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day 6: lovers
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xkcd 1043 (April 16, 2012)
Actual (August 1, 2023)
Tumblr overtook blog in November 2012, and got re-overtaken in January 2019 (the month after the porn ban)
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Migrators from AniTwitter, where aaaaaarrrrreeee youuuuuuu? AniTumblr?
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The Evolution of Blog Posts: A Journey Through Digital Expression
The Evolution of Blog Posts: A Journey Through Digital Expression
I was just pondering the idea of the “blog” and thought I’d reflect on this interesting phenomena. I thought, I love the idea of sharing thoughts online, but to some it may seem to be an invasion of privacy. Not me. I generally think it’s best to be an open book. Also, remember GeoCities? That was my main jam in the 1990s, creating…
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The C-List! : Awards Festivals and Kickstarter season is underway!
Hey folks, it’s been a while and it’s kind of crazy out there so here’s some postive mainly, can-con comics news! Lets take a whirl wind tour of what’s been going on this week.
The poster for the 2023 Doug Wright Awards, by Jay Stephens!
This incarnation of our venerable C-List is going to be a weekly Friday summery of things we’ve shared from Canadian creators, publishers and retailers on our…
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Been sooooo busy I HAVEN’T Even posted these last couple of days: NEW SUNDAY FUNDAY BLOG UP ON FWACATA.COM Check out new links and thoughts are up to everything that happened last week including sneak peek to new comics and the podcast with insights to more! #sundayfunday #blogosphere #miamiblog #makecomics #makeart #fwacata (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBySJhPt1P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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"Edward Hazlewood" https://bit.ly/41Mlvsh determina apoyar la boda de Marco y Katarina mientras le cambia la perspectiva a Maragaglio sobre un asunto de vital importancia. #novivoaqui #NoVivoAquí #novivoaquí #mikehazlewood #fanfic #fanfiction #blogosphere #blogs #blog #blogger #blogosfera #cuento #literaturaeninstagram #literaturaenespañol #literatura #katarinaleoncavallo #marcoantonioni #maragaglio #edwardhazlewood https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbrC0iu0Z4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Versus Ohio
Over the weekend, I got my first true taste at college life. Kent State freshman orientation. Verdict: not too shabby. It was the fourth time I’d been to Kent, and it might have been the most satisfying visit there yet. Today actually marks one year since I first stepped foot in the college town, which I still find hard to believe. When four nebulous years lie ahead of me, it feels even more surreal. But that strangeness has never felt negative.
We rolled into town last Thursday afternoon, with my orientation beginning the next morning. I got to visit North Water Street, an old part of town I had never been to before. It’s the site of the old JB’s club, a regionally legendary venue that hosted the likes of 15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) and DEVO. It’s called the Brew Down now, but the outlines of its sign and door awning remain the same, albeit in a more garish KSU blue and gold. The buildings beside it, featured in DEVO’s pioneering 1976 short film The Truth About De-Evolution, are worn and boarded up, and one has been demolished. It was interesting to see that not all of the city has succumbed to the cutesy college town ‘vibes’ that seemingly define the ideal 2020s campus.
They also sell Numbers Band shirts at one of the local school shirt shops, which are sick, though I kept myself from buying one due to my current unfamiliarity with their material. I ain’t no poser, yuh see.
In seeing the campus itself across the three days I was in town, it was probably the most gorgeous I’d ever seen it. The weather was pristine the entire weekend, and the campus was seemingly made for sunsets. Buildings such as Franklin Hall, which I’ll be spending some time in as a journalism major, looked more dignified than ever. Spring in Kent is incredible for more reasons than just the history, even as it was rolling into a sweltering summer.
The orientation itself went down easily. There was quite a bit of sitting through informational presentations that could have just been read online, but the rest of the time let me connect with and adapt to my new surroundings and traditions hands-on. The process felt effortless. I stayed overnight in a dorm for the first time, and while honors college housing will be supplying me with much more living space than I experienced Friday night, I thought my room’s compactness was pretty charming. As long as I don’t have to bunk my bed, I’m good. The communal bathroom situation went easier than I expected, and the dining hall food wasn’t too shabby. I also did the Electric Slide for the first time. I wish I regretted doing that.
The climax of the event was working out my fall semester schedule, which went very smoothly. Afterwards I had over an hour until my next scheduled activity, so I took the opportunity to wander around campus some more, figuring out how much time I would need to get between classes. I revisited the site of the May 4 shootings, my first time as an official student. And in knowing that my choice was official, that I had successfully taken my life into my own hands in some way, that I had my own footsteps to make both following in and alongside those who came before me—I felt more secure than I ever had before standing on those hallowed grounds.
I got my university ID card shortly afterwards in the student center, which was satisfying to say the least, even though I almost lost it by letting it fall onto the floor minutes after receiving it. I left high school with a doi; I entered college with one. Some things never change. But I expect better behavior from myself during my tenure at Kent.
Watch out, O-HI-O.
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Bunte Wochenschau u.a. mit klarer Kante in den USA, Kritik an der FAZ und Winnetou
Von Chapeau vor Cleveland.com wegen klarer Kante gegen Trump, bedenklichem Rechtsdrall bei der FAZ, 20 Jahre Gmail und Tschakka-Postings auf LinkedIn über "Big Fedi" hin zu Winnetou und Filmtipps aus der Blogosphäre.
Meine Frau ist bei uns die Gärtnerin und hat doch in der vorherigen Wochenschau glatt meinen Hinweis auf den mähfreien Mai überlesen. Grund dafür: Ich würde in der Wochenschau so viele Themen auf einmal abhandeln. Stimmt manchmal. Und auch diesmal wird wieder wild gemischt, von Donald Trump bis Karl May.
Klare Kante gegen Trump
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Pouring One Out For All The Defunct Blogs
Recently, I went through my WordPress Reader and checked in on all the blogs I follow. I made my WordPress account almost a decade ago and have been following some blogs since day one. It’s not the first time I’ve gone through this list to cull the defunct or irrelevant ones, but I haven’t done it in several years.
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A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XII
This time a few more links than last week. Maybe even too many this time.
News
Reprint of Shadowrun 1st edition in the works (enworld)
Random Tables
d100 – Weird and Whimsical Wants for Fickle Fey (d4 Caltrops)
100 Interesting Rumors (Or Potential Plot Hooks!) (OSRVault)
Cult generator – D66 Cult names, heraldry and goals! (Dawnfist Games)
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“Played by friends, not strangers”…
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Bloggers journey
Join us on a journey through diverse topics, from travel adventures and lifestyle tips to thought-provoking essays and cutting-edge technology. Our dedicated team of writers is committed to delivering engaging, well-researched content that caters to a wide range of interests.
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Charlie India [2014]
Context: these are notes for a set of ideas I had way back in 2014 around building a higher-quality online community. Think a combination of Quora, Reddit, Lesswrong and Stack Overflow, focused on a high-quality "community of communities", high-quality online writing, and high-quality discussions. "Reddit for Grownups" was the snappy one-liner I had in mind.
I was 24 years old when I wrote the below. Remember that all of the below was written before "cancel culture", the intellectual dark web, Gamergate, tpot, Gab, Parler, Substack, SlateStarCodex in the NYT, and all the other events of the online culture wars of the second half of the 2010s. My biggest regret in life is not building and launching an MVP for the below ideas.
Written: Jan - May 2014.
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PROJECT: CHARLIE INDIA
1. Essays
2. Community
3. Platform
4. DAC
Essays
0. Stare into the Void
My ruling principle: serve the world.
Because I live on planet 3 of our solar system, the best way to serve the world is to serve humanity.
Everyone is constrained by their own skills and resources.
This series should be useful and inspiring to anyone in a similar position to me (young, technical).
This series of essays will lay out a product vision.
The goal of starting with a vision is to attract fanatical followers.
1. Building the Global Brain
There are numerous existential risks facing humanity.
One of these existential risks is the singularity.
Another set of existential risks arises because humanity is uncoordinated.
The global brain is both an alternative to the singularity and the means to coordinate humanity.
The global brain consists of the technologies which enable communication and collaboration, and enhance intelligence.
2. Mind Control
Social power arises from physical power, leveraged by techniques to influence/manipulate other humans. In other words, mind control (in the broadest sense).
There are three main forms of power and three power networks: condign (political/military), compensatory (economic) and conditioned (religious/ideological/cultural).
Three dynamic, self-modifying power networks emerged in medieval Europe: democracy, capitalism and science.
But these have ossified into party politics and bureaucracy, consumerist crony capitalism, and Cathedralised academic science.
The printing press enabled the original 3 networks by improving information flows. The internet can do the same. City states and online communities. Bitcoin, distributed autonomous corporation and startups. Rationalists, red pills and the global brain.
3. Free Speech and Free Thought
True free speech is an impossible condition, because not everyone can have the audience they want. Vulnerable to other forms of power.
But determining the reason for wanting free speech helps to determine what form of limited speech is desirable.
Information and communication flows have shaped the development of society and the course of history.
Free speech skewers sacred cows.
Therefore, the purpose of free speech is to ensure that true and beneficial memes spread, and that false and harmful memes are debunked.
To have free speech, you need a printing press. With the web, everyone has a printing press, but not everyone has an audience.
Your thoughts are important, so people will invest great resources in controlling what you think.
The best way to spread propaganda is to describe in detail the enemy’s propaganda, and feign being edgy and fashionable.
Looking at other cultures or past thinkers can illuminate help you see your own matrix.
The platform should ensure people’s ideas reach the right audience.
The platform should have a respect for truth and rationality baked in.
But should also account for different opinions on the foundation for rationality. (or maybe not)
4. Why Blogs?
The platform will amplify what already exists in the blogosphere.
Blogs are mistakenly seen as trivial. Blogs: personal essay sites.
Books can spread ideas that change your life. So can blogs.
Examples: Lesswrong Sequences, pg’s essays, Peter Thiel’s startup notes, Moldbug.
Existing communications platforms either turn into fashion/popularity contests (Twitter, Facebook) or are too weird or lowbrow to achieve mass appeal (Reddit, 4Chan, Lesswrong). Quora (too groupthinky), HN (too niche) maybe good middle grounds.
Many existing blogospheres consisting of small communities of people sharing and debating ideas.
The platform should amplify this existing trend.
Content marketing often more successful than social media marketing, so potential for ways to make money.
5. Additional thoughts:
5.a. Intelligent Communities
Innovation has generally increased with the concentration of the smart people.
For example, innovation clusters in history.
This works at many scales - from small mastermind groups and clubs to civilisations.
The internal structure of the group matters: it should have a hierarchy, but it should have the right hierarchy.
No hierarchy leads to crowdpleasing, demagoguery and posturing. The wrong hierarchy leads to inferior people lording it over superior people.
Smart people deeply want to meet and work with other smart people.
The platform should encourage a culture of deep thinking, civilised debate, and open-minded skepticism.
5.b. Influencers considered harmful
Influence is the wrong model to use.
It assumes people are not rational, and ideas only spread because they are espoused by famous people and optimised for virality.
Assumes people believe things based on their relationship with who they heard it from, not truth.
Still, the platform needs to appear ‘high status’: think New York Times, the Guardian, to a lesser extent Wikipedia.
5.c. The Future of Online Communities
We’re still in the early days of the web!
If you see the web as a technology, then it’s fair to presume the possibilities will be exhausted soon.
I see ‘the website’ in the same category as ‘the novel’. The space of possible apps delivered via HTML, CSS and Javascript is still massively unexplored.
There may be decades or even centuries more of improvements to go. As long as humans exist, it’s unlikely there’ll be an overwhelmingly better format that: rectangular screen + touch/mouse/keyboard input.
Our existing online communities will seem laughably barbaric and crude to people in the future - like the social structure of an iron age hill tribe does to a functioning modern democracy.
Things like trolls, sockpuppets and human flesh search engines might seem cruel and pointless to future generations, like lynch mobs or witchhunts do to us.
Thoughts to explore
Attention as a property right
Direct control of other’s thoughts
State -> Law -> Democracy
Trade -> Money -> Capitalism
Communication -> Writing -> Science
Argument mapping is not likely to be the right approach. People committed to having good arguments won’t need it.
Real solution: let people fight for their viewpoint, in such a way that truth is the winner
Most collective intelligence solutions are too fancy.
The best technology for argument mapping is: the essay.
The best tool for understanding the universe is: the individual human mind.
The noosphere is people exchanging ideas for how to improve their own rationality and cultivate their own minds.
There is no such thing as collective intelligence, only well-organised groups. This requires dedicated, rational people, and savvy leaders.
Design thoughts: it’s all about discrete groups. Think WhatsApp vs Google Plus, or Reddit vs Quora
Appendix A:
Identify secrets: statements which are true, useful and not widely believed.
Be frighteningly ambitious: build something which could be extremely useful to an extremely large number of people.
Go deeper: revolutionise how things are done by thinking from first principles.
SECRETS
The normal prejudice of “worthy projects” is matter -> computation -> communication -> information.
E.g: hardware/robotics -> algorithms/data mining -> ‘social’ -> storage
The reality is the opposite.
Google provided an extremely simple interface to the unstructured information on the web.
Wikipedia provided a reasonably high baseline standard of information for most topics.
Twitter provided a global real-time chatroom.
Reddit provided a number of communities with a reasonably high standard of member rationality.
Quora provided a community with a very high standard of member rationality.
WISHLIST
A community of the most intelligent people.
A reference of the most trustworthy information for commonly misunderstood topics.
Resources for people who wish to improve their own thinking skills.
A compendium of topics which mainstream academia gets wrong.
- gather the smartest minds
- identify truth and misinformation
- recursively-self improving community
- facilitate collective intelligence
- amplify the nascent collective intelligence of the blogosphere
Further Thoughts (31st May)
Sections 1, 2, and 3 above still make sense, 4 is a bit of a non-sequitur.
Consumers are the wrong segment to focus on - it’s easier to encourage new behaviour via B2B (incentives are stronger).
What is the ultimate goal of the economy? Seems like it should be B2C. But maybe this is a simplistic view of human nature and what humans want.
In a liberal society you can work out for yourself what you want - often people want to contribute towards building something lasting.
So people don’t pursue their careers just to afford nicer lifestyles or build B2B companies just to support the hedonistic B2C industry.
“collective intelligence” one of the interesting ideas above.
Re: idea spreading - what would be valuable is tools to ensure our collective models of the world are more accurate.
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[Comment as of June 2023: the full story around why I did not build the above has a messy version and a simple version. The simple version is that I did not prioritise building an MVP and had an internal knot based on a conflict between "being lean" and "building a vision". The messy version is long, complicated, embarrassing to share, and involves a major falling out with two former "friends" of mine and years of dark thoughts, frustration and humiliation. A story for another time, perhaps.]
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