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 âThe Breakfast Clubâ 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 DunningâKruger effect says we’re most gullible to ourselves â 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
Revenge of the Spectacle: This Time It’s Personal — Red Wedge http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/revenge-of-the-spectacle-this-time-its-personal
Semi-autonomous software agents: A personal perspective. - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/08/semi-autonomous-software-agents-personal-perspective/
How America’s National Parks Became Hotbeds of Paranormal Activity - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjvdx/missing-persons-national-parks-paranormal-bigfoot-aliens
I am not opposed to someone having a negative comment now and then but when 90% of what they say is negative. That is a person I do not need in my life.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net True, but in this case this person was talking about standards that didn’t actually exisit.
@kas@enotty.dk I like the personal touch that we are greeting new users! Hi, @leveck@leveck.us
How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=79140b7e03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-79140b7e03-68693017
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D
Chuck Thacker, "Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y
When it comes to performance issues, I honestly think the solution is just “don’t follow so many people”. You only pull the feeds you read, and once one’s feeds are too much for the computer to handle, they’ll almost certainly have far too much content for a person to actually read.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.