Dmitry Orlov book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008 ISBN:0865716064 (Thin Book: 176 pages) - Survivalism bit? (more)

elang, etc

see Contribution Margin, Traction

for Presidential Election (more)

Sean Monohan on Vibe-Shift America. (Presidential Candidates 2024) The story of this election begins in 2020. During the initial stages of the pandemic, I pitched a client on a content series called “Every Day is a New Reality”—because what was happening, why it was happening, who was lying, and who was telling the truth was genuinely hard to discern. That sense that the media’s grasp on reality was slipping culminated with the total censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story. We now know who clicked the switch. It was the FBI. Mark Zuckerberg has publicly apologized for bowing to pressure from the intelligence services and later the Biden administration. That’s my personal story of media distrust. Oh boy (more)

Exclusive: Jason Levin, Head of Growth at Product Hunt, explains why he suddenly quit. Indie hacker X was set ablaze on Wednesday with the surprising news that Jason Levin, the Head of Growth at Product Hunt, was quitting (more)

a WebApp that you can run locally (Always On You) because it's just 1 file of JavaScript and HTML and even CSS smooshed together (more)

What CollaborationWare have I used? (more)

If I were nudging a 15-30yo semi-normie/newbie toward becoming a reality hacker, what would I slide over? (Subliminal Subversives, Systems Thinker) (more)

The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world (more)

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base (PKM?) that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. https://obsidian.md/ (Note-taking app) (more)

Tamara Winter shares a thread responding to new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. (more)

typically refers to RDBMS being ab-used(?) to not have a schema, in exchange for (more)

A tool/platform/market/ecosystem for people to teach and learn outside an institution (so not counting LMSs). (more)

Erlang virtual machine: BEAM is the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP).[1] BEAM is part of the Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS), which compiles Erlang source code into bytecode, which is then executed on the BEAM.[2][3] BEAM bytecode files have the .beam file extension.[4] Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be referred to as Björn's Erlang Abstract Machine, after Björn Gustavsson, who wrote and maintains the current version.[1][5][6] Both developers worked on the system while at Ericsson... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) (more)

a Private Equity company is typically a LBO or Hedge Fund. Typically acquires a largish/mature company, makes a significant change, then flips it. (Often that significant change is asset stripping.) (more)

OLPC talk by RedHat guy (ChrisBlizzard) at Google space (more)

aka One Laptop Per Child http://laptop.org/ (more)

developer of Sugar UI https://www.sugarlabs.org/ (more)

OLPC's $100 laptop was going to save the world. Where is it now? By the time OLPC officially launched in 2007, the “green machine” — once a breakout star of the 21st-century educational technology scene — was a symbol of tech industry hubris, a one-size-fits-all American solution to complex global problems. But more than a decade later, the project’s legacy is more complicated than a simple cautionary tale. Its laptops are still rolling off production lines, and a new model is expected later this year. (more)