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I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires

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Anthropic physical laws: Actually just endless chains of coincidences, but return to the norm instantly kills all sentient observers

Fonts for Complex Data | News, Notes & Observations | Hoefler & Co. https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data

“I want th… https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2018/02/i-want-state-think-anarchist-dutch-historian-rutger-bregman-why-left

How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science

Unexplained artifacts in observation data from the Even Larger Telescope: The “compressed skybox” hypothesis [pdf]

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21724115-observers-donald-trumps-presidency-who-hope-politics-will-eventually-return https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21724115-observers-donald-trumps-presidency-who-hope-politics-will-eventually-return

+++ advice to “read old books” and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++

Observe male bulldozers in the wild during mating season, competing for female attention (the females lack shovels) https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/721951526269267968

@allgebrah mind you the observation itself is not new at all (see: gibson’s gernsback continuum) but maybe the word is?

1-2: observe their life and customs↵3-4: a challenger appears but is swiftly struck down↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714138754382958592/photo/1

Paradox of the Active User

The “paradox of the active user” is a concept introduced by John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson (then at IBM, now at Penn State) to explain a common observation in several user studies done at the IBM User Interface Institute in the early 1980s (later confirmed by many other studies, including my own): Users never read manuals … ⌘ Read more