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Takachizu is a community archive that identifies and reflects on that which is most valuable about Little Tokyo.
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👓 Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds | The Verge

Read Twitter will soon let you switch between chronological and ranked feeds by Nick Statt (The Verge)
In the meantime, the company says it’s fixing its timeline settings

🔖 Categorical informatics

Bookmarked Categorical informatics by David Spivak (math.mit.edu)

"Category theory is a universal modeling language."

Background.

Success is founded on information. A tight connection between success (in anything) and information. It follows that we should (if we want to be more successful) study what information is.

Grant proposals. These are several grant proposals, some funded, some in the pipeline, others not funded, that explain various facets of my research project.

Introductory talk (video, slides).

Blog post, on John Baez's blog Azimuth, about my motivations for studying this subject. (Here's a .pdf version.)

📺 “The West Wing” The Wake Up Call | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" The Wake Up Call from Netflix
Directed by Laura Innes. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. A rapidly-escalating international crisis involving Iran and the UK requires C.J. to wake the President, triggering a confrontation with Abbey about allowing him enough rest to properly manage his MS. British Ambassador Lord John Marbury is summoned, and proceeds to wander the halls looking for "Gerald" while threatening to bomb Iran. Toby and Professor Lawrence Lessig meet with a delegation from...

👓 Why I’m leaving Micro.blog | Belle B. Cooper

Read Why I'm leaving Micro.blog by Belle B. CooperBelle B. Cooper (blog.bellebcooper.com)
I've come and gone from Micro.blog several times before. I joined long before the Kickstarter, when barely anyone was there. I tried it again after the Kickstarter, when the community looked more like it does today. And I came back again a few weeks ago for the most fun, if not the longest, period of time I've spent there.

👓 Twitter fixes their timeline | Colin Devroe

Read Twitter fixes their timeline by Colin Devroe (cdevroe.com)
I saw this tweet last night and immediately turned this on. Now with this new setting I don’t need it. Please keep this Twitter. Please!
Now here’s some welcome news. Will need to play around with some of these new Twitter settings.

📺 “The West Wing” King Corn | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" King Corn from Netflix
Directed by Alex Graves. With Alan Alda, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. A day in the lives of presidential candidates Bob Russell, Matt Santos, and Arnold Vinick, who are in Iowa trying to gain support for their campaigns. Iowa is the first state in the nation to hold their presidential caucuses, and issues affecting farmers and rural areas are the focus. The most important issue on the table is the large federal subsidies for ethanol fuel given to corn growers, ...

👓 Tracking my podcast listening | Henrik Carlsson

Replied to Tracking my podcast listening by Henrik CarlssonHenrik Carlsson (Henrik Carlsson's Blog)

I’m going to try an experiment. From now and some time ahead I’m going to be tracking my podcast listening (scrobbling, if you prefer) on my blog. Every episode of every show that I listen to will be a blog post in my Listen-of category. Some posts will be nothing but the title of the podcast and episodes, others will contain short comments from me and some might even have really long comments.

The idea behind this is that I, like many other people, listen to a lot of podcasts. I often find food for thought in these and often find myself wanting to have a way of cataloging what I’ve listened to and what was interesting in the episodes. Up until now I haven’t had a good system for that and now, I have a system. Whether it’s a good one or not, time will tell.

For now I’ll let these posts syndicate to Micro.blog but if I feel like they fill my timeline there with noise I might make some tweaks to the backend on my blog to stop them from syndicating.

It’s interesting to see someone else tracking what they’re listening to. I try to include the .mp3 or other audio files in my post with proper markup to create a faux-cast of sorts that others can subscribe to. Somewhat like reading.am, I find that discovery of podcasts by seeing what others are actually listening to is far more valuable than what they simply say they’re listening to.

I’m hoping that podcast apps like Overcast by @marco might support technology like webmention and micropub in the future to make some of this stuff a bit easier as well as more valuable.

📺 “The West Wing” 365 Days | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" 365 Days from Netflix
Directed by Andrew Bernstein. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. Leo returns to the White House to help bolster the administration, which is suffering from the loss of Josh, Donna, Will, and the Vice President to the next election campaign. Leo's first day back follows President Bartlet's last State of the Union address, and unlike in previous years there appears to be little momentum on bold, large-scale initiatives. Amidst numerous distractions that dilute ...

📺 “The West Wing” Opposition Research | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" Opposition Research from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. Josh and Santos visit New Hampshire to launch the presidential campaign. Josh has experience running national campaigns and has a clear idea about what candidates should and shouldn't do to get elected, but Santos's approach differs dramatically: he believes in talking about big ideas rather than saying whatever he needs to do in order to win votes. This difference in opinion combined with ...

📺 "The West Wing" Faith-Based Initiative | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" Faith-Based Initiative from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. On the same day that an anti-gay-marriage amendment is attached to the federal budget, an Internet rumor surfaces that C.J. is a lesbian. Josh and Toby attempt to kill the amendment without forcing the President to publicly take a position on this unwinnable issue. Congressman Santos considers Josh's proposition that he run for President despite having told his wife that he's done with politics. ...

👓 The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far | New York Times

Read The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far by Scott Shane (nytimes.com)
For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack: spies, leaked emails, social media fraud — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.
A great synopsis of the Russia story going back to 2014. And if nothing else, some great artwork to go with it.

📺 "The West Wing" Impact Winter | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" Impact Winter from Netflix
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. With Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina. President Bartet's attack of multiple sclerosis requires hasty reorganization of the summit in China. Unable to endure the long meetings, he becomes frustrated when the Chinese take advantage of his absence to drag their feet over North Korea. Back at the White House, Josh is told by NASA that a large asteroid is on a collision course with earth; staffers are unsure whether to prepare for the end...

👓 White House distances itself from reports that Trump could target Facebook, Google and Twitter with a new executive order | Washington Post

Read White House distances itself from reports that Trump could target Facebook, Google and Twitter with a new executive order by Tony Romm and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)

Trump slams Google for 'RIGGED' results

The White House sought to dis­tance it­self Sat­ur­day from re­ports that President Trump is con­sid­er­ing an ex­ec­u­tive ord­er that would sub­ject tech giants like Facebook, Goo­gle and Twitter to federal in­ves­ti­gat­ions into al­leged po­lit­i­cal bias.

For weeks, top tech com­panies have been on edge, fear­ing that the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion could seek to regu­late the in­dus­try in re­sponse to the president’s tweets at­tack­ing so­cial media sites for si­len­cing con­ser­va­tives online. Their worst sus­pi­cions seemed to come true Fri­day night, with the e­mer­gence of a draft ex­ec­u­tive ord­er that called for near­ly every federal a­gen­cy to study how com­panies like Facebook police their plat­forms and re­fer in­stan­ces of “bias” to the Justice Department for further study.