Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It. The poppy’s power, in fact, is greater than ever. The molecules derived from it have effectively conquered contemporary America. Opium, heroin, morphine, and a universe of synthetic opioids, including the superpowerful painkiller fentanyl, are its proliferating offspring. More than 2 million Americans are now hooked on some kind of opioid, and drug overdoses — from heroin and fentanyl in particular — claimed more American lives last year than were lost in the entire Vietnam War (more)

Jon Udell: making Mastodon relationship graphs. The new release of Steampipe is all about relationship graphs. Our blog post shows how these graphs provide contextual awareness for devops and security pros who can now see all the resources related to an EC2 instance (more)

Steampipe Blog: v0.18.0: Relationship graphs. Graphs are just panels in existing Steampipe dashboards. They load from live data and can be saved as snapshots (more)

Nick Russo: What Should We Do With The New Fentanyl Vaccine? (more)

Jon Udell: GitHub for English teachers. In “GitHub for the rest of us” I argued that GitHub’s superpowers could serve everyone, not just coders. Ever since then (2015) I’ve felt that I overstated the case (more)

Jon Udell: Debuggable explanations. I’ve been reviewing Greg Wilson’s current book project, Software Design in Python. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 01/26/23: Case Count Crash. Executive Summary: Cases down by 27%. Former FDA head calls for CDC to be CDC, former CDC head returns fire. Jury duty? School? Covid positive? No problem, come on down. (more)

Jon Udell: How web annotation will transform content management. In February the W3C approved recommendations to enable annotation on the web (more)

Jon Udell: Lists and people on Mastodon. I hadn’t thought to use Mastodon lists until I read the Frustration with lists chapter of Martin Fowler’s Exploring Mastodon (more)

Simon Morden: The Petrovitch Trilogy/Metrozone Series ISBN:9780316242592, The Curve Of The Earth ISBN:031622006X then the (free) prequel stories collection Thy Kingdom Come (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: On Cooking With Gas. Research meta-analysis says gas stoves give off unsafe N02 levels and increase risk of childhood asthma by 34% and are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma. None of this is new. (more)

Despite it's aim toward a Neutral Point of View, some claim Wikipedia Is Leftist. (more)

Jay Rosen's gloss of pseudo-objective journalism. (more)

Journalism written with Objectivity: is such a thing possible? (more)

NYU Journalism faculty http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/rosen.html (more)

editorial stance of the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPOV, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view, NPOV. Though Some Claim Wikipedia is Leftist. (more)

Harold Jarche: GPT-3 through a glass darkly. I have been using the tetrad (four sides) derived from Marshall & Eric McLuhan’s Laws of Media for several decades. (Marshall McLuhan) (more)

Dan Shipper: GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used. I wanted to see if it could help me understand issues in my life better, pull out patterns in my thinking, help me bring more gratitude into my life, and clarify my values... I’ve been journaling for 10 years, and I can attest that using AI is journaling on steroids. (more)

Dan Shipper: I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast. In the future, any time you look up information you’re going to use a chatbot. This applies to every piece of information you interact with day to day: personal, organizational, and cultural. (more)

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers is a 1988 book by sociologist Robert Jackall that investigates the world of corporate managers in the United States. In the introduction, Jackall writes that he "went into these organizations to study how bureaucracy—the prevailing organizational form of our society—shapes moral consciousness"[1] and that the book is "an interpretive sociological account of how managers think the world works."[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes ISBN:978-0199729883 (more)