Shades of Fyodorov https://www.newsweek.com/quantum-archaeology-quest-3d-bioprint-every-dead-person-back-life-837967

Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan

Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?

Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it

Spicy take: unless you have personally vetted all the code on it, you should not allow your voice assistant to access the internet.

Psychometric Profiling: Persuasion by Personality in Elections - Our Data Our Selves https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/psychometric-profiling/

Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data | Pew Research Center http://www.pewinternet.org/2019/01/16/facebook-algorithms-and-personal-data/

I Tracked My Whole Life In A Google Sheet For A Year “ Here’s What I Learned - Digg http://digg.com/2019/google-sheet-personal-organization-lifehack

The Genius Person Has Always Been Sort of an Illusion http://nautil.us/blog/-the-case-against-geniuses

Folks, journalists don’t even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me it’s hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, I’m gonna blow. Purity is shitty praxis: if you want to stop tracking, you need to complain on a site with tracking.

We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites

If the user doesn’t have direct control over it, it’s not really personalization – only imposition

Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebart’s Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically don’t exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still aren’t fulfilled.

Patterns of personal knowledge base · zadam/trilium Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Patterns-of-personal-knowledge-base

Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The “Personal Computing Experience” Be Programmed? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/10260548

We will never know what it’s like to be the person the K-Mart PA system’s 1994 holiday playlist wants us to be.

Personal Computer Milestones http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

Chuck Thacker, “Personal Distributed Computing”The Alto and Ethernet Hardware” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

Personal Panopticons “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/

This Artist’s Personalized AI Horror Movie Is Messing With His Head https://breakermag.com/kevin-aboschs-is-being-manipulated-by-his-own-ai/

002.01 FWUP: @dzns@tilde.town, you’re the most active person on this new frontier ;)

No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data : The Salt : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm

Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.

Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & we’d be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.

The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.

@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.

Enya is always out of reach | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5767/enya-very-intriguing-person

Hot take: politics is normal interpersonal drama writ large. Anything done in public is political, and anything done in private is political if it’s repeated often enough, by one person or by many independently.

Why I Taught My Son to Speak Russian | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/why-did-i-teach-my-son-to-speak-russian

Thinkpiece formula: in the age of

30 years later, QBasic is still the best | Personal Registry Editor http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-still-the-best/

Basically, if the antagonist of your story is actually a person or something person-like, it’s not really cyberpunk, because it’s not about the things cyberpunk is about. If you have an evil government or an evil corporation, it’s not cyberpunk either.

The Spectacular Personal Mythology of Rammellzee | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee

Breaking news: Person famous for saying stupid things in public says stupid thing in public. Film at 11.

Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4400/alanis-morissette-very-intriguing-person

How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/

Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

Parsing timeline v3: https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3

I love Wait But Why, and so it’s a real shame that Tim Urban has transformed into Elon Musk’s personal PR guy for the past few years, rather than writing on a wider array of topics.

Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club” in the Age of #MeToo | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink

The man who coined the Dunning–Kruger effect says we’re most gullible to ourselves — Quartz https://qz.com/1231534/the-person-whos-best-at-lying-to-you-is-you/

Band name of the day: bright, rich, personal, slow and under construction

Band name of the day: a tantalizing typology of personality

Open psychology data: Raw data from online personality tests https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/

Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.

Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER