- May 2023
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www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
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Midnight Riot (Rivers of London)<br /> by Ben Aaronovitch
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Riot-Rivers-London-Aaronovitch/dp/034552425X
Recommended by Patrick Rhone at today's micro.camp book meetup.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Mit der ENI wird zum ersten Mal auch in Italien eine Firma dafür angeklagt, dass sie für mehr Verbrauch von fossilen Brennstoffen warb, obwohl ihr die klimarisiken bereits seit 1970 bekannt waren. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/09/italian-oil-firm-eni-lawsuit-alleging-early-knowledge-climate-crisis
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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In her markings, Rose Caylor gave us a sense of her husband, the playwright Ben Hecht. In her copy of “A Child of the Century,” which Mr. Hecht wrote, she had drawn an arrow pointing to burns on a page. “Strikes matches on books,” she noted about her husband, who was a smoker.
This is a fascinating bit of reading practice.
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- Apr 2023
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Todo: Climate Reanalyzer
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- institution: NOAA
- process: ocean heating
- expert: Mike Meredith
- institution: British Antarctic Survey
- expert: Ben Webber
- expert: Mark Maslin
- expert: Simon Good
- project: OISST
- expert: Matthew England
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- Jan 2023
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genizalab.princeton.edu genizalab.princeton.edu
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https://genizalab.princeton.edu/pgp-database/technical-history
Overview of the technical portions of the Princeton Geniza Lab operatioins.
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- Dec 2022
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benlog.com benlog.com
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my strong sense is that we’re currently papering over major UX problems that are linked to core architectural properties.
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claudemariottini.com claudemariottini.com
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https://claudemariottini.com/2021/09/20/standing-stones-in-the-old-testament/
Commonplaces: standing stones in the Old Testament!
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- Nov 2022
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benfry.com benfry.com
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What a spectacular visualization of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Richard Carter will love this if he's not seen it.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Computers can only deal with well-structured problems
ie, "well-defined problems" in John Vervaeke's language. Cultivation of wisdom, per Vervaeke, is developing the capacity to navigate a ill-defined problem space, and realize (ie, recognize, and make real) what is relevant to resolving the situation.
Examples of ill-defined problems: - how to take good notes? - how to tell a funny joke? - how to go on a successful 1st date? - how to be a good friend?
May relate to Shapiro's "role theory". Needs further research
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getblogging.org getblogging.org
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A Ben Werdmuller joint
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- Oct 2022
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benwerd.substack.com benwerd.substack.com
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Congratulations (I guess?) on finding my semi-secret Substack: a place away from my main site to discuss my journey from technologist (a pompous term that really just means I do computers) to writer (a pompous term that really just means I do computers but now it’s art).
This quote is art... :)
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soundcloud.com soundcloud.com
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soundcloud.com soundcloud.com
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www.mixcloud.com www.mixcloud.com
- Sep 2022
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Whatever Musk ends up doing, this possibility is what the right is actually celebrating.
It is quite clear that the right "celebrates" Elon Musks eventual purchase of twitter as his political views as a billionaire would align closer to what the right views than what those on the left would. This would make Elon Musk buying twitter a larger advantage than one would think in the grand scheme. Twitter is heavily used throughout the political atmosphere to spread beliefs, campaigns and other politic related movements. By removing a previous owner who has been known to "censor" what is being tweeted, (which has prominently been on the right side, politically) , right wing ideas will have a greater chance of sticking with larger amounts of people. This is why this move is seen as worth celebrating on the right side of the political spectrum.
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- Jul 2022
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Local file Local file
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Ben Shneiderman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shneiderman
Originated the treemap within the computer interface.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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His major work in recent years has been on information visualization, originating the treemap concept for hierarchical data.[30]
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- Apr 2022
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Roberts, B. (2006) ‘Cinema as Mnemotechnics’, Angelaki, 11 (1):55-63.
this looks interesting and based on quotes in this paper in the final pages might be interesting or useful with respect to pulling apart memory and orality
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- Mar 2022
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www.cs.umd.edu www.cs.umd.edu
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The danger of working at "internet time" is that hasty decisions may be poor, and rapid changes may cause troubling turbulence for many users.
In 1998, Ben Shneiderman wrote "The danger of working at "internet time" is that hasty decisions may be poor, and rapid changes may cause troubling turbulence for many users." He's essentially admonishing against the dangerous and anti-social idea of what Mark Zuckerberg would later encourage at Facebook when he said "move fast and break things."
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The current situation is deteriorating as the proliferation of formats reduces the capacity of users to share their work.
Already in 1998, Ben Shneiderman has presaged and highlights the point of the classic XKCD comic #927 on standards.
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- Feb 2022
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www.theinformation.com www.theinformation.com
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- Jan 2022
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thejollyteapot.com thejollyteapot.com
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- Apr 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Maryland offers a microcosm of the issues states face as they rush to open enough vaccination sites to meet President Biden’s goal of making every adult eligible for Covid-19 shots by May 1. It has encountered nearly all the geographic, demographic and human behavioral challenges that come with a public health task of this scale.
Hi Ben
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- Feb 2021
- Aug 2019
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niklasblog.com niklasblog.com
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The Daily Beast got it right with a subhead about a recent right-wing terrorist, the one who blew himself up in his home full of bomb-making materials: “Friends and family say Ben Morrow was a Bible-toting lab worker. Investigators say he was a bomb-building white supremacist.”
The Daily Beast quote is found here.
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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Friends and family say Ben Morrow was a Bible-toting lab worker. Investigators say he was a bomb-building white supremacist.
Rebecca Solnit uses this quote perfectly here.
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- Jan 2019
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electricliterature.com electricliterature.com
- Mar 2016
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www.gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org
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Froissart
Best guess is having some kind of resemblance to the artistic renderings of Medieval historian Jean Froissart (~1470), whose large tapestries often depicted courtly life enacted in loud and theatrical fashion.
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- Nov 2014
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www.friedenauer-presse.de www.friedenauer-presse.de
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Es gibt im LIBREAS.Weblog ein Essay über die in diesem Band enthaltenen Geschichte Disput über das Glück, siehe Die Bibliothek in der Literatur. Reed Gračevs Disput über das Glück. (von Ben Kaden, 29.10.2014)
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