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’.
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
Bad idea of the day: Distribute a copy of Society of the Spectacle in the form of playing cards
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we already discussed encrypted tweets some time ago, but no encryption seemed short enough. GPG ist just too big. Any ideas?
If you make something and you aren’t OK with the idea of a degraded, broken zombie form of it existing forever, killing it is your responsibility.
Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | A… https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles
OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/
Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.
Bad idea of the day: a filter that eggcorn-izes test using substitutions from https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is s… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-human-brains-bandwidth-for-visual-images-is-severely-limited
Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.
Mark Blyth: Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas? - Full Talk (April 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3s-Ifx1Fo
Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-open-our-sealed-off-lives-to-semi-permeable-architecture
Sleepwalking is the result of a survival mechanism gone awry | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sleepwalking-is-the-result-of-a-survival-mechanism-gone-awry
What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-idea-of-civilisational-collapse-says-about-history
How socialism helped to seed the landscape of modern religion | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-socialism-helped-to-seed-the-landscape-of-modern-religion
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Eating people is wrong – but it’s also widespread and sacred | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/eating-people-is-wrong-but-its-also-widespread-and-sacred
Why the idea that the world is in terminal decline is so dangerous | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-idea-that-the-world-is-in-terminal-decline-is-so-dangerous
@reednj@twtxt.xyz No idea, i could just find https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
What songbirds could teach us about constructive tweeting | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-songbirds-could-teach-us-about-constructive-tweeting
The triage of truth: do not take expert opinion lying down | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-triage-of-truth-do-not-take-expert-opinion-lying-down
‘But you can’t do that!’ Why immoral actions seem impossible | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/but-you-cant-do-that-why-immoral-actions-seem-impossible
The 13th-century revolution that made modern poetry possible | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-13th-century-revolution-that-made-modern-poetry-possible
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.
Hyperpartisanship could destroy US democracy. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/5/16227700/hyperpartisanship-identity-american-democracy-problems-solutions-doom-loop
How the Summer of Love helped give birth to the Religious Right - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/31/16229320/summer-of-love-jesus-people-religious-right-history
Unpopular ideas about social norms – Julia Galef https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/
The value of bad ideas, according to a scientist — Quartz https://qz.com/1062945/the-value-of-bad-ideas-according-to-a-scientist/
The modern state, not ideas, brought about religious freedom | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom
I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the-only-animals-who-crave-oblivion-through-suicide?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=08e7309df2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-08e7309df2-68693017
People are intensely loyal to groups which abuse newcomers. Why? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/people-are-intensely-loyal-to-groups-which-haze-newcomers-why?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=064f5afcfd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-064f5afcfd-68693017
How the village feast paved the way to empires and economics | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-village-feast-paved-the-way-to-empires-and-economics?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=03ca3d03df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-03ca3d03df-68693017
Cognitive dissonance helps old dogs with their new tricks | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/cognitive-dissonance-helps-old-dogs-with-their-new-tricks?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6906942c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6906942c9d-68693017
George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/08/george-church-narcolepsy/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Folding Ideas - Sam Witwicky - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNspkOjZ0ac
Folding Ideas - Enter The Void - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJRGGOyJv0
How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2158247472-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2158247472-68693017
@reednj@twtxt.xyz Yeah, to make twtxt ready for a mesh network. But i just played with the idea, it’s no call for implementation… :)
There could be known archive urls and we could use mdns for local twtxt distribution. Just playing with the idea… :)
@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de Sorry, no idea then. I have a ticker with news agencies like dpa, afp etc. at work but that’s more like a firehose.