Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism.[3][4] He was a leader of the 1990s "theory-fiction" collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant left it.[5][6] His work departs from the formal conventions of academic writing and embraces a wide range of influences, as well as exploring unorthodox and "dark" philosophical interests.[7] Land is also known for later developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind neo-reactionary and the Dark Enlightenment, which he named. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land

Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979)[1] is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt.[2] Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia,[3] and was unschooled (unschooling) until age 13 when she enrolled in ninth grade.[4] At 16 she abandoned high school to attend classes at the University of Georgia; at the university she studied Deleuze and Guattari under Ronald L. Bogue.[5] She has described herself as a "teenage Deleuzian."[6] Taylor enrolled at Brown University, where she attended classes for a year before dropping out. Reflecting on her decision to leave, Taylor stated "Why had I felt compelled to enroll in an Ivy League school, to excel by the standards of conventional education and choose a 'difficult' major, instead of making my own way? What was I afraid of?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Taylor

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education Roundup #7 (more)

Digital Gardens are mostly widely associated with bundles of writing which are writable only by the single owner, but readable by anyone. Not unlike a WikiLog (see Wiki Types). (more)

Peter Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business, from The Essential Drucker. (more)

Bob Marshall: Business Doctrine. What is Business? (more)

Spritely is a project to level up the federated social web (Federated SocialNetwork. It builds on our experience from co-authoring ActivityPub, the largest decentralized social network on the web to date, while applying lesser known but powerful ideas from the object capability security (Capability Based Security) community. Spritely consists of a number of modular components bringing new and rich features, from distributed programming, to decentralized storage, to virtual worlds. https://spritely.institute/ (more)

operating outside traditional/big institutions - Micro-SaaS/Micro-ISV, Micropreneur, One-Man Show, Two-Pizza Company, SmallCo, Neo-Victorian, Arts And Crafts, Co-op, SmallWorld/SmallWeb, SlowWorld (?), Bespoke, Boutique, Small Batch ((2009-07-31) Linderman Boutique Biz Rename), Situated Software, Life-Style Company, NanoCorp, Auteur Theory, Grunt-Fund, Co-op, Bootstrapping (more)

Paid Site community for Micropreneurs. (Renamed to [[FounderCafe[[?) http://www.micropreneur.com/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Occupational Licensing Roundup #1. We’re coming out firmly against it. (more)

Python Web Framework I used for Flask for Wiki Engine (more)

The thesis is therefore: to become a great programmer, you need to ReadGreatPrograms. https://wiki.c2.com/?ReadGreatPrograms (more)

Very cool Computer Programming language: http://www.python.org/ (more)

Ron Jeffries: Extreme (Programming) Thoughts. Chet Hendrickson said something to the effect that when we were first talking and writing about Extreme Programming, we said that it was simple enough that ordinary programmers could do it. He went on to say that on the C3 team that first did XP, the team was self-selected from a group that had been immersed in the domain, and in Smalltalk, for well over a year, and that had all been programming for quite a few years before that. He wondered whether we should have said that yes, you do have to be good to do XP. (more)

Micah Sifry: Opening the DNC’s Black Box. Three weeks from now (Feb01), the Democratic National Committee will convene in National Harbor, Maryland, to elect a new party chair and other national officers. For Democrats reeling from the defeat of Kamala Harris, this will be their first opportunity to anoint a fresh face for the national party to replace Jaime Harrison, who is stepping down. (more)

Cory Doctorow: Occupy the Democratic National Committee/DNC. Back in 2017, the Democratic National Committee's lawyers submitted a legal brief that didn't just say the quiet part out loud; they bellowed it: "[The DNC can] go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the [presidential] candidate that way": (more)

Jaime R. Harrison (/ˈdʒeɪmi/ JAY-mee; born February 5, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician who is the chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2013 to 2017. Harrison ran against Senator Lindsey Graham in the 2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina, he was defeated by ten points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Harrison

Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the senior advisor to the president of the United States and the director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs from 2023 to 2025. Perez previously served as the United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017), the chair of the Democratic National Committee (2017–2021), and United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2009–2013). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perez

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal executive leadership board of the United States Democratic Party. According to the party charter, it has "general responsibility for the affairs of the Democratic Party between National Conventions",[1] and particularly coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, as well as works to establish a "party brand" and to formulate the party platform.[2] While it provides support for party candidates, it does not have direct authority over elected officials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee (more)

The B-52s, originally presented as the B-52's (with an errant apostrophe; used until 2008), are an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.[8] The original lineup consisted of Fred Schneider (vocals, percussion), Kate Pierson (vocals, keyboards, synth bass), Cindy Wilson (vocals, percussion), Ricky Wilson (guitar, vocals), and Keith Strickland (drums, guitar, keyboards, vocals). Ricky Wilson died of AIDS-related illness in 1985,[9] and Strickland permanently switched from drums to lead guitar. The band has also added various members for albums and live performances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52s