Re: [FRIAM] Modeling 4chan: roles, topics, beliefs, strawman, anonymity, etc.

2019-01-29 Thread Gillian Densmore
Re: Wich Subject being a bit over thunk It was starting to look like 4Chan, Anyonymous and Anyonimity was. So me being me in a sassy just thought it'd be worth saying something mostly to rib that tendancy. But also to say uh you guys while smart look to be over thinking this one a lot. It's neet t

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling 4chan: roles, topics, beliefs, strawman, anonymity, etc.

2019-01-29 Thread ∄ uǝʃƃ
Yeah, it's a reasonable criticism. But, like the video I originally posted, it's too simplistic to paint the alt-right people (including Trump supporters) as trolls, jokers, anarchists, or lazy people living in their parents' basements. I posit there's a complex social systems problem to be so

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling 4chan: roles, topics, beliefs, strawman, anonymity, etc.

2019-01-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Glen writes: < Further, at middle age, both women and men can face mid-life crises, empty nests, etc. where the identity upon which they've converged dissipates and they're left wondering: WTF? > I don't really get the mid-life crisis thing. Maybe there is a mid-life modest heating even

[FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

2019-01-29 Thread Tom Johnson
See https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/science/a-side-serving-of-science-for-your-next-birthday-party.html?smid=fb-nytscience&smtyp=cur FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubs

[FRIAM] Quantum Computing and Spacetime

2019-01-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
Natalie Wolchover writes about Quantum Computing and Spacetime. I like her articles, but this one is a bit far fetched, isn't it ?https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/ -Jochen ==