Time to add Postgresql Full-Text Search To FluxGarden (more)

interactive Python shell, became Jupyter http://ipython.scipy.org (more)

I cover technology at Gavekal Dragonomics, a global macro research firm based in Hong Kong and Beijing. For the most part, that means figuring out China’s technology capabilities and how quickly they’re improving. Broadly speaking, I’m trying to understand the East Asian industrialization story: the history and the path forward. I’m also a contributor to Bloomberg Opinion. https://danwang.co/about/

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 8/26: Full Vaccine Approval. Great news, everyone. The Pfizer vaccine has been approved. Woo-hoo! It will be marketed under the name Comirnaty. Doh! (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 8/19: Cracking the Booster. The news about Covid-19 is now essentially on a few distinct tracks: Vaccine effectiveness and booster shots, vaccination mandates, mandates for NPIs and other Covid-19 related crippling of the living of life, and the actual path of the pandemic. (more)

Stuff you (think you) know. See DIKW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge (more)

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.[1] Contemporary religious practice of Satanism began with the founding of the Church of Satan in 1966, although a few historical precedents exist.[citation needed] Prior to the public practice, Satanism existed primarily as an accusation by various Christian groups toward perceived ideological opponents, rather than a self-identity. Satanism, and the concept of Satan, has also been used by artists and entertainers for symbolic expression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism (more)

Cocoon’s social app for close friends gets VC backing to chase Path.com’s dream. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren’t homes for your real friends anymore because they’re too big, too commercial and too influencer-y (more)

Substack acqui-hires team behind subscription social app Cocoon – TechCrunch (more)

continuation of the Croquet project (built on Squeak Smalltalk), or a higher layer? (more)

Recent interview with Alan Kay. (more)

TeaTime is a scalable real-time multi-user architecture that is the basis for Croquet’s object-object communication and synchronization (messaging). It is designed to support multi-user applications that can be scaled to massive numbers of concurrently interacting users in a shared virtual space. The most directly visible part of this architecture is the TObject class which is used to define and construct subclassed Tea objects. All of the interesting objects inside of Croquet are constructed from subclasses of TObject. http://lispmeister.github.io/posts/2010/11/naming-and-synchronization-in-a-decentralized/ (more)

Drew Austin: #150: Bright Size Life. I haven’t really kept up with animated films lately but whenever I periodically check in, as I did last week by watching Pixar’s latest, Soul, I’m once again stunned by how much better they keep getting (more)

electronic Money - aka CryptoCurrency, Digital Cash, Digital Money, ECash, Virtual Cash, Virtual Money (more)

aka virtual economy, digicash

Benjamin Rosenbaum ponders the Trade-Offs between Currency and Whuffie for human interaction. (Real World Game) (more)

Marc Andreessen: It's Time to Build. Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. (Maker, Innovation) (more)

Larry Brilliant on his plan for responding to a Pandemic. Build out team starting from existing Canadian operation (GPHIN - the Global Public Health Information Network) which detected SARS and other epidemics and disasters in time to help the world respond and contain them. (Disease Tracking) (more)

An Epidemic that everyone gets. (more)

Copenhagen Consensus is based on the aim to improve prioritization of limited means. The world is faced with a countless number of challenges such as diseases, environmental degradation, armed conflicts and financial instability. Copenhagen Consensus takes a new and critical-analytical approach to assessing the effects of international opportunities for solving the challenges. (Public Policy) (more)