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/
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / Don’t expect him to thank or forgive you / Hail Satan!
002.01 FWUP: @dzns@tilde.town, you’re 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, & 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.
What is happiness?
After questioning myself on the meaning of life—something I still do, by the way—I long settled that, regardless of what it might be, living a happy life and aiming to be happy is what life is all about. Happiness, though, isn’t a fixed thing. Just like the many avatars of gods, their many incarnations, happiness comes from many sources, and is often found in subtle contexts throughout life. It is not absolute, and its definition may vary from person to person: what brings me happiness migh … ⌘ Read more
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.
When you throw a coin into Earth’s gravity well, both you and the person that sees your shooting star get a wish
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.
@71m@timmorgan.org If your nick is mentioned with @ (i forgot yesterday, sorry) most clients should highlight it in your timeline if you are following the person mentioning you.
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/
a voodoo doll, but of someone you mean well and you make sure it has a good life while the person is away
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
Post-textual ideologies disseminated as games that build subtle intuitions not expressible in language, rearrange your worldview in a few hours of immersion, leave you with “Did you like being this person? Join us for more”
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
More comforting thoughts: Maybe it just doesn’t believe in personal culpability and free will. Or it’s busy being snacked on by higher basilisks.
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
Setting idea: Protagonist is mind-wiped, people around them are grieving for the person they were while they slowly piece together any identity at all
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