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"text": "Heh. Have you ever gassed up in New Jersey or Oregon? No self-serve gas there.",
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🔖 Bookmarked Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/ai-ubi-and-data/
#AI#UBI#economics#data#labor#capitalism
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@SwarmApp@Foursquare update: 2 weeks after my account was mysteriously deleted: @4sqSupport restored all but profile photo & last 3 days (May 15-17) checkins, unrecoverable per eng. team. Still unknown: how/why deletion happened, were others deleted?
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"text": "Tonight, 23:59 Eastern Time (as is customary for W3C), is the deadline for voting.\n\n\nPlease Vote in the 2019 W3C Advisory Board Election (W3C Member-only link, only Advisory Committee members can vote).\n\n\nMy fellow Advisory Board (AB) candidates and additional members of the W3C Community have shared their thoughts on the AB election, some on their blogs, and some on W3C Member only list(s).\n\n\nIt is very important that you explicitly rank candidates according to what is most important to you due to the way the current W3C STV mechanism is interpreted and implemented by the W3C Team. 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He has been an extremely effective chair of the CSS Working Group, a very large and diverse set of individuals with a variety of backgrounds, interests, and priorities, that is also extremely prolific. He has demonstrated time & time again that when there is conflict, he is able to mediate a dialog to find common ground, find fair ways to resolve differences, or often get parties to defer when progress can be made regardless.\n\nIf Chinese standards efforts representation is most important to you, choose Judy (Hongru) Zhu as Ranked 1\n\nWhile I was on the Advisory Board, I got to know Judy and very much appreciate her participation. She brought key insights with regards to the interactions of global standards efforts, especially with standards efforts in China. I believe these insights have helped the governance of W3C, and W3C\u2019s goals of producing truly global standards.\n\n\nThank you Natasha and Mike\n\nHuge thanks to AB incumbents Natasha and Mike for their service. I am glad I got a chance to work with Natasha and Mike on the Advisory Board. Natasha provided a refreshing perspective and I hope she considers running for the AB in the future. Mike has served on the AB for a very long time, and demonstrated the ability to actively evolve the AB, the W3C, and forge a productive relationship with the WHATWG (as noted in the recenty announced MoU). Both Mike and Natasha set good examples for whoever is next elected to the AB.\n\n\nPlease vote!\n\nGo Vote in the 2019 W3C Advisory Board Election (W3C Member-only link, only Advisory Committee members can vote).\n\n\nIf you have already voted, thank you for voting. If you have not, please take the few minutes to do so. In either case please consider the above candidates for their strengths and consider (re)ranking accordingly. Thank you for your consideration.",
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The ninth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create and improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
I’m still working out a conflict to figure out if I’ll physically be in Portland in person, but at the very worst, I’ll definitely attend remotely. This is my favorite event of the entire year, so I definitely won’t miss it.
There are still some tickets left so RSVP now! I hope you’ll join me.
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"text": "RSVPed Attending IndieWeb Summit - June 29-30, 2019 - Portland, OregonThe ninth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create and improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.I\u2019m still working out a conflict to figure out if I\u2019ll physically be in Portland in person, but at the very worst, I\u2019ll definitely attend remotely. This is my favorite event of the entire year, so I definitely won\u2019t miss it.\nThere are still some tickets left so RSVP now! I hope you\u2019ll join me.\n\nSyndicated copies to: Twitter icon",
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How do we come up with ideas? How do we make decisions? And how can we do both better? Steven Johnson has explored this question and written a dozen books about it. In this playful, thoughtful episode, Steven has some fascinating stories, like how Darwin made the decision to get married — or how a defecating duck helped lead to the invention of the computer. Through their own stories, Steven and Alan Alda share their thoughts about the transformative nature of ideas and what sort of environments best give rise to creativity.
I love the idea of the slow hunch discussed here. It’s part of the reason I keep a commonplace book. Johnson also discusses his own personal commonplace book, though he doesn’t give it that particular name here.
The commercial about Alda Communication Training makes me wonder if they recommend scientists and communicators have their own websites? In particular, I’m even more curious because of Johnson’s mention of his commonplace book and how he uses it in this episode. I suspect that scientists having a variety of interconnecting commonplaces (via Webmention) using basic IndieWeb or A Domain of One’s Own principles could better create slow hunches, create more links, increase creativity and diversity, and foster greater innovation. I’ll have to follow up on this idea. While some may do something slightly like this within other parts of social media, I don’t get the impression that it’s as useful a tool in those places (isn’t as searchable or permanent feeling, and is likely rarely reviewed over). Being able to own your digital commonplace as a regular tool certainly has more value as Johnson describes. Functionality like On This Day dramatically increases its value.
But there’s another point that we should make more often, I think, which is that one of the most robust findings in the social sciences and psychology over the last 20 years is that diverse groups are just collectively smarter and more original in the way that they think in, in both their way of dreaming up new ideas, but also in making complicated decisions, that they avoid all the problems of group think and homogeneity that you get when you have a group of like minded people together who are just amplifying each other’s beliefs.—Steven Johnson [00:09:59]
Think about a big decision in your life. Think about the age span of the people you’re talking to about that choice. Are they all your peers within three or four years? Are you talking somebody who’s a generation older and a generation younger?—Steven Johnson [00:13:24]
I was talking to Ramzi Hajj yesterday about having mentors (with a clear emphasis on that mentor being specifically older) and this quote is the same sentiment, just with a slightly different emphasis.
One of the things that is most predictive of a species, including most famously, humans, of their capacity for innovation and problem solving as an adult is how much they play as a newborn or as a child.—Steven Johnson [00:28:10]
Play is important for problem solving.
I think you boil this all down into the idea that if you want to know what the next big thing is, look for where people are having fun.—Alan Alda [00:31:35]
This is interesting because I notice that one of the binding (and even physically stated) principles of the IndieWeb is to have fun. Unconsciously, it’s one of the reasons I’ve always thought that what the group is doing is so important.
Ha! Alda has also been watching Shtisel recently [00:50:04].
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17:30: Optional writing hour and socializing
18:30: IndieWeb demos and hack night!
Homebrew Website Club retro 1980s-style logo
Topics for this week: Recent IndieWebCamps! IndieWebCamp Berlin IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf IndieWebCamp Utrecht Take Back Your Web talk at Beyond Tellerand Düsseldorf The New Yorker: Can Indie Social Media Save Us Demos of personal website breakthroughs Create or update your personal web site! Sign-up for the 2019 IndieWeb Summit!
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site, or are interested in a healthy, independent web!
Any questions? Ask in #indieweb Slack or IRC
More information: IndieWeb Wiki Event Page
RSVP: post an indie RSVP on your own site!
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"html": "<p>I have to be better about posting my movie \u201creviews\u201d more quickly. I get overwhelmed thinking that I need to write something about the movie when really the whole point of me doing these reviews is just to record what movies I\u2019ve seen. So this month, I\u2019m writing very little about each of these viewings.</p>\n<h3>Avengers: End Game \u2606\u2606\u2606</h3>\n<p>I enjoyed this movie. But\u2026I fell asleep. I can count on one hand the number of times I have fallen asleep during a movie. Despite napping for something like 20 minutes, I didn\u2019t lose any thread of the narrative\u2013and I think that tells you something too. Like I said, I enjoyed the movie. There were so many interesting characters. So. Many. Characters. But not enough of the ones I really like. My main criticism of the plot is that Captain Marvel could just have taken care of everything but she was \u201cbusy on other planets.\u201d Ok.</p>\n<p>At the Concord Regal with Ann and Pat.</p>\n<h3>Tolkien \u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606</h3>\n<p>I enjoyed this much more than I expected to.</p>\n<p>At Red River with Ann, Pat, and Al.</p>\n<h3>Hail Satan \u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606</h3>\n<p>Such a fun and funny but important documentary about the First Amendment.</p>\n<p>At Red River with Ann, Pat, and Al.</p>\n<h3>Wine Country \u2606\u2606</h3>\n<p>I heard Amy Poehler talking about this movie on NPR after I watched it and her ideas about what the movie could be were so much more interesting than what the movie actually was. Too bad because I was primed to love this one.</p>\n<p>On Netflix at home.</p>\n<h3>Booksmart \u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606</h3>\n<p>There was a lot of dumb stuff in this teen comedy. But there was so much more smart.</p>\n<p>At the Concord Regal with Ann, Pat, and Al.</p>",
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"text": "Changes to the #Chrome extensions API mean that ad-blocking will effectively be limited to enterprise (read: paying) customers. #Google even admits that ad-blocking is a thread to their revenue stream in recent SEC filings.\nGoogle is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. This is likely to allow enterprise customers to develop in-house Chrome extensions, not for ad blocking usage.\nGoogle themselves have even admitted as such in a recent SEC Form 10-K filing by Alphabet, uncovered by Hill, in which ad blocking extensions are labeled as a \u201crisk factor\u201d to Google\u2019s revenues. \u2014 9to5google\nAs Google themselves put it:New and existing technologies could affect our ability to customize ads and/or could block ads online, which would harm our business. \u2014 Google's SEC 10-K filingNot only will this affect ad-blocking, but other extensions that use content-blocking as well - for example, certain accessibility and content-warning plugins could equally be affected by this change.\nGoogle Chrome is moving to remove autonomy from Web users.\nGoogle Chrome is not built for people; it\u2019s built for Google, by Google. You are their bank. \u2014 Jacky Alcin\u00e9\nSeriously, it's time to uninstall Chrome and install #Firefox, for the sake of your #privacy and #autonomy.",
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