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Daniel Schmidt: Why business intelligence falls flat. It wasn't that people didn't care about the story the data was telling. They did care, and they were worried that the numbers were flat. The problem was they had no idea what they could do about it. The metrics in the dashboard were divorced from the actual work happening on the ground. (more)

news feed tool by Nate Parrott of Arc (is it built into Arc?) (more)

web browser https://arc.net/ it’s everything you care about, all in one place

As part of his Annabel Scheme serial, Robin Sloan created a template and ruby code to take markdown and generate (a) a web-based ebook, and (b) an epub. (more)

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

Cory Doctorow book ISBN:1250229251 incl "Unauthorized Bread"

Bruce Schneier: Banning TikTok. Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. (more)

Joe Biden finds breaking up Big Tech is hard to do. The Department of Justice offensive, a pair of lawsuits aimed at breaking up the search giant’s dominance, will play out in the courts — reflecting a new phase in the Biden administration’s years-long effort to rein in Big Tech, after a sweeping antitrust package stalled in Congress. (more)

Jon Udell: Mapping people and tags on Mastodon. In Mastodon relationship graphs I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods. When I use the word map here, I’m channeling Denis Wood’s The Power of Maps: Every map shows this … but not that, and every map shows what it shows this way … but not the other way. (more)

Frank Lantz: Well, Here We Are. I feel like I’ve been training my whole life for this moment. I grew up reading science fiction. First Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, then Stanislaw Lem, J.G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. When I was 14 I read Godel, Escher, Bach, and something clicked. I knew there was something here, something that explained the connection between possible worlds and impossible images. (more)

A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department says. The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. (more)

Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson on the future of virtual reality. What’s your preferred current definition of the metaverse? (more)

Robin Sloan: Buoyed by the flood. (more)

Cory Doctorow: Dow Ppromised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia. Dow Chemicals plastered Singapore with ads for its sneaker recycling program (more)

The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s... On 14 May 1992, the KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their back catalogue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF (more)

When I hit various error messages that make no sense (see Feb07 (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux), I start to suspect the underlying mess is from still being on Python-2. So going to finally bite the bullet. (more)

Simon DeDeo is an associate professor in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. (more)

high-performance Web Server similar to LightTPD. (more)

home of Word Press and other tools (more)