Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Newsletter writer (more)

flip side of Audio - Voice Input as UI (more)

Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson from Mar'2002 includes bit about Islam and Globalization. And I'd have to say that the old Marxist historian, Maxime Rodinson, who wrote the book Islamic Capitalism, still remains correct in saying that Islam has never really developed as a whole, as a whole cultural world, much less as a theological structure, and it's never really developed a coherent critique of capital. You can see this in the kind of communiques that AlQaeda and these other groups put out. No, absolutely no concept about capital. It's not part of their consciousness even to think about it. They are in fact fascistic, and that's the end of it. Their economics never goes beyond crude Fascism. I'm talking about the Islamists now, but in the 60's and 70's and even in the 80's there were plenty of thinkers and activists in Islam who had a much more interesting and broader concept and really were trying to develop some kind of critique of capital. But where are they now? I guess that's all you can say, is that they're dead. All those people in Algeria, all those journalists and writers and intellectuals who got shot, it's like that... If we look at Chechnya for example - people are laboring under a very dangerous misapprehension about Chechnya when they assume that the resistance there is Islamist or fundamentalist. But historically, it's Sufism, it's the Naqshbandi order. The Naqshbandis are also quite political in Turkey and they try to take a position between the secular army types and the Islamists. They try to offer a politics of Islam that is tolerant and open to a certain extent.

Way Of Life espoused by Daniel Quinn. (more)

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Digital Philosophy (DP) is a new way of thinking about the fundamental workings of processes in nature. DP is an atomic theory carried to a logical extreme where all quantities in nature are finite and discrete. This means that, theoretically, any quantity can be represented exactly by an integer. Further, DP implies that nature harbors no infinities, infinitesimals, continuities, or locally determined random variables. (more)

Paul Ford thinks every medium is best at answering a particular question, and the Web's question is Why wasn't I consulted? (WWIC) Create a service experience around what you publish and sell. Whatever “Customer Service” means when it comes to books and authors, figure it out and do it. Do it in partnership with your readers. Turn your readers into members. Not visitors, not subscribers; you want members. And then don't just consult them, but give them tools to consult amongst themselves. (Virtual Community)

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Adults Are Terrible At Making Friends. This Startup Wants To Help (more)

Samsung’s Bixby Intelligent Software Assistant said to be based on S Voice, not Viv Labs’ technology (more)

Goodbye Twitter, hello Amazon: NFL's Thursday night games have a new home (more)

Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon. (more)

Mike Caulfield: Creating a Wikipedia for Fact-Checking (more)

Jack Dorsey's SquareUp wants to acquihire Yik Yak (more)

InstaPaper CEO, now at PInterest (more)

Teresa Torres: The Ladder of Evidence: Get More Value From Your Customer Interviews and Product Experiments - Product Talk (more)

Feb22: Most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new Copy Right enforcement system that could slow the Internet to a crawl and force violators to take educational courses. A source with direct knowledge of the Copyright Alert System (CAS), who asked not to be named, has told the Daily Dot that the five participating Internet service providers (ISP-s) will start the controversial program Monday. (more)

P2P File Sharing app/protocol by Bram Cohen (more)

Nicholas Loffredo: Intelligence Report: Vladmir Putin ordered a multifaceted hacking campaign to help Donald Trump. Russian government officials mounted an unprecedented public information campaign involving state-funded media, third parties and paid social media users to help discredit Hillary Clinton and promote Donald Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Friday. The report, which represents the assessments of the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA), follows Congressional testimony this week from senior intelligence officials on Russian efforts to influence the election. (more)