ChatBot/LifeBox/CoachBot (later became porny-companion) https://replika.ai/ (more)

Simon Morden: The Petrovitch Trilogy/Metrozone Series ISBN:9780316242592, The Curve Of The Earth ISBN:031622006X then the (free) prequel stories collection Thy Kingdom Come (more)

Game Rules that can have huge effects (Leverage, Side Effect) to Change The World. Games To Play toward Worldview Roadmap. (cf Theory of Change, Huge Invention, Fractally Generative Pattern Language) (more)

The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (originally titled Article the First) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution (Constitutional Amendment) that addresses the number of seats in the House of Representatives. It was proposed by Congress on September 25, 1789, but was never ratified by the requisite number of state legislatures. As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still pending before the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment A path contra the Electoral College? (more)

Andrej Karpathy: Software 2.0. Neural networks are not just another classifier, they represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we develop software. They are Software 2.0. (GenAI) (more)

series of books by Tim Dorsey, set (mostly) in Florida (more)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani[c] (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who has served since 2021 as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 36th district, representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City in the 2025 election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani

The original SimCity has been donated to the OLPC project. This was initiated by Don Hopkins, the original coder (correction: he ported the original Maxis code to UNIX). He is integrating it into the Sugar UI system and will make it mod-able by Python. (more)

Drawing (visualizing) a graph (or maybe Network) dataset. See Graph Theory, Everything Is A Graph. (more)

note-taking app (and to-do list and [[calendar]) https://www.amplenote.com/ (more)

Amplenote: Bidirectional note linking, and an offer for Roam importers. Over the past year, users of every major note-taking app have clamored for better connectivity between notes in the form of bidirectional linking. Today, we're debuting our own take on this popular feature request. (Two-Way Links) (more)

Discovered at 2011-06-05-LearningProgrammingThroughProjectEuler (more)

Music concerts, theater, etc. I've attended (Performing Arts) (more)

In doing Agile Product Development, there can be a tension between a "top-down" (I don't mean exec-driven, I mean mental-stack) Product Vision/Product Strategy/Conceptual Integrity and an incremental/iterative process of Thinking In Bets. (more)

Mike Solana: The Abundance Delusion. Back in July, following an eight-month fetishization of Luigi Mangione on the far left, another gunman in New York City killed several people, including a mother of two school-age kids who happened to work at—uh-oh—Blackstone (more)

Bernie Sanders Assails Democrats for Not Endorsing Mamdani. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Saturday assailed Democratic leaders for their refusal to support Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor’s race and called him the “future of the Democratic Party.” (more)

Erik Hoel: Ambitious theories of consciousness are not "scientific misinformation". Yesterday over one hundred scientists, many prominent or even world-famous, debuted a signed letter declaring that one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness is “pseudoscience.” The letter is directed at Integrated Information Theory (IIT) (more)

Lina Khan: A Secret to Zohran Mamdani’s Success. One of the most underappreciated aspects of Zohran Mamdani’s successful primary campaign for New York City mayor was its connection to small business. He stopped by halal carts and bodegas and asked what challenges they faced. It is the kind of outreach that teaches policymakers about real problems in our economy and can help build trust and lasting relationships. (more)

Brink Lindsey is an American political writer, and Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center.[1] Previously he was the Cato Institute's vice president for research.[2] From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies,[3] focusing on free trade, and also editor of Cato Unbound, a monthly web magazine. He was a senior fellow with the Kauffman Foundation from 2010 to 2012.[2] An attorney with a background in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink_Lindsey (more)

The Niskanen Center is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that advocates market-oriented principles regarding environmentalism,[3] immigration reform, civil liberties, and an effective welfare state.[4][5] Named after William A. Niskanen, an economic adviser to Ronald Reagan and former chairman of the Cato Institute, it states that its "main audience is Washington insiders",[6] and characterizes itself as moderate,[7] with others calling it centrist.[8] The organization has been credited with fostering bipartisan dialogue and promoting pragmatic solutions to contemporary political challenges on issues such as family benefits, climate change, and criminal justice reform.[9] Though founded as a libertarian think tank, the center has since publicly rejected libertarianism[10] and supported proposals such as universal health-care coverage[11] and increasing state capacity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niskanen_Center