open-source clone (at least initially) of Roam? (more)

grand narrative aka big history, master narrative?

Weather and Wildfires of 2023 - climate change? (more)

Andres Thoresson: What is the exit plan for your notes? Personal knowledge management (PKM) and Tools for thoughts (TfT) are relatively new buzzwords. But when features like graph visualizations, block references, and bi-directional linking (popularized by Roam, but now “everywhere”) get a lot of attention, less is talked about a more boring part. Longevity. (more)

Erik Hoel: I'm a complexitarian: only eat things below a certain neural complexity... octopus (is above the bar)... But of course being a complexitarian is just a stand-in. Ideally, we'd all be unconscioustarians... but without a theory of consciousness we can't even decide what to ethically eat. (more)

my favorite protein (more)

software/app architecture where the primary data-store is local, with data-synch to the network

Juston Garrison: Mastodon Is Doomed. In an ideal fediverse world, people would run personal servers or a community would run a server for members. The reality is people don’t want to pick their favorite community, running an instance is expensive and complicated, and owning your data isn’t a product feature. (more)

Ryan Barrett: Policing misinformation. Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation...in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. (nature of truth) (more)

Opinion | I’m on Ozempic. Now, I weigh much less but have more questions. “Well, if I gave it to you, you’d be the thinnest person I’ve ever prescribed it for.” (more)

Who killed Google Reader? Reader launched in 2005, right as the blogging era went mainstream; it made a suddenly huge and sprawling web feel small and accessible and helped a generation of news obsessives and super-commenters feel like they weren’t missing anything (more)

Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction. In its modern form, noir has come to denote a marked darkness in theme and subject matter, generally featuring a disturbing mixture of sex and violence.[1] While related to and frequently confused with hardboiled detective fiction—due to the regular adaptation of hardboiled detective stories in the film noir style—the two are not the same.[2] Both regularly take place against a backdrop of systemic and institutional corruption. However, noir (French for "black") fiction is centred on protagonists that are either victims, suspects, or perpetrators—often self-destructive. A typical protagonist of noir fiction is forced to deal with a corrupt legal, political or other system, through which the protagonist is either victimized and/or has to victimize others, leading to a lose-lose situation. Otto Penzler argues that the traditional hardboiled detective story and noir story are "diametrically opposed, with mutually exclusive philosophical premises". While the classic hardboiled private detective—as exemplified by the creations of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane—may bend or break the law, this is done by a protagonist with meaningful agency in pursuit of justice, and "although not every one of their cases may have a happy conclusion, the hero nonetheless will emerge with a clean ethical slate."[3][4][5] Noir works, on the other hand, whether films, novels, or short stories, are existential pessimistic tales about people, including (or especially) protagonists who are seriously flawed and morally questionable. The tone is generally bleak and nihilistic, with characters whose greed, lust, jealousy, and alienation lead them into a downward spiral as their plans and schemes inevitably go awry. ... The machinations of their relentless lust will cause them to lie, steal, cheat, and even kill as they become more and more entangled in a web from which they cannot possibly extricate themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_fiction (more)

The Croquet Project is an international effort to promote the continued development of Croquet, an open source software platform, a network Operating System, for developing and delivering deeply collaborative multi-user online applications (Collaboration Ware). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project https://croquet.io/ (more)

a sale that's tricky :) (Selling) (more)

style of building web apps without a heavy Javascript Client Framework (and associated heavy server-side cruft) (more)

Marco Fioretti: No, you don't need another Twitter. Or another Medium. (more)

Casey Newton: The platforms give up on 2020 lies (disinformation). On tech platforms these days you can get away with just about anything, as long as you’re running for president. (more)

Vice President under Donald Trump

On January 6 (Jan6), 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was stormed during a riot and violent attack against the U.S. Congress. A mob of supporters of President Donald Trump attempted to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election by disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes to formalize Joe Biden's victory.[2] The Capitol complex was locked down and lawmakers and staff were evacuated while rioters occupied and vandalized the building for several hours.[25] More than 140 people were injured in the storming. Five people died either shortly before, during, or after the event.[26] Called to action by Trump,[27] thousands[28] of his supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., on January 5 and 6 in support of his false claim that the 2020 election had been "stolen" from him,[29][30] and to demand that Vice President Mike Pence and Congress reject Biden's victory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol (more)

ActivityPub is an open, decentralized social networking protocol based on Pump.io's ActivityPump protocol.[1] It provides a client/server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server-to-server API for delivering notifications and content... The social networking software, Mastodon, implemented ActivityPub in version 1.6, released on 10 September 2017. It is intended that ActivityPub will offer more security for private messages than the current OStatus protocol does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub