It turns out, I don't mind knowing about current events, but it hurts to see lots of people I care about going through anguish or pain when bad news happens. I want to optimize for being aware, but not emotionally overwhelmed.Quotes
📑 Highlight of “Interviewing my digital domains”
Chris Aldrich used Hypothesis to annotate my post on Interviewing my digital domains.Testing out the ability to more easily highlight content on the web and display it on my website using the Post Kinds Plugin. Typically a highlight wouldn’t include a textual note (like this), otherwise it would be considered marginalia or a general annotation. Perhaps I’ll get around to adding an annotation type shortly as well.
I’ve got an archive list of highlights now as well as a highlight feed.
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Chris Aldrich (BoffoSocko)I’m not looking for just a “hipster-web”, but a new and demonstrably better web.
Chris Beckstrom (chat.indieweb.org)...holy crap this stuff [IndieWeb] is great. When I started getting webmentions from social media using Bridgy I flipped. It's like we're in the future!!!
I remember the early days of Twitter when people were excited about what it was and what it could do. Even then I don’t think people were as excited as Chris Beckstrom was when he made what is certainly the IndieWeb quote of the week this morning.
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"The race to be wrong first is always live-tweeted."
I’m gender fluid, so I can help out!
–a Girl Scout’s 8 year old brother proudly exclaiming an excuse for helping sister when stopping by the house today to peddle Thin Mints.
Quote from The Master Switch by Tim Wu: History shows a typical progression
History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel--from open to closed system. It is a progression so common as to seem inevitable, though it would hardly have seemed so at the dawn of any of the past century's transformative technologies, whether telephony, radio, television, or film. History also shows that whatever has been closed for too long is ripe for ingenuity's assault: in time a closed industry can be opened anew, giving way to all sorts of technical possibilities and expressive uses for the medium before the effort to close the system likewise begins again.
I’ll meet you tonight under the moon.
Rick Mendes (Rick Mendes)“I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.” - Courtney Milan #quote
I’ll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I’ll know you.
in The Cocoanuts (1929), written by George S. Kaufman
A lady doesn’t discuss her age or her budget
I also believe a lady doesn’t discuss her age or her budget.
on finance in the entertainment industry
in Paula Wagner Turns to Producing on Broadway in The New York Times on 11/4/12
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David Quammen on Books
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
in The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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Physicists Hunt For The Big Bang’s Triangles | Quanta Magazine
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Two Types of Hipsters
In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee.
in Cesar Hidalgo on economic complexity: Why information grows | Economist.com on June 15, 2015
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How to Steal a Million
Some satiric commentary on the American condition
Labels! Labels! It’s working with the Americans that’s given you this obsession with labels and brand names.
counter-scolding his daughter who has called him a fraud
in How to Steal a Million (1966)
Then, just a bit later in the film:
We live in a crass commercial world with no faith or trust!
ironically speaking to his daughter after forging and selling several major artworks
in How to Steal a Million (1966)
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On Being a Secretary
The philosophy of how to have a fulfilling secretarial position.
For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I’ve noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one’s boss happens to be Francis Bacon.
in Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Lecture 28 “Hobbes and the Social Machine”
