Gordon Brander: Open-ended tools for infinite games. Open-ended (generative) ecosystems are where innovation comes from... Open-ended systems generate upward-spirals of evolutionary complexity. (more)

Martine Aliana Rothblatt (born October 10, 1954)[3] is an American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate.[4] Rothblatt graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1981, then began to work in Washington, D.C., first in the field of communications satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project.[5] She is also influential in the field of aviation, particularly electric aviation, as well as with sustainable building. She is the founder and chairwoman of the board of United Therapeutics.[6] She was also the CEO of GeoStar and the creator of SiriusXM Satellite Radio.[7] She was the top earning CEO in the biopharmaceutical industry in 2018.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt (more)

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. If you really care about something and you expect to care about it for the rest of your life, it makes sense to strategize somewhat. (real world game) (more)

Framing the Real World as Games To Play. (more)

A read–eval–print loop (REPL), also termed an interactive toplevel or language shell, is a simple, interactive computer programming environment that takes single user inputs (i.e., single expressions), evaluates (executes) them, and returns the result to the user; a program written in a REPL environment is executed piecewise. The term is usually used to refer to programming interfaces similar to the classic Lisp machine interactive environment. Common examples include command line shells and similar environments for programming languages, and the technique is very characteristic of scripting languages.[1]... The most common use for REPLs outside of operating system shells is for instantaneous prototyping. Other uses include mathematical calculation, creating documents that integrate scientific analysis (e.g. IPython), interactive software maintenance, benchmarking, and algorithm exploration. A REPL can become an essential part of learning a new language as it gives quick feedback to the novice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop (more)

a brief/minimum chunk of time to think about something, or take a next action (more)

If I'm continuing to lean into Twitter as the broadcast channel of Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, then it's probably a good idea to improve the Preview of my pages: Twitter Cards. (more)

Eugene Wei: Compress to impress. Even with modern communication infrastructure, however, any modern CEO deals with amplification and distortion issues with any message.... I hadn't read Jeff Bezos' most recent letter to shareholders until today, but it was just what I'd expect of it given something I observed in my seven years there, which are now more than a decade in the rear view mirror. In fact, one of reasons I hadn't read it yet was that I suspected it would be very familiar, and it was. The other thing I suspected was that it would be really concise and memorable, and again, it was. (more)

Ren'Py is an engine that supports the creation of visual novels, a form of computer-mediated Story Telling. It supports a movie script-like syntax that makes creating simple Computer Games easy, while still being customizable and extensible by advanced creators. With no additional work by the game-maker, it supports features expected of all visual novels, like loading, saving, preferences, and rollback. http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Home_Page (more)

Andrew Gelman: How to think about intellectual diversity in academia? The case of astrology and Dr. Oz. So, Columbia University has a lot of problems right now. For one thing, it seems we’re falsifying or misrepresenting some of the statistics for our college ranking. Also, our most famous professor offers tips on “What Your Astrological Sign Can Tell You About Your Health.” (more)

Collection of cards, DeckOfCards (more)

Hypertext crank http://www.lord-enki.net/ (more)

A visual novel (Japanese: ビジュアルノベル, Hepburn: bijuaru noberu), often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves.[1][2] They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity. The format is more rarely referred to as novel game, a retranscription of the wasei-eigo term noberu gēmu (ノベルゲーム), which is more often used in Japanese.[3] Visual novels originated in and are especially prevalent in Japan, where they made up nearly 70% of the PC game titles released in 2006.[4] In Japanese, a distinction is often made between visual novels (NVL, from "novel"), which consist primarily of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (AVG or ADV, from "adventure"), which incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, as both visual novels and adventure games are commonly referred to as "visual novels" by international fans.... Fan-created novel games are reasonably popular; there are a number of free game engines and construction kits aimed at making them easy to construct, most notably NScripter, KiriKiri and Ren'Py. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel (more)

Transparent Society, but directed toward those with more power (BigWorld). (more)

Book by David Brin about what he sees as a false conflict between Security and Privacy. (more)

Going beyond InterWiki linking across WikiSpaces. (more)

Tim Bray walks down memory lane. I look at the recent drafts coming out of the XPath and XQuery group, and for damn sure these things are going to give the programmers of the world the tools they need to pick apart XML instances and retrieve from XML databases (in fact, the programmers are getting way more than they need, but that's another debate). But I suspect the number of people who are going to be able to use XPath/XQuery directly is even smaller than the number who can do SQL, which is already a pretty small number. So we're obviously going to need some sort of user interface (GUI) for ordinary people to use. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Pat Motif had some useful ideas to contribute to that design process.

I’m C. Thi Nguyen. I used to be a food writer, now I’m a philosophy professor at University of Utah. I write about trust, art, games, and communities. I’m interested in the ways that our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value. My first book is Games: Agency as Art. It was awarded the American Philosophical Associations 2021 Book Prize. It’s about how games are the art form that work in the medium of agency. A game designer doesn’t just create a world – they create who we are in that world. Games shape temporary agencies for artistic purposes. https://objectionable.net/

see Market Segment, Positioning Statement, Framing, Branding, Business Strategy, Focus, (more)

Gordon Brander: Wiki as a Commons. Wikis are like the Minecraft of tools for thought — very simple, very open-ended. (generative) (more)