"‘Yes, I am Frank Sumption, and I made the original Frank’s Box, or the Ghost box. I am on Facebook, but even there, the interaction with the public is disappointing. Very few are interested, everyone knows better, no matter what these boxes say. I can not tell if I hear nothing and the 'voices' are … Continue reading Frank’s Box: The Real Telephone to the Dead
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If You Don’t Plan Your Time, Someone Else Will
"The most effective way to make time for traction is through timeboxing, an actionable application of a well-researched technique psychologists call, “setting an implementation intention.” In other words, you make a commitment to do something you intend to do, not just in theory, but at a certain time. It’s a technique that can be used … Continue reading If You Don’t Plan Your Time, Someone Else Will
Questions About Technology Investment: CharaCorder
"The CharaChorder is a new kind of typing peripheral that promises to let people type at superhuman speeds. It’s so fast that the website Monkeytype, which lets users participate in typing challenges and maintains its own leaderboard, automatically flagged CharaChorder’s CEO as a cheater when he attempted to post his 500 WPM score on the … Continue reading Questions About Technology Investment: CharaCorder
End The Conversation; Give Up the Last Word
One of the the things I like about the Internet is you're going to encounter very different types of people. You'll talk with them in some forum. At some point, you'll come to the realization that a conversation you are engaged in isn't worth having. There's simply nowhere interesting for the conversation to go. In … Continue reading End The Conversation; Give Up the Last Word
The United States, Incorporated
"I propose we do so by creating two positions within the executive branch that operate in tension with each other. The first would be the chief operating officer, charged with managing the administrative agencies. The second would be the chief auditor, charged with leading a watchdog agency that monitors the administrative state for effectiveness and … Continue reading The United States, Incorporated
The Only Heartbreaker by Mitski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByCR2DRids Something about the synth and lyrics is reminiscent of the 1980s. Simple but enjoyable.
Words & Phrases, 2021
disaster voyeurismStakhanovites, model workers who produced higher than expectationsuniversity, a synthesis of two words: "unity" and "diversity."collimination, adjusting the line of sight of a telescopemuhaha, evil laughIsekai, an anime genre of going to another world and having adventuresZugzwang, worse position than if opponent's turn to play(R)azi Party, portmanteau of (R) Republican and Nazi Partymad-eyed, staring … Continue reading Words & Phrases, 2021
cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2021 Why Ergo?Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryInstalling LineageOS on a Samsung Device (updated in December 2020)Forecasting a Cryptocurrency PriceSeedvault: Encrypted Backup for AndroidBook Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton WilsonMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrcA Quick Introduction to StumpWMThe Asshole Filter Posts That Deserve More Visibility … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Teens Are Not Soothsayers
"Teens are strange and magical. To us they seem a little like Precogs from Minority Report—soothsayers of a mysterious, social-media-powered hyperdrive future, because this is the realm they’re already living in. Who saw Facebook coming? Teens. Same with Twitter, Vine, and now Snapchat. This puts them in a curious position. It makes them one of … Continue reading Teens Are Not Soothsayers
Scarfolk Council: Plan C
"Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight … Continue reading Scarfolk Council: Plan C
Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
"Critically examining these blind spots, I conclude that many of us are motivated to move against domination solely when we feel our self-interest directly threatened. Often, then, the 1onging is not for a collective transformation of society, an end to politics of dominations, but rather simply for an end to what we feel is hurting … Continue reading Love as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
A Boring Dystopia: Mouse Movers
"“The pandemic has proved to be a catalyst to saying no to the ‘9-to-5’ schedule. The tables have turned in favor of the Worker,” Rodriguez told me. “They are in power today. They value work flexibility. They are ambitious. They value work-life balance and are not afraid of saying no to employers who don’t share … Continue reading A Boring Dystopia: Mouse Movers
Sotomayor Spits Fire in a Dissenting Opinion in Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson
"This is a brazen challenge to our federal structure. It echoes the philosophy of John C. Calhoun, a virulent defender of the slaveholding South who insisted that States had the right to “veto” or “nullif[y]” any federal law with which they disagreed. Address of J. Calhoun, Speeches of John C. Calhoun 17–43 (1843). Lest the … Continue reading Sotomayor Spits Fire in a Dissenting Opinion in Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson
People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
"In the current digital age, people are constantly connected to online information. The present research provides evidence that on-demand access to external information, enabled by the internet and search engines like Google, blurs the boundaries between internal and external knowledge, causing people to believe they could—or did—remember what they actually just found. Using Google to … Continue reading People Mistake the Internet’s Knowledge For Their Own
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