mindmapping tool for VisionPro/Mac/ipad/ios. https://www.mindnode.com/ (more)

Apple Computer mixed reality headset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Vision_Pro https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro (more)

Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986[2]) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI,where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy (more)

Dan Davies: me versus the scatterplots... bugging me for a while... This week - economic geography. I probably shouldn’t write off entire fields of enquiry en bloc; even lab-based experimental economics probably has some things in it which generated reproducible results. But econ-geog really seems to me to generate a lot of amazingly simplistic takes, usually involving the creation of scatterplots. (more)

Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) guaranteed builders that qualified veterans could buy housing for a fraction of rental costs. Under Levitt & Sons, Levittown housing would maintain racial (rascist) covenants that excluded non-Caucasian homeowners. The first Levittown house sold for $7,900 and in a short period of time 17,000 units were sold, providing homes for 84,000 people. In addition to single-family dwellings, Levittowns provided private meeting areas, swimming pools, public parks, and recreational facilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.[1] Such laws remained in force until 1965.[2] Formal and informal segregation policies were present in other areas of the United States as well, even if several states outside the South had banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting.[3][4] Southern laws were enacted by white "Redeemers"-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era.[5] Such continuing racial segregation was also supported by the successful Lily-White Movement of Southern Republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

National Review is an American conservative[4] editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955.[5] Its editor-in-chief is Rich Lowry, and its editor is Ramesh Ponnuru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley;[a] November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, political commentator and novelist.[1] Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French and then English as a child.[2] He served stateside in the United States Army during World War II. Following the war, he attended Yale University, where he engaged in debate and conservative political commentary; he graduated from Yale with honors in 1950. Afterward, he worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for two years. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the growth and development of the conservative movement in the United States. In addition to editorials in National Review, Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale (1951) and more than 50 other books on diverse topics, including writing, speaking, history, politics, and sailing. His works include a series of novels featuring fictitious CIA officer Blackford Oakes and a nationally syndicated newspaper column.[3][4] In 1965, Buckley ran for mayor of New York City on the Conservative Party line, finishing third. From 1966 to 1999, he hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line, the longest-running public affairs show with a single host in U.S. television history; through his work on the show, he became known for his Northeastern elite accent and wide vocabulary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr.

Robert Rosen (June 27, 1934 – December 28, 1998) was an American theoretical biologist and Professor of Biophysics at Dalhousie University... His year-long sabbatical in 1970 as a visiting fellow at Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California was seminal, leading to the conception and development of what he later called Anticipatory Systems Theory, itself a corollary of his larger theoretical work on relational complexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rosen_(biologist) (more)

Pask's major work was the development of Conversation Theory and its applications in education (Educating Kids). Conversation Theory is based in Gordon Pask's interest in Cybernetics... The fundamental idea of the theory was that learning occurs through conversations about a subject matter which serves to make knowledge explicit. http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/Pask.htm (more)

Gordon Brander: Subconscious napkin sketch. This quick sketch is a mashup of several theories that have influenced my design process, including… (more)

Gordon Brander: Pond brains and GPT-4. Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask were building a pond that thinks. Their biological computing project set out to build ecosystems with inputs and outputs, that could function as computers. (more)

Joe Procopio: I’ve Had 100 Startup Meetings About How No One Can Find a Job. I just wrapped up my 100th meeting with people from startups and established companies alike, all of whom are trying to solve a massive problem: That no one seems to be able to find a job. (job market) (more)

Dan Davies: la systeme financiere n'existe pas, parte deux. Thinking about cultures of regulation reminded me of an argument I made in “The Unaccountability Machine”, that the “financial system” is a good example of how under a cybernetic analysis, you can often end up wanting to analyse things in a way that pays absolutely no respect at all to org charts. (more)

Democrats plan a different kind of response to Donald Trump’s big speech. Their less pugilistic approach is the latest sign the party is still coming to terms with how to confront the president. (more)

House Democratic leaders privately confront Donald Trump speech disruptors. Many progressives defied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' (D-N.Y.) request to avoid making themselves the story. (more)

Democrats Want To Pick Their Battles With Donald Trump. Their Base Wants All-Out War.. While a showdown over Carson may be viscerally satisfying, one top Senate Democratic aide said, the better play is to spotlight instances when a nominee is directly threatening Trump’s supporters. It’s no coincidence that Democratic leaders have been hyper-focused on health and human services secretary nominee Tom Price, treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos. Democrats believe these nominees help them make the case that a Trump administration will cut health care, screw over homeowners and gut public education. (more)

Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests. When several dozen Democratic political operatives and elected officials gathered at a tony resort off the Potomac River last month, frustration boiled over at the left wing of their party. (more)

Joe Procopio: The Dirty Secret About Productivity and AI. There’s a nasty surprise waiting for business leaders at “peak productivity”* (more)

Joe Procopio: “Big HR” Gets Hit With Big Job Cuts. Workday announces its own mass layoffs, so what does that mean for the tech industry? (more)