TV/movie screenwriter: Global Frequency (unaired pilot - (2004-08-18) Global Freq Tv); Leverage; Eureka, The Librarians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_(writer)

FogCreek Issue Tracker/Kanban Board https://trello.com/ (more)

Dan Hon: s14e01 - The Hallway Track. Over the break I had a chance to meet up with a few friends I haven’t seen in a long time (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/5/23: Various XBB Takes. conclusions: (more)

Dan Hon: s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: How to Bounded Distrust (short version of (2022-02-13) ZviM On Bounded Distrust). Scott Alexander points out that the media, from The New York Times to Infowars, very rarely lies explicitly and directly. Alas, the media often misleads. It implies and insinuates that which is not. (journalism, fiat news) (more)

Hole In The Wall Educational Technology guy (more)

A big tool-design issue is juggling whether/how to be Opinionated vs Generative. (more)

PKM-ONE: Are Note-taking apps innovative enough? Right now the note-taking developers are not innovating but just trying to capture a pie of the market. (more)

Steve Yegge: Opinion: Your biggest problem right now is denial. A hurricane is coming. Well… it’s really more like a “tsunami that hits everyone at once” in terms of overall destruction — except that you only get a few hours warning for a tsunami, whereas we had months of warning for this. When a hurricane is coming, what do you do? It’s just plain common sense: you tell people well in advance, you give them time to prepare, you facilitate the preparations and defenses, yadda yadda....All the people who know what’s really going on — that is, what’s really going to happen if the world doesn’t wake up quickly — are in broad consensus. Epidemiologists, ER doctors and nurses, university researchers, pandemic experts: The people who have actual on-the-ground expertise with this exact situation, are all saying the same thing. It is a Prophecy. (He has since deleted this page.) (more)

Steve Yegge: Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had. Friday was my last day at Grab.com (more)

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)