Bill Seitz

The Case of the Philosphers' Ring — Dr. Randall Collins

I'm enjoying Randall Collins' "The Case of the Philosopher's Ring"
https://www.drrandallcollins.com/the-case-of-the-philosphers-ring

@edent.tel i can #HazTags?

the recent burst of companies flagrantly disregarding robots.txt are eating their seed corn — the entire point is that as long as everyone shows some basic manners to other internet hosts, there’s no need for some international regulatory body to get involved and make everyday matters difficult […]

"Self-hosting is not an option for most people, you elitist nerd"

Yeah well neither is a gym membership or home-cooking your own healthy meals. Doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage people to do it if they can.

TONIGHT:

Approximately 2,000 Jews of conscience and allies are gathering at Columbus Circle to say NO MORE. No more starvation. No more ethnic cleansing. No more.

"'When you walk into a place that’s been sprayed, it’s dead silent,' says university professor, who's a Grand River First Nation member. 'No birds. No insects. Just loneliness'"

COLUMN: Ecological, safety concerns grow as glyphosate spraying begins in northern Ontario - North Bay News […]

"Thats not to say there haven’t been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One […]

@Jeremiah Poopers Digest.

The Adjuster Movie Watch Online | ReelShort In The Adjuster movie, after his sister dies due to losing health coverage, Matteo Leone, a broken man, takes justice into his own hands by killing the insurance company CEO. But he isn't just out for...

How did I miss the launch of Luigi The Musical?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/luigi-the-musical-mangione-san-francisco-20783179.php
Not to mention The Adjuster.
https://www.reelshort.com/movie/the-adjuster-6825b32759426343470c833f

"TINAD is a cult classic, a classic antimeme. The reason that the idea of the antimeme has become a meme is that the book and the New Yorker essay are more memetic textual modalities than is the sprawling, collaborative hypertextual world." […]

The bottom line is joy: making apps should be fun, they should bring joy to users – including the confidence that the data is in their own account – and we should have a large variety of apps, from small, silly to big, serious.

And beyond microblogging is where all the good stuff is.

Once again, I'm not going to link to this BS, which deserves no oxygen. However, in case you come across it, you should know that:

- The NSA, a branch of the US Department of Defense, isn't involved in any way in US elections, which are run by states.
- The NSA doesn't audit elections, or […]

From discussion during the end of day panel @cyberlyra pointed out that organizational design is the underlying, un-acknowledged piece that we all have to work on and learn about.

I enthusiastically agree! My label for the design we are learning is Networked Orgs […]

There's an amazing hip-hop show happening in SF tonight:

The Gray Area theater is hosting a tribute to Dax Pierson featuring Dose One, Jel, and M.Sayyid (form #AntiPopConsortium).

Dax was a pioneering electronic musician and founding-member of Subtle, 13+God, and Anticon. Tickets are […]

Fuckface McFuckington First Earl of Fail

bot by @davidaugust
This is satire, not sedition: don't send me to a camp, please.

#satire #potus45 #funny #USpol

Just saw a headline "Alan Dershowitz says he was refused pierogi at Martha's Vineyard farmers market" and I would like to inform newspapers that noted shitheel and turbocreep Alan Dershowitz being treated by his community as if he were a noted shitheel and turbocreep is not news.

Our president just fired the Labor Secretary because the most recent jobs numbers didn't match his feelings about how good the economy is. He did not explain WHY he thought the report was incorrect. Naturally many people are now saying we won't be able to trust future reports.

To me, faking […]

Wrong: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland." Right: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Americans who buy from Switzerland." Every time you see this mistake, correct it. Every. Time.

We used to do QualityOfEarnings analysis, sounds like it's time for QualityOfGdp. #AiBubble #DataCenter

#BadDesign

Simpler Lua Objects
I've been reading and thinking about objects not based in classes, in Lua/Luau. Let's explore and consider.
https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-w025/y/x/

I invented (discovered?) a new punctuation mark for more of a comment than a question.

To be clear, these are both Calvinball arguments given how Waller and Bowman have analyzed the economy in the past. They're saying this because Trump wants rates lower. Full stop.

Visualization of a graph connecting science fiction novels to economic concepts.

Sci-fi author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and I are working on a script that extracts economic concepts from reviews of science fiction novels. We are interested in observing convergences: are there alternative economies that feel believable to several authors? Here […]

[Original post on mastodon.green]

Dear Journalists:

You keep reporting that Trump "lowered" the tariffs planned for Japan et al to 15 percent (from the announcements of much higher numbers).

When you do, you play into his propagandists' hands.

He RAISED tariffs from ~2% -- that is, more than 7 times the previous level.

via #JatinModi on #LinkedIn

Wall Street just discovered its most profitable product: stories that investors desperately want to believe.

In 1720, the South Sea Company held exclusive British rights to the Spanish American slave trade. Shares 10x'ed in six months. To justify the valuation, the […]

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

We are modernizing the user interface

Pray we do not modernize it further

Given Apple's mess with RCS/groups, going to try and move family (I'm the only android user) to Signal. It came out better than I expected in my #GroupChat comparison table.
What else should I consider?
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/GroupChat

Had an awesome intro call with @bobbby.online, who is based in NYC and is looking to get a local community going.

Was very inspiring to hear about how he's enjoying ATProto and looking for more social fun stuff.

Meetup in Central Park on Aug 9th -> smokesignal.events/did:plc:6e6n...