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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts

👓 Slow tech | Chris Beckstrom

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reply to https://colet.space/slow-tech-movement/ I really like this idea comparing our usage of giant corporate social networks like Facebook to consumption of factory-farmed meat and produce… Where the “slow food” movement replaces a bit of convenience for more ethical, local, and even tastier food, perhaps the “slow tech” movement could do the same for the technology in our daily lives; a personal website might look strange, have some bugs, and be a bit slow, but it doesn’t support giant corporations that are working to gain control over our interactions with the internet… and it puts control of personal data back into our own hands.
Yet another person talking about slow tech / slow social.

📺 “Modern Family” Kiss and Tell | ABC

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Directed by Steven Levitan. With Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell. Haley needs a little help deciding whether or not to tell Arvin about her kiss with Dylan and goes to Mitch and Cam for their advice. Meanwhile, Gloria suspects Manny's Canadian girlfriend is made up and wants to find out the real truth.

👓 Paradox of tolerance | Wikipedia

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The paradox of tolerance is a paradox that states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper first described it in 1945—expressing the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

👓 Festive indieweb and selfhosting | voss.co

Read Festive indieweb and selfhosting by voss voss (Left handed typing since 2017)
Holiday is on, and apart from relaxing with the family, I aim to look into a bunch of stuff before I'm back at the factory in January. My Indieweb life is coming on well, thanks to Known, and the #indieweb community in London. I attended my first couple of Homebrew Website Club meetups in town in 20...

👓 I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon. | The Atlantic

Read I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon. (The Atlantic)
There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that’s winning big.

👓 How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime | Scientific American Blog Network

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It may seem daunting to memorize a 24 million digit number, but with these tips, you'll be well on your way

👓 Albert Anastasia | Wikipedia

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Albert Anastasia (born Umberto Anastasio, September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime lord, and one of the most ruthless and feared organized crime figures in United States history. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia and the founder and boss of Murder, Inc., Anastasia was boss of what became the modern Gambino crime family. Anastasia is considered by the FBI to be one of the deadliest criminals of all time. According to former NYPD Detective Ralph Salerno, Anastasia murdered tens of thousands of people during his reign of terror, while former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom believes the number of people that Anastasia has killed is unquestionably in the thousands; however, the exact number is unknown.

Anastasia was unarguably the most dangerous and feared hitman of the Cosa Nostra's golden era, earning the infamous nicknames "The One-Man Army", "Mad Hatter" and "Lord High Executioner". Anastasia was also in control of the New York waterfront for most of his criminal career, including the dockworker unions.

👓 My 2019 Bucket List for Ramblinggit.com | Brad Enslen

Read My 2019 Bucket List for Ramblinggit.com by Brad Brad (Brad Enslen)
Despite Gutenberg, it looks like this blog will remain on WordPress for awhile.  There is nothing else that has all the features, stability, and Indieweb stuff I want.  Each platform I have looked at is not quite ready yet, but a few may be ready someday. With that said, I do want to change things...

👓 Do Scholastic Book Fairs Live Up to the Nostalgia? | The Atlantic

Read The Fleeting Magic of Scholastic Book Fairs (The Atlantic)
Years later, many adults still pine for the days their school libraries, auditoriums, and gyms transformed into pop-up bookstores.

👓 E/N | sawv

Read E/N by jr (sawv)
The website's content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world. Back in the 1990s and maybe even in the early aughts, some websites were called E/N sites, which meant Everything and Nothing. E/N may have predated the term "weblog", which also began in the...
An interesting differentiation of type for a personal website. I like the ideas here and how they might contrast to both blogging and commonplace books.

👓 Warbler Description | sawv

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I like community websites where people gather for online discussions. That's why I launched my message board Toledo Talk in January 2003, and it continues today. Warbler is a message board where all thread starter posts and comments are Webmentions. A Webmention is a cross-site communication idea, e...
Some interesting thoughts here on community applications and the idea of discovery from an IndieWeb perspective. Kicks Condor and Brad Enslen may appreciate having yet another person who is actively thinking about and working on these particular problems.

👓 IndieWeb Support | sawv

Read IndieWeb Support by jr (sawv)
In the summer of 2013, I learned about the IndieWeb, ironically, via a comment, posted at Scripting.com, Dave Winer's website. Over the past 25 years, Dave has created, collaborated on, and evangelized about multiple open web technologies, but he's a bit prickly about some IndieWeb concepts, especia...

👓 Using the Last Seen Function in Simple Location | David Shanske

Read Using the Last Seen Function in Simple Location by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
One of the features in Simple Location that doesn’t get much notice is the Last Seen functionality. Simple Location adds a section to your WordPress user profile called Last Reported Location. It allows you to set the last reported location for a given user.  It reports latitude, longitude, altit...
The Simple Location plugin for WordPress has some awesome power built into it. David does a great job here of explaining some of it’s additional behind-the-scenes power.