A user alerted me that he can't reset his FluxGarden password - he gets 502-Bad-Gateway. I try myself, get same issue. (It happens instantly, so there's not a timeout issue.) (more)

Intentionally misleading bullshit/propaganda, cf misinformation

Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information presented as fact,[1] either intentionally or unintentionally. Disinformation is a subset of misinformation, that which is deliberately deceptive.[2][3][4] Rumors are information not attributed to any particular source,[5] and so are unreliable and often unverified, but can turn out to be either true or false. Even if later retracted, misinformation can continue to influence actions and memory.[6] People may be more prone to believe misinformation because they are emotionally connected to what they are hearing or reading. The role of social media has made information readily available to us at anytime and it connects vast groups of people along with their information at one time.[7] Advances in technology has impacted the way we communicate information and the way misinformation is spread.[8] Misinformation has impacts on our societies' ability to receive information which then influences our communities, politics, and medical field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation (more)

for my future Book List

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931)[1] is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics... Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems,[6] and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".[7][8][9][10][a] He is regarded as one of the greatest living physicists, mathematicians and scientists, and is particularly noted for the breadth and depth of his work in both natural and formal sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

GeePawHill describes certain books as "HELS" - "high-end-layperson-suitable". A good To-Read list. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Twitter Files: Covid-19 Edition. I’ll walk through the thread... A common dunk on The Twitter Files has been ‘oh look at these records that show a reasonable company acting completely reasonably.’ That is not a dunk (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/22/22: Reevaluating Past Options. Here in America, things are quiet. It seems like it was a good week to look back, as MR did, upon our options regarding focused protection, and what we can take away from that. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy: Santa Is Real. I’m almost kinda mad at how good the above meme is at distilling everything I was initially hoping to say in this essay. But maybe it’s still worth talking about it. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 12/15/22: China’s Wave Begins. China stopped attempting to contain Covid-19. They have accepted that the costs of continuing to do this are unacceptably high. Instead, they have decided they are content to contain official case numbers while they brace for the impact of the Covid surge they have successfully put off for three years (more)

Brian Marick: Tinkerable software and Mastodon. (more)

Fernando Borretti: Unbundling Tools for Thought. Short version: Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data. In practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps, and the lack of centralization and cross-app hyperlinking has no real negative effects. (more)

Scott Alexander: The Media Very Rarely Lies. When the media misinforms people, it does so by misinterpreting things, excluding context, or signal-boosting some events while ignoring others, not by participating in some bright-line category called “misinformation”. (more)

Martin Cagan: Where To Work (as a product manager)? I have shared publicly the names of several excellent companies that are built on true product teams. Google, Netflix, Amazon, Stripe, Atlassian and Apple are some of the well-known names. And there are many excellent startups and growth-stage companies, far too many to list. (more)

Jon Udell has a series on Mastodon, often involving creating a custom UI using Steampipe. (more)

The Twitter Files are a series of Twitter threads based on internal Twitter, Inc. documents shared by owner Elon Musk (Musk Buys Twitter) with freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, opinion writer Bari Weiss, and author Michael Shellenberger in December 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the release of the documents with Twitter management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files cf content moderation (more)

like Energy Accounting, but for Carbon - to support carbon market (carbon tax) (more)

Context: mid-life crisis, existential angst (more)

Book I want to write. (Will probably end up with Self Published very-ThinBook EBook.) (more)

The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, brand, or product in one area to positively influence one's opinion or feelings in other areas.[1][2] Halo effect is “the name given to the phenomenon whereby evaluators tend to be influenced by their previous judgments of performance or personality.”[3] The halo effect is a cognitive bias which can possibly prevent someone from accepting a person, a product or a brand based on the idea of an unfounded belief on what is good or bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect (more)