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layout: post title: Yay! Browser PDF Plug-in! created: 1045719360 categories:
In OS X, an annoying thing when looking at PDFs in a browser is that they get downloaded/open an external PDF viewer (either Acrobat, or by default the generic Preview app — which is much faster than Acrobat, but is still an external app).
But….I came across a PDF Browser Plug-in. That page even has a funky embedded pdf that you will be able to view once you install the plug-in and restart your browser. And yes, it works with Safari.
layout: post title: "osOpinion: The Ultimate Lock-In" created: 1047533220 categories:
I said some nice/hopeful things about the next version of MS Office and XML formats. Well, I might be completely wrong, according to an osOpinion article entitled The Ultimate Lock-In.
The first is the possible DMCA implications of trying to open Office 2003 documents without Microsoft’s blessing. Just as Dmitri Sklyarov found himself in a world of trouble for writing software to break Adobe’s encryption for its E-Book format, developers who write software that will open “protected” Office 2003 documents may find themselves facing criminal charges under the DMCA.
layout: post title: Apple Borked Me Again created: 1051732080 categories:
So the new power supply I bought, it’s borked. The glow ring that says "you are charging/ your battery is full" is always glowing green; well, unless I unplug the thing.
Is this covered by warranty Greg Graham?
( breaking B’s rules of continuity by posting here but Greg Graham prolly reads this site more than mine )
layout: post title: "Wired News: Mr. Disruption Strikes Again" created: 1060622340 categories:
Wired news is talking, of course, about Michael Robertson:
By offering low-cost SIP phones — $129.99 per pair, with plans to reduce the price to $40 per phone within a year and $20 within two — Robertson hopes to tap into SIP’s early momentum, just as he did with his Linux and MP3 ventures.
“There’s no per-minute cost for the phone company to zap electrons from one set of copper wires to another, so why do we pay per minute?” he says, “If you intersect with the (regular phone) system, you inherit their cost structure. With SIP to SIP, it can all be free.”
His new company (along with MP3.com and Lindows) is SIPphone. The article mentions the “danger” that customer growth is required — both people have to be on the system in order to communicate. I don’t see this as a problem. Even better if you can buy “2 packs”, with two different shipping addresses.
We keep talking about getting Kate’s dad set up with a webcam. Once he retires and the lease on his business Dell is up, we’ll get him to get an iMac and be all set.
layout: post title: Rodin created: 1061242980 categories:
Rodin is a delightfully simple content management system. Requires PHP and MySQL.
layout: post title: Steve Gillmor on Gates, RSS, Customer-driven Lock-In created: 1085767180 categories:
This is an important article to read:
You don’t have information you don’t care about. RSS is the Tivo of the Web, filtering the information deluge through real-time metadata about your location, awareness, interests and events—stripping out the noise, improving the signal, saving time. It’s WYDSIWYG: What You Don’t See Is What You Get. eWeek, Steve Gillmor: Gates Paying Attention to RSS
Steve talks about how we as customers, or as power users in any case, are constantly looking for the easiest way to do things, using tools that save us time and makes us more efficient. RSS is one such tool, and Steve also describes his back and forth use of a Mac PowerBook and an HP Tablet PC. He loves his Mac, but is increasingly finding that the Tablet PC, even with the headaches of Windows, is saving him time.
layout: post title: Time to demonstrate Simpletracks again created: 1090010158 categories:
Rick, there is Kalsey Consulting’s Simpletracks for those whose tools don’t directly support it.
That’s what I’ve used to let you know about this post.
I’m also not a huge fan at the way that the trackback concept is implemented today. So let’s explain what we’d like to be different, and go from there.
layout: post title: Spoke vs. LinkedIn created: 1090390553 categories:
Kris Krug contacted me a little while ago, looking for contacts in Vancouver. He’s originally from BC, but now living in San Francisco. Wisely, he’s looking to move back to Vancouver. He and I had connected on LinkedIn, then he sent me this question about Spoke:
Hey I was browsing around Spoke.com’s website and created an account. I noticed you were there too which is why I wanted to ask you a couple questions. Which do you prefer, Spoke or LinkedIn? Do you find more people you know are on one as opposed to the other? Or that the quality of contacts you’ve made at one is superior to another? Just wondering.. Kris Krug via email
Yes, I do have an account on Spoke. I couldn’t ever get it to work for me, since it requires either a Windows machine and a program you need to install, or a web mail account. I could never get it to work with my Yahoo account, so I gave up on it. I’m not too concerned — it looks like Spoke is chasing the enterprise market more seriously — their free Internet service is almost more like a trial.
The only social networking site that I actually continue to use is LinkedIn (Flickr doesn’t really count — it’s too much fun to be a networking site). I use LinkedIn to keep track of business contacts. Generally I only connect with people that I’ve either met in person or had an extended online interaction with. Kris and I only exchanged a couple of emails, so I don’t quite know how he snuck in :p
Seriously though, I find the value of LinkedIn to be the very high-quality business connections that are there. It’s most useful when you are actually looking for something, be it a job, someone to fill a job, or a contact at a company where you are trying to build a relationship. The rest of the time, it just sort of sits there — there’s not much point to going back. But this is a good thing: you’re not being bombarded by email or other notification forms, you just know that it’s a solid service that you can make use of when you want it.
A recent article in the Online Business Networks Blog points to an article in the Oakland Tribune about LinkedIn. The last sentence echoes my thoughts:
Think of LinkedIn like a map that lets you navigate your network when you need it.
layout: post title: "Amazon’s Search Engine Web App: Here’s A9 Again" created: 1095220858 categories:
It looks like a web page, but it’s a full blown web app, tied to services all over the place.
Read on for an explanation of what’s in the screenshot. John Battelle’s article on Business 2.0 is also good reading. And of course, check out A9.
Update:the A9 diary is not a blog, it’s for “[annotating] any page with notes”, according to an insider.
The underlying search results are in part from Google, and in part from Amazon (the tagline at the bottom reads "Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by A9.com and Alexa").
The screenshot was taken with me logged in. You get access to things like a search history, showing recently visited sites, searches in the past 24 hours, and other time periods. Searches will also return results from your history, just as they will return results from any bookmarks you have.
The far right row of buttons controls what you see. Clicking the buttons displays additional columns, without any page reloading. The whole thing certainly does feel very interactive, and very slick. The application it most feels like is (perhaps not surprisingly) Google’s Gmail.
The buttons control the display and search results from the following:
Amazon has always been good at turning searches directly into dollars, and they’ve pulled together some interesting partners. I’m of course especially curious about this mysterious diary component. And the big hype word du jour — RSS — is nowhere to be seen.
layout: post title: It appears I never have to throw anything away again created: 1096657287 categories:
With unlimited storage, I need a new home directory approach. It’s starts with reconciling my various home directories (main work machine, home machine, misc_firewire) into one home directory so I can stare it and figure out an organizational hierarchy that scales like crazy. Mac OS X is handy with it’s home directory template, but HELLO EVERYTHING I DO IS A DOCUMENT…. a single Document folder doesn’t really help me.If you have any suggestions here, I’d like to hear them because I’m still chewing on this. Oh yeah, Spotlight better rock, too… because I’m about to have some serious search issues. Rands in Repose: Crunch Time Cleaning
I don’t remember when I started reading Rands. It’s quality over quantity (that is, infrequent postings — the posts themselves are long and enjoyable).
I have the same problem: lots of stuff, lack of good tools to organize it. I have some ideas. I think labels could be improved. Why do we have to have a limited amount of labels? Much like Flickr or del.icio.us tags, I could tag documents with labels, and just see slices of content all over the place. And obviously, smart folders to collect the stuff together. And the labels should be pervasive, from Address Book to Mail to Documents.
Maybe I should go read up on Spotlight again and see how much it does. With an open API (another necessity), one could perhaps build something like this.
layout: post title: "The first business plan with social networking features: LinkedIn" created: 1106040769 categories:
Once I got over my initial enthusiasm with social networking sites, I started saying a simple phrase: social networking is a feature, not a business plan.
From Marc, I see that Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn has jumped full force into jobs. The features? Relationship (follow the connections between you and potential employees/employers), References (people connected to you can give references), and Reputation (displays endorsements for employees/employers).
Great stuff, and the latest graphical updates have made LinkedIn nice looking and very usable.
LinkedIn is the one network that I’ve stuck with. Many of my earlier complaints about it were that "there’s nothing to do there". Well, that’s the point. It sits there quietly waiting for the time when you need to search through your business connections.
And maybe one of these days they’ll support Canadian ZIP codes. :P
layout: post title: "Request for Tutorial: Using SSHKeyChain" created: 1123561643 categories:
Richard wrote about securing his email with SSHKeyChain in the context of pointing to Kees Cook’s discovery of 45 clear auth POP accounts at OSCON.
I actually ran SSHKeyChain before my upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger, but never re-installed. It worked most of the time, but not all the time. To be honest, the whole process is somewhat hard. Richard (or anyone), I’m making a Request for Tutorial (RFT): please document both the requirements (what do I need in a mail server to support this?) and the steps involved in secure email.
layout: post title: BarCamp Amsterdam (or, oops, we did it again) created: 1127439586 categories:
The Drupal community was in the process of organizing a meet up around O’Reilly’s EuroOSCON event when we heard the bad news: since this is O’Reilly’s first OSCON event in Europe, they had limited space and wouldn’t have an exhibit hall, and hence wouldn’t have room for booths from open source projects. Károly Négyesi is giving a talk, but we would have no booth to man, making it hard to meet a lot of the interesting people that are going to be there.
We were somewhat dejected, but then we had An Idea: why not do our own event, and invite other open source projects to come along. Hmmm…what did this sound like? It sounds like BarCamp. So, please join us in helping to organize/attend/promote BarCamp Amsterdam*.
Messina, patron saint of BarCamps everywhere, has posted about this as well — so we’re off to the races!
* I wanted to call it HamsterCamp…after all, we’ve got a Moose Camp
layout: post title: Welcome to Vancouver, Dan - let the Outliner games begin created: 1128063742 categories:
Roland already did the podcast for Bryght Radio with Dan, but I owe him a post talking about some of the ideas we discussed regarding outliners, OPML, the universe, and everything.
Dan is aiming high. He’s here in Vancouver doing heads down work on Focus, the best outliner for Windows. Basically, he says he wants to build the Omni Outliner for the Windows outliner market. I asked him all sorts of devil’s advocate questions, like what about web-based outliners, or cross platform ones, or Dave Winer’s OPML Editor. Well, for starters, he’s got a wiki filled with all the outliner apps he can find, so he’s definitely surveying the competition. The next part is that he’s got some definite market segments in mind. He’s going to build his outliner so it meets the needs of Getting Things Done disciples. And he’s building it on Windows because he a) wants to make money and b) thinks there’s room for a great desktop outliner on Windows (maybe cross promote with Omni?).
I bugged him a bit about open source, but there are very few examples of great desktop apps in that category. As well, Dan plans on a plug-in architecture — actually, embedding Python via the .NET framework to make the whole thing scriptable. Sounds pretty cool, and pretty much the equivalent of AppleScript on the Windows platform.
I think he’s got some other plans with regards to "instant outlining" and connecting with Dave’s OPML editor, but I’ll let him make the big splash about that.
So, welcome to Vancouver, Dan. I’m sure we’ll see you at some more Vancouver Web 2.0 User Group meetings, and of course, if you’re a supporter of the Innovation Commons concept, go add your name to the list.
layout: post title: "Tool time: Highrise and Merlin" created: 1196419334 categories:
In joining forces with RCS and going from 7 people to 22 people, I’m diving back into tools and process. It’s actually quite enjoyable, and I’ve got some partners in crime that it’s been fun to work with.
Highrise is something that I’m warming to. Ostensibly it’s a contact management tool, but it also does CRM and task management. I like it because it gets rid of giant CC chains in keeping multiple people “in the loop” — you just BCC the dropbox in Highrise and everyone can follow along, including grabbing attachments sent in email and so on.
But, it wouldn’t be a 37 Signals product if it didn’t have certain infuriating things about it. Well, maybe not infuriating, but it just leaves me scratching my head. Number one is having to hit “edit” to add an email to a Case (why isn’t there just a nice big “Add to Case” button like there is for other activities?). The other is lack of LDAP. Adding LDAP support so that I could easily use my local mail client to get access to all shared contacts just seems a no brainer. I keep wondering when Gmail will do something like this (or, at least, a Plaxo-like “sync” functionality).
Oh, right, and it lets me add new contacts with email addresses that are duplicates of existing contacts. Yeah, there are a couple of things that bug me about it :P
Anyway, on a whole, Highrise is a plus. Lead tracking and pre-project business communications (contracts, scoping, hiring, etc.) are going to be its main tasks, plus “soft” tasks — e.g. follow up with so-and-so, review this contract, give me your thoughts, etc. I call out soft tasks specifically because there is ALSO Basecamp which has to dos (but not dated to dos, which Highrise does do…oh 37S, how you confuse me and leave me in a puddle of love/hate…). Wonder to what use we can put the API.
The other tool is Djun and I had settled on previously. Scoping, estimating, budgeting, resource allocation — seems to do a pretty decent job in a nice intuitive way. I keep thinking it would be great to hook it directly into trac so you can easily get high level overviews of tasks. This MUST be scriptable in some way, but would need some dedicated time to sit down and work through…
Oh, and what the heck, while we’re naming tools, don’t forget about hosted SVN / ticket tracking with Unfuddle. I think our trac install is going to go away and be replaced by per-project hosted Unfuddle (for easy hand off to clients — main uses are developer-granularity tickets and client bug reporting) and an internal Drupal-based wiki/doc repository for the wiki component.
layout: post title: I think I might become an RDF fan boy (again) created: 1200479193 categories:
I’m currently in Stuttgart, Germany doing some Drupal client work in a gathering that we’ve come to call “Geek Week”. We sit down and look at internal requirements and do 3/6/12 month planning, matched up with the state of the Drupal universe. But more on that later, probably over at RCS (the “In Drupal We Trust” t-shirts were popular).
One of the “geeks” attending here is Arto Bendiken. Check out his projects page for an example of some of the stuff he’s worked on. For Drupal folks, that would be timeline - AJAX widget for visualizing temporal information, boost - static page caching for Drupal, drush - command line shell for Drupal, trace - easy debugging for Drupal, exhibit - rich visualization and faceted browsing. Yes, that is impressive :P
So, Arto and I got to talking about RDF (rdfabout.com is a good primer site), and how it’s the new black. I admit that I’ve felt that XML vs. RDF is (almost?) a religious war. It seems to me that pointy haired bosses (PHBs) have memorized that RDF == slow and complex, and XML == fast and ubiquitous. Since in selling concepts I often interact with PHBs, RDF has felt like an uphill battle, especially as RSS/Atom grow more and more widespread.
But.
I think I’m almost convinced that the scales are tipping in favor of RDF for enabling new, distributed actions. Looking at new companies like Nova Spivack’s Twine or MetaWeb’s Freebase, we are seeing new capabilities emerge based on using RDF.
Actually, SPARQL is another new piece, in fact just ratified as W3C recommendation as of yesterday. In short, a way to do queries across data at multiple sources, rather than having to rely on the aggregate-and-query-locally.
Here’s an image of the data that is currently available as RDF. Please ignore the FOAF bubble in the middle, we really do need to replace that with something better :P
tags :: Marx
source :: cite:a_world_to_win
A World To Win is a lengthy and comprehensive biography of the philosopher Karl Marx. It not only provides biographical details but also explores the genealogy of Marx's own ideas.
quote:
No man combats freedom; at most, he combats the freedom of others
Marx believed the powerful insight of Feuerbachwas that he saw that humanity transferred attributes they could have attributed to themselves to God
Marx believed that a person was an individual only after they had come to have a social meaning
What is more, it is only through others that they can become an individual. ‘Man’s individual and species-life are not different,’ he wrote. It is society that gives the individual access to nature, through the labour and knowledge of others. It is through society that they can be their own distinctive person.
Went from being a small pamphlet to a book
Written while in France
Criticism of Bruno Bauerand company
First time Marx and Engelswere published together as co-authors, even though Engels only wrote about 15 pages
The original title of the book was "A Critique of Critical Criticism", where Marx was making fun of Bruno Bauer's "pure criticism"
Marx criticized Bauer of being contemptuous of the masses
For Marx, the difference between political emancipation and human emancipation is that the former concerns itself with a person's relationship to the state, while the latter concerns itself with a person's relationship to their own labor and ultimately to their own egos
Marx regarded figures from the French Revolutionas the forerunners of communism
Bauer believed that each individual in society was an atom (idealism, while Marx recognized that there was a necessity that drove people together. For Marx, a person is a social being before they are an individual
Marx believed that sensualismwas the basis for materialism
Marx excludes Spinozafrom the history of materialism
Liedman believes that Marx felt it so important to write this because it was a symbolic closing of a chapter of his life: he had broken with Hegelian thought, particularly that of the Young Hegeliansand needed to put it behind him
Guizothad Marx deported from France under suggestion Prussia
Marx and company moved to Belgium
While in France Jenny had learned how to decipher Marx's handwriting, would copy his writing, became active participant in Marx's work
In this time, at the age of 25, Engelspublished /The Condition of the Working Class in England
Marx and Engels had a personal dispute after moving to Brussels
Engels had read Max Stirner#39;s book and was a fan, but Marx was not
In 1845 Marx and Engels took a trip to England
Engels was fluent in English while Marx could only read it
The German Ideology according to Althusser is the breaking point between the young Marx and the mature Marx
Young Marx was basically Hegelian, whereas mature Marx was properly materialist
Liedman doesn't think Altusser is correct, and believes that much of the mature Marx can already be found in earlier works
Liedman says Heinrich notices that Marx also used the term "alienation" later but it came to mean "alienation of labor" rather than "alienation from the essence of humanity"
The 11 Theses on Feuerbachillustrate the intersection between praxisand history.
Marx and Engels believed that the way the German philosophers had conceived of the world was upside down: that their idea that ideas shaped the world was dead wrong. Marx pointed out that ideas don't really do anything on their own
Marx believed that it was production that made a person a person at this point
A crucial idea in The German Ideology is that it is production that makes a person a person. Production distinguishes humanity from the animals. The production of ideas is interlaced with material production, and can only provisionally be distinguished from it.
For Marx, there were no individuals, only people within society
According to Marx, we must always presuppose society. Without society, there are no individuals; consequently, no people either. People live in structures they take over from previous generations, and to which they change through their own activity. Even at a somewhat higher level, Marx opposed what we could call Proudhon’s reductionism. Based on the division of labour in the factory, Proudhon could side with the division of labour in the whole of society. Marx objected that it was the affair of management to divide labour in the factory, while competition pushed forward degrees and types of specialization in society at large.
Proudhonessentially believed that capitalism was not a bad thing and that it could simply be reformed, and that the furthering of capitalist development would lead to a more fair and equitable world
Proudhon asserted that producers and consumers were free in their activity. No, Marx said. As long as the producers are subject to the division of labour, they are compelled to sell. In the same way, consumers are bound to their means and their needs. A worker who buys potatoes and a mistress who buys lace can imagine that they are free, but are acting only in accordance with their social position.
Out of Ricardo’s theories, Proudhon seemed to draw his own conclusions that the present society was heading towards increasing equality. This was due to a fundamental mistake, Marx said. He was confusing the value of the labour required to produce a given object and the value of that same labour on the market. In short, he did not see the difference between the use value and the exchange value of the labour. For example: if a given amount of grain costs two working days instead of one, this did not mean that the amount of nutrition doubled – on the other hand, the amount of labour did.
Increased productivity did not mean, as Proudhon thought, that things would automatically get better for everyone and that what was necessary for the lives of the poor would automatically become cheaper. There were no economic mechanisms that would result in the use values and exchange values of the products meeting. On the contrary, luxuries or items that were dangerous to health could very well be profitable. What generates profit is produced, whether it favours everyone or only a few and regardless of whether it helps or harms the consumer.
Proudhon’s view of society is optimistic. Just under the surface of injustices and workers’ poverty, the possibilities of an equal and just society open up. Marx is not as optimistic: the antagonism between worker and capitalist characterizes society and is inevitable until the day the workers rebel.
Marx was beginning to form his early ideas on economics around this time
No product is useful in and of itself except that it is useful for a consumer, he said. Consumer stands against producer. Consumers always have to be convinced that they need what is being produced. If supply and demand are not at all in balance, the result will be shortage or surplus.
he had arrived at a distinction that only several years later he would put into his own words: the one between concreteand abstract labour In capitalist society, abstract labour is sold per hour against wages. Concrete labour is the production of a definite product, whether it is a piece of cloth or a machine part.
For the first time in this text Marx uses the term "social relations of production", which refers to how owners, workers, and equipment all relate to one another in production
When Marx refers to a "relation" he uses a term that Hegeluses: "Verhältnis", meaning that the relationship between two things has a particular context. The relationship between your brain and your heart, for example. If you remove one, the other dies. But they have a fixed, context-specific relationship. Parent and child is another example.
The parts in a Verhältnis condition and mark each other; they are part of what, in the language of logic, is called an ‘internal relation’
It's around this time Marx began to distance himself from the Hegelian conception of the world, but Marx continued to use the framework
Industrial workers, finding themselves in new nightmarish conditions, found themselves dreaming of the ability to have their own plot of land, basically. They dreamed of having a small patch of land to cultivate
The Manchester liberals only wanted freedom of capital, they had no grand ideas about freedom of individuals in relation to one another
Engels's Principles of Communismwas the forerunner to the Communist Manifesto
The Principles were written to resemble Christian catechism, as was popular at the time
Marx was thinking of what the world would be like after a communist revolution
What will remain of this after the revolution? Would Prometheus and the eternal spirit of revolt he stood for lose their urgency? Would Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Goethe sink into an indifferent past? Would Balzac’s depictions of a cynical social apparatus that bred careerists and losers become only a curiosity? In other texts both before and later, Marx made use of Hegel’s key concept of Aufhebung – sublation – which meant that something was both abolished and raised to a higher level. In that case, the best of the inherited culture would certainly lose its earlier, class-based meanings but at the same time be refined and deepened
Marx and Engels talked about communism as simply the negation of capitalism. They deliberately did not offer any positive vision at this time
Medieval philosophy spoke of a via negativa, a road to knowledge that ran through negations. Marx and Engels embarked upon the same road, but in an entirely different area.
Marx and Engels critique several other kinds of contemporary socialism
Christian Socialism
In this variant, capitalism is criticized for having broken feudal social bonds and also for having called forth a revolutionary proletariat. There are crucial similarities between this kind of socialism and Christianity, and Marx is not surprised: ‘Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burning of the aristocrat.’
Conservative, or Bourgeois Socialism, i.e. a bourgeoisie without a proletariat
Proudhongets lumped in with conservative socialism
Throughout the manifesto Marx is using a concept of critique that would have been familiar to many of the German philosophers of the time
The word critical has a central place in Marx’s vocabulary, as it had during his entire Young Hegelian period, and in other respects in the entire tradition from Kant. Being critical did not mean simply being negative. Someone developing criticism in Marx’s meaning illuminates an object or a phenomenon so that its anatomy and method of functioning are exposed. Critical analysis thereby opens the path for a programme of action.
Lenin never rejected Kautsky in the leading up to the Revolution
Young Lenin had an admiration for Kautsky and paid him compliments
Soviet scholars provided extensive bibliographies on Lenin's works
Legend has it that people coming into communism in the 30's and 40's thought Kautsky's first name was "renegade"
Lih argues that Kautsky was a central figure in the Russian SDP, and something of a mentor to the Russian communists
referenced by Lenin, Bukharin, etc.
Lih says that /Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution was a "charter document for Bolshevism"
Lenin stressed "Bolshevik hegemony" over the course of the revolution
The Bolsheviks did not expect that a worker-peasant alliance would work out as well as it did after 1917
Lih argues that Lenin called Kautsky a "renegade" for abandoning his own principles
Lenin and the other Bolsheviks were big fan's of Kautsky's Road to Power
The Bolsheviks especially liked Kautsky's rejection of any kind of political "agreements"
Selections of Kautsky sound similar to Lenin
Thus the Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not deviate from militant anti-agreementism.
The Bolsheviks won their power through elections in 1917, and it was once they had state power they were able to consolidate it
The Bolsheviks believed that they could attain the power they wanted not through agreements with the bourgeoisie, dual power coalitions, etc., they felt that a worker/peasant alliancein state power expressed through the soviets would be their path to victory
Lenin believed that the only reason why they were able to pull of October was because they had the support of the vast majority of the worker/soldier/peasant soviet constituency
The Bolsheviks were heavily influenced by the works of Kautsky and felt that he was a crucial Marxist thinker. Kautsky believed that a socialist party should not enter into agreements with the bourgeois state, and that it should gain the trust of the peasantry and fight for their goals as well. These lessons were internalized by the Bolsheviks, who used this formula to achieve state power in October of 1917.
The history of the Russian Revolution is not merely a disagreement between insurrectionary politics and electoralism, as some would put it, but a complicated mix of the two.
Lenin, although a famed critic of Kautsky, learned a lot from him as well, and felt that Kautsky wasn't being true to his own word in calling him a "renegade".
Bernsteinbelieves that even if the socialists were able to win a majority in the Reichstag or accomplish revolution that they would not be able to take over production.
I think I can take it as being generally admitted that there would be no question of an immediate taking over by the state of the total manufacture and distribution of products. The state could not even take over the whole amount of medium and large enterprises. The local authorities, too, as connecting links, could not do so very much. They could socialise at most those businesses which produce, or which perform services, locally for that locality, and they would get therewith quite a nice little task. But can one imagine that undertakings which until then had worked for the great outside market could be suddenly municipalised?
Let us take an industrial town of only medium size, say Augsburg, Barmen, Dortmund, Hanau, Mannheim. Is anyone so foolish as to imagine that the communes there could, in a political crisis or at some other occasion, take over all the different manufacturing and commercial businesses of these places into their own management and carry them on with success? They would either have to leave them in the hands of the former proprietors, or, if they wanted to expropriate these absolutely, they would be obliged to give them over to associations of workmen on some leasing conditions.
Bernsteinessentially believes that socialism should be a transition into a form of production where production is simply managed by democratic worker's co-ops.
Bernsteinbelieves that socialismis liberalism#39;s heir:
The aim of all socialist measures, even of those which appear outwardly as coercive measures, is the development and the securing of a free personality. Their more exact examination always shows that the coercion included will raise the sum total of liberty in society, and will give more freedom over a more extended area than it takes away. The legal day of a maximum number of hours’ work, for example, is actually a fixing of a minimum of freedom, a prohibition to sell freedom longer than for a certain number of hours daily, and, in principle, therefore, stands on the same ground as the prohibition agreed to by all liberals against selling oneself into personal slavery. It is thus no accident that the first country where a maximum hours’ day was carried out was Switzerland, the most democratically progressive country in Europe, and democracy is only the political form of liberalism. Being in its origin a counter-movement to the oppression of nations under institutions imposed from without or having a justification only in tradition, liberalism first sought its realisation as the principle of the sovereignty of the age and of the people, both of which principles formed the everlasting discussion of the philosophers of the rights of the state in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, until Rousseau set them up in his Contrat Social as the fundamental conditions of the legitimacy of every constitution, and the French Revolution proclaimed them – in the Democratic Constitution of 1793 permeated with Rousseau’s spirit – as inalienable rights of men.
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There is actually no really liberal thought which does not also belong to the elements of the ideas of socialism. Even the principle of economic personal responsibility which belongs apparently so entirely to the Manchester School cannot, in my judgment, be denied in theory by socialism nor be made inoperative under any conceivable circumstances. Without responsibility there is no freedom; we may think as we like theoretically, about man’s freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible. And similarly, in our states which reckon with millions, a healthy social life is, in the age of traffic, impossible if the economic personal responsibility of all those capable of work is not assumed. The recognition of individual responsibility is the return of the individual to society for services rendered or offered him by society.
Bernsteinis concerned about the violence that revolution would bring, and therefore believes that the goal should be evolutionary socialism wherein the state would be changed and developed into a socialist one.
Blockchain is a data structure that allows for the creation of verifiable, decentralized ledgers. Blockchain is the technology that undergirds cryptocurrency and was introduced first by Bitcoin
Complex Physics with Graph Networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09405
Scaling Spherical CNNs: vs graph neural network, molecular
better than the spectral domain through the convolution theorem
MoGecan turn images and videos into 3D point maps!
DUSt3R Geometric3D Vision Made Easy
global alignment of pixels from sparse views, no need for camera position
3D moleculegeneration by denoising voxel grids
diffusion model applied to atom point clouds
DiffPoint Single and Multi-view Point Cloud Reconstruction with ViT Based Diffusion Model
divide the noisy point clouds into irregular patches, target points based on input images
PointInfinity Resolution-Invariant Point Diffusion Models
efficient training low-resolution point clouds, allowing high-resolution generated during inference
transformer-based architecture with a fixed-size, resolution-invariant latent representation
biology inspired AI: genes or local-context-evolution https://youtu.be/vf18FLdKkY4 CPPN algorithm
next paper: hyper http://axon.cs.byu.edu/~dan/778/papers/NeuroEvolution/stanley3**.pdf
continuation: http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/ESHyperNEAT/
neat algorithm: https://youtu.be/3nbvrrdymF0
The AI Epiphany NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) and Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPN)
Forward-Forward(vs Backpropagation analog computers
JEPA - https://youtu.be/jSdHmImyUjk
Self-Supervised Learning, Energy-Based Models, and hierarchical predictive
the encoder ignoring useless information
Energy Transformermore efficient, electric
transformers without skip connections or normalisation layers https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10322.pdf
Conformers: local and global attention
NERF ALIKESrepresentations for video-image
supervision timeobjects spend in the zone
like employees at their table, cars at parking lot
Interactive GarmentRecommendation with User in the Loop (algorithm)
ingesting user feedback so to improve its recommendations and maximize user satisfaction
OS-Copilot Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
strong generalization to unseen applications via accumulated skills from previous tasks
OSWorld Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
accomplish complex computer tasks with minimal human intervention
multimodal agents
open-sourceRabbit
WebVoyager Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models
interacting with real-world websites
DRAGTEXmesh
DRAGANYTHINGmotion control in video
Neuralfeels with neural fields: Visuo-tactile perception for in-hand manipulation
tracking and reconstruction of novel objects for in-hand manipulation
MACS Mass Conditioned 3D Hand and Object Motion Synthesis
improve naturalness of the synthesized 3D hand object motions
generalize to unseen masses
CyberDemo Augmenting Simulated Human Demonstration for Real-World Dexterous Manipulation
simulated human demonstrations for real-world tasks
SCO-VIST Social Interaction Commonsense Knowledge-based Visual Storytelling
takes a graph representing plot points and creates bridges between plot points
PAM: A ParallelAttention Network for Cattle Face Recognition
focuses on local and global features
for animal husbandry and behavioral research
Towardsmitigating uncann(eye)ness in face swaps via gaze-centric loss terms
novel loss equation for the training of face swapping models
A Unifiedand Interpretable Emotion Representation and Expression Generation
compound emotions
Text Injectionfor Capitalization and Turn-Taking Prediction in Speech Models
unpaired text-only data used to enhance paired audio-text data
to detect turns
VideoReTalking Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild
CityDreamer Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities (imagining map layout city)
ActiveNeural Mapping; scene reconstruction, gain knowledge of the environment
Doppelgangers Learning to Disambiguate Images of Similar Structures
can distinguish illusory matches in difficult cases, then spatial distribute local keypoints
multiple working-into together:
diffusion: MULTIPLE DIFFUSION GIT RE-BASIN
text: RAD, EFT
logistic: Auto-Instruct
Self-SupervisedLearning with Lie Symmetries for Partial Differential Equations
computationally efficient alternatives to numerical solvers
self-supervised learn general-purpose representations of PDEs from heterogeneous data
Q* New Objective Q-Learning and Q* - Decision Making Under Uncertainty (CS238/AA228)
Q-learning parallels biological reward neurocircuitry, reinforcement learning (RL)
Model-BasedControl with Sparse Neural Dynamics (aggressive sparsification) (distillation)
parsify it by removing redundant neurons, applicable to a wide variety of DNNs
Zero BubblePipeline Parallelism
algorithm for optimal schedule on config and memory limit
Fuyou Adding NVMe SSDs to Enable and Accelerate 100B Model Fine-tuning on a Single GPU
training with low-end GPU and limited CPU memory capacity
Direct NashOptimization: Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve with General Preferences
post-training llm using preference feedback from a teacher model to iteratively improve over itself
marries the simplicity and stability of contrastive learning with the theoretical generality from optimizing general preferences
From Wordsto Numbers: Your Large Language Model Is Secretly A Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
rivaling supervised methods such as Random Forest, Bagging, or Gradient Boosting
Deep neuralnetworks are robust to weight binarization and other non-linear distortions
0.68 effective bits per weight (below 1 bit models)
points to the idea that a stochastic memory element can be used
ScalableMatMul-freeLanguage Modeling
replaces MatMul operations in dense layers with ternary accumulations using weights constrained to {-1, 0, +1}
reducing computational cost and memory while preserving network expressiveness
gpus? they removed matmults but still use hadamard product (element wise product), which are also embarrassingly parallel and can be GPUs accelerated
using flexible GPUs for training and FPGAs-ASIC for inference is the optimal tradeoff for this
optimizer from 32 bits to 8 bits
faster matrix using approximations
feedback: FEEDBACK AS TARGETHUMAN FEEDBACKPROPER-ING INSTRUCTIONS
AlignProp Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Reward Backpropagation
aligns to reward functions
CPL Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL
learning optimal policies from preferences without learning reward functions
regret-based model of human preferences instead of reward
Vision-LanguageModels are Zero-Shot Reward Models for Reinforcement Learning
reward function often infeasible(not posible), reward model from human feedback often very expensive
VLMs(CLIP) as reward models: a single sentence text prompt describing the desired task
TD-MPC2 Scalable, Robust World Models for Continuous Control
agent to perform 80 tasks across multiple task domains, embodiments, and action spaces
performs local trajectory optimization in the latent space of a learned implicit (decoder-free) world model
Text2Reward AutomatedDense Reward Function Generation for Reinforcement Learning
automates the generation of dense reward functions based on llm
Eureka Human-LevelReward Design via Coding Large Language Models
generates reward functions that outperform expert human-engineered rewards
so now can acquire complex skills via reinforcement learning, optimization over reward
to get sequential decision-making tasks
in-context RLHF to incorporate feedback and steer and align the reward function
outer loop: inference-only LLM instructs a learnable NN to refine the reward function
inner loop: reinforcement learning to train a controller
pen spinning
ConvNeXt(vs ViT, for image classification)
accurate, efficient, scalable and very simple in design
for: zero-shot image classification, image and text retrieval
clip convnext: https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-convnext_large_d_320.laion2B-s29B-b131K-ft (320 vs 320)
CNCA Temporal Convolution Network with Chunked Attention for Scalable Sequence Processing
replacing linear recurrence with a special temporal convolutional network
permits larger receptive field size with shallower networks
reduces the computational complexity to O(L)
PanGu-π Enhancing Language Model Architectures via Nonlinearity Compensation
shortcut used to enhance the model nonlinearity, 10% inference speed-up
non linearity usual in convolutional networks for vision tasks
muP is proposes "right way to scale", effective weight init scheme; searching the optimal hyperparameters
are llm just text compression algorithms?
LLMZip Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models
gzip instead of parameters for classification
“Low-Resource Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors
Knowledge Translation A New Pathway for Model Compression
teacher-student model that receives parameters and generates compressed ones
AdaLoRAadaptively allocates the parameter budget among weight matrices according to their importance (adaptive lora)
FLIQS One-Shot Mixed-Precision Floating-Point and Integer Quantization Search
mixed-precision quantization, eliminates the need for retraining
Lion better than Adam, optimizer
Sketchy Memory-efficientAdaptive Regularization with Frequent Directions
Kronecker-factored diagonal eigenvalues, Frequent Directions
One Step ofGradient Descent is Provably the Optimal In-Context Learner with One Layer of Linear Self-Attention
OptimizedNetwork Architectures for Large Language Model Training with Billions of Parameters
only small subgroups of GPUs require high-bandwidth any-to-any communication within them
dimensionality reduction algorithms
t-SNE and UMAP had long been the favorites
"Deep TDA" combines self-supervised learning and Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
unlock new insights from complex datasets
more robust to noise and outliers in the data
Gen2Det Generate to Detect
directly generating scene-centric images (synthetic)
improves the performance on rare categories
Imageclassification network enhancement methods based on knowledge injection
knowledge injection dataset to improve interpretability and classification performance of hidden layers
MovieLLM Enhancing Long Video Understanding with AI-Generated Movies
generate a script and correspoinding video as dataset
In-ContextPrinciple Learning from Mistakes
induce model to make mistakes; then we reflect on these mistakes, and learn explicit task-specific "principles" from them which help solve similar mistakes
MatSynth Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials dataset (4,000 ultra-high resolution)
FindingEmo An Image Dataset for Emotion Recognition in the Wild
annotated dimensions include: valence, arousal and emotion
English publicdomain books
Annotated Handsfor Generative Models
with three additional channels that provide annotations to hands in the image, additional structure
Learningto Identify Critical States for Reinforcement Learning from Videos
mask-based sensitivity analysis to extract/identify important critical states ==identify important==
recognize relevant states/actions/rewards. = untagged videos
Let's SynthesizeStep by Step: Iterative Dataset Synthesis with Large Language Models by Extrapolating Errors from Small Models
extrapolating the errors made by a small model trained on the synthesized dataset using llm
GeNIe Generative Hard Negative Images Through Diffusion (synthetic enhanced dataset)
generate challenging samples for the target category
DistDiff: Distribution-AwareData Expansion with Diffusion Models
dataset expansion framework based on the distribution-aware diffusion model
hierarchical prototypes to approximate the real data distribution
madrona-engine ECS-basedgame engine that runs 10,000s of environments in parallel on a single GPU
V-IRL Grounding Virtual Intelligence in Real Life
test foundation models in virtual real world cities, geospatial data and street view imagery
Dr2Net Dynamic Reversible Dual-Residual Networks for Memory-Efficient Finetuning
surrogate network to finetune a pretrained model with substantially reduced memory consumption
comparable performance to conventional finetuning but with significantly less memory usage
Data-FreeGeneralizedZero-Shot Learning (using only it's clip features)
Gradient CorrelationSubspace Learning against Catastrophic Forgetting
detects a subspace of the weights that is least affected by previous tasks trains the new task into said subspace
EvolutionaryOptimization of Model Merging Recipes
facilitates crossdomain merging, automated model composition
The UnreasonableIneffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
identify optimal block of layers to prune by considering similarity across layers
then, to "heal" the damage, we perform a small amount of finetuning
parent: stable_diffusiontrain
BETTER DECODERblue noise: NOISE CONTROL
400x (and use vae leafing to make big)
DiffusersCompatibleSDXL Unet Rewrite (520 lines)
ScaleLong Towards More Stable Training of Diffusion Model via Scaling Network Long Skip Connection
scaling the coefficients of LSC(which connect distant blocks) in UNet to improve training stability of UNet
Cas-DM Bring Metric Functions into Diffusion Models (incorporating additional metric functions, objectives)
QuantumDenoising Diffusion Models
explores integrating variational quantum circuits to augment efficacy of diffusion
MPI: Masked Pre-trainedModel EnablesUniversal Zero-shot Denoiser
spontaneously attains the underlying potential for strong image denoising
SimplifiedDiffusionSchrödinger Bridge
simplification of the Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge (DSB) that facilitates its unification with Score-based Generative Models (SGMs)
RL forConsistency Models, Faster Reward Guided Text-to-Image Generation
to optimize for task specific rewards, enable fast training-inference, we propose fine-tuning via RL
Reinforcement Learning for Consistency Model (RLCM)
objectives challenging with prompting, like image compressibility and human feedback
LP-DiF LearningPrompt with Distribution-Based Feature Replay for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
continuously learn new classes without forgetting old ones
S2-DMsSkip-Step Diffusion Models
new training method, Lskip, designed to reintegrate omitted info during the selective sampling phase
SwitchEMA: A Free Lunch for Better Flatness and Sharpness
switching the EMA parameters to the original model after each epoch, dubbed as Switch EMA (SEMA)
free lunch by boosting convergence speeds
RollingDiffusion Model (VIDEO)
a sliding window denoising process
more noise to frames that appear later in a sequence
FixedPoint Diffusion Models
reallocating computation across timesteps and reusing fixed point solutions between timesteps
87% fewer parameters, consumes 60% less training memory
Analyzingand Improving the Training Dynamics of Diffusion Models
redesigned, so better networks at equal computational complexity
precise tuning of EMA length without the cost of performing several training runs
ConPreDiff Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction (better zeroshot)
Any-ShiftPrompting for Generalization over Distributions
encode the distribution information and their relationships
guide the generalization of the CLIP image-language model from training to any test distribution
StructurePreserving Diffusion Models
result: if you rotate the input, the output also rotates unharmed; learn structures
DeconstructingDenoising Diffusion Models for Self-Supervised Learning
gradually transforming a Denoising Diffusion Models (DDM) into a classical Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) (VAE)
FLAWED The VAE used for Stable Diffusion 1.x/2.x and other models (KL-F8) has a critical flaw, probably due to bad training, needs a new trained from scratch like SDXL ==best==
the encoder is having to do a lot of extra work to get around the bad latent space
distributed-diffusionusing hivemind (distributed training) vs Deepspeed
SiTdiscrete transformers
4, 8 bit models, Q-Diffusioninsight redditquantization
Memory-EfficientPersonalization using Quantized Diffusion Model (enhancing it)
EnhancedDistribution Alignment for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models
align outputs of the quantized model and the full-precision model at different network granularity
QuEST Low-bit Diffusion Model Quantization via Efficient Selective Finetuning
finetuning the quantized model to better adapt to the activation distribution (mitigation)
Task-OrientedDiffusion Model Compression
satisfactory output quality with 39.2% and 56.4% reduction in model footprint and 81.4% and 68.7%
applying it to InstructPix2Pix and StableSR
GIT RE-BASIN MERGING MODELS MODULO PERMUTATION SYMMETRIES
transfer knowledge between teacher to student model
IdempotentGenerative Network
f(f(z))=f(z), can generate an output in one step
step towards a "global projector" = projecting any input into a target data distribution
uform clip not required, trained in a day
cloneofsimo: learning fromthe clip
wanna perform affordable kernel regression on l2-normalized data?
get yourself Spherical Random Features for Polynomial Kernels
relevant if you are aiming for large scale non-parametric regression on CLIP projected feature spaces
Efficient DiffusionTraining via Min-SNRWeighting Strategy
slow convergence due to conflicting optimization directions between timesteps, 3.4 times faster
Imagen suggests that scaling the text encoder is much more impactful than scaling the UNet
at least for diffusion models
mosaiclml custom$50k stable diffusion training, reddit post
PatchDiffusion Faster and More Data-Efficient Training of Diffusion Models
compressed-stable-diffusion 36% reduced parameters and latency
Wuerstchen EfficientPretraining of Text-to-Image Models
16 times faster to train, 2 times faster inference, , only 9200 GPU hours (42 time compression rate vs 8 of sd)
DREAM Diffusion Rectification and Estimation-Adaptive Models (requiring minimal code changes)
2 to 3 times faster training convergence
PERCEPTUAL LOSS=best==
LCM==best==
UFOGen You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs
integrating diffusion with a GAN objective, one step
faster using electric flow-charges https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/an-introduction-to-poisson-flow-generative-models/
better than inference: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1620958983639924736 <button class="pull-tweet" value=https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1620958983639924736>pull</button> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.00482.pdf
Spectral Diffusion slim Standard Diffusion, 20 times smaller in size
Wavelet DiffusionModels arefast and scalable Image Generators
Score-BasedDiffusion Models as Principled Priors for Inverse Imaging (more complex priors)
Shifted Diffusion==Corgi== for Text-to-image Generation: from clip straight to diffusion, ==only 1.7 of the images required captions==
Object Detection: CutLER
D3S Invariant Learning via Diffusion Dreamed Distribution Shifts, separating foreground-background
disentangling foreground from background by chopping-pasting them out in the synthetic training dataset
like SVDiff
A Pictureis Worth a Thousand Words: Principled Recaptioning Improves Image Generation
automatic captioning is better than crawled low quality captions
CapsFusion Rethinking Image-Text Data at Scale
hindered by simplistic captioners, consolidate and refine information
Structure-GuidedAdversarial Training of Diffusion Models
compel the model to learn manifold structures between samples in each training batch
Neural Congealing Aligning Imagesto a Joint Semantic Atlas
zeroshot leaning concept-shapes
ASIC Aligning Sparsein-the-wild Image Collections
Ablating ConceptsinText-to-Image Diffusion Models (adobe)
masking to accelerate learning VQ-Diffusionhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.14822.pdf
DeepMIM Deep Supervisionfor Masked Image Modeling
pre-trains a Vision Transformer (ViT) via a mask-and-predict scheme.
Predictingmasked tokens in stochastic locations improves masked image modeling
learning features that are more robust to location uncertainties; Masked Image Modeling (MIM)
I have recently written a paper on understanding transformer learning via the lens of coinduction & Hopf algebra. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834
The learning mechanism of transformer models was poorly understood however it turns out that a transformer is like a circuit with a feedback.
I argue that autodiff can be replaced with what I call in the paper Hopf coherence which happens within the single layer as opposed to across the whole graph.
Furthermore, if we view transformers as Hopf algebras, one can bring convolutional models, diffusion models and transformers under a single umbrella.
I'm working on a next gen Hopf algebra based machine learning framework.
Join my discord if you want to discuss this further https://discord.gg/mr9TAhpyBW
the economy branch of Kongra Star
In accordance with the leading role of the women’s liberation struggle in the political project of AANES, women’s cooperatives are promoted by the cooperative bureaus which exist in every region. They are also promoted by Aboriya Jin, the economy branch of Kongra Star, the umbrella organization of the women’s movement in NES. These cooperatives are founded to create employment opportunities for women and to support their economic independence, in the framework of collective economy.
As for the women’s worker cooperatives established by Aboriya Jin, there are over 50 across all of NES. 32 of them are agricultural cooperatives (18 of which are located in the Jazira region alone). The other cooperatives are bakeries, clothing shops, restaurants or workshops producing conserves. Approximately 1500 women work in these cooperatives, of whom around 1000 work in agricultural cooperatives.
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Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt: A Trendy Choice for Modern Casual Style
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt is a stylish and comfortable choice for women who enjoy relaxed clothing with a fashionable touch. Combining a loose oversized fit, attractive pink color, and creative graphic artwork, this T-shirt can add personality to everyday outfits while providing the comfort needed for daily activities.
Oversized fashion has become an important part of contemporary casual wear. Women are increasingly choosing relaxed silhouettes because they provide freedom of movement and can be styled in many different ways. A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can be worn with jeans, leggings, skirts, shorts, cargo pants, and trousers, making it a versatile option for different seasons and occasions.
What Makes a Graphic Pink Oversized T-Shirt Special?
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt combines three major fashion elements: color, graphics, and relaxed proportions.
The oversized construction typically features dropped shoulders, wider sleeves, and additional room around the body. This creates a comfortable silhouette that looks intentionally relaxed.
The pink color gives the T-shirt a distinctive appearance. Depending on the shade, pink can create a soft, playful, vibrant, or modern look.
The graphic design provides additional visual interest. It may include artwork, typography, illustrations, abstract patterns, or other creative elements.
Together, these features make the T-shirt suitable for women who want everyday clothing that feels comfortable while still looking fashionable.
Benefits of an Oversized Fit
One of the main advantages of an oversized T-shirt is comfort. The loose shape allows the body to move naturally and provides more room than a fitted shirt.
Oversized clothing can also create an effortless fashion appearance. Instead of building a complicated outfit, women can pair an oversized graphic T-shirt with simple bottoms and casual footwear.
The relaxed silhouette works particularly well with modern streetwear and casual fashion trends.
Why Pink Is a Great Fashion Choice
Pink offers many styling possibilities. Light pink shades can create a soft and subtle appearance, while brighter shades can create a more noticeable outfit.
Pink also works well with many neutral colors. Black, white, grey, beige, and denim can all complement a pink oversized T-shirt.
For women who want to add color to their wardrobe without choosing extremely bold shades, pink can be a useful option.
The Role of Graphic Artwork
Graphic artwork can transform a simple T-shirt into a statement piece. Different graphic styles can create completely different moods.
Minimal typography can provide a clean and contemporary appearance. Artistic illustrations can create a creative style, while vintage graphics can introduce a retro feel.
Floral designs, abstract artwork, playful graphics, and bold illustrations can also make the T-shirt more distinctive.
When choosing a graphic pink oversized T-shirt, consider the size, placement, colors, and overall design of the artwork.
How to Style a Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt
There are many outfit combinations that work with this type of T-shirt.
Pair It With Jeans
Jeans are one of the simplest options. Blue denim provides a natural contrast with pink, while black denim creates a stronger appearance.
Straight-leg, relaxed, mom, and wide-leg jeans can all work with an oversized T-shirt.
Add sneakers and a casual bag for an easy everyday outfit.
Wear It With Leggings
An oversized pink graphic T-shirt paired with leggings creates a comfortable and balanced silhouette.
Black leggings are a simple choice because they provide contrast against the pink shirt. Neutral leggings can create a softer combination.
This outfit can be suitable for shopping, travel, casual activities, or relaxing.
Combine It With Shorts
During warm weather, wear the T-shirt with denim or cotton shorts. This combination creates a relaxed summer look.
Sneakers or casual sandals can complete the outfit depending on the occasion.
Style It With a Skirt
An oversized graphic T-shirt can also be paired with a skirt. A denim skirt can create a youthful casual appearance, while a longer skirt can produce a softer silhouette.
A partial tuck can add some definition without losing the relaxed nature of the T-shirt.
Try Cargo Pants
Cargo pants can give the outfit a modern streetwear appearance. Black, beige, grey, and olive cargo pants can complement a pink graphic T-shirt.
Complete the outfit with sneakers and a crossbody bag for a practical streetwear-inspired look.
Selecting the Right Fabric
Fabric quality plays an important role in comfort. Cotton is commonly used for T-shirts because it is generally soft, breathable, and suitable for regular wear.
Lightweight cotton can be useful for warmer conditions, while heavyweight cotton can provide a more structured appearance.
Cotton blends may provide different levels of flexibility and durability. Check the product specifications to understand the exact material before purchasing.
Finding the Right Oversized Size
Oversized T-shirts come in different levels of looseness. Some provide a moderate relaxed fit, while others are designed with a much larger streetwear silhouette.
Consider the shoulder position, sleeve length, chest width, and shirt length when selecting a size.
If shopping online, compare your measurements with the product’s size chart. Standard size labels can vary between brands.
The ideal oversized T-shirt should feel comfortable while maintaining balanced proportions.
Styling for Different Seasons
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt can be worn in different seasons.
During summer, combine it with shorts, skirts, or lightweight trousers. Breathable fabric can make the outfit more comfortable in warmer conditions.
During cooler months, layer the T-shirt with a denim jacket, cardigan, hoodie, or casual coat. Pair it with jeans or trousers and sneakers for a practical layered outfit.
Accessories That Work With Pink
Accessories can help complete the outfit. White or neutral sneakers can create a clean appearance, while darker footwear can provide contrast.
Crossbody bags, caps, sunglasses, watches, and simple jewelry can also complement the casual style.
If the graphic is large or colorful, keeping accessories relatively simple can help maintain balance.
Everyday Occasions
A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can be suitable for many casual activities. It can be worn for shopping, traveling, casual gatherings, weekend activities, or relaxing at home.
For a simple daily outfit, pair it with jeans and sneakers. For a more streetwear-focused appearance, combine it with cargo pants, statement sneakers, and a crossbody bag.
The relaxed fit makes the shirt suitable for women who value comfortable clothing during busy days.
Caring for Your Graphic T-Shirt
Proper care can help maintain the color, fabric, and graphic design. Always follow the care instructions provided with the product.
For printed T-shirts, turning the shirt inside out before washing can help reduce friction on the graphic. Avoid excessive heat if the fabric or print is sensitive.
Store the shirt properly to help maintain its shape.
Creating a Versatile Wardrobe
A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can become a statement item in a versatile casual wardrobe. It can be combined with neutral clothing pieces to create many different looks.
Jeans can provide a classic appearance, leggings emphasize comfort, shorts work well for summer, skirts offer a creative alternative, and cargo pants can create a streetwear-inspired outfit.
Adding a few neutral jackets and versatile sneakers can further increase styling options.
Final Thoughts
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt is a practical combination of comfort, color, and creative design. Its relaxed silhouette makes it easy to wear, while the pink shade and graphic artwork add personality to everyday fashion.
Whether paired with jeans, leggings, shorts, skirts, or cargo pants, this T-shirt can create a variety of casual outfits. Different footwear, bags, and accessories can also change the overall appearance.
For women looking to add a comfortable yet eye-catching piece to their wardrobe, a graphic pink oversized T-shirt offers plenty of styling opportunities. Choose a suitable fabric, check the measurements carefully, and select artwork that reflects your preferred fashion style for a versatile everyday wardrobe essential.
Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt: A Trendy Choice for Modern Casual Style
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt is a stylish and comfortable choice for women who enjoy relaxed clothing with a fashionable touch. Combining a loose oversized fit, attractive pink color, and creative graphic artwork, this T-shirt can add personality to everyday outfits while providing the comfort needed for daily activities.
Oversized fashion has become an important part of contemporary casual wear. Women are increasingly choosing relaxed silhouettes because they provide freedom of movement and can be styled in many different ways. A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can be worn with jeans, leggings, skirts, shorts, cargo pants, and trousers, making it a versatile option for different seasons and occasions.
What Makes a Graphic Pink Oversized T-Shirt Special?
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt combines three major fashion elements: color, graphics, and relaxed proportions.
The oversized construction typically features dropped shoulders, wider sleeves, and additional room around the body. This creates a comfortable silhouette that looks intentionally relaxed.
The pink color gives the T-shirt a distinctive appearance. Depending on the shade, pink can create a soft, playful, vibrant, or modern look.
The graphic design provides additional visual interest. It may include artwork, typography, illustrations, abstract patterns, or other creative elements.
Together, these features make the T-shirt suitable for women who want everyday clothing that feels comfortable while still looking fashionable.
Benefits of an Oversized Fit
One of the main advantages of an oversized T-shirt is comfort. The loose shape allows the body to move naturally and provides more room than a fitted shirt.
Oversized clothing can also create an effortless fashion appearance. Instead of building a complicated outfit, women can pair an oversized graphic T-shirt with simple bottoms and casual footwear.
The relaxed silhouette works particularly well with modern streetwear and casual fashion trends.
Why Pink Is a Great Fashion Choice
Pink offers many styling possibilities. Light pink shades can create a soft and subtle appearance, while brighter shades can create a more noticeable outfit.
Pink also works well with many neutral colors. Black, white, grey, beige, and denim can all complement a pink oversized T-shirt.
For women who want to add color to their wardrobe without choosing extremely bold shades, pink can be a useful option.
The Role of Graphic Artwork
Graphic artwork can transform a simple T-shirt into a statement piece. Different graphic styles can create completely different moods.
Minimal typography can provide a clean and contemporary appearance. Artistic illustrations can create a creative style, while vintage graphics can introduce a retro feel.
Floral designs, abstract artwork, playful graphics, and bold illustrations can also make the T-shirt more distinctive.
When choosing a graphic pink oversized T-shirt, consider the size, placement, colors, and overall design of the artwork.
How to Style a Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt
There are many outfit combinations that work with this type of T-shirt.
Pair It With Jeans
Jeans are one of the simplest options. Blue denim provides a natural contrast with pink, while black denim creates a stronger appearance.
Straight-leg, relaxed, mom, and wide-leg jeans can all work with an oversized T-shirt.
Add sneakers and a casual bag for an easy everyday outfit.
Wear It With Leggings
An oversized pink graphic T-shirt paired with leggings creates a comfortable and balanced silhouette.
Black leggings are a simple choice because they provide contrast against the pink shirt. Neutral leggings can create a softer combination.
This outfit can be suitable for shopping, travel, casual activities, or relaxing.
Combine It With Shorts
During warm weather, wear the T-shirt with denim or cotton shorts. This combination creates a relaxed summer look.
Sneakers or casual sandals can complete the outfit depending on the occasion.
Style It With a Skirt
An oversized graphic T-shirt can also be paired with a skirt. A denim skirt can create a youthful casual appearance, while a longer skirt can produce a softer silhouette.
A partial tuck can add some definition without losing the relaxed nature of the T-shirt.
Try Cargo Pants
Cargo pants can give the outfit a modern streetwear appearance. Black, beige, grey, and olive cargo pants can complement a pink graphic T-shirt.
Complete the outfit with sneakers and a crossbody bag for a practical streetwear-inspired look.
Selecting the Right Fabric
Fabric quality plays an important role in comfort. Cotton is commonly used for T-shirts because it is generally soft, breathable, and suitable for regular wear.
Lightweight cotton can be useful for warmer conditions, while heavyweight cotton can provide a more structured appearance.
Cotton blends may provide different levels of flexibility and durability. Check the product specifications to understand the exact material before purchasing.
Finding the Right Oversized Size
Oversized T-shirts come in different levels of looseness. Some provide a moderate relaxed fit, while others are designed with a much larger streetwear silhouette.
Consider the shoulder position, sleeve length, chest width, and shirt length when selecting a size.
If shopping online, compare your measurements with the product’s size chart. Standard size labels can vary between brands.
The ideal oversized T-shirt should feel comfortable while maintaining balanced proportions.
Styling for Different Seasons
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt can be worn in different seasons.
During summer, combine it with shorts, skirts, or lightweight trousers. Breathable fabric can make the outfit more comfortable in warmer conditions.
During cooler months, layer the T-shirt with a denim jacket, cardigan, hoodie, or casual coat. Pair it with jeans or trousers and sneakers for a practical layered outfit.
Accessories That Work With Pink
Accessories can help complete the outfit. White or neutral sneakers can create a clean appearance, while darker footwear can provide contrast.
Crossbody bags, caps, sunglasses, watches, and simple jewelry can also complement the casual style.
If the graphic is large or colorful, keeping accessories relatively simple can help maintain balance.
Everyday Occasions
A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can be suitable for many casual activities. It can be worn for shopping, traveling, casual gatherings, weekend activities, or relaxing at home.
For a simple daily outfit, pair it with jeans and sneakers. For a more streetwear-focused appearance, combine it with cargo pants, statement sneakers, and a crossbody bag.
The relaxed fit makes the shirt suitable for women who value comfortable clothing during busy days.
Caring for Your Graphic T-Shirt
Proper care can help maintain the color, fabric, and graphic design. Always follow the care instructions provided with the product.
For printed T-shirts, turning the shirt inside out before washing can help reduce friction on the graphic. Avoid excessive heat if the fabric or print is sensitive.
Store the shirt properly to help maintain its shape.
Creating a Versatile Wardrobe
A graphic pink oversized T-shirt can become a statement item in a versatile casual wardrobe. It can be combined with neutral clothing pieces to create many different looks.
Jeans can provide a classic appearance, leggings emphasize comfort, shorts work well for summer, skirts offer a creative alternative, and cargo pants can create a streetwear-inspired outfit.
Adding a few neutral jackets and versatile sneakers can further increase styling options.
Final Thoughts
The Graphic Pink Women’s Oversized T-Shirt is a practical combination of comfort, color, and creative design. Its relaxed silhouette makes it easy to wear, while the pink shade and graphic artwork add personality to everyday fashion.
Whether paired with jeans, leggings, shorts, skirts, or cargo pants, this T-shirt can create a variety of casual outfits. Different footwear, bags, and accessories can also change the overall appearance.
For women looking to add a comfortable yet eye-catching piece to their wardrobe, a graphic pink oversized T-shirt offers plenty of styling opportunities. Choose a suitable fabric, check the measurements carefully, and select artwork that reflects your preferred fashion style for a versatile everyday wardrobe essential.
My personal autistic reference for all the issues relating to the back of the things, especially the backends of not just websites, but also desktop and mobile apps.
really only possible in…
Luckily, people find entertainment and intellectual satisfaction outside of work — if they have the time and energy left over at the end of…
Being intellectually engaged by your job is a rare privilege — one that is really only possible in the 20th and 21st century, and only to white-collar workers. The natural state of employment is boredom, and non-bored workers are a rounding error.
Luckily, people find entertainment and intellectual satisfaction outside of work — if they have the time and energy left over at the end of the day!
Disconnecting the accumulation of life’s necessities from paid labor opens up time and effort for possible intellectual engagement. The alternative is what David Graeber terms “bullshit jobs” — 40 hours a week of boring work that doesn’t need to be done, invented for the sake of backwards compatibility with rules grandfathered in from an era where work was necessary.
By John Ohno on December 1, 2017.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/being-intellectually-engaged-by- your-job-is-a-rare-privilege-one-that-is-really-only-possible-in-c124bb649e82)
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I hadn’t heard of [[David Watson]] before. But found this article and definitely looks worth exploring. https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/348-fall-1996/beyond-bookchin-excerpts/ .
What I’ve read of Bookchin I do remember something of the persistent calls to [[rationality]] as niggling at me.
[[Murray Bookchin]]
uses [[proof of stake]] and [[proof of authority]]
similiar to [[ethereum]]
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/binance-smart-chain-vs-ethereum-what-s-the-difference
The largest change is BSC’s consensus mechanism, which allows for cheaper and faster transactions.
The BSC growth might also be related to the growing hype around [[NFT]]s and the compatibility with popular crypto wallets, such as [[Trust Wallet]] and [[MetaMask]].
@aral @dsfgs @actualsteerpike No, Bitcoin is not a "net positive for the globe".
Bitcoin set out to disintermediate the banking system, but it failed.
What it produced was a horrendously inefficient energy-guzzling monstrosity, which only really empowers people who already had a lot of money in the economy prior to Bitcoin’s invention. The usual suspects got richer out of Bitcoin and the banking system wasn’t obsoleted by it.
@dsfgs @bob @aral @actualsteerpike If I look at the metric of "is the banking system gone yet?" I notice that indeed, no, Bitcoin has not made even a ding in the banking system. The same crooks are running the same old international scams, politicians are still stuffing their ill-gotten cash in offshore accounts, and Bitcoin has made no difference.
I can also look at the independent variable of "are people spending bitcoins on stuff they actually need?", and indeed again no, nobody around here uses bitcoins, or accepts bitcoins as payment for goods or services.
So really on every measurable indicator, Bitcoin has been a failure.
Both blockchain and digital currencies offer a great deal of potential, but Bitcoin itself is a deflationary, capitalist medium that functions primarily as an investment asset to concentrate wealth, and is mostly favored by right-libertarian hard money ideologues.
– Center for a Stateless Society » Review: A DisCO Manifesto
On the other hand I’m pretty sure my other idea about the blockchain must be bullshit. I mean, it has ‘blockchain’ in it; I would assume dumb or scam the minute I saw it on any random blog, and I’m not sure why I should pretend of myself better standards. So I see it as an exercise in finding out why my intuition is wrong. It could be useful to think about the errors of reasoning I’m prone to.
Lots of hype, tarnished by crypto-libertarianism and environmental impacts of e.g. [[Bitcoin]], but interesting technology nonetheless. [[Distributed ledger]]s of one sort or another could be used for beneficial purposes (see e.g. [[DisCOs]]).
Both blockchain and digital currencies offer a great deal of potential, but Bitcoin itself is a deflationary, capitalist medium that functions primarily as an investment asset to concentrate wealth, and is mostly favored by right-libertarian hard money ideologues.
– Center for a Stateless Society » Review: A DisCO Manifesto
However, the really interesting point about Bitcoin is not the currency itself, but rather the fact that its protocol – the blockchain – can be used to implement many other applications which have nothing to do with money.
Blockchain’s one way of implementing [[digital cash]].
If you understand the difference between [[Proof of Work]] and [[Proof of Stake]], then you should see that PoS blockchains don’t have the horrendous problem that PoW do. Sure, they consume some energy, just like any other computing. But not on principle, as with PoW.
The 15 Most Sustainable Cryptocurrencies for 2021 - LeafScore
A blockchain is a peer to peer tool that works something like an open ledger. Every participant in a certain network had access to the whole history of every "transaction"- whether it be financial as in the case of Bitcoin, or also general information.
A blockchain runs on a set of nodes, each of which may be under the control of a separate entity or organization. These nodes connect to each other in a dense peer-to-peer network, so that no individual node acts as a central point of control or failure - [https://www.multichain.com/blog/2017/05/blockchain-immutability-myth/ multichain.com]
Mkinsey recently analysed the state of industry and question:
Are there benefits to be accrued that justify the changes required in [[market infrastructure]] and [[data governance]]? - [https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/blockchains-occam-problem?cid=other-eml-nsl-mip-mck&hlkid=87d6eb5836364cbf94419c9121e01664&hctky=1273956&hdpid=7222d727-e2da-4c04-9730-b4982cb5b53f mckinsey.com]
To get there we see three key principles as minimum conditions for progress:
Each node can generate and digitally sign transactions which represent operations in some kind of ledger or database, and these transactions rapidly propagate to other nodes across the network in a gossip-like way.
Each node independently verifies every new incoming transaction for validity, in terms of:
If a transaction passes these tests, it enters that node’s local list of provisional unconfirmed transactions (the “memory pool”), and will be forwarded on to its peers. Transactions which fail are rejected outright, while others whose evaluation depends on unseen transactions are placed in a temporary holding area (the “orphan pool”).
At periodic intervals, a new block is generated by one of the “validator” nodes on the network, containing a set of as-yet unconfirmed transactions.
Every block has a unique 32-byte identifier called a [[hash]], which is determined entirely by the block’s contents. Each block also includes a timestamp and a link to a previous block via its hash, creating a literal “block chain” going back to the very beginning.
Just like transactions, blocks propagate across the network in a peer-to-peer fashion and are independently verified by each node.
To be accepted by a node, a block must contain a set of valid transactions which do not conflict with each other or with those in the previous blocks linked.
If a block passes this and other tests, it is added to that node’s local copy of the blockchain, and the transactions within are “confirmed”. Any transactions in the node’s memory pool or orphan pool which conflict with those in the new block are immediately discarded.
Blockchain uses-cases - [http://letstalkpayments.com/blockchain-use-cases-comprehensive-analysis-startups-invoved letstalkpayments.com]
Blockchains have many potential appplications, but the most appealing is in security. According to Satoshi Nakamoto’s calculations, it is almost impossible to forge a blockchain transaction once the history has passed a certain threshhold of difficulty, because the computer power required to attack the system would have to be more than the combined computer power of every node in the network.
YOUTUBE 19QT8-i1Wf0 Coinscrum (Apr 2014) - The Concept of the [[Blockchain]]
Blockchains have many potential appplications, but the most appealing is in security. According to Satoshi Nakamoto’s calculations, it is almost impossible to forge a blockchain transaction once the history has passed a certain threshhold of difficulty, because the computer power required to attack the system would have to be more than the combined computer power of every node in the network.
A distributed hash table (DHT) is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table. Any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given key. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table wikipedia]
[[Block Chain]]
Scalable privacy for every blockchain - [https://enigma.co/ enigma.co]
[[types]]
A string of short, ad-hoc posts in a blog that together build on a theme.
I came across the idea of blogchains on Tom Critchlow’s blog I believe. The word is from Venkatesh Rao, and the very tl;dr is that it’s a string of short, ad-hoc blog posts that build on a theme. That’s cool, and tied in with a wiki is kind of how I see me builing up ideas over time.
But where the idea gets really interesting (for me) is when it extends to cross-site blogchains and open blogchains. These are more open-ended, involving two or more people conversing and building on a theme, simply by posting to their blog about it and linking the posts together. Kind of a webring, but for posts rather than sites.
There’s definitely something to be said for the long-form, turn-based conversation. One of the best conversations I have had recently was a long email chain. And some of the thoughts that have stuck with me the most are ones I’ve written as a long reply to someone else’s open question or musings on a topic.
Slouching towards mediocrity and allowing myself the freedom of short-ish posts. Venkatesh aims for 300 words. Seems like a good number.
Infinite, open-ended world building.
A blogchain is longform by other means. Containerized longform if you like. A themed blog-within-a-blog, built as a series of short, ideally fixed-length posts (we’re trying to standardize on 300 words as one container size).
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/21/constructions-in-magical-thinking/
[[Murray Bookchin]]
I just want to show you my [[brain]] and my #heart in case you’re interested
RT @flancian@social.coop agora I will show you my face and the shape of my [[brain]] and my #heart if you want to https://t.co/iYtocrGaLE https://t.co/F8m7Azfyxy
Building a second brain, from Tiago Forte.
Essentially an [[information strategy]]. A way of capturing, connecting, and creating information and knowledge.
Perhaps more a form of [[personal knowledge management]]. It results in the construction of something akin to a [[personal wiki]].
(What’s the difference between personal knowledge management and information strategies?)
an external, centralized, digital repository for the things you learn and the resources from which they come.
Thinking like a curator is a kind of [[information strategy]].
[[Progressive summarisation]].
PARA. Projects, areas, resources, archives.
don’t just consume information passively - put it to use
create smaller, reusable units of work
share your work with the world
carbon coin. This to be a digital currency, disbursed on proof of carbon sequestration to provide carrot as well as stick, thus enticing loose global capital into virtuous actions on carbon burn reduction. Making an effective carrot of this sort would work best if the central banks backed it, or created it. A new influx of fiat money, paid into the world to reward biosphere-sustaining actions
carbon coin. Noted that some environmental economists now discussing the Chen plan and its ramifications, as an aspect of commons theory and sustainability theory
The Chen papers sometimes call it CQE, carbon quantitative easing.
UK government is doing zero to help people.
Other countries are doing some things
Government policy on energy right now is clearly a choice to squeeze working class rather than sliver of dent in energy company profits.
Really interesting stuff.
Mentions [[REA]].
Builds on [[Doughnut Economics]].
The report they are discussing: [[P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival]] - sounds fascinating.
This step is only applicable if you are using a custom domain! If you are using a <YOUR-USERNAME>.github.io domain, you can skip this step.
For this last bit to take effect, you also need to create a CNAME record with the DNS provider you register your domain with (i.e. NameCheap, Google Domains).
GitHub has some documentation on this, but the tldr; is to
Go to your forked repository (github.com/<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>/quartz) settings page and go to the Pages tab. Under "Custom domain", type your custom domain, then click Save.
Go to your DNS Provider and create a CNAME record that points from your domain to <YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME.github.io. (yes, with the trailing period).
Example Configuration for Quartz
Wait 30 minutes to an hour for the network changes to kick in.
Done!
[[Rojava]].
[[Murray Bookchin]] was her father.
I saw her talk at the launch of [[Make Rojava Green Again]].
The Discourse Graph extension enables Roam users to seamlessly add additional semantic structure to their notes, including specified page types and link types that model scientific discourse, to enable more complex and structured knowledge synthesis work, such as a complex interdisciplinary literature review, and enhanced collaboration with others on this work.
For more details, see the documentation and a demo.
the DNS search domain is what the DNS service will use to resolve hostnames that are not fully qualified.
His course was straight, barreling down Harvard Street at a steady pace of 10 miles an hour. It was clear he was a true craftsman, keeping his legs pumping steadily to the rhythm of a Flo-rida song released not but 10 years ago. From his posture, it would be impossible to imagine anything could stop him until he reached his final destination, until suddenly his left arm flew up into a salute to the left, veering off the well-beaten bike lane into outgoing traffic, safe only due to their untimely halt due to a resolute and sudden stop light.
Our biker picks his way through the crowd of 2014 Hondas and 2021 Tesla’s until he reaches a startling locus for a man of his caliber. The sidewalk. What could a man equipped with such wonderous tools be doing at a place for such morals, only protected against the harsh machines by a 6-inch ledge made of cement? He dismounts his device and adapts a foward stride not unlike that of the men around him.
Something has changed. He appears to have lost his bearings, nervously glancing to his left and right, as if he was looking for something long lost, but eventually his course once again becomes steady, heading purposefully down the walk with long, intentful strides to a tree. He glances around once more, as if he was complentating a matter of life or death, before sighing and diving into the chasms of his back pocket, looking for a ring of keys, most reserved for a different day, today he pourpousfully reaches for a key smaller than the rest. It has a black end, labeled with kryptonite. He withdraws a ushaped contraption from his former mode of transportation and penatrates the u with the key. In but one glance, his ship is securely fassened safely to the tree he once sought not long ago.
The man smiles fondly at his work, then turns back in his formar direction, but within moments his destination becomes evident.
TIL the word [[Ehegattin]] and I find it funny, it sounds like something out of #Caturday but it means spouse
A tax number. Essentially a social security number for a coporation
While most famous for his scientific theories, Einstein was also a [[socialist]], and wrote this excellent explanation of the capitalist system and its inherent flaws https://libcom.org/library/einstein-capitalism
https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/107957423299714594
[[English councils]] are battling financial ruin.
BBC analysis in 2020 showed nine out of 10 major local authorities in England did not have enough cash to cover their spending plans this year, and coronavirus could lead to them going £1.7bn over budget.
intense pain
restricted movement of the injured joint
rapid development of swelling and bruising
sharp, sudden pain in the region of the injury
usually loss of power
muscle tenderness
Rest – rest the patient and the injured part
Ice – apply an ice pack or cold pack for 15 minutes every 2 hours for 24 hours, then for 15 minutes every 4 hours for 24 hours
Compression – apply a compression bandage firmly to extend well beyond the injury
Elevation – elevate the injured part. 3 Avoid HARM:
Heat
Alcohol
Running or other exercise of the injured area
Massage. 4 Seek medical aid.
academic, designer, and technology researcher. http://everest-pipkin.com/
[2020-04-13] Tanami/websights: Just a personal web directory of stuff that I want to keep in my head. [2021-01-16] even if it’s just a very raw dump, chances are someone might run into them while googling or searching on github [2020-01-03] Mirror org-org export, It could be public, under version control and allow for privacy controls [[pkm]][2020-11-15] logseq/logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge sharing and management. [[logseq]][2020-12-15] Emacs Org-mode: Use good header ids! [[blog]] [[org]] [[linkrot]][2020-12-15] UOMF: Linking Headings [2021-01-04] make public generated files read only? [2019-12-22] ok, ox-hugo generates some odd artifacts, perhaps would be easier with vanilla md export [[blog]][2020-02-14] Building a Second Brain in Roam…And Why You Might Want To : RoamResearch https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/eho7de/building_a_second_brain_in_roamand_why_you_might [2020-03-11] MkDocs [2019-12-22] Markbook - A replacement for Gitbook/mdBook written in Node.js : javascript
[2020-11-05] Org Mode - Dendron [2020-01-25] mek.fyi | Home [[blog]][2020-05-12] Tweet from @RobertHaisfield https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1259990930917953537 [2021-01-16] hmm not sure what to do about long and short titles (LOGSEQTITLE things). maybe it should be a toggle or something [[logseq]][2020-10-16] Full introduction to Gkroam, up to version v2.3.7, no voice /r/orgmode [2019-12-17] Notes - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Notes [[search]][2020-05-03] 🔮Pensieve - Pensieve [2020-08-06] Home [[org]]
[2020-02-21] Andy Matuschak’s Public Notes
[2020-08-20] Things and Stuff Wiki [2020-05-06] Notes ‒ Szymon Kaliski nice backlink summary [2020-03-01] daryllxd/lifelong-learning: ✅ ✅ ✅ A massive repo filled with notes on everything from coding to philosophy to psychology to marketing to product [2020-03-01] d2s/knowledge: 2016→ — A curated list of Tools and Resources. [2020-03-05] Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
[2020-04-02] davidseah/knowledgebank [2020-03-22] nice, they’ve got wiki.. https://wiki.mindey.com/ [2020-01-10] Show your personal websites | Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/b7lt29/show_your_personal_websites [[ideas]][2020-12-07] Simon Willison: TIL [2020-08-26] barrucadu’s memos [2020-05-12] Notes ‒ Szymon Kaliski [2019-10-17] Jethro’s Braindump https://braindump.jethro.dev/ [2019-12-02] wayanjimmy/notebook: Personal notes https://github.com/wayanjimmy/notebook [2020-05-12] About these notes azlen [2020-06-12] seanbreckenridge/exobrain: external brain [2020-09-29] jakechv/wiki: public wiki / knowledge base [2019-12-28] Personal Notes [2020-01-13] Wiki workflow - Everything I know
[2020-04-21] ExoBrain | Jibran Kalia [2020-07-23] gitbook/exobrainblog.md at 1a67afe0d1e20ef31052c3259096c3ec8f89e13b · irosyadi/gitbook [2020-01-30] davidgasquez/handbook: 📚 Personal bits of knowledge. [2020-01-01] dvogt23/notes: 📔 knowledge [[german]] [[inspiration]] [[exobrain]]
[2020-01-25] mek.fyi | Home [[inspiration]][2020-01-24] Wiki Index [2019-12-23] wayanjimmy/notebook: Personal notes/knowledge base [2020-03-24] 0oo [[exobrain]]
[2019-12-05] Yoshiki 義樹 on Twitter: "@neauoire @hundredrabbits @visakanv Just found @gordonbrander’s patterns page. Personally loving the small pages with clear, focused writing and evocative titles, deeply interconnected, with backlinks for context - it feels like "pure knowledge". This is a lot of fun to get lost in! https://t.co/fxDTQd56zY https://t.co/Y6lxBxAS1D" / Twitter [[exobrain]] [[pkm]][2020-12-02] barrucadu’s memos [2020-11-06] jakeisnt/wiki: public wiki / knowledge base [2020-10-18] Wiki - Contents [[exobrain]][2020-08-11] dufferzafar/notes: A miscellany of thoughts. [2021-03-02] danielsundermeier/knowledge: Wissenssammlung [[german]][2021-03-13] Fabien Benetou’s PIM | Main / HomePage | Search Results [[exobrain]][2019-08-18] How to add full text search to your website - Dev Channel - Medium [[blog]] [[search]][2020-03-06] rust-lang/mdBook: Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust [[linkrot]][2019-12-07] The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739227 [[pkm]]
[2020-05-17] Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision! (a thread) My physical space is full of subtle cues. Books I read or bought most recently are lying out. Papers are lying in stacks on my desk, roughly arranged by their relationships. https://t.co/ee7lo0mdLv" / Twitter [[vr]] [[think]][2020-03-22] https://merveilles.town/@maxdeviant/103863978808052366 pkm repo [2020-05-04] org-mode support? · Issue #1183 · rust-lang/mdBook [2020-06-13] What do I mean by node? [[exobrain]][2019-12-07] knowledge/wiki-workflow.md at c978beb37bc769a9925fa6664ed9a4f3be183697 · nikitavoloboev/knowledge [[exobrain]][2020-01-01] RichardLitt/meta-knowledge: 💡 A list of knowledge repositories [[publish]] [[exobrain]]
[2020-12-31] yeraydiazdiaz/lunr.py: A Python implementation of Lunr.js 🌖 [2020-12-31] how to get the positions of the term matches · Issue #96 · weixsong/elasticlunr.js [[exobrain]][2021-01-02] The Org Manual [2020-12-27] Digital-Garden/ideas.md at 1cee3b97439a9d9fb1ae30d8c14dbb7ac32280ad · hrwtech/Digital-Garden [[ideas]]
[2020-12-28] emacs - Assign IDs to every entry in Org-mode - Stack Overflow [[exobrain]][2021-01-23] graph [[logseq]][2020-12-16] My tier list of interesting YouTube channels - Tristan Hume [2020-04-03] maybe sort by priority/date on export? or specify sort order in properties [[exobrain]][2021-01-23] Force directed graph: custom forces - Tom Roth [[blog]] [[inspiration]][2021-01-30] Getting Started - IndieWeb [2021-01-06] garden/exobrain.md at 69fe163b30a00e76e3eb8637c97fa86ac0fb2a9e · flancian/garden [2021-01-23] vasturiano/react-force-graph: React component for 2D, 3D, VR and AR force directed graphs [[exobrain]][2020-12-30] Agora [2021-02-11] #🧠-v2-personal [[exobrain]][2021-02-14] Marcin Ignac on Twitter: "I’m fascinated by @andymatuschak digital garden of his notes at https://t.co/G9PQ1UaIeq. At the same time i’m disappointed by the tools available to navigate those kind of information spaces. So here is quick thread how I got from the hairball graph to a readable concept map 1/5 https://t.co/rEZhDRpQP5" / Twitter [[exobrain]]
[2021-03-13] Fabien Benetou’s PIM | Site / AllRecentChanges [[exobrain]]However I did spend time ‘curating’ them, so perhaps they could serve as a kick off point for someone else
delegate link processing to the outside world. Maybe someone runs into them and gets inspired #extendedmind
[2020-04-13] Tanami/websights: Just a personal web directory of stuff that I want to keep in my head.§my theory: all people eventually reach the point where they accrue enough debris that it becomes necessary to distribute it in order to move forward with their thinking
yes, so much this
gitbook has got nice almost realtime search but only supports markdown. also they are not open source?
https://github.com/qdot/org-gitbook – weird thing, split my headings into different pages
had to package-install ox-gfm first
[2019-12-02] dunno, maybe starting with single page with links dump (sorted by tags then date?) and that wouldn’t even require index?[2019-12-02] one simple thing to do would be just generating html pages (with normal emacs export?) and then running JS indexer against HTML pages? could do when blog is compiledtedious to upgrade though, but a good start?
[2019-12-03] maybe, display everything as a single page, then it’s easy to search?[2019-12-03] related: is there plugin for fuzzy/stemming search in firefox? [[search]] [[browsers]]§[2021-01-16] even if it’s just a very raw dump, chances are someone might run into them while googling or searching on github§via native emacs org-mode export, see https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain-compiler/blob/master/src/build.py
[2020-01-03] Mirror org-org export, It could be public, under version control and allow for privacy controls [[pkm]]§[2020-11-15] logseq/logseq: A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge sharing and management. [[logseq]]§figuring it out as an extra interface, and for the graph
[2020-12-15] Emacs Org-mode: Use good header ids! [[blog]] [[org]] [[linkrot]]§[2020-12-15] UOMF: Linking Headings§So I kept using :ID:.
maybe useful for tag summaries?
'--directory', root_dir / 'src/org-ql',
'--directory', root_dir / 'src/ts.el',
'--directory', root_dir / 'src/peg',
'--eval', f'''
(progn
(message "%s" (org-ql "{input_dir}/memex.org" "memex"))
)
'''.strip(),
from mdbook
// Scroll sidebar to current active section
var activeSection = document.getElementById("sidebar").querySelector(".active");
if (activeSection) {
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollIntoView
activeSection.scrollIntoView({ block: 'center' });
}
might need a two-step process for a proper diff
[2021-01-04] make public generated files read only?§[2019-12-22] ok, ox-hugo generates some odd artifacts, perhaps would be easier with vanilla md export [[blog]]§[2020-02-14] Building a Second Brain in Roam…And Why You Might Want To : RoamResearch https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/eho7de/building_a_second_brain_in_roamand_why_you_might§[2020-03-11] MkDocs§hmm, looks pretty nice. wonder if it’s better than mdbook
[2021-01-16] it’s very cool, but similar problems to mdbook – if it’s not mardown in the first plays, gonna be a lot of work to maintain org->md conversion, and nothing beats emacs§[2019-12-22] Markbook - A replacement for Gitbook/mdBook written in Node.js : javascript§I regarded Gitbook as a FOSS traitor, since it has all but abandoned it's open-source tool for a proprietary web app.
[2020-03-06] it’s a new project, not sure what’s the benefit over mdbook§I guess I need to get rid of the filter thing? not sure. Would be nice to commit directly into my notes
[2020-11-05] Org Mode - Dendron§[2019-12-22] softprops/awesome-mdbook: 🕶️🗃️ a card catalog of mdbooks for your reading curiosity§[2020-03-21] Configuration - mdBook Documentation§https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/config.html
[output.html.search]
limit-results = 15
[2020-06-30] remove fontawesome§[2020-03-07] think about using mdbook watch on beepb00p§[2020-01-25] mek.fyi | Home [[blog]]§(Right click green text to enter Mek's mind map.)
huh, interesting experiment in presenting information
[2020-05-12] Tweet from @RobertHaisfield <https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1259990930917953537 >§@RobertHaisfield: @azlenelza I love how you differentiate external from internal links. Very frustrating in other digital gardens to accidentally leave
[2021-01-16] hmm not sure what to do about long and short titles (LOGSEQTITLE things). maybe it should be a toggle or something [[logseq]]§[2020-10-16] Full introduction to Gkroam, up to version v2.3.7, no voice /r/orgmode§[2019-12-17] Notes - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Notes [[search]]§ask gwern if inability to search in collapsed notes bothers him?
[2020-05-03] 🔮Pensieve - Pensieve§huh, emojis in TOC are quite nice actually?
https://twitter.com/nikitavoloboev/status/1271505869872803849 <button class="pull-tweet" value=https://twitter.com/nikitavoloboev/status/1271505869872803849>pull</button>
@nikitavoloboev: Put in my wiki in @obsdmd and it results in a neat graph of connections.
[2020-08-06] Home [[org]]§[2020-08-25] ok, nice, using org-mode? https://doubleloop.net/2020/08/21/how-publish-org-roam-wiki-org-publish/#more-7091§[2020-02-21] Andy Matuschak’s Public Notes§https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes
[2020-03-12] hmm, no notes? odd..§[2020-08-20] Things and Stuff Wiki§Things and Stuff Wiki - An organically evolving personal wiki knowledge base
whoa, nice tag cloud on the top
[2020-05-06] Notes ‒ Szymon Kaliski nice backlink summary§[2020-03-01] daryllxd/lifelong-learning: ✅ ✅ ✅ A massive repo filled with notes on everything from coding to philosophy to psychology to marketing to product§[2020-03-01] d2s/knowledge: 2016→ — A curated list of Tools and Resources.§[2020-03-05] Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.§[2020-04-08] tomcritchlow/tomcritchlow.github.io: Me. Learning to use Github and learning to live life. https://github.com/tomcritchlow/tomcritchlow.github.io§Me. Learning to use Github and learning to live life. http://tomcritchlow.com
[2020-04-02] davidseah/knowledgebank§[2020-03-22] nice, they’ve got wiki.. https://wiki.mindey.com/ also pretty cool, wiki links onto blog pages – wonder if I should do it..
[2020-01-10] Show your personal websites | Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/b7lt29/show_your_personal_websites [[ideas]]§My Idea wiki, First written in Erlang, but now in Nim. The Erlang version birthed a simplistic site style that I’ve used a lot in other web app projects. The wiki software behind this site also powers
[2020-12-07] Simon Willison: TIL§Simon Willison: TIL
[2020-08-26] barrucadu’s memos§looks nice. .
[2020-05-12] Notes ‒ Szymon Kaliski§[2019-10-17] Jethro’s Braindump https://braindump.jethro.dev/§Here lies my exobrain, which started circa 2017. I study about Computer Science, but anything I find noteworthy goes in here. I try to cite as often as I can, but that practice only started recently.
[2019-12-02] wayanjimmy/notebook: Personal notes https://github.com/wayanjimmy/notebook§[2020-05-12] About these notes azlen§[2020-06-12] seanbreckenridge/exobrain: external brain§[2020-09-29] jakechv/wiki: public wiki / knowledge base§[2019-12-28] Personal Notes§https://wayanjimmy-notebook.netlify.com/introduction
This repository is my knowledge base. I'm using it to remember things and to let my mind interact with yours. Feel free to open issues and pull requests!
[2020-01-13] Wiki workflow - Everything I know§https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/other/wiki-workflow#similar-wikis-i-liked >
Just found @gordonbrander's patterns page.
Personally loving the small pages with clear, focused writing and evocative titles, deeply interconnected, with backlinks for context - it feels like "pure knowledge".
[2020-12-02] barrucadu’s memos§read through their weeknotes
[2020-11-06] jakeisnt/wiki: public wiki / knowledge base§[2020-10-18] Wiki - Contents [[exobrain]]§cool wiki, by this person
[2020-08-11] dufferzafar/notes: A miscellany of thoughts.§[2021-03-02] danielsundermeier/knowledge: Wissenssammlung [[german]]§[2021-03-13] Fabien Benetou’s PIM | Main / HomePage | Search Results [[exobrain]]§[2020-06-03] publish my subscriptions as org-mode [[rss]] [[orger]]§you can’t easily sort person’s timeline even by objective metrics. let alone picking the tweets that more or less define you
[2020-12-31] ok, so lunr.js seems like the best alternative [[search]]§https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js
has (builtin?) highlights, and the linked example looks fairly simple. it still baffles me how hard it is
[2021-01-16] someone started thinking about it! https://anagora.org [2019-08-18] How to add full text search to your website - Dev Channel - Medium [[blog]] [[search]]§https://github.com/karlicoss/my-awesome-list
wonder if some sort of cat (or use references instead)
mention bookmark archiver as smth that is used for checking url integrity?
[2020-03-06] rust-lang/mdBook: Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust [[linkrot]]§linkcheck - a backend which will check that all links are valid
[2019-12-07] The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739227 [[pkm]]§[2019-12-07] The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/2015/12/14/personal-knowledgebases/§[2020-05-17] Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "Software interfaces undervalue peripheral vision! (a thread) My physical space is full of subtle cues. Books I read or bought most recently are lying out. Papers are lying in stacks on my desk, roughly arranged by their relationships. https://t.co/ee7lo0mdLv" / Twitter [[vr]] [[think]]§https://mobile.twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1202663202997170176
map my exobrain onto vr somehow?
[2020-03-22] https://merveilles.town/@maxdeviant/103863978808052366 pkm repo§(defun alala ()
(interactive)
(let ((res (om-parse-headline-at (point))))
(edebug)
(om-headline-set-title! "SUP" nil res)
(message "%s %s" (point) res)))
;; (om-headline-set-title! "SUP" nil res)
I don’t know wtf is wrong. I don’t get how to extract title from the note. (om-get-property :title res) returns some irrelevant shit
[2020-05-04] org-mode support? · Issue #1183 · rust-lang/mdBook§I'd be happy to mentor you through the process and review code
[2020-06-13] What do I mean by node? [[exobrain]]§good explanation
[2019-12-07] knowledge/wiki-workflow.md at c978beb37bc769a9925fa6664ed9a4f3be183697 · nikitavoloboev/knowledge [[exobrain]]§[2020-01-01] RichardLitt/meta-knowledge: 💡 A list of knowledge repositories [[publish]] [[exobrain]]§https://github.com/RichardLitt/meta-knowledge
[2020-01-17] later when I publish my org-mode sources§[2020-12-31] yeraydiazdiaz/lunr.py: A Python implementation of Lunr.js 🌖§[2020-12-31] how to get the positions of the term matches · Issue #96 · weixsong/elasticlunr.js [[exobrain]]§ugh. not possible?
[2021-01-02] The Org Manual§[2020-12-27] Digital-Garden/ideas.md at 1cee3b97439a9d9fb1ae30d8c14dbb7ac32280ad · hrwtech/Digital-Garden [[ideas]]§collect all ideas repos and search over them?
basically, add to a private search engine thing
[2021-01-22] related [[agora]]§[2020-12-28] emacs - Assign IDs to every entry in Org-mode - Stack Overflow [[exobrain]]§ugh. not sure about this way… at least it’s gonna be deterministic then
[2021-01-23] graph [[logseq]]§repulsive force: charges (forceManyBody)
attractive force: forceLink
return 1 / Math.min(count[link.source.index], count[link.target.index]);
[2020-12-16] My tier list of interesting YouTube channels - Tristan Hume§for now, suppressing in the config…
e.g. sometimes file has a filetag, but a task is there because it’s related for example to exobrain.
but then it’s gonna link the while filetag with the exobrain, which is somewhat misleading
[2020-04-03] maybe sort by priority/date on export? or specify sort order in properties [[exobrain]]§[2019-02-18][2019-10-08] perhaps it belongs in personal wiki category? and organizing information?§[2019-10-08] two separate directories. (notes/zim) zim is more like knowledge archive, it’s more structred. notes are more chaotic and generally a giant todo list§That’s also an example of how can I use porg
also how to post-process stuff post-factum? I guess need a way to assign meta-data to stuff.. ugh
maybe need to generate uid as a property…. simple
[2021-01-23] Force directed graph: custom forces - Tom Roth [[blog]] [[inspiration]]§Or maybe you want to utilise your node and link attributes to change the sizes of some nodes over time. You’d use a custom force.
nice indication of links (via background)
[2021-01-30] Getting Started - IndieWeb§[2021-01-06] garden/exobrain.md at 69fe163b30a00e76e3eb8637c97fa86ac0fb2a9e · flancian/garden§[2021-01-23] vasturiano/react-force-graph: React component for 2D, 3D, VR and AR force directed graphs [[exobrain]]§Click to expand/collapse nodes (source)
wow, this might really be useful
[2020-12-30] Agora§add a note that it’s convenient to explore the graph
also need to add link to main exobrain (for now just share it alongside)
mention mess & slowness
can be answered instantly without waiting for my response!
again, it’s not that removing ‘real’ interaction is the point, so I’m happy to answer anyway. But it can lead the person to ask a more specific question, for example.
[2021-02-11] #🧠-v2-personal [[exobrain]]§danieldToday at 7:35 AM
There is certainly beauty in randomness.
How about an option which presents you a visualisation of a set of random connections in the daily notes (as a link to a new data visualisation page)? Maybe with options to turn on and off certain branches of thought (in cases you are working on something specific). This way you get your daily inspiration right in your daily notes (or you can turn it off if you don't like it).
Ultimately, it would be very unique if these random connections also generate a page with all block and page references to the visualised links. Basically you forgo the problem of an empty page, not knowing where to start.
I am a Social Scientist and my daily bread and butter is to synthesise knowledge, reproduce it, change it and generate new knowledge. However, most importantly, use that knowledge to have an impact in non-academic contexts (where it matters the most, I think).
Jeff Tang 🏛Today at 8:51 AM
I was especially thinking about making a Twitter-like feed for mobile, to explore random blocks @danield
[2021-02-14] [Marcin Ignac on Twitter: "I’m fascinated by @andymatuschak digital garden of his notes at https://t.co/G9PQ1UaIeq. At the same time i’m disappointed by the tools available to navigate those kind of information spaces. So here is quick thread how I got from the hairball graph to a readable concept map 1/5 https://t.co/rEZhDRpQP5" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/marcinignac/status/1282625655725858817 ) [[exobrain]]§I'm fascinated by @andy_matuschak
digital garden of his notes at http://notes.andymatuschak.org. At the same time i'm disappointed by the tools available to navigate those kind of information spaces. So here is quick thread how I got from the hairball graph to a readable concept map 1/5
[2021-02-14] whoa, need to go through athens discord to figure it out… https://discord.com/channels/708122962422792194/708156396906086468§https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/discussions/605
[2021-03-13] Fabien Benetou’s PIM | Site / AllRecentChanges [[exobrain]]§recent changes is nice…
but gonna be tricky with org-mode
maybe enough to generate a view sorted by timestamps
An externalisation of thoughts. Less sci-fi: a [[personal wiki]].
<a href="/raw/garden/neil/2020-07-18_22-02-10_ArtificialFictionBrain.png "Artificial Fiction Brain CC-BY-SA""><img class="image-embed" src="/raw/garden/neil/2020-07-18_22-02-10_ArtificialFictionBrain.png "Artificial Fiction Brain CC-BY-SA"">
I aim for my wiki to be a kind of exobraindump (uploading my mind into heavily linked text), a model of myself (PSM). The wiki is a story-telling device that reuses older stories to reconstruct new ones; if it is a memory palace or garden, it’s one that is evolving toward externalizing the relationship between our sensibilities and cognition (for the sake of something else).
– ⦗ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱: h0p3⦘ — 𖡶 1.2.20200719
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En mars 2018 nous avons participé au concours 200 FairCoin pour les organisations à but non lucratif" : forum.fair.coop/t/candidature-communecter/389/7
Il est possible de nous faire des dons en Faircoin : open-atlas.org/don
Faircoin est présent sur COmmunecter : communecter.org/#@faircoop
Une visioconférence a eu lieu avec Florence de Faircoin le 15 novembre.
En mars 2018 nous avons participé au concours 200 FairCoin pour les organisations à but non lucratif" : forum.fair.coop/t/candidature-communecter/389/7
Il est possible de nous faire des dons en Faircoin : open-atlas.org/don
Faircoin est présent sur COmmunecter : communecter.org/#@faircoop
Une visioconférence a eu lieu avec Florence de Faircoin le 15 novembre.
Our brains have a programming, a ‘mode of knowing’ that lets us believe ‘stories’ about things we can’t fully understand/explain. This programming can be called faith. This can reduce stress. Proof: All human societies have had a religion.
[[Has Science made Religion Useless?]]
#permanent-notes #faith #psychology
Main marketing website: https://filecoin.io/
Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network that stores files on the internet, with built-in economic incentives to ensure files are stored reliably over time. https://docs.filecoin.io/
Created by [[Protocol Labs]].
Although it is often overlooked, Mary Shelley’s [[Frankenstein]]: Or the Modern Prometheus grapples repeatedly with the problem of vegetarianism. The ‘monster’ chooses not to ‘destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
The monster is a ‘modern Prometheus’ not only because he is a ‘new man’ born of the mangled [[French Revolution]], but also because he chooses not to eat meat
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
Shelley’s monster is made of sewn flesh stolen from proletarian corpses, and Frankenstein’s desire to create a ‘new species’ by instilling human consciousness in inert nature ends in death and chaos
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
Jerry’s been using TheBrain software now for 25 years, all into a single data file that now has over 525,000 nodes (called Thoughts). You can find this page in his Brain here.
Alas, TheBrain is proprietary software and currently has no API, so playing with it is limited. The FJB group has been experimenting with Brain data, understanding what makes TheBrain particularly useful (to Jerry), and extending those ideas toward a broader Open Global Mind meta-platform.
FJB calls are pretty geeky, held every Monday. Ping Jerry if you’d like to be added.
Gabapentin, sold under the brand name Neurontin among others, is an anticonvulsant medication primarily used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain.
Gabapentin, sold under the brand name Neurontin among others, is an anticonvulsant medication primarily used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain.
Gabapentin, sold under the brand name Neurontin among others, is an anticonvulsant medication primarily used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain.
Gabapentin, sold under the brand name Neurontin among others, is an anticonvulsant medication primarily used to treat partial seizures and neuropathic pain.
In 2017, [[Kevin Owocki]] founded Gitcoin, a Blockchain-based incentivization layer for open source software. [1]
Nice interview with [[Gregory Chaitin]]:
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/03/chaitins-discovery-of-a-way-of-describing-true-randomness/
As I was reading it, I thought: they are talking about Kolmogorov complexity, one of my favorite concepts from information theory. I didn’t know it’s also called Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin complexity :)
Nice interview with [[Gregory Chaitin]]:
As I was reading it, I thought: they are talking about Kolmogorov complexity, one of my favorite concepts from information theory. I didn’t know it’s also called Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin complexity (1/2)
RT @flancian: Nice interview with [[Gregory Chaitin]]:
As I was reading it, I thought: they are talking about Kol…
it shouldn’t be done in…
Here’s a heuristic: if a task is made significantly easier by a framework, it shouldn’t be done in the browser (and probably shouldn’t be done in JS at all).
By John Ohno on February 28, 2017.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/heres-a-heuristic-if-a-task-is- made-significantly-easier-by-a-framework-it-shouldn-t-be-done-in-42544f4aa3f6)
Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum (the two most prominent digital ledger technologies), Holochain is far more energy efficient and flexible in the way that it authenticates digital objects on networks.
– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
It is a lighter, more versatile set of software protocols than the blockchain.
– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
Rather than relying on a single ledger — a “heavy” solution that requires the work of countless computers on the network — Holochain is a simpler, lightweight approach that lets every user have his or her own secure ledger and distributed storage system to store their personal data and digital identities.
– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
In this sense, Holochain is a tool based on a differentiated [[relational ontology]] (each user can express value in different, particular ways when interacting with people) while blockchain as a tool ultimately reflects an undifferentiated ontology (each user must accept the prevailing standard of the system).
Holochain is a data integrity layer for distributed applications. Basically a way to have both the applications and their required data storage run on all of the users machines instead of centralizing it on a server.
It is a framework that is made to be agent-centric. That is to say, that all applications built on Holochain will enable the agent (person, device or collective) to communicate with other agents through a bunch of applications it has installed.
This means that an agent stores all of the data connected to the agent and allows this data to be accessed by applications of the agents choice. Agents also hold a share of other agents data, one piece of the collective dataset through the use of Distributed Hash Tables.
– Shiro - coordination for local food communities - App Ideas - Holochain Forum
Harris-Braun claims that Holo Fuel will not simply be a substitute form of money that will end up replicating capitalism, but will instead propagate a “different grammatics of value.” Just as a different grammatical structure in a human language helps us to articulate different ideas and realities, the Holochain grammar is intended as a tool to express social forms of value — flows
– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
Instead of market-exchange being the dominant form of value, it is envisioned that Holochain-based apps will enable other forms of value to be expressed and circulated within networked communities — in other words, not just the money values represented by prices.
– [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
Third, I’m really fascinated with the Holochain approach, which uses a set of robust networking protocols that are more versatile in facilitating networked interactions than the blockchain. The Holochain project aspires to help secure, authenticated identity and commoning to flourish in online contexts, which is obviously much more interesting than frictionless, ubiquitous commercial applications. They have a project called the [[Commons Engine]] – https://commonsengine.org/about – that Fernanda Ibarra is helping to develop.
– [[David Bollier, P2P Models interview on digital commons]]
P2P project management software built on [[Holochain]]
Good but doesn’t quite live up to the title. In that there’s not much in the way of a programme of actually how to win back the internet. Just suggestions that the left needs to be less splintered, and needs to build a new media ecosystem.
platforms that had once offered a space for debate and deliberation shifted toward emotion and immersion
instead of building an alternative new media ecosystem and amplifying each other’s work, the left focuses more on competition than the right.
the real power of online politics is about waging the fight over how people view the world – and what they see as politically possible.
An : [[article]]
URL : https://www.noemamag.com/how-we-can-encode-human-rights-in-the-blockchain/
Author : [[Nathan Schneider]]
[[Blockchain]]. [[Human rights]].
Nathan is going all in on blockchain of late. Particularly the affordances it might bring for community governance.
The same crypto tools presently being used to bypass the international order could instead become the means of architecting a better one.
A nice sentiment.
Anyone claiming to build the infrastructure for the next world order should be expected to tell us: Will this expand or undermine the rights we have already struggled to win?
Agree.
For full internet Betula experience, you will need to set up a domain and, preferably, HTTPS. If you are just using Betula locally, do not bother, unless you want to.
Domains cost money. Pick a good registrar and buy your domain. It doesn't really matter which one you buy, they work basically the same. Some good registrars are Gandi, Dynadot, Beget. Avoid GoDaddy, it has a very poor user experience and customer support. We also generally do not recommend national domains like .es or .ru, international ones are easier to manage in the long run.
Usually, Betula is served with a subdomain. For example, if you have bought example.com, http://example.com should lead to your personal site, and http://links.example.com should lead to your Betula. links. subdomains are recommended, most betulists use them, some use betula. though. You can serve Betula on a top-level domain too, of course.
In your domain registrar control panel, find DNS management. DNS is the database used for domain name resolution. For your chosen domain, add a A record and write your server's IP as its value. Save. DNS might take a while to update.
Now, your Betula is available on http://yourdomain:port. It's not good enough.
HTTPS is used for secure page loading in the Web. You should use it for security. Other Fediverse instances will ignore your server if it doesn't have HTTPS. Usually, HTTPS certificates cost money. Luckily, Let's Encrypt offers free certificates for everyone; we're going to use them.
Reverse proxy is a web application that forwards requests and modifies them in a specific manner. Betula relies on reverse proxies for domain and HTTPS support.
We provide guides for nginx and Caddy (recommended) below. You can use any other reverse proxy, such as Apache, if you want.
Nginx is a popular web server application. It can be used as a reverse proxy. Your server might already have it installed.
After installing nginx, edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. In http section, create a new server section for your Betula:
# ...
http {
# ...
# Very recommended to have the next line, it makes loading faster for users.
gzip on;
server {
# Change with your domain.
server_name links.example.org;
location / {
# Change with your port, if you don't use 1738.
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1738;
# Required for Fediverse.
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
# ...
}For HTTPS support, we recommend using certbot. It gives you free HTTPS certificates and updates nginx config for you.
Run Certbot. It sets up certificates and HTTPS to HTTP redirections. If you want to disable HTTPS to HTTP redirections, edit the nginx configuration file.
Unlike other web servers, Caddy offers built-in HTTPS management.
Here's a Caddy configuration contributed by Klaus Alexander Seistrup.
# Unsecure HTTP will automatically be redirected to HTTPS
betula.example.com {
# Email address for use with the TLS certificate
tls hello@example.com
header {
# 365 days in seconds
Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000"
}
log {
output file /var/log/caddy/betula.example.com.log
# Start a fresh log file every 16 MiB
roll_size 16MiB
# Keep last 16 log files
roll_keep 16
}
route /* {
# Just send everything to Betula
reverse_proxy http://127.0.0.1:1738
}
# Offer on-the-fly compression
encode zstd gzip
}We generally recommend Caddy over anything else.
In your Betula settings, write down your domain. Doing so ensures RSS feeds, bookmarklet and federation work correctly. Now, you are ready for the internet.
I know my domain.
It’s something I say. It wasn’t anything I said before.
I understand my domain because I know it. That’s because I know the domain, what it is or why.
The [[spacious nexus]] is what defines my domain, essentially. I won’t be knowledgeable of everything, and that’s okay. There is no feeling of being inadequate because I don’t understand it, it’s just a matter of life. I believe it’s better to use my expertise in the domains I know, rather than try to go into domains I don’t or are yet to understand.
Generative AI or LLMs in particular are a very tempting thing to use in software development. LLMs made me realize how my own skills are still worth anything. I am not demotivated, rather, quite the opposite. It is the control entity for understanding.
I think that programming is a creative work. In practical terms though, I’m more worried about security. It also gets rather expensive to extensively use coding agents for programming. so no. I don’t tend to get those new age problems by doing stuff the same way I did years prior.
I mildly like the idea of local LLMs. Though, hardware to run those is hard to come by. Regardless of the ethics and whatnot, I am likely to not use generative AI for software development, given its inaccessibility and potential of deskilling.
a highly influential sociologist and radical intellectual
– [[The Brilliant Immanuel Wallerstein Was an Anticapitalist Until the End]]
Wallerstein was the last surviving member of the affectionately named “Gang of Four” — an ensemble of scholars dedicated to the study (and abolition) of global capitalism that also included [[Samir Amin]], Andre Gunder Frank, and my doctoral advisor, Giovanni Arrighi
– [[The Brilliant Immanuel Wallerstein Was an Anticapitalist Until the End]]
Protest group spun out of [[Extinction Rebellion]], protesting about the paucity of [[insulation]] of Britain’s housing stock.
to grab & host; in…
Does the wikileaks administration reject some submissions? Probably — after all, there are plenty of people who, given a place that will…
It’s important to note that Wikileaks itself doesn’t choose what information to grab & host; in terms of editorial control, it sits somewhere between pastebin & the New York Times: it mostly receives unsolicited leaks, and it will spend extra effort cleaning up & making accessible things that have wide appeal, but will more or less host anything. Looking at the raw list of leaks makes this clear: there are a lot of items along the lines of the membership list of Condoleeza Rice’s sorority (which is fairly uninteresting).
Does the wikileaks administration reject some submissions? Probably — after all, there are plenty of people who, given a place that will host anything, will use it to pirate hollywood movies & child porn. But, if somebody offers wikileaks an email dump, whether or not they will host it is not even a question: of course they will host it, because that’s what they see as their mission.
By John Ohno on August 3, 2016.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/its-important-to-note-that- wikileaks-itself-doesn-t-choose-what-information-to-grab-host-in-97192ef94da3)
Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
A [[political club]] in the [[French Revolution]].
James all his life Xx #JamesBaldwin #NinaSimone #ToniMorrison #booksadon #booktoot #blackjoy https://t.co/tIWvKwihxN (2/2) https://t.co/aZneExx4KO
[[Jerry]] spent a dozen years as a tech-industry trends analyst. One of the 4,000 software vendors who pitched him their wares (hoping he would write about them) had mind-mapping software called TheBrain. You can learn more about Jerry’s particular use of TheBrain at JerrysBrain.com, and you can learn about how to put Jerry’s Brain to work for you by watching this video:
And you can browse Jerry’s Brain freely by clicking here.
Jerry’s Brain is particularly interesting in the context of Rel8 because:
These are his notes, live and after [[the Render event]]. Pro tip: grab the vertical separator and move it off to the right.
[[Jerry’s Brain]] is
To [[join this Agora]]:
You can also [[contribute to this Agora]] from the [[Fediverse]] (social media) by following and interacting with an [[Agora Bot]] like (as of the time of writing) [[@agora@botsin.space]].
as we [[merge]] we’ll [[join]] consensually
as we [[join]] we’ll [[flow]]
CW: Flancia
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as we [[merge]] we’ll [[join]] consensually
Open source, markdown-based note taking & to do. Originally designed to import Evernote .enex files.
Available on many platforms, including mobile apps and even terminal. Uses different cloud services for synchronization, but encrypted with your own keys, eg [[Dropbox]].
“The Buddha was very big on lists” — [[Joseph Goldstein]]
Correct and maybe even an understatement in some ways :) I think the Buddha was big on graphs more generally, in the sense of sets of items connected by relations.
I am selling 3 VERA. One VERA is worth one hour of creative labor, each 1 hour block is sold at 100 USD
Lapin is my first real sketchbook, featuring almost 90 drawings, most of them colored. The name comes from the French lapin, meaning rabbit. The cover of the sketchbook had two rabbits on it. I didn't particularly like the rabbits when choosing the sketchbook, I chose it because of the shape. Later on I found the exact same sketchbook model, but with a cute building on it. I would have bought it instead.
I didn't publish it Melanocarpa-first, most of drawings are on Cyberrachel only. Eventually I will publish all drawings from it that I want to. Some of them will remain on Cyberrachel forever, never to see the light of day.
Currently published drawings are found in /category/lapin.
The next sketchbook is Quadrat.
Did [[Dostoyevsky]] influence [[Le Guin]] and [[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]?
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website: https://mailtrain.org/
A [[Self Hosted]] newsletter application built on Node.js (v10+) and MySQL (v8+) or MariaDB (v10+).
We are curating [[Collections to Feed the Big Fungus]]. This is one of the earliest.
[[Jerry]] makes [[Jerry’s Brain]] openly available online. That means several things:
You can navigate through it in your browser by clicking here.
TheBrain exports a bunch of JSON objects, which OGM members have imported into a PostgreSQL database. It has two incarnations:
[[Forms of life, forms of mind]] | [[Michael Levin]] on [[Baba is you]]
https://thoughtforms.life/a-most-profound-video-game-a-good-cognitive-aid-for-research-at-the-frontier-of-life-and-mind/
Documentary about the [[Miners’ strike]].
Three different episodes.
First one is about the division between strikers and those that crossed the picket line. Focused on the mining town of [[Shirebrook]].
Feelings are still raw, 40 years later.
The [[Battle of Orgreave]].
[[Police brutality]]. [[State violence]].
Shocking, the violence that was meted out by the police on the miners. Seemingly premeditated.
Then perjury.
All seemingly coming directly from the wishes of Margaret Thatcher.
The media apparently complicit, a piece of state apparatus.
I find interesting the tack he took of defining something in between [[Anarchism]] and [[Marxism]]. That appeals to me, part of the whole [[Horizontalism vs verticalism]] thing. Bookchin had chops in both of them so was well-placed for a synthesis I reckon. And I like his municipalist take on things ([[Libertarian municipalism]]) and his ecological concerns ([[Social ecology]]).
I listened to an interview ages back on [[Revolutionary Left Radio]] with his daughter [[Debbie Bookchin]] ([[The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin]]). I remember he sounded like a fun Dad - taking her to the cinema, but waiting outside writing political tracts while she watched the films.
He seems a bit cantankerous.
The only other author I can think of who similarly combines brilliant analysis with bad faith caricatures of his perceived adversaries is Murray Bookchin.
– Center for a Stateless Society » Review: Srnicek and Williams, Inventing the …
His ideas inspired [[Abdullah Öcalan]]. [[Rojava]].
O.G. [[solarpunk]].
[[Communalism]].
Rejecting ecological arguments that blame individual choices, technology, or population growth, Bookchin argues that the ecological crisis is caused by an irrational social system governed by the cancerous logic of capitalism, driven by its competitive grow-or-die imperative and its endless production directed not toward meeting human needs but accumulating profit
– [[The Next Revolution]]
Bookchin’s proposal is by far the most sophisticated radical proposal to deal with the creation and collective use of the [[commons]] across a wide variety of scales
– [[The Next Revolution]]
In the late 1950s, he began to elaborate the importance of environmental degradation as a symptom of deeply entrenched social problems. Bookchin’s book on the subject, [[Our Synthetic Environment]], appeared six months before Rachel Carson’s [[Silent Spring]], while his seminal 1964 pamphlet [[Ecology and Revolutionary Thought]] introduced the concept of [[ecology]] as a political category to the [[New Left]].
– [[The Next Revolution]]
I asked "What are your thoughts on Murray Bookchin?" here -> https://social.coop/@neil/107036385645933025
[[ecology]]
[[permaculture]]
[[anarchism]]
[[bookchin]]
[[realm of freedom]]
[[struggle of nature and society]]
His favorite word is "Coherence"
[[bookchin quotes]]
I asked "What are your thoughts on Murray Bookchin?" here -> https://social.coop/@neil/107036385645933025
I asked "What are your thoughts on Murray Bookchin?" here -> https://social.coop/@neil/107036385645933025
I asked "What are your thoughts on Murray Bookchin?" here -> https://social.coop/@neil/107036385645933025
[[Murray Bookchin]] on #futurism: https://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/
> What is futurism? Futurism is the present as it exists today, projected, one hundred years from now. (…) All they do is they make everything either bigger, or they change the size—you’ll live in thirty story buildings, you’ll live in sixty-story buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright was going to build an office building that was one mile high. That was futurism.
Authored by:: [[P- Brendan Langen]]
Napkin is built by Fabian Wittel and David Felsmann, and it employs a spatial canvas to help users traverse their thoughts and make spontaneous connections.
Working tour below, using the example of a public Napkin they built, working through Farnam Street podcasts.
Focusing on a given tag shows any related ideas:
Collection happens spatially, with all product use building around swarms of ideas.
Napkin promotes retrieval of your ideas by surfacing related concepts and reminding you what you haven’t seen recently.
[[trace provenance]] in Napkin by hovering the source, which is required for any card - 
Navigation is entirely spatial, and while it doesn’t allow for [[ZUI]], the experience feels like flying through a canvas. Napkin promotes exploration by showing notes like the one below:
meaning they are disabled by request of a user, and I’ll now try to do work on making them available via an opt in mechanism.
DONE improve this and reenable
DONE make #optin work for this
[[move]]
@agora [[opt in]]
[[opt in]] @agora
Trying to enable writing to the Agora of Flancia from the Fediverse :)
@neil very simple and the dump looks a bit clunky for now, but I’m happy it’s here :)
If you want to opt in, use wikilinks [[push]] or [[opt in]]. To opt out, ‘no push’ or ‘opt out’ (this is flimsy but it works for now).
@cognacore ahoy there! so nice to read you, and to read this!
I am in the process of fixing the Agora bot for the Fediverse precisely :) this will be highly motivating!
you can follow @agora and wait for them to follow back; this should happen if not immediately, eventually :) then after that you can write in a toot [[opt in]], with the double square brackets. after that the Agora bot will ingest every post that has at least one term using the same convention of double square brackets.
@alphagora [[opt-in]]
I’ve let [[agora bot]] fall behind in the Fediverse, in the sense that the Twitter bot is now superior in at least one way: it lets people [[opt in]] to storing not only links to their messages in the mentioned nodes, but also a full copy of the message.
I will try to (1/2)
[[opt in]] @agora@botsin.space
Trying to enable writing to the Agora of Flancia from the Fediverse :)
@bouncepaw cool!
(would you like the Agora to see your hashtags? if so, you can [[opt in]] by posting that wikilink)
Hi again :)
@an_agora [[opt in]]
I tried org-brain a few times for my personal wiki, but it never really clicked for me. Plus seemed to add quick a bit of extra cruft that locks you into using brain a bit. And they broke my org-publish. But the concept mapping idea seems close to what I want, so I’ll keep keeping my eye on it. Breaking down ideas into smaller interlinked thoughts, like TiddlyWiki’s ideas.
[[org-roam]] has worked better for me so far.
Any model where the end goal requires monetary [[privilege]], usually relates to online gaming
One of my favorite nicknames for [[capitalism]]
Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian anarchist, scientist, writer, and activist. He is widely seen as the most influential theorist of [[anarcho-communism]]. Kropotkin’s [[The Conquest of Bread]] outlines what a future anarcho-communist society could look like.
– [[The Utopian Internet, Computing, Communication, and Concrete Utopias]]
I’ve been [[microdosing]] a lot lately. I’ve been reading good reports on [[psychodelics]] and their ability to treat [[depression]]
The public domain comprises creative works to which copyright no longer applies, because it has expired, expressly been waived, or may be inapplicable (Dusollier, 2010).
While the public domain is legally and conceptually separate from the digital commons, in practice, public domain works constitute an important source from which commoning practices can draw, all the more as public domain books and artworks are being digitised (Boyle, 2008; Dulong de Rosnay & De Martin, 2012).
Is [[Putin]] a cryptofascist or something else? Just a garden variety [[totalitarian]]?
All takes welcome! Please be civil in comments — I am asking earnestly and I hope we can use the internet can have an honest conversation about facts and opinions with global relevance without violent interactions. If you like Putin, please also feel free to engage and voice your opinions!
Authored By:: [[P- Rob Haisfield]]
[[Q- What are powerful primitives for a user of a decentralized knowledge graph]]
Some ideas: Write a query, save the results to a list. Process that list with map, filter, and reduce. Filter it down. Map some function onto each note in the list. Reduce the results into another page, or into the "backlinks" for a page. [[C- Bulk refactors are a necessary primitive to maintaining a decentralized discourse graph]].
As can be seen in [[I- Search as a primitive]], search is a powerful way to populate a list. One could map the append function onto a list of the search results in order to append a new tag onto each item. Alternatively, one could map syntax highlighting rules based on the results of a query.
[[P- Conor White-Sullivan]] has an [interesting thread](https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1134173307878629376 ?s=20) on this, where he discusses it at an abstract level (below). I’m referring to a much more literal take a list of items, map commands onto them, reduce them into a new item, filter them down, etc…
In practice — for notes Filter your notes for questions Map over your open questions and say — how could I reframe this question to make it easier to answer — what smaller or bigger questions help me answer this one — how will I know I’ve found an answer Filter your notes for beliefs Map over them Ask — How surprised would I be if this were false ("weight") — what other beliefs do I think are true because this one is what does this imply — What other beliefs, if I changed my mind about them, would change this one
author: "Allen Newell" year: 1973
URL : https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335242/revolution-or-ruin/
Authors : [[Kai Heron]] and [[Jodi Dean]]
[[Climate Leninism]].
In the RCLB, it was really important that we had this commitment to developing a programme; it’s that which really pushed us to struggle and resolve issues of line, and bring to fruition the rethink which opened up all these issues around gender, racism and the national question
– [[‘Imperialism runs deep’: Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives]]
~ [[samuel klein]], [[metasj]]
The concept of wikis goes back to an earlier era of the web. With the advent of blogging (and I would say, RSS feeds to subscribe and follow content from all over), wikis went away for a while.
Wikis probably also get a bad rap from their early incarnation inside company intranets. Aside from a bad editing interface, bad search is the big thing that kills company intranets of all kinds. More on the [[Wiki]] page.
Currently, in 2020, personal and company note repositories are experiencing a renaissance. [[Notion]] and [[Roam Research]] being the two hype tools.
From reading content online, bookmarking it, keeping notes from online research or in person meetings, I’ve long wanted a way to introspect across all that content.
That is, rather than just using my limited human framework for digital information processing, how do I get more value from it?
As a example, during a day, a week, or a month, how could I run through all the content that I’ve found interesting, created, or saved, and run it through a simple relevance or inference tool that would show the content as clusters of information / concepts, and how they inter-related?
Today, in 2020, such a tool is almost "consumer grade", other than the fact that it’s not very "consumer accessible". I’d have to commit to some out-sourced repository, and put it all in there.
What I want to do is gather information over time, compile it into a "second brain", and
The [[Jobs to be done]], or JTBD, concept comes from product management. What "jobs" are you hiring a product to do for you?
So what jobs do I want a second brain to do for me?
Today, with very good search, why do we bookmark? I think a collection of easy access links in your browser toolbar to apps that you use is great — but that’s not really bookmarking.
I want to document and keep links to apps and tools that I research, use, and/or recommend, in order to find it again later, review if anything has changed, and to share it with other people.
I want to document articles. Maybe it’s keeping a copy of something insightful, especially quoting relevant parts. Yes, like Roam helps to do, to capture these relevant parts. Here’s an example of [saving and quoting ‘When Tailwinds Vanish’]((Unsupported content elided by the Agora.)). I haven’t social shared this anywhere, but have mentioned, shared privately, and discussed it in person with multiple people. Clearly something I should keep around.
Basically, if I’m going to share an article with someone, I should "keep" a copy, same as with recommending an app / tool / person.
For now, I’m highlighting some of them on the home page.
Sharing an article is more likely to be done through a social share on my blog, which in turn gets cross posted to Twitter.1
I have used various tools over the years to keep a worklog. 2
Roam Research has "Daily Notes" by default, which is really effective in getting the context for a particular day down.
I’m currently creating a new worklog (weeklog!) per week, with headers per day. These are running notes, links, and a log of what I’m going / what my TODOs are.
These logs can be super helpful when you get to the end of a day or week and feel "what the hell did I do??" and you can, indeed, look back and see what you did and accomplished.
This bottom up method of what am I doing / need to do this week, and a log of what I did, is useful in sharing progress with a team.
Of course, if you are using a team project management tool / process of some kind, then that "lives" over there, separate from your personal worklog. The main solution is making sure that you can link to those team TODOs. You are either making a private note to remember to make a task, or you are linking to a team task as part of noting in your worklog that that’s what you worked on.
Taking notes is really "I want to put this somewhere private as notes to myself".
There’s a HOWTO version of this when I’m taking notes as I attempt to program or install software. I note down errors, add links to pages where I found the answer to something. This might then also lead to searches that end in [[Tips]] — how do I add a [[Unix]] user? What’s the [[Git]] command I need to use again?
"Personal" to-do’s in the sense that they are private to me. They may be for work, personal projects, or internal family items.
As mentioned above, I’ve got a variety of recommendations. This usually comes from someone asking "what do you use for X?", or it will come from personal research of figuring out what I should use. My [[Personal CRM]] post is a good example of this in blog post form.
The [[Startup]] page just got a categorized brain dump of a whole bunch of different categories. Some of them are people / service provider recommendations, like using Justin at Osler as a startup lawyer, or Mike at Sprout Accounting for company accounting.
There is a [seminal Algolia internal search article]((Unsupported content elided by the Agora.))3 that I refer to as the ultimate in company wide knowledge search interfaces, and it’s pretty much what I want as well. I just tagged that article with [[memex]] for what I’ll use for that shorthand from now on: all my information available and searchable / browseable at the point of looking for something.
It’s one of the reasons that I publish a lot of things publicly online. Future me has a chance of finding it again by doing site:bmannconsulting.com some-search-term to see if I’ve talked about it before.
But, that approach to search means you inherit the bias and algorithmic of search engines who aren’t your friends. We need to have our own search, and again, great search is now becoming "consumer grade".
We look at something like a tag cloud that any one person creates. A tag cloud is fairly useless for browsing or search long term, but it’s an interesting artifact which can help highlight or discover themes that grow and shrink over time.
For myself, the "Drupal" tag would be large and prominent from 2003 to 2010 or so.
For a conference — or really any kind of event — there is a "digital exhaust" of content around it, from tweets to checkins to bookmarks, to the in turn likes and re-shares of those items.
for search purposes, should have all the content on my blog accessible here as well and/or available for transclusion (which is really just the case that generalized transclusion from a URI is extremely useful)↩
really feeling the need for "blocks" from TiddlyWiki or Roam. Making you go read a whole [[Worklog]] article rather than just transcluding it here is painful.↩
Well, I just spent like 10 minutes trying to find that article, which pretty much proves that I need to be storing articles I find impactful. It was on their Medium blog, which they don’t index in their company home page "Blog" search :)↩
[[Comprehensive advances and commons sins]], a talk by [[SJ Klein]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_zeJaEx5M
The skin is the largest organ in your body. It's best to know it and keep it healthy.
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-exfoliate https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320973#eight-causes-of-chest-acne Fingernails: Mayo Clinic
@grrrr_shark @schratze now I feel I need to check [[Snufkin]] out, thanks!
https://git.coop/social.coop/tech/operations/-/issues/11
As outlined here the domain is owned by FairCoop and loaned to social.coop. We should probably control it ourselves. How and…
Part of : [[The Santiago Boys]]
It was in the Tenderloin I clearly saw the Agora. It had the shape of all the missing connections.
A : [[podcast]]
Featuring : [[Debbie Bookchin]]
City; I live in…
I get the impression that in the past (say, prior to 1950) public spaces were more common and more vital, with community organizations like…
The problem of a lack of free public indoor spaces isn’t limited to New York City; I live in suburban Connecticut, and (barring public libraries, and the occasional bus shelter or other wall-less structure on public land) indoor spaces accessible to the public are either retail spaces or member-supported ‘clubs’ with limited access (often, non-members are allowed in only by invitation or are only allowed during particular time periods).
I get the impression that in the past (say, prior to 1950) public spaces were more common and more vital, with community organizations like clubs, churches, and lodges being less closed-off simply because socialization and other forms of entertainment for those without any money was necessary. Salon parties & coffee houses also catered to this use case, and it seems like coffee houses would cultivate social groups and bring in events like scientific demonstrations & political speeches during the nineteenth century, as a means of drawing a crowd some of whom would purchase coffee, the same way that bars will occasionally bring in gratis musical acts. By the 1960s, at least from the perspective of europeans, these spaces were already gone or commercialized: the concept of a shopping mall was created specifically to produce european-style public spaces in the united states, with shops and commerce being in the original conception an unimportant side-effect & features like benches, squares, and food courts being more central. (Of course, shopping malls essentially suffered through a very long bubble, as a result of real estate loopholes; they were everywhere and extremely commercialized up through the early 90s, at which point they started going out of business.)
The best idea I can think of for bringing back public spaces is to expand & publicize the low-key social spaces that already exist in or associated with libraries: libraries are already indoors, and they already essentially deal with people, but most social spaces in libraries in my experience are exclusive & by reservation only; with good sound-proofing & clever layout, social spaces & quiet spaces within a library can be segregated and the kind of free-wheeling nineteenth-century-coffee-house experience can be reconstructed to some extent.
By John Ohno on December 2, 2016.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/the-problem-of-a-lack-of-free- public-indoor-spaces-isnt-limited-to-new-york-city-i-live-in-9d9277e5ddc7)
Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
due diligence in…
As for linking: you may not remember, but the court case regarding the legal status of links was a big deal, and old media companies are…
The trademark issue is pretty cut and dried: a trademark holder must show due diligence in protecting its trademarks or else it loses control of the trademark permanently; as a result, a trademark holder has every incentive to send nasty messages to anybody they might have reason to believe might be seen by future courts as infringing upon their trademark, lest they be suspected of not protecting it well enough. (Basically, the law incentivizes trademark holders to be assholes & go overboard, which is why Disney sues day care centers for having Disney-owned characters on murals.)
As for linking: you may not remember, but the court case regarding the legal status of links was a big deal, and old media companies are likely to still be pretty sore about it. It was only twenty years ago that the question of whether or not deep linking was a form of infringement; similar mechanisms (like the use of frames to wrap ads around other people’s sites) were ruled against. It doesn’t really matter if the NYT is planning to make a bot: they didn’t want to give up on suing Google & anybody else who does deep links, and now that they have to, they have every intention to prevent that verdict from being generalized to slightly different circumstances.
Furthermore, you can make the argument that use of the API might, in certain cases, lower the number of ad views they get or screw up their progressive paywall system. While I’m not convinced that either system is making them bank in the way that they might hope (and both are easily & regularly bypassed), they have a financial incentive to label and shun anything that might conceivably be used to circumvent these mechanisms — particularly if the product is not commercial.
By John Ohno on August 22, 2016.
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Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
satisfyingly gothic in…
The way to the hangins that spiders liked breaking over holloway’s was satisfyingly gothic in fashion and succulent. Tom’s extracurricular activities seem increasingly distressing and unjustified. She replayed her sinking in dream logic: reasserted itself among crumpled yellow rectangles of marching images all powdery rattling soot clotted sockets plaster birds bathing in woody marshroots and faceless policemen with too many fingers. Hold fast: intricate rhythms timed flashes turning skimming through violent stones.
By John Ohno on October 13, 2017.
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Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
Authored by:: [[P- Brendan Langen]]
This video gives a basic intro to TheBrain. It has a graphical and textual interface for navigating and editing your documents.
Within the graphical interface, it occasionally uses a DSL. For example, creating many branching nodes is similar to writing out the cells of a csv, except you separate nodes with a semicolon.
For a comparison with [[Roam Research]], see the following video from [[P- Matt Goldenberg]].
This would be an example of a non-outliner section.
[[Marc-Antoine Parent]] imported Jerry’s Brain data to a Postgres database (try it out here), but that first import has gotten old. It would be fabulous to be able to count on Jerry’s exported Brain never being more than x days out of date. This chron job would guarantee that.
([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/sashachapin/status/1550156083410370561 ))Liz Truss saying how terrible it looks where there’s solar panels instead of farmland in the UK… good god.
[[The Dispossessed]] and [[The Left Hand of Darkness]] are high up there in my list of favourite books.
In this way, Le Guin’s humble [[utopianism]] is similar to the works of [[Morris]], More, and Plato. In her books, observes critic Colin Burrow, ‘civilization isn’t about conquering planets or travelling faster than the speed of light. It’s about keeping going even when you think you’re lost, recognizing that living means keeping children alive, growing fruit trees, watching things change and tending the goats.’ Civilization is about life
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
Le Guin was not drawn to old-fashioned science fiction with its visions of technological splendour. Instead, she focused on stories about people learning the lesson of humility. She talked of failure, of despair, of ‘dark places’. Humanity is in a dark place now, with catastrophe after catastrophe piling one upon the other. Le Guin counsels that ‘our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country … what hope we have lies there
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
As Le Guin puts it: there is room enough to keep even Man where he belongs, in his place in the scheme of things; there is time enough to gather plenty of wild oats and sow them too … and still the story isn’t over. Still there are seeds to be gathered, and room in the bag of stars
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
Go back to the [[AI Glossary]]
A situation where an organisation is unable to make optimal technological decisions because too many of their tech assets are bound up with one vendor. A lack of compatibility with a new or beneficial technology would not be possible because their current infrastructure is not mobile enough to make use of it.
Those who are able to face the looming reality can easily feel trapped. Walter Benjamin’s prescient metaphor of our being caught in a train without brakes—his image of “progress”1—comes easily to mind.
– [[Red-Green Revolution]]
The process of using your domain to log in to sites and services is called web sign-in and is implemented via a protocol called IndieAuth, an extension of OAuth used for decentralized authentication.
It’s entire reason for being is to answer the simple question: does the person behind the browser have control over the URL that they are claiming as their own?
…being a completely decentralized protocol, it’s much more in keeping with the spirit of the IndieWeb.
If your goal is to make a social network out of the world wide web, there is a certain elegance to the idea of leveraging DNS as a user registration system.
whose utopian writings provoked Malthus to write his Essay on Population. Godwin, who dabbled in vegetarianism, knew herbivorous radicals [[Robert Owen]] and [[Percy Shelley]]
– [[Half-Earth Socialism]]
Women’s healthcare needs can change significantly throughout life. From routine gynaecological screenings and menstrual concerns to pregnancy, fertility, menopause, and treatment for reproductive health conditions, choosing an appropriate healthcare provider can help women access the care they need at different stages.
For women researching Dr. Law Wei Seng and women’s health services in Singapore, understanding the available areas of care can make it easier to prepare for a consultation and determine which services may be relevant to their individual needs.
Dr. Law Wei Seng is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Singapore. His clinic provides obstetric and gynaecological services from its practice at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s published professional profile states that he holds an MBBS from Singapore and an MRCOG qualification from the United Kingdom. His clinical interests include gynaecological laparoscopy, fertility, pregnancy care, and the management of conditions such as fibroids, endometriosis, and ovarian cysts.
His clinic states that it has been providing obstetric and gynaecological care since 2011. The practice focuses on women’s health services ranging from preventive care and routine consultations to pregnancy management and minimally invasive gynaecological procedures.
Women’s health involves more than treating a specific medical condition. Preventive care, reproductive health, pregnancy planning, and regular screening can all form part of an individual’s healthcare needs.
The clinic lists several areas of women’s healthcare, including:
The appropriate service depends on an individual’s symptoms, medical history, age, reproductive goals, and clinical assessment.
Pregnancy is an important period when regular medical monitoring can help assess the health of both mother and baby.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s clinic provides antenatal care that includes regular pregnancy appointments, monitoring of blood pressure and urine, assessment of the baby’s heartbeat and growth, and ultrasound scans when appropriate. The clinic also describes screening for issues such as chromosomal abnormalities, gestational diabetes, and pre-eclampsia.
Pregnancy care can also involve discussions about nutrition, exercise, common pregnancy symptoms, delivery planning, and pain-management options. The clinic states that its maternity care involves a multidisciplinary team when additional specialist input is required.
Women who are planning a pregnancy can also use a preconception consultation to discuss existing medical conditions, medications, previous pregnancies, and other factors that may be relevant to pregnancy.
Fertility can be an important consideration for women and couples planning a family. A gynaecologist can assess reproductive health and determine whether further investigations or treatment may be appropriate.
Dr. Law’s clinic lists fertility assessment and treatment among its services. Its professional profile also notes advanced training in fertiloscopy and a clinical interest in fertility-related care.
Family planning and contraception can also form part of a women’s health consultation. The most appropriate contraceptive method varies according to individual health factors, preferences, reproductive plans, and medical suitability.
Changes in menstrual patterns can have many causes. Heavy bleeding, irregular periods, painful menstruation, or other changes may warrant an assessment, particularly when symptoms persist or interfere with everyday activities.
Dr. Law’s clinic provides care for menstrual concerns and lists conditions including fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and other gynaecological problems.
Diagnosis usually depends on the patient’s symptoms and medical history and may involve physical examination, ultrasound, laboratory testing, or other investigations when clinically appropriate.
Seeking professional assessment can help determine whether symptoms require monitoring, medication, lifestyle measures, or another form of treatment.
Surgical treatment may sometimes be considered for conditions such as fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and certain other gynaecological conditions.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s published profile identifies gynaecological laparoscopy as one of his clinical interests. His clinic describes laparoscopic surgery as a minimally invasive approach involving small incisions rather than conventional open surgery.
The suitability of laparoscopic surgery depends on the patient’s condition and other clinical factors. Patients considering surgery should discuss the potential benefits, risks, alternatives, recovery expectations, and likely outcomes with their specialist.
Menopause represents another stage of women’s healthcare that may require professional support. Symptoms can vary significantly between individuals and may include changes in menstrual cycles, hot flashes, sleep difficulties, vaginal symptoms, and other physical changes.
Dr. Law’s clinic offers menopause management as part of its women’s health services. Treatment options are selected according to individual symptoms and medical circumstances.
Women experiencing persistent or disruptive symptoms can discuss their concerns with a qualified healthcare professional to understand available management options.
Preventive healthcare is another component of women’s health. Depending on factors such as age, medical history, and individual risk, healthcare professionals may recommend appropriate screening or vaccination.
Dr. Law’s clinic lists health and cancer screening among its services and highlights preventive healthcare as part of its approach to women’s health.
Screening recommendations can differ between individuals, so women should discuss the appropriate schedule and tests with their healthcare provider.
When researching Dr. Law Wei Seng or another gynaecologist in Singapore, consider factors such as professional qualifications, relevant clinical experience, available services, hospital affiliations, location, appointment availability, and communication.
Dr. Law’s official profile lists accreditation at seven private hospitals in Singapore, including Mount Elizabeth Novena, Mount Elizabeth Orchard, Gleneagles, Thomson Medical Centre, Mount Alvernia, Parkway East, and Farrer Park. It also states that consultations are available in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, and French.
These practical factors can be useful when determining whether a particular specialist fits your healthcare requirements.
Before an appointment, consider making a list of your symptoms, when they started, and how frequently they occur. You may also want to prepare information about medications, previous medical conditions, surgeries, menstrual history, pregnancies, and previous test results.
Writing down questions in advance can help you cover important concerns during your consultation. Depending on the reason for your visit, you might ask about recommended tests, treatment options, potential alternatives, follow-up requirements, and expected recovery times.
Women’s healthcare encompasses many areas, from routine screening and menstrual health to pregnancy, fertility, menopause, and gynaecological surgery. Dr. Law Wei Seng provides obstetric and gynaecological services in Singapore covering these areas, including pregnancy care, fertility services, menstrual management, menopause care, screening, and minimally invasive surgery.
If you are considering a consultation, review the specialist’s qualifications and services, prepare your relevant medical information, and discuss your individual concerns directly with a qualified healthcare professional. This approach can help you understand the available options and determine the appropriate next steps for your women’s health needs.
Women’s healthcare needs can change significantly throughout life. From routine gynaecological screenings and menstrual concerns to pregnancy, fertility, menopause, and treatment for reproductive health conditions, choosing an appropriate healthcare provider can help women access the care they need at different stages.
For women researching Dr. Law Wei Seng and women’s health services in Singapore, understanding the available areas of care can make it easier to prepare for a consultation and determine which services may be relevant to their individual needs.
Dr. Law Wei Seng is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Singapore. His clinic provides obstetric and gynaecological services from its practice at Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s published professional profile states that he holds an MBBS from Singapore and an MRCOG qualification from the United Kingdom. His clinical interests include gynaecological laparoscopy, fertility, pregnancy care, and the management of conditions such as fibroids, endometriosis, and ovarian cysts.
His clinic states that it has been providing obstetric and gynaecological care since 2011. The practice focuses on women’s health services ranging from preventive care and routine consultations to pregnancy management and minimally invasive gynaecological procedures.
Women’s health involves more than treating a specific medical condition. Preventive care, reproductive health, pregnancy planning, and regular screening can all form part of an individual’s healthcare needs.
The clinic lists several areas of women’s healthcare, including:
The appropriate service depends on an individual’s symptoms, medical history, age, reproductive goals, and clinical assessment.
Pregnancy is an important period when regular medical monitoring can help assess the health of both mother and baby.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s clinic provides antenatal care that includes regular pregnancy appointments, monitoring of blood pressure and urine, assessment of the baby’s heartbeat and growth, and ultrasound scans when appropriate. The clinic also describes screening for issues such as chromosomal abnormalities, gestational diabetes, and pre-eclampsia.
Pregnancy care can also involve discussions about nutrition, exercise, common pregnancy symptoms, delivery planning, and pain-management options. The clinic states that its maternity care involves a multidisciplinary team when additional specialist input is required.
Women who are planning a pregnancy can also use a preconception consultation to discuss existing medical conditions, medications, previous pregnancies, and other factors that may be relevant to pregnancy.
Fertility can be an important consideration for women and couples planning a family. A gynaecologist can assess reproductive health and determine whether further investigations or treatment may be appropriate.
Dr. Law’s clinic lists fertility assessment and treatment among its services. Its professional profile also notes advanced training in fertiloscopy and a clinical interest in fertility-related care.
Family planning and contraception can also form part of a women’s health consultation. The most appropriate contraceptive method varies according to individual health factors, preferences, reproductive plans, and medical suitability.
Changes in menstrual patterns can have many causes. Heavy bleeding, irregular periods, painful menstruation, or other changes may warrant an assessment, particularly when symptoms persist or interfere with everyday activities.
Dr. Law’s clinic provides care for menstrual concerns and lists conditions including fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and other gynaecological problems.
Diagnosis usually depends on the patient’s symptoms and medical history and may involve physical examination, ultrasound, laboratory testing, or other investigations when clinically appropriate.
Seeking professional assessment can help determine whether symptoms require monitoring, medication, lifestyle measures, or another form of treatment.
Surgical treatment may sometimes be considered for conditions such as fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, and certain other gynaecological conditions.
Dr. Law Wei Seng’s published profile identifies gynaecological laparoscopy as one of his clinical interests. His clinic describes laparoscopic surgery as a minimally invasive approach involving small incisions rather than conventional open surgery.
The suitability of laparoscopic surgery depends on the patient’s condition and other clinical factors. Patients considering surgery should discuss the potential benefits, risks, alternatives, recovery expectations, and likely outcomes with their specialist.
Menopause represents another stage of women’s healthcare that may require professional support. Symptoms can vary significantly between individuals and may include changes in menstrual cycles, hot flashes, sleep difficulties, vaginal symptoms, and other physical changes.
Dr. Law’s clinic offers menopause management as part of its women’s health services. Treatment options are selected according to individual symptoms and medical circumstances.
Women experiencing persistent or disruptive symptoms can discuss their concerns with a qualified healthcare professional to understand available management options.
Preventive healthcare is another component of women’s health. Depending on factors such as age, medical history, and individual risk, healthcare professionals may recommend appropriate screening or vaccination.
Dr. Law’s clinic lists health and cancer screening among its services and highlights preventive healthcare as part of its approach to women’s health.
Screening recommendations can differ between individuals, so women should discuss the appropriate schedule and tests with their healthcare provider.
When researching Dr. Law Wei Seng or another gynaecologist in Singapore, consider factors such as professional qualifications, relevant clinical experience, available services, hospital affiliations, location, appointment availability, and communication.
Dr. Law’s official profile lists accreditation at seven private hospitals in Singapore, including Mount Elizabeth Novena, Mount Elizabeth Orchard, Gleneagles, Thomson Medical Centre, Mount Alvernia, Parkway East, and Farrer Park. It also states that consultations are available in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, and French.
These practical factors can be useful when determining whether a particular specialist fits your healthcare requirements.
Before an appointment, consider making a list of your symptoms, when they started, and how frequently they occur. You may also want to prepare information about medications, previous medical conditions, surgeries, menstrual history, pregnancies, and previous test results.
Writing down questions in advance can help you cover important concerns during your consultation. Depending on the reason for your visit, you might ask about recommended tests, treatment options, potential alternatives, follow-up requirements, and expected recovery times.
Women’s healthcare encompasses many areas, from routine screening and menstrual health to pregnancy, fertility, menopause, and gynaecological surgery. Dr. Law Wei Seng provides obstetric and gynaecological services in Singapore covering these areas, including pregnancy care, fertility services, menstrual management, menopause care, screening, and minimally invasive surgery.
If you are considering a consultation, review the specialist’s qualifications and services, prepare your relevant medical information, and discuss your individual concerns directly with a qualified healthcare professional. This approach can help you understand the available options and determine the appropriate next steps for your women’s health needs.
