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Random link from the archives: "Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover." https://web.archive.org/web/20190805133843/https://standardebooks.org/ originally retrieved Mon Aug 5 13:38:43 EDT 2019

Random link from the archives: "" https://web.archive.org/web/20190803101629/https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/yeah-its-useful-as-a-rule-of-thumb-for-who-you-should-probably-be-extra-careful-not-to-mock-for-bf9be8738121 originally retrieved Sat Aug 3 10:16:29 EDT 2019

Bad idea of the day: last dragon x new york ninja fanfiction 'new york ronin', about the mechanics by which the complex and diverse underworld depicted in new york ninja slowly reconstitutes itself into something more closely resembling the one depicted in the warriors, through the lens of a former vassal of the queens damiyo who seeks revenge on sho'nuff for knocking off his lord & must team up with the new york ninja and learn to harness the glow while playing upwardly-mobile cosplay gang leaders against each other in a careful political strategy game intended to destablize the nascent unification of new york gangs and return it to a warring states period

OK, I've lost some respect for S. T. Jioshi. This is a lot of vitriol, basically completely unwarranted, and it all boils down to Jioshi telling on himself for failing to be a careful reader & not being particularly imaginative. http://stjoshi.org/review_vandermeer.html

bricolage is powerful because it makes clear that the story told by carefully-contextualized information is a manipulation -- that there is no single 'obvious' 'correct' narrative, and the illusion of one is evidence of soft power exertion. unfortunately, while tech for scrambling engineered contexts and narrative is very easy & very widespread, tech for aiding interactive sense-making by finding and making visible true connections is mostly awkward and difficult to use -- largely because sensemaking is seen as a specialized and professionalized skill. in fact, sensemaking is a basic function of the nervous system, and allowing it to become centralized is dangerous, since it centralizes power.

I’ll consider this carefully. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/ill-consider-this-carefully-1b02d91933e9

Be Careful What You Code For https://scribe.rip/p/be-careful-what-you-code-for-c8e9f3f6f55e

If you understood this essay as advocating for some language, you didn’t read it carefully. https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/if-you-understood-this-essay-as-advocating-for-some-language-you-didnt-read-it-carefully-470b35984b3a

Yeah. It’s useful as a rule of thumb for who you should probably be extra careful not to mock for… https://scribe.rip/@enkiv2/yeah-its-useful-as-a-rule-of-thumb-for-who-you-should-probably-be-extra-careful-not-to-mock-for-bf9be8738121

my balogna has a first name, but it is carefully kept secret. wizards who know the balogna's name can control the balogna, including that already ingested. it is very dangerous to traffic in names.

I'm not an authority on much, but I am an authority on the subject of 'what Ted Nelson meant by hypertext'. This is almost entirely because almost nobody listens carefully to Ted Nelson, including his self-proclaimed biggest fans.

Random link from the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190817222956/https://medium.com/p/be-careful-what-you-code-for-c8e9f3f6f55e originally posted Sat Aug 17 22:29:56 EDT 2019/

Reasons to be careful about using zombie apocalypse metaphors to think about the current pandemic: https://modernmythology.net/the-mythic-function-of-the-zombie-apocalypse-narrative-515fe4eece53?source=friends_link&sk=f548fde4560c81d8dc5beadeb89f7b6d

Bad idea of the day: an award for most careful / highest quality replication attempt

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/ill-consider-this-carefully-1b02d91933e9

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/if-you-understood-this-essay-as-advocating-for-some-language-you-didnt-read-it-carefully-470b35984b3a

https://medium.com/@enkiv2/yeah-its-useful-as-a-rule-of-thumb-for-who-you-should-probably-be-extra-careful-not-to-mock-for-bf9be8738121

i have more ram in my current computer than i had disk space in some of the machines i used up though a couple years ago, and yet if i'm not careful a single web browser will fill it up completely in minutes & freeze up the whole box. how did we get here?

in response to truth in advertsing laws, rather than carefully vetting claims, businesses stopped making direct claims entirely and began instead merely implying them, and this should tell you a lot about the effectiveness of regulations & incentives in late capitalism

https://medium.com/p/be-careful-what-you-code-for-c8e9f3f6f55e

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. https://standardebooks.org/

Making something meaningless is hard -- Chomsky couldn't do it with 'colorless green ideas sleep furiously'. When we say something is meaningless, we usually really mean that it means everything -- that the author has failed to cleave away irrelevant or distracting dimensions of meaning by introducing constraints to make them impossible in any careful reading. The problem of composing with language is the problem of making sure words mean exactly what we want them to, no more and no less, which is a form of constraint engineering.

If one intends to be understood, one must be careful not to be too clever: a reader will calibrate their cleverness based on their expectation of yours, & any mismatch is liable to produce misunderstanding.

Author discovers the recentralization phenomenon, and concludes that centralization is inevitable (rather than that recentralization must be carefully avoided): https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

Just because a machine's component parts are human beings doesn't make it any less technical: it merely grows new and interesting complexities and failure modes, a careful and accurate understanding of which is even more valuable.

This is math-heavy but the idea that 'keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions' reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft -- should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don't, so be careful & check your work

Hot take: mere exposure & availability bias have ramifications for action -- the more we do a thing or see it done, the easier it is for us to imagine doing it when planning. Cuts both ways: we could open up possibilities, but we should be careful with which we open.