Micropub is an open API standard (W3C Recommendation) for creating, editing, and deleting posts on websites, like on your own domain, supported by numerous third-party clients and CMSs... The Micropub vocabulary is derived directly from the Microformats vocabulary. Micropub is meant to be a serialization of Microformats that can be submitted as an HTTP POST. https://indieweb.org/Micropub (IndieWeb) (more)

Went to the Chicago CTO Summit, run by Peter Bell (more)

Four Key Metrics for DevOps success. Through six years of research, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has identified four key metrics that indicate the performance of a software development team: Deployment Frequency—How often an organization successfully releases to production; Lead Time for Changes—The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production; Change Failure Rate—The percentage of deployments causing a failure in production; Time to Restore Service—How long it takes an organization to recover from a failure in production. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance (more)

Joel Garreau book from 1981 suggesting that there are 9 different regional cultures covering the US, Canada, and Mexico, and that maybe it would make sense to draw national boundaries that way... (more)

Matt Webb: Designing multiplayer apps with patterns from architecture. I’ve found myself looking at architecture to pick up hints on designing multiplayer apps. Or rather: the coming ecosystem of multiplayer apps. (more)

Rich Ziade and Paul Ford: Why We're Building Aboard. We’re building a product that deep inside we think, for those who use it and commit to it, will make a better internet. (more)

The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions? Waiting to board a flight recently... A fellow passenger had been refused boarding and was pleading with the airline attendant. The attendant was obviously sympathetic — but it was down to company policy. We were witnessing what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account. (more)

"feature" where Google search results display an answer, more than just an excerpt, often with the source de-emphasized (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: OpenAI: Fallout. Previously: OpenAI: Exodus (contains links at top to earlier episodes), Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson... We have learned more since last week. It’s worse than we knew. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #65: I Spy With My AI. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: OpenAI Exodus. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike have left OpenAI. This is almost exactly six months after Altman’s temporary firing and The Battle of the Board, the day after the release of GPT-4o, and soon after a number of other recent safety-related OpenAI departures. Many others working on safety have also left recently. This is part of a longstanding pattern at OpenAI. (more)

Introducing Simpleology 5.14 with… So what is the simple and elegant technique anyone can use to brainwash themselves? (more)

Asking Questions is one of the key Thinking Tools - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question (more)

Sending jobs Off-Shore to save on labor (and regulatory) costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring#History (more)

A blue zone is a region in the world where people are claimed to have exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 80 due to a lifestyle combining physical activity, low stress, rich social interactions, a local whole-foods diet, and low disease incidence.[1] Examples of blue zones include Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy; the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; and Icaria, Greece.[1] The name "blue zones" derived simply during the original survey by scientists, who "used a blue pen on a map to mark the villages with long-lived population."[2] The term, Blue Zones, is also used in marketing to promote a healthy lifestyle during aging. The concept of blue zones with longevity, however, has been challenged by the absence of scientific proof,[3] and by the substantial decline of life expectancy during the 21st century in one of the first proposed blue zones, Okinawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone (more)

market structure where the biggest organization makes almost all the profits, and everyone else struggles. (more)

Self Determination, Agency? (more)

David John Chalmers (/ˈtʃælmərz/;[1] born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, as well as co-director of NYU's Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness (along with Ned Block).[2][3] In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[4] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[5] Chalmers is best known for formulating the hard problem of consciousness. He and David Bourget cofounded PhilPapers, a database of journal articles for philosophers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers

Giulio Tononi (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo toˈnoːni]) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. He is best known for his Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a mathematical theory of consciousness, which he has proposed since 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Tononi

Antonio Damasio (Portuguese: António Damásio) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, additionally, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute.[1] He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years.[2] Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his work, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (2010), explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness.[3] Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Damasio