Cory Doctorow: Dow Ppromised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia. Dow Chemicals plastered Singapore with ads for its sneaker recycling program (more)

Bruce Schneier: Banning TikTok. Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. (more)

Frank Lantz: Well, Here We Are. I feel like I’ve been training my whole life for this moment. I grew up reading science fiction. First Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, then Stanislaw Lem, J.G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. When I was 14 I read Godel, Escher, Bach, and something clicked. I knew there was something here, something that explained the connection between possible worlds and impossible images. (more)

A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department says. The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic’s origin. (more)

Robin Sloan: Buoyed by the flood. (more)

Joe Biden finds breaking up Big Tech is hard to do. The Department of Justice offensive, a pair of lawsuits aimed at breaking up the search giant’s dominance, will play out in the courts — reflecting a new phase in the Biden administration’s years-long effort to rein in Big Tech, after a sweeping antitrust package stalled in Congress. (more)

Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson on the future of virtual reality. What’s your preferred current definition of the metaverse? (more)

The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s... On 14 May 1992, the KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their back catalogue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF (more)

When I hit various error messages that make no sense (see Feb07 (2020-10-12) Building user management in WikiFlux), I start to suspect the underlying mess is from still being on Python-2. So going to finally bite the bullet. (more)

Simon DeDeo is an associate professor in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. (more)

high-performance Web Server similar to LightTPD. (more)

home of Word Press and other tools (more)

a TV show I loved (esp season-1) (more)

protagonist of Twin Peaks (more)

"College Binary" posts 3-minute Video-s on YouTube, 1 per Philosopher. (Educational Technology)

Metric of Customer Satisfaction (Experience Quality, Customer Success), instrumented by plans-to-refer. (Hmm, does this predict whether you'll go Viral?) (Life Cycle). Aka NPS. (more)

William Hertling sequel to Kill Process ISBN:1942097069 (more)

William Hertling book ISBN:1942097034 (more)

Tantek Celik: 11 days ago I suggested a unified Sent box of everything sent/reacji’d to all Slacks (slack.com) logged-in with the same email. Beyond Slack though, everything you write & send anywhere: txt, chat, email, web. A Universal Outbox of all content you create, including responses. A flat time ordered list of output across mediums. And a source of material to blog. The phrase “Universal Outbox” seemed obvious to describe such a feature, parallel to the idea of a universal inbox that I remember first learning of as a concept from Apple’s AOCE project² in the early 1990s, but called a “single universal mailbox”. Figuring someone must have come up with the idea, I did a web search, and found a minimal wiki page from 2011: UniversalOutbox which did vaguely describe the idea: “a single hub where someone can find all your outbound LifeStreams?” (more)

Dave Winer says I need an outliner to manage my email drafts. In a perfect world I'd be able to plug one in... The ultimate goal is to do all my writing in my favorite writing app, and send pointers to the writing to the other apps, emailers, chat apps, CMSes, there would be only one original, and if I made a change to the original the updates would flow to all the places I sent pointers. (more)