC and provide financial support for its administration and fundraising. Union-affiliated PACs may solicit contributions only from union members. Independent PACs may solicit contributions from the general public and must pay their own costs from those funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

Tool to use Excalidraw to give a UX like The Brain for Obsidian. https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain

Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake. Charles Koch... the 15th-wealthiest man in the U.S., says he isn’t interested in more division. At age 85, he says, he is turning his attention to building bridges across partisan divides to find answers to sprawling social problems such as poverty, addiction, recidivism, gang violence and homelessness. His critics are skeptical, noting that his fierce Republican partisanship over the years blew up a lot of bridges. (more)

How The Koch Brothers Broke Democracy & Stuck Taxpayers With The Bill. The background for this piece is Jane Mayer’s extraordinary book Dark Money, which came out earlier this year. The subtitle says it all: The Hidden History Of The Billionaires Behind The Rise Of The Radical Right. (more)

Watch Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse school Amy Coney Barrett on dark money. The Republicans, Whitehouse noted, seem to be getting their money’s worth. Their judicial nominees have voted in at least 80 cases where “there is an identifiable Republican donor interest” and ruled in their favor, to the detriment of workers’ rights, women’s rights, voting rights, and the environment. Whitehouse, who is a former US Attorney, sounded like someone delivering a closing argument in the courtroom. He blamed the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, which allowed unlimited money to flow into political campaigns, for the current situation. (more)

Steve Yegg on Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're Using (more)

Ben Hunt: The Anti-Anarchist Cookbook. Ask these three questions of any narrative – is it effective on a brain chemical level? is it resilient against narrative counterattack? is it authentic to what you truly believe? – is the right framework to achieve lasting policy success in a modern age of ubiquitous social media and culture-porn addiction. (more)

see 2009-10-17-ZwikiCloneChoice (more)

See Remarkable Life, Compelling

Cal Newport book on having a Remarkable Life. ISBN:978-1455509126 (more)

text editor which displays styling in realtime (modeless) (more)

see Rich Text Editor

tools for thought in development by Baldur Bjarnason - https://www.colophon.cards/ (more)

writing app (more)

PyTorch is a machine learning framework based on the Torch library,[4][5][6] used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing,[7] originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella.[8][9][10][11] It is free and open-source software released under the modified BSD license. Although the Python interface is more polished and the primary focus of development, PyTorch also has a C++ interface.[12] A number of pieces of deep learning software are built on top of PyTorch, including Tesla Autopilot,[13] Uber's Pyro,[14] Hugging Face's Transformers,[15] PyTorch Lightning,[16][17] and Catalyst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyTorch