a ton of crates

this is why niche tools rock. it's so hard to find good content on notion and obsidian in the same way it's impossible to google about advanced python and javascript. but these pages have extremely high SNR: eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Sc...

also re: this skeet, kinda an obvious point, but it's so much more valuable to find tutorials from people showing you their deep & well-grooved workflows rather than watching people trying to make you a "notion expert" in 15 minutes

YouTube video by Mystic Arts How I PREP D&D with Obsidian

really good video even if you don't care about D&D, cool to see how people use hypertext for stuff like creative writing and worldbuilding, and a great intro to Obsidian

we should be valorizing these people rather than demonizing them. robinhoods of the modern day. give em a TV show

i try hard to be the right level of radicalized on this shit but it's so hard, man. at best, our rich are greedy pricks haggling on insurance for jewelry that could buy a house. then we get to jeff epstein, elon musk, ...

tough to read this stuff and come to any conclusion other than "every billionaire is a policy failure"

every time a former classmate / labmate raises $100MM to build a whatever AI startup i get this 🤏 much closer to selling out

i am an adult with an attention span greater than 3 seconds... you don't need to do this....

it's so embarrassing to search for certain things on youtube because of the now-omnipresent hyperoptimized mr beast thumbnail

thematic guess but i feel like rob pike doesn't have the Heart of the Poster like ted does

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don't think he would derisively refer to the PARC User Interface :-)

guess the computer luminary who wrote this

ok sorry it's pretty sick that i can paste this into opus4.6 and get back an accurate OCR + latin translation w/ historically accurate context on the passages

just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍

byte magazine moodboard

still from Microsoft: Productivity Future Vision (2016)

sorry babe, i didn't get the job. i was only at 53% tenure and 71% publications

I've been working on a new tool with @tonofcrates.bsky.social to make publishing easier called Rheo:

rheo.ohrg.org

In a nutshell, it lets you produce an EPUB, a PDF, and a static site (HTML) from a folder of @typst.app files. The Rheo doc site is naturally made with Rheo (PDF and EPUB linked).

grandchildren, perhaps?

"isn't that just a roguelike?" - wife

yeah i think it's either by contact to still-existing oral traditions, or by examining congruence between texts written in the time transitioning out of oral tradition. but not knowing much about oral historiography, that's just an educated guess

reminded of this hilariously incorrect prediction by walter ong in orality and literacy

that's really cool! and a surprising omission by these scholars. eurocentrism strikes again, perhaps

There is certainly nothing remotely comparable to the feats of LVR which are to be found in literate cultures in connection with sacred or socially valued texts, e.g. the the word-perfect recital of the 77,934 words of The Qur'an, the memorization of the 10,565 lines of Milton's poem Paradise Lost, the rendering by an actor of the 1,422 lines of Hamlet's role. The search reveals that individuals in non-literate cultures can certainly retain large amounts of information and that detailed events, names and phrases can certainly be transmitted across several generations once their salience to tradition causes them to be mentioned frequently. But what is evident is that LVR is not the means by which such retention and transmission is achieved. Basically, LVR is just not salient for non-literate people, not a pressing real-life concern, not an achievement to aim at. It is the advent of written records which brings the verbatim characteristics of language into prominence and contrasts them from gist and paraphrase. Text brings an interest in LVR by demonstrating the possibility of literal reproduction and providing means to verify that verbatim recall has, in fact, been achieved by oneself and by others. Exposure to written texts (and perforce to audio and video recordings) accentuates and tightens the criteria by which people judge reproductive accuracy.

the reason has less to do with humans' ability to, when committed, memorize long sequences, and more to do with the fact that long verbatim recitation was simply not valued in oral culture. see: this excerpt from Hunter (1984), "Lengthy verbatim recall", who is also the source of the 50 words claim:

even songs! and most pieces in oral tradition are song

certainly memorizable, but not part of any oral tradition

Homer - Wikipedia

see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer#T...

insofar as the iliad was transmitted orally, it definitely was not remembered verbatim, and written transmission is definitionally outside oral tradition

"there are no documented cases of pieces over 50 words long being recalled verbatim in any oral tradition"

the small handful of people who are actually using this stuff in a disciplined, thoughtful, and prosocial way are not the enemy. we will undoubtedly have to learn from them if we want to find ways for the human quest for meaning to survive into the future. that’s all i’ve got.