Archive Index: Joindiaspora Posts of note

This is a curated list of some of my more significant posts to Joindiaspora.

I've created a similar archive post on my new account on Glasswings.com: @Doc Edward Morbius

There's a similar curation of Ello posts at Ello.

Oldest first.

2018

• Markdown Reference 2018-10-17

2020

• I hold this truth to be self-evident: That corporations which institute systems for their express benefit are and should be held directly accountable for the negative consequences of those systems 2020-2-15
• Copyright All the Melodies … or maybe not so much 2020-2-16
• Cory Doctorow: Inaction is a Form of Action 2020-2-19
• Imagine a world with no thought experiments. 2020-2-20
• The Parable of the Freedom Monster 2020-2-20 Existential comics
• There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written, And Yet Have Never Read It 2020-2-20
• The Archeology of Computer Assemblage (1992) 2020-2-23
• 25 or 6 to 4 2020-2-26
• HTML has unfortunately evolved to the point that it provides the designer enough rope to hang, castrate, lobotomise, flagellate, strangle, disembowel, fellate, and auto-immolate themselves. 2020-2-27
• On the Media: Black Swans 2020-2-29
• MiniReview: Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (1970) 2020-3-1
• Batshit conspiracy site warning: “GlobalResearch” 2020-3-10
• For years, @Google used flutrends as a justification for their retention policies for search arguing that the social benefit from ‘big data’ offsets the privacy invasions. 2020-3-19
• My math-teaching brother’s wish is that 2020 is the year everyone learns that “exponential” doesn’t mean “very fast” it means “imperceptibly gradual and then suddenly overwhelming”. 2020-3-23
• As a cat, it is my noble duty, sworn obligation, and greatest honour to post this 2020-3-28
• Internet Archive: Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public 2020-3-29
• "There is more drama in this video than in the entire Transformers franchise." 2020-4-1
• Just a reminder to save your flies so as not to lose any work. 2020-4-1
• Get Over It 2020-4-2
• “Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting” 2020-4-4
• A friend reports a desperate situation: Attempting a book to explain $THING 2020-4-8
• Re-thinking electronic mail 2020-4-12 based on Lars Wirzenius's post.
• How Trolls on Reddit Try to Manipulate You (Disinformation & How We Beat It) - Smarter Every Day 232 2020-4-12
• xkcd #2293 2020-4-13
• "We need a signed, scanned copy." 2020-4-15 LaTeX macros.
• I like the future we used to have so much more than the one we’re getting. 2020-4-17
• Original post deleted by author 2020-4-18 McHarg on Truth and copyright fettishism.
• The UI/UX department of the future will have only two employees, a hipster and a dog. The hipster will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to bite the hipster if they change the UI/UX. 2020-4-21
• desed: a sed debugger 2020-4-22
• There’s a whole long discussion to be had on the purpose of education, and it goes back a long ways 2020-4-24
• It’s messed up that if you falsify information on an online computer system for free you can go to jail for a long time, but if you get people to PAY you to falsify information on an online computer system, you can call that ‘advertising’ and become an billionaire. 2020-4-29
• The Progress of Our Knowledge of Pluto 2020-4-29
• The Dictum That Truth Always Triumphs Over Persecution Is One of Those Pleasant Falsehoods Which All Experience Refutes 2020-5-5 John Stuart Mill.
• The concept of money 2020-5-7
• The American Right Wing 2020-5-9 A report to the Fund for the Republic, inc., 1960.
• The challenge isn’t the startup. It’s the not-shutting-down. 2020-5-17
• The lesson to me has not been “Microsoft’s now the good guys”, but “infotech builds monsters” 2020-5-18
• Curious if anyone has suggestions for proofreading methods & processes. Not outsourced services, but proofing a book-length text myself, against an original source. 2020-5-18
• Matt Stoller and Charles Perrow on consolidation and monopolisation in the audio media world 2020-5-21
• Thoughts on conversation-generative online discussion platforms and features 2020-5-23
• Some notes on rhetorical device 2020-5-23
• “I’m so sorry”: What Should You Say When Someone You Know Is Grieving? 2020-5-29
• We don’t have a protest problem. We have a policing problem. 2020-5-31
• Reichstag fire 2020-6-2
• "I don’t use social media anymore" 2020-6-3 YZ
• Union blamed for hindering police oversight in Minneapolis 2020-6-4
• Why The “individual responsibility” argument, going back to 1970s anti-littering campaigns and the crying (fake) Indian (fake) TV advert (and before), are corporate gambits to shirk their own obligations 2020-6-4
• Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 2020-6-4 The original from June 12, 1956.
• If you want to make sense of the current political moment, and why electoral politics under capitalism can never, and will never, serve anyone but the wealthy capitalists, look no further than the most influential political theorist of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin. 2020-6-4 Existential Comics
• Qualified Immunity Explained 2020-6-4
• And that’s really it for Google+ 2020-6-5
• Meet the New Boss 2020-6-6 On doing well in dictatorships.
• An HN reader comments: I’d like a world where everyone consistently applies critical thinking to all sources of information. 2020-6-7
• Defunding 2020-6-10 "Beware the historians"
• Toto, this isn’t in Vegas anymore 2020-6-12 Browser bugs.
• Confirming I’ve migrated from Mastodon.cloud to toot.cat. 2020-6-19
• Why We’re Capitalizing Black 2020-7-5
• Rethinking “Rethinking Economics” 2020-7-24
• Meow (ElasticSearch lack-of-authentication leads to Shock! Horror! massive compromises 2020-7-27
• Life before Social Security 2020-7-29
• The Fallacy of The Individual vs The Collective Fallacy 2020-7-29
• Your mind is hackable 2020-7-30
• The Hard Problem of Breakfast 2020-8-11
• Content is King? The King is Dead 2020-8-12
• Riots and Political Theory: A Reading List 2020-8-13
• Q: How can I tell if someone online is a Libertarian? 2020-8-17
• What are the Big Problems? 2020-8-19
• On Bullshit Bullshit Filters 2020-8-20
• American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960–2000 Was an Aberration 2020-8-23
• Communication is hard. Especially with other people. 2020-8-25
• Why Libertarians win the media war over Greens 2020-9-2
• On “Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society” 2020-9-8
• What if there is no such thing as general intelligence, or all intelligence has some domain-specificity? 2020-9-9
• What’s with increasing “back to the office” arguments? Real Estate and Finance interests 2020-9-13
• Steven Pinker’s Panglossianism has long annoyed me 2020-9-14 Technical debt, Robert K. Merton, complexity, manifestation
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87 2020-9-19
• On education, basic vs. advanced skills, certification, and corporate education 2020-9-20
• Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, but for Evicting People 2020-9-21
• The Three Evils of Society 2020-9-22
• Treating systemic problems as moral failings … is why California is on fire 2020-10-4
• Anatomy of a Disinformation Empire: Investigating NaturalNews 2020-10-7
• Propaganda, Censorship, and Surveillance are attributes of the same underlying aspect: Monopoly and Centralised Control 2020-10-12
• It’s often said that reality has a political bias 2020-10-14
• Local news is drowning in ‘pink slime’ ahead of US election 2020-10-16
• Construction Animation of the Charles Bridge (Karlův most) showing medieval engineering techniques 2020-10-16
• How vinyl is pressed 2020-10-20
• On authors who were publishing information technology panopticon concerns in the 1980s, or earlier 2020-10-21
• Master and Disciple: Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah 2020-10-22
• The RIAA’s fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird 2020-10-25
• Craigslist RSS feeds apparently died in September 2020-11-1
• EFF: The Github youtube-dl Takedown Isn’t Just a Problem of American Law 2020-11-3
• In the 20th century, it is attention, not speech, that is restricted and of limited quantity that the gatekeepers can control and allocate 2020-11-3
• Own this, America 2020-11-4
• Why Can’t You Download Videos on YouTube? How a 20-Year-Old Law Stops youtube-dl Users AND Farmers 2020-11-6
• Pennsylvania Has Flipped! 2020-11-6
• Spent 2020-11-8
• The Denialist Playbook 2020-11-9
• Media Bias Chart 4.0.1 (2019) 2020-11-11
• Bruce Schneier, “IT for Oppression” 2020-11-13
• The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, “The Real World of Technology” 2020-11-14
• No, coffee is not the 2nd largest business or industry worldwide. But it is the 2nd largest commodity by dollar trade volume 2020-11-16
• When you replace the ‘W’ with a ‘T’ in “Where”, “What”, or “When”, you answer the questiion 2020-11-16
• Tax idle wealth, externalities, assets, and resource drawdowns 2020-11-18
• On trolls, disinformation, spam, cleanup, and blocking 2020-11-19
• My Diaspora blocks by pod 2020-11-19
• Could “fuzzing” voting, election, and judicial process improve decisionmaking and democratic outcomes? 2020-11-20
• THE US REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A CULT OF POWER 2020-11-21
• This is Neoliberalism 2020-11-21 Excellent Youtube playlist.
• Perrow, Normal Accidents, and complex systems determinants 2020-11-23
• OpSec is overrated. What you want is impunity 2020-11-24
• In the frame of Moralising Pathology, what went wrong at Boeing? 2020-11-25
• When you see those with trappings of former wealth seeking handouts and begging, you’re witnessing collapse 2020-11-26
• Feet to the Fire: The next four years of US politics — Achieving Change 2020-11-28
• History through the lens of energy: a bibliography 2020-12-3
• Cheap Rejection as a Feature 2020-12-4
• The hygeinist’s dilemma: the better you do your job the less valuable it seems 2020-12-5
• Readings on money 2020-12-6
• Do Protests Even Work? 2020-12-7
• There’s a time to pull together, and there’s a time to pull where you want to go 2020-12-11

2021

• My Tradecraft Things 2020-12-15 "Deaddrops near roses, whispers with Britons / Five Eyes exchanges and CIA missions ..."
• Levi-Strauss on the Functions of Writing 2021-1-2
• Data Facilitates Surveillance, Privacy Violation, and Manipulation Directly Through Increased Efficiences 2021-1-3
• Survival Manifesto: Principles for Change 2021-1-4
• Plural of Inconsistency 2021-1-5
• What has government ever done for you? 2021-1-5
• A Mighty Wind: Meta-post Discussion of the Volte-face in online media and politics 2021-1-9
• Which has primacy? Freedom of Speech or Autonomy in Communication? 2021-1-13
• The case against tablets 2021-1-22
• Adam Smith on types of labour and economic goods 2021-1-27
• On the value of and importance of linking 2021-2-2
• By Moore’s Law, computers have increased in speed roughly 1 million-fold in 50 years. Where are the gains? 2021-2-6 (Economics discussion)
• Markets, buyers & sellers, goods & services, and overall effectiveness 2021-2-10
• Systems Operations is a Risk Mitigation Practice
• Information Overload and Cultural Perpetuation
• US Domestic Surveillance Disclosures pre-dating Edward Snowden’s Revelations
• Arthur C. Clarke and the Paradox of Distance
• On the Power of No Vetocracy & Francis Fukuyama

COVID-19

Posts on the Great Pandemic of 2020-21- ...

• The Wuhan 2019nCoV Coronavirus Epidemic is growing by a factor of ten a week 2020-1-29
• Mostly uniformed notes on Coronavirus, Wuhan, China, and the online response 2020-2-7
• Wuhan Coronavirus: Case classification standards change causing reported-cases spike 2020-2-13
• Concerns over possible North Korean 2019-nCoV cases 2020-2-20
• Concerns over possible North Korean 2019-nCoV cases 2020-2-20
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Update, 25 February 2020 2020-2-25
• COVID-19 / Coronavirus update in progress 2020-2-26
• In historic move, Saudi Arabia suspends travel for pilgrimages to Islam’s holiest sites 2020-2-28
• A Laycat’s COVID-19 / Coronavirus Updates – February 28, 2020 2020-2-28
• In a few days, somebody at GOP HQ is going to realise that SARS-CoV-2 is maximally lethal to old, diabetic, smoking, scientific-advice-averse people, which is to say, their core voting demographic... 2020-2-29
• COVID-19: Florida is the new Iran. Pandemic meets Spring Break 2020-2-29
• The COVID-19 Virus: How to stay safe: Practical advice from epidemic expert Laurie Garrett on how to remain safe. 2020-2-29
• COVID-19 “Spreading stealthily through Pacific Northwest” for up to six weeks 2020-3-2
• COVID-19 Iran: Backing out possible cases by deaths data 2020-3-2
• COVID-19: A Laycat’s guide to what to consider / watch for 2020-3-3
• COVID-19 A Laycat’s US Outbreak Model 2020-3-6
• 3Blue1Brown: Exponential growth and epidemics 2020-3-8
• Scientific data (with direct links to papers) on what we know so far on #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 2020-3-8
• COVID19 Monitoring Suggestion: Look at reported deaths per day since 100 reported cases. 2020-3-10
• NBA suspends season after Jazz player tests positive for coronavirus 2020-3-12
• Meaning losing all meaning 2020-3-13
• Norwegian university urges students to return home from the U.S., cites ‘poorly developed health services’ 2020-3-16
• Rest-of-World #covid19 confirmed cases surpass China 2020-3-16
• Seems as if Reddit’s /r/fitness is in full denial over #COVID19. As in, that it even exists. 2020-3-16
• Coronavirus makes homeless people vulnerable like never before 2020-3-17
• How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar? 2020-3-17
• rice 2020-3-
• Public Librarian Pandemic Manifesto 2020-3-17
• We’re not going back to normal 20202-3-18
• 11 charts that explain the coronavirus pandemic 2020-3-19
• “…the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential reelection this fall…” 2020-3-19
• Gov. Gavin Newsom orders all Californians to stay at home 2020-3-20
• 1% of the US population will likely be infected with COVID-19 as of today, or within days 2020-3-20
• Can Eviction Moratoriums Stop The Bleeding? 2020-3-21 On the Media
• For GenZ and younger Millennials: You’re living through a time comparable to, possibly more consequential than, 9/11 for the GenX crowd. 2020-3-21
• COVID-19 Projections: on March 25, the US will have more confirmed cases than China’s 81,000. 2020-3-22
• A debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression 2020-3-22
• Italy COVID-19 new cases declining from March 21 peak 2020-3-25
• A War President … 2020-3-25
• Food: Pandemic Pantry 2020-3-25
• US overtakes Italy & China to lead world in COVID-19 cases at 82,179 2020-3-26
• The Cheesecake Factory Tells Landlords Across the Country It Won’t Be Able to Pay Rent on April 1 2020-3-27
• Mortgage industry can’t make the rent 2020-3-27
• This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled. 2020-3-27
• Coronavirus and World Leadership 2020-3-27
• When Carriers are Carriers 2020-3-29
• Japan’s adroit handling of COVID-19 may be in peril 2020-3-29
• México no se ve tan bien 2020-3-29
• COVID-19 containment visualiser 2020-3-29
• COVID-19: US CDC are recommending homemade masks, if none other are available 2020-3-30
• COVID-19: Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide 2020-3-31
• COVID-19: C.D.C. Weighs Advising Everyone to Wear a Mask 2020-3-31
• Singer Adam Schlesinger, of Fountains of Wayne, dead at 52 of coronavirus 2020-4-2
• CORVID-19 2020-4-3
• You want Death Ships? This is how you get Death Ships. 2020-4-3
• Living in a van down by the river during global quarantine 2020-4-3
• COVID-19: Worldwide 1 million confirmed cases, 50,000 deaths, daily new cases to exceed China’s total 2020-4-3
• Over 120,000 sign online petition to reinstate U.S. Navy carrier commander 2020-4-4
• A COVID-19 Admonition 2020-4-4
• COVID-19: Aerosolization spread possible, not just droplets: Wear a Mask 2020-4-5
• COVID-19: A month on, April 5, 2020, and my early-March confirmed-case projections are now … slightly … pessimistic. 2020-4-5
• COVID-19: The pandemic is about to devastate the developing world 2020-4-6
• Thoughts and Prayers (for corporations and landlords 2020-4-9
• Deep newspaper job cuts prompt rare plea for federal funding to news media 2020-4-16
• Office Space: Not the movie 2020-4-17
• Volcano Gods Demand Workers 2020-5-9 Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic
• Snare Space: Comas of temporarily abandoned cruise ships 2020-5-9
• UK Covid-19 deaths tracking to far exceed early-April forecast 2020-5-10
• The Real Reason to Wear a Mask 2020-5-11 Zeynep Tufekci, genius, as usual.
• "The taverns are full of gadabouts making merry this eve..." 2020-5-21
• SF, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn: ‘Never seen anything like it’ 2020-6-1
• Simon Rattle: “In the long run, I don’t expect orchestras to continue flying around the world.” 2020-6-7
• Covid-19: 1 in 1,000 people worldwide confirmed to have had disease 2020-6-12
• COVID-19 Internal US travel quarantines are now A Thing 2020-7-3
• COVID-19: India is on track to hit 1m cases ~ July 15 2020-7-7
• Millionaire’s Row, COVID-19 edition: US, Brazil, India 2020-7-18
• Six months ago: “First US case of Wuhan coronavirus confirmed by CDC” 2020-7-22
• Revisiting my late-February COVID-19 take 2020-7-26
• COVID-19: India is the new Sweden 2020-7-27
• COVID-19: Miscellaneous Updates — General resurgence, “the monster is everywhere”, Great Depression scale economic impacts, continued political dysfunction 2020-8-1
• COVID-19: The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000 2020-8-13
• COVID-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected Over 100 2020-9-26
• As COVID-19 strikes at the American political class, I wonder … 2020-10-3
• COVID-19: Whilst you† were distracted this past weekend … 2020-10-5
• COVID-19 Milestones: US surpasses 8 million confirmed cases, global cases trending strongly upward, England age progression 2020-10-13
• COVID-19: 40 million cases worldwide. We’ll cross 50 million within a month 2020-10-19
• COVID-19: Columbia and France will join Millionaires club in four days 2020-10-21
• COVID-19: Texas has overtaken California for most cases to date 2020-10-22
• COVID-19: The Sweden Question 2020-10-24
• COVID-19: Columbia joins millionaires, UK likely next, US hits all-time daily new-case peak 2020-10-24
• COVID-19: US crosses 9m cases, UK 4 days from 1m, more Sweden deaths 2020-10-27
• COVID-19 Sweden: Deaths trends September–October 2020 2020-10-31
• COVID-19 updates 2020-11-6
• COVID-19: US surpasses 10m cases, 132k new daily cases – an all-time peak. Texas surpasses 1m cases 2020-11-7
• Q: Did mishandling of the #TrumpVirus swing the election by outright killing a critical margin of voters? A: No. 2020-11-7
• COVID-19: Next millionaire to be Italy, not Mexico 2020-11-8
• COVID-19: India’s new daily case numbers rising again 2020-11-10
• COVID19: Sweden deaths continue upward trend 2020-11-11
• COVID-19 Millionaires: Italy, California. Within weeks: Mexico, Germany, Poland, Illinois, Florida 2020-11-13
• The National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System – National Trends 2020-11-16
• COVID-19: Why US situation is far worse than Europe’s, and why this may not be immediately evident 2020-11-17
• CovidWinter may be extraordinarily bad 2020-11-17
• COVID-19: Those curious about the herd immunity strategy might care to keep an eye on French Polynesia 2020-11-19
• COVID-19 updates: Germany joins millionaires, global cases slow lead by Europe, US rising, Thanksgiving data glitch likely 2020-11-28
• Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages 2020-12-2
• Turkey’s new virus figures confirm experts’ worst fears 2020-12-2
• COVID-19: US emerging from Thanksgiving “shadow’”, Florida joins millionairs, Poland 76 cases shy, global case rates declining 2020-12-2
• COVID-19: US post-Thanksgiving data bump — likely the reporting lag catching up 2020-12-3
• The coronavirus has come roaring back into Brazil, shattering illusions it wouldn’t 2020-12-5
• Sweden’s pivot toward new virus restrictions may not ‘shift mindsets,’ says Swedish scientist 2020-12-7
• COVID-19: Suriname currently reports -6 active cases 2020-12-8
• COVID-19: What is Turkey’s true case count? 2020-12-9 and follow-up.
• US COVID-19 deaths and War Casualties 2020-12-11
• COVID-19 Fears Unmaterialised: The developing world appears to have done stunningly well 2020-12-11
• COVID-19: The Virus that Didn’t Come to Thanksgiving Dinner 2020-12-29
• COVID-19: That LessWrong dismal outlook piece 2020-12-28
• COVID-19 Situation in Taiwan worsens … with first local transmission in 8 months 2020-12-23

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xkcd #2293

1937 -- 2020

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