In Systems Of Survival ISBN:0679748164 Jane Jacobs defines Civilization as a society with a reasonably workable guardian-commercial symbiosis, meaning a combination of two opposing (Culture War) Moral systems/syndromes. Not that you just mush them up (which leads to Monstrous Moral Hybrids), but rather that you follow one Syndrome when acting in that capacity. (Society Design) (more)

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Steve Yegge's Blog Rants: Done, and Gets Things Smart. Everyone knows and quotes Joel Spolsky's old chestnut, "Smart, and Gets Things Done." It was a blog, then a book, and now it's an aphorism. (more)

There's been a resurgence of the Software Craftsmanship (Craftsmanship) meme (Peter McBreen's book was from 10 years ago). Martin Fowler follows the debate, as it relates to the Agile Software Development meme.

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While smartphones have been heralded as the coming of the next generation of communication and collaboration, they are a step backwards when it comes to personal security, Anonymity and Privacy. The Guardian Project aims to create easy to use apps, open-source software libraries and operating system modifications, and customized mobile devices that can be used and deployed around the world, by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion and monitoring (WireTap). http://guardianproject.info/ (more)

Cal Newport idea from How To Be A High School Superstar. (more)

multi-column twitter client webapp

Model of paying for content-access in an a-la-carte way - one viewing of a TV event/episode, 1 article from a magazine, etc. (more)

Very small charges (less than $0.10, maybe less than $0.01) for services (typically for content, or use of an application) on the internet or web. (more)

Text media, typically longer than a blog post or typical magazine article. Long essay, novella, maybe even a full book.

Epic Games raises $1B for long-term metaverse plans, with $200M from Sony. I asked Sweeney what the killer attraction of the metaverse would be. He said the killer feature is simply getting together with your friends to have great social experiences, like going outdoors for a walk. That’s more fun than just sitting on a couch and talking. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 4/15 : Are We Seriously Doing This Again. THIS IS LITERAL ONE IN A MILLION AND MUCH LESS THAN THE BASE RATE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DID YOU NOT SEE WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME ARE YOU COMPLETE MORONS OR ARE YOU MUSTACHE-TWIRLING VILLIANS YOU CAN’T NOT BE BOTH (more)

2020-2021 real-time audio-only social network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_(app) (more)

a Third Place where you get Coffee (more)

Google Chrome Platform Status on Scroll-to-Text/Text Fragment. This feature allows a user or author to link to a specific portion of a page, using a text snippet provided in the URL. When the page is loaded, the browser highlights the text and scrolls it into view. (more)

Shel Israel: ISTM #31: Chatbots in the Post-Pandemic Era. Take Emma from replika.ai who appears above. She is a digital entity whose appearance is amazingly lifelike. Please, take a few seconds and watch her on the company site. Notice, how realistically she smiles and looks you right in the eye. She blinks just like you and me, and her smile is filled with warmth (more)

Snapchat debuts Minis, bite-sized third-party apps that live inside chat. At Snap’s Partner Summit, the company shared its newest effort to entice third-party devs to Snapchat. It’s called Minis. (more)

Chatting about chatbots - Issue 520 - CognitionX Data Science, AI and Machine Learning Briefing. GitLab as a company faces a challenge shared by many — they have lots of data for their engineering organisation (via GitLab, their single data store for that part of the company), but there are key gaps in how they understand the effectiveness of business operations. Meltano was created to help fill the gaps by expanding the common data store to support Customer Success, Customer Support, Product teams, and Sales and Marketing.

New Data Indicates People Don't Use Chatbots Like We Think. The majority (65 percent) just wish that conversations were with a human agent... top complaints about chatbots include not enough smarts to effectively answer questions (more)