Mar'2022: Venkatesh Rao asks Web1 : GTD :: Web2 : BASB :: Web3 : ?? to which I replied: TarotKasten (cf tarot, zettelkasten)

The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, by James Beniger. ISBN:0674169867 (more)

Bovine is meant to be a modular FediVerse server that supports ActivityPub. During its history, as how to split the tasks between different modules has become clearer, and the split is not done yet. A lot of the changes are due to the realization that parts can be split away as an ActivityPub Client. Here an ActivityPub Client is an application that communicates with just a single ActivityPub Server. https://codeberg.org/bovine/bovine (more)

An easy & approachable language for modern web front-ends. Enhance HTML with concise DOM, event and async features. Make writing interactive HTML a joy. https://hyperscript.org/ (more)

Dave Winer frame: http://textcasting.org/ (more)

Tantek Celik: One of the pretty neat innovations from Mastodon has been actual, functional, and fairly reliable (from all accounts I’ve seen) distributed system account migration, with the notable exception of post migration, which has additional challenges worth exploring... as far as I know, no other blogging (or chat) software, system, or even protocol comes close to achieving the level of functionality described in Mastodon’s documentation.

Eliot Peper: A Note About Notes. Different mediums create conditions for particular kinds of media to thrive. The novel is a specific form that took hold after the invention of the printed book. What specific forms thrive on the internet? I’ll leave it to other digital naturalists to compile an exhaustive list, but I can present one for your consideration: notes. (more)

John Scalzi: The Big Idea: Cory Doctorow. For years, Cory Doctorow has carved one of the most idiosyncratic paths in the genre of science fiction and fantasy (more)

Blair Fix on Red Team Blues: Cory Doctorow's Anti-Finance Thriller. Finance crime is a necessary component of violent crime. Even the most devoted sadist needs a business model, or he will have to get a real job. (more)

Cosma Shalizi on Godel's Theorem. A much-abused result in mathematical logic, supposed by many authors who don't understand it to support their own favored brand of rubbish, and even subjected to surprisingly rough handling by some who really should know better. (Kurt Godel) (more)

Peter Watts: No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Red Team Blues. A number of years ago, while I was just beginning to figure out this whole Writing thing, I tried to classify what I saw as “successful authors”. (more)

Cory Doctorow: Revenge of the Linkdumps. (more)

Cosma Shalizi: The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone. The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918. (more)

Cosma Shalizi: Was John Dewey a Member of the Reality-Based Community? I'm happy with the idea of John Dewey as a defender of justice and the American Way, but realism? (more)

Venkatesh Rao Graph Minds Notebook: This series explores the phenomenology of large, networked groups of humans, with and without computers in the mix. (Collective Intelligence) (more)

Global Positioning System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS (more)

FourGW thinker - But in 1976 I began the debate over maneuver warfare that became a central part of the military reform movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The U.S. MarineCorps finally adopted maneuver warfare as doctrine in the late 80s (I wrote most of their new tactics manual). (more)

Maneuver warfare, or manoeuvre warfare, is a military strategy which seeks to shatter the enemy's overall cohesion and will to fight... Maneuver warfare, the use of initiative, originality and the unexpected, combined with a ruthless determination to succeed,[1] seeks to avoid opponents' strengths while exploiting their weaknesses and attacking their critical vulnerabilities and is the conceptual opposite of attrition warfare. Rather than seeking victory by applying superior force and mass to achieve physical destruction, maneuver uses preemption, deception, dislocation, and disruption to destroy the enemy's will and ability to fight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare (more)

Blitzkrieg (/ˈblɪtskriːɡ/ BLITS-kreeg, German: [ˈblɪtskʁiːk] (listen); from Blitz 'lightning' + Krieg 'war') is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with artillery, air assault and close air support, that has the intent to break through the opponent's lines of defense, then dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemy by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive Vernichtungsschlacht: a battle of annihilation. During the interwar period, aircraft and tank technologies matured and were combined with systematic application of the traditional German tactic of Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare), deep penetrations and the bypassing of enemy strong points to encircle and destroy enemy forces in a Kesselschlacht (cauldron battle/battle of encirclement). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg

an institution that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members.[1] There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation (more)