Musk *is* the joke. A joke of a person ... like we now use the verb Borked. "Musk" could be shorthand for Poe's Law, exquisitely explained in the recent Onion friend of the court filing.
"You were totally Musked, man. It's not even bad faith. That guy couldn't joke his way out of a paper bag." On November 7, 2022 10:33:38 AM EST, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: >Where’s the sense of humor now? > ><https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> >[64260315-0-image-a-4_1667788476734.jpg] >Musk threatens to boot Twitter account >impersonators<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> >dailymail.co.uk<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11397213/Musk-threatens-boot-Twitter-account-impersonators.html> > > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Nov 6, 2022, at 5:53 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > That you call Mastodon 'twitter-like' is discomforting. ActivityPub is >fundamentally different.I guess the premature registration is reasonable, >given the politics of the moment. But the 'fediverse' really is distributed, >very unlike twitter. I really love that the Gab twits ported to Mastodon. >That, unlike Musk's perverted conception, is a real example of free speech. >You really are free to turn open source and open protocol to your weirdo >subculture. We just don't have to link to you. > >Don't think 'twitter-like'. Think 'decentralized'. > >On November 6, 2022 5:51:40 PM EST, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >Trying to understand BookWyrm vs StoryGraph vs GoodReads and Twitter vs >Mastadon (and beyond), I found this aggregator of alternative recommendations: > >https://alternativeto.net/ > >which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious how >challenging "too many choices" can be... > >After a lame attempt to go with Mastadon I decided to abandond Twitter-like >things altogether. I doubt I will be willing to throw GoodReads over for >anything else because of the participating base of my own personal/family >network there. I can at least avoid clicking through a GoodReads >recommendation to order from Amazon. > >https://alternativeto.net/software/bookwyrm/ > >I haven't begun (tried?) to evaluate AlternativeTo.Net itself... > >Is this the tragedy of the "free market" (subset of "commons")? > > >On 11/4/22 3:00 PM, glen wrote: >I'd forgotten about this until the release yesterday: > >https://joinbookwyrm.com/ > > > >On 11/2/22 14:52, Steve Smith wrote: > >On 11/2/22 9:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >Thanks, Glen. > >It would be nice if there were a public bibliographic reference url that one >could use to name a book that only conveyed the thing in itself. Goodreads >was that once, then Amazon bought them. Ditto for video and audio recordings >and other objects of public interest. > >I admit to continuing to use Goodreads this way in spite of two problems... >the Amazon affiliation/ownership of course, but also the too often spotty >reviews... I don't provide many nor particularly good reviews myself, so I've >no room to complain really. > >So I suppose I agree with your "public bibliographic reference url" point. >It seems as if Wikipedia is a good candidate but I haven't done the work to >understand how new entries are made... are they always required to be made by >a citizen of the community who is NOT affiliated with the book (publisher, >author, etc)? I find a *lot* of the books I seek in Wikipedia and prefer them >for reference when their book-description (and cross links to related works, >author, etc) are particularly apt, but that is also spotty. I use Goodreads >mostly to follow what family/friends are reading and what *they* think of >their reads. > >The trend toward crowd-sourced public-use corpii being acquired by private >interests (even public corporations are private interests) is disturbing (FB ><-Mapillary, Amazon<-Goodreads)... Twitter->BoringCo, etc) > > >Eugenia Cheng has other books and a pile of youtube videos. Interestingly, >her primary institutional affiliation is the Art Institute of Chicago, where >as resident scientist she teaches math to art students. She has a public >reading for kids scheduled in Jersey City this month. Her definition of >category theory is "the mathematics of mathematics" which she expands as "the >logical study of the logical study of logical things." > >Hasok Chang has a third book, Is Water H2O, which Amazon fails to index on his >amazon author page, though it is on amazon at a blistering price in every >available format. I found a pdf on the internets. It's details the history >of working out the chemical identity of water. Two themes are that 1) the >consensus answers to scientific questions often change in anticipation of the >arrival of corroboration, 2) there are often multiple acceptable answers to >scientific questions. These are possibly consequences of being a realisitic >realist. > >Interesting set of recursions... we CS types tend to love our arbitrary-depth >recursion, but the special cases like double-negatives, and Rummy's unkown >unknowns and now Chang's logical logicologoy of logics and realistic realists >are ... *special*? While some may prefer "turtles all the way down" sometimes >just a few turtles deep suffices? > >- Steve > >PS... couldn't help hearing/reading "Cheech&Chong" on the first reading of >this thread. > > >-- rec -- > >On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen ><[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > There. I fixed that for you. 8^D > > On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned some books > of interest, and while looking for them I discovered yet another book. > > > > > https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-joy-of-abstraction-an-exploration-of-math-category-theory-and-life-eugenia-cheng/18557720?ean=9781108477222 > > > Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224> > > Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category > Theory, and Life, published October 2022. > > > > A presentation of category theory that keeps the underlying algebra > basic. > > > > > https://bookshop.org/p/books/inventing-temperature-measurement-and-scientific-progress-hasok-chang/9513488?ean=9780195337389 > > > Hasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress > > > > An itemized history of temperature and all the wrong turns taken along > the way, more detail than even the author cares to read again. Poetic > justice to examine the operation of the pragmatist's ratchet and pawl over > the centuries as it rescues workable definitions of temperature from thermal > confusion. > > > > > https://bookshop.org/p/books/realism-for-realistic-people-a-new-pragmatist-philosophy-of-science-hasok-chang/18368583?ean=9781108470384 > > > Hasok Chang, Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy > of Science, available on kindle on November 30, 2022. > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
