California Wildfire, see wikipedia pages (more)

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.[1][2] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire.[3] Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire.[4] Wildfires are different from controlled or prescribed burning, which are carried out to provide a benefit for people. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate fire risk and promote natural forest cycles. However, controlled burns can turn into wildfires by mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire (more)

Weather and Wildfires of 2023 - climate change? (more)

cable channel (more)

GenAI chatbot built for Lenny Rachitsky and his fans, built early 2023, by Dan Shipper https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/i-built-a-lenny-chatbot-using-gpt

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe". It is a common, informal name for a somewhat broad federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages. By running social network software that supports a standard set of protocols called ActivityPub, independently run servers can connect to the Fediverse,[1] allowing its users to follow and receive short messages from each other, regardless of which particular ActivityPub server implementation they are running. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse See esp Mastodon. See related IndieWeb. (more)

Federated OpenMicroBlogging/OStatus app/network. (more)

like incubator

accelerator? "Home of The Post Web... Beyond Web3.. the future is agentic" https://outlierventures.io/ (more)

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction (scifi) novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the game itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One (then a 2018 movie)

Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink https://indivisible.org/resource/guide (more)

Robert Sullivan wrote an op-ed claiming that NYC is getting worse in letting pedestrians get frozen-out by increasing AutoMobile Street Traffic. Streets Blog copied his piece and added lots of links. (more)

NYC has been doing down-Zoning to limit residential Real Estate development. (Good way to restrict supply and maintain a justification for Rent Control, I suppose...) Most of that has been outside Manhattan, but: Even in Manhattan, where the city has recently rezoned former manufacturing areas to make high-rise residential development possible, it has at the same time downzoned parts of the West Village. Part of the problem is the responsiveness of BigGov Infrastructure - People started to realize: "This is a problem in my Neighborhood. You know what? This is leading to overcrowding in my school (Public School). This is why we have a Street Traffic problem. We're getting Sew Er backups because the Infrastructure can't handle these developments." People started to realize, "Wow, this really does affect our Quality Of Life." (more)

AutoMobile, Taxis, buses (Cheap Oil) (more)

the hell you face after getting your AutoMobile through Street Traffic (more)

Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation, creator of Chandler, the WorkGraph PIM for Free Agents. http://www.osafoundation.org/ (more)

book by Scott Rosenberg about OSAF in particular, and the general frustration of all parties in building software. Software Engineering, Big Project, etc. http://www.dreamingincode.com/ ISBN:1400082463 (more)

Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society. In the field of political science, totalitarianism is the extreme form of authoritarianism, wherein all socio-political power is held by a dictator, who also controls the national politics and the peoples of the nation with continual propaganda campaigns that are broadcast by state-controlled and by friendly private mass media.[1] The totalitarian government uses ideology to control most aspects of human life, such as the political economy of the country, the system of education, the arts, the sciences, and the private-life morality of the citizens.[2] In the exercise of socio-political power, the difference between a totalitarian regime of government and an authoritarian régime of government is one of degree; whereas totalitarianism features a charismatic dictator and a fixed worldview, authoritarianism only features a dictator who holds power for the sake of holding power, and is supported, either jointly or individually, by a military junta and by the socio-economic elites who are the ruling class of the country.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

The Power of the Powerless (Czech: Moc bezmocných) is an expansive political essay written in October 1978 by the Czech dramatist, political dissident, and later statesman, Vaclav Havel. The essay dissects the nature of communist regimes of the time, life within such a regime, and how by their very nature, such regimes can create dissidents of ordinary citizens. The essay goes on to discuss ideas and possible actions by loose communities of individuals linked by a common cause, such as human-rights petition Charter 77... The topic of how best to resist a totalitarian system occupied Havel's mind after the launch of Charter 77. This became the crux of his essay, which was one of the most "original and compelling pieces of political writing" to come out of the Eastern Bloc, according to Havel biographer, John Keane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless (more)

Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry.[1] The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American theoretical biologist, in 1986.[2] In 1987 Langton organized the first conference on the field, in Los Alamos, New Mexico.[3] There are three main kinds of alife,[4] named for their approaches: soft,[5] from software; hard,[6] from hardware; and wet, from biochemistry. Artificial life researchers study traditional biology by trying to recreate aspects of biological phenomena. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life