Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think itâs enough. If you lock yourself in a room and do the most marvellous work but donât tell anyone, then no one will know, no one will benefit, and the work will be lost. You may as well not have bothered. For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known. Sell Yourself Sell Your Work
When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you, and you lose the part of your identity that was external to you, and kept within that person. When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you. - memory loss death | Ask MetaFilter
You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. Youâre a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
Update on the contact-free delivery, the guy handed it to me personally and didnât leave it outside my door.
@kas@enotty.dk Well I do sign my emails, but the majority of persons I send emails to are not that kind of users :/
I think that I gonna do another twtxt on my personal server, and tweet without saying where it can be read
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net : [XMPP] I have an account for a long time, but only talk with one person, not that often :/ Iâm sad not a lot uses it
Automatically scheduled bank payments
So, you sign up for a gym, or another service, that gives you a small discount for paying using an automatic scheduled withdraw from your bankâs checking account. Things go well for a while, then they go sourâor you simply change your mindâand you want to sever that agreement, to disconnect the link between them and your bank account. Guess what? You canât. Not through your mobile banking app, nor through a bankâs web site, call, or in-person ⌠â Read more
Elections 2020
Election time is always an important time. We, the people, get to vote for the person that will be our nationâs president for at least four yearsâand with any luck, eight. The presidential election of 2020 is going to be an interesting one. I know, I know, we could say the same for every election. This time, though, itâs easy to understand why the upcoming election holds an extra weight.
I could go on, and describe the reasons why Trump shouldnât get re-elected. They ar ⌠â Read more
/meta Great job on the pagination! Now Iâm thinking about forking this and trying to see if I can use it as a personal nanoblog/wikiâŚ
neat, casually adding a 1,000-person orchestra
neat, casually adding a 100-person orchestra
upload insult: âyour personality probably fits into RAMâ
Taking Another Personâs Perspective Doesnât Help You Understand Them - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-taking-another-persons-perspective-doesnt-help-you-understand-them
when i grow up i want to be the kind of person who can pull off a cape as casual-wear
Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites originally archived Thu Dec 20 10:50:07 EST 2018
i think my personal wellbeing is starting to slip⌠piles of laundry need to be done and dishes crowd my desk
personal brands are Very Expensive Ghosts
Descartes was wrong: âa person is a person through other personsâ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons
Why I still use medium: https://lobste.rs/s/bykzkm/hide_medium_com_as_personal_filter_on#c_v6frxz
The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information
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 âperson does thing with computerâ 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 âreasonable personâ. 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 â Hereâs 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 donât even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me itâs hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, Iâm 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 doesnât have direct control over it, itâs not really personalization â only imposition
Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebartâs Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically donât exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still arenât 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 âPersonal Computing Experienceâ Be Programmed? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/10260548
We will never know what itâs like to be the person the K-Mart PA systemâs 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, âPersonal Distributed ComputingâThe Alto and Ethernet Hardwareâ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y
Personal Panopticons â Real Life https://reallifemag.com/personal-panopticons/
This Artistâs Personalized AI Horror Movie Is Messing With His Head https://breakermag.com/kevin-aboschs-is-being-manipulated-by-his-own-ai/
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / Donât expect him to thank or forgive you / Hail Satan!
002.01 FWUP: @dzns@tilde.town, youâre the most active person on this new frontier ;)
Charon, these days, is out of work due the Styx bridge, but bring an item of personal significance and he may still ferry you over personally and tell you about past great passengers
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, & weâd 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