So while each cozyweb can be a village — “small, most people know each other and you all share a common interest in keeping the sidewalks tidy” — each can build federated roads to many others, including bigger ones “crowded with people, plenty of them sleazy and more than the occasional sidewalk madman… But you’ll always discover something or someone new there. Every second person’s selling something, but one in 20 is selling what you need. Besides, you’re selling too…” (Welcome to the Fediverse, starry-eyed noob).

Light can be approximately collimated by a number of processes, for instance by means of a collimator. Perfectly collimated light is sometimes said to be focused at infinity

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. The simple fact is, I just don’t believe that we have to extend the present into the future. We have to change the present so that the future looks very, very different from what it is today.

What is futurism?

Citizens, not users

For now it's impossible to interact with others and move through this world without touching big tech. With this in mind, we are all going to end up using some of those platforms. So what we need are methods to extract the data off those platforms. There are blunt ways like scraping, and potentially captured ways like platform APIs. However, thanks to the explosion of privacy and interoperability-related legislation around the world, most sites have an option to check out all your data.

You can always check out, copy, or scrape your work from other platforms and take ownership.

If it has to query a backend to load it will one day die.

Thank you for buying this souvenir.

#public #recipe

I bet you don’t run into letters with introductions every day :)

. It spent $1.1bn on Tumblr in 2013, only for Verizon to sell it for just $3m in 2019.

The man who deposed Ben Gomes — someone who worked on Google Search from the very beginning — was so shit at his job that in 2009 Yahoo effectively threw in the towel on its own search technology, instead choosing to license Bing’s engine in a ten-year deal.

When Raghavan joined the company, Yahoo held a 30.4 percent market share — not far from Google’s 36.9%, and miles ahead of the 15.7% of MSN Search. By May 2012, Yahoo was down to just 13.4 percent and had shrunk for the previous nine consecutive months, and was being beaten even by the newly-released Bing. That same year, Yahoo had the largest layoffs in its corporate history, shedding nearly 2,000 employees — or 14% of its overall workforce.

Prabhakar Raghavan.

Gomes had been described as Google’s “search czar,” beloved for his ability to communicate across departments.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company to Excite for $1m, only to walk away after Vinod Khosla (an Excite investor and the co-founder of Sun Microsystems) lowballed the pair with a $750,000 offer.

McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.

traffic was increasing to sites that had previously been suppressed by Google Search’s “Penguin” update from 2012

deeply deeply uncomfortable with this

search was “the revenue engine of the company,” and that bartering with the ads and finance teams was potentially “the new reality of their jobs.”

2019

Search

From the S-1 Registration Statement

Founders' IPO Letter

Avalokiteshvara

gather all philosophical implications of this idea,

prevent the reinvention of these ideas,

Cross-posted a social post on Mastodon.

The means through which the client obtains the location of the token endpoint are beyond the scope of this specification, but the location is typically provided in the service documentation.

The authorization server MUST first verify the identity of the resource owner. The way in which the authorization server authenticates the resource owner (e.g., username and password login, session cookies) is beyond the scope of this specification.

The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage

Jinshan Monastery

he worked ona charter for a proposed Buddhist organization to be called the “Association forthe Advancement of Buddhism”

a poem he had written praising those who had died in the rebellionsurfaced, prompting the authorities to seek his arrest. They surrounded hismonastery, but he was in a newspaper office in the city at the time and evadedcapture. Some influential friends interceded on his behalf and the charges weredropped, but he was still ordered to leave Guangzhou (Goodell 2012, 57, 58;Jiang 1993, 96). He returned to Shanghai, where he continued his study ofanarchism and socialism.

This meant that in addition to traditional Buddhist topics, he studiedJapanese and English as well as other subjects deemed conducive to China’sforward development.

it was at this point that Taixu committed to anarchism, which at thetime seemed like an awakening, but which Taixu later understood as a “fall fromgrace” or a “return to the dusts of the world”

and as he read the books Huashanrecommended to him, he became more convinced that Buddhism needed toengage the world to help create a better society

oddly, deprived him of his ability to memorize texts, as if he had traded in rotememorization for deep understanding

became aware of the flower store sea of worlds, which I seemedto be personally experiencing. Everything was alive with numinous emptiness.

Ven. Jichan (寄禪, 1852–1912), also known as “theascetic Eight Fingers” (Bazhi Toutuo 八指頭陀) because he had burned off twoof his fingers as an act of devotion.

worked to gain supernatural powers such as invisibility by using practicesprescribed by some books he found in them.

His journey to ordination did not go to plan. He intended to make for Shanghai,but because of various distractions and errors he mistakenly boarded a boatbound for Suzhou

In 1904, he made his move (Goodell 2012, 23–5).

I will provide a brief description of the ways in whichTaixu’s concept of the Pure Land in the Human Realm fared after his death. Thereader will see that it became a very elastic term capable of designating a varietyof ideas and agendas, and that few of the modern proponents of this concepthew strictly to Taixu’s vision

I will analyze the sources of the utopian vision thatpervades the Essay, focusing on the distinction between utopias and paradises

Taixu’s life up to 1926

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His ideas for creating the “Pure Land inthe Human Realm” extend to several kinds of activity: from seeking rebirth ina Buddhist paradise such as Uttarakuru to purifying the present world throughreform activities; from improving peoples’ lives by fostering technologicalinnovation to establishing a utopian mountaintop Buddhist community inwhich esoteric rituals for the welfare of the nation would have an importantplace

Hongyi may be the man associated with vinaya study, but all four of these men,and many others besides, engaged in efforts to reform a monastic establishmentwidely seen as backward, corrupt, parasitic, and irrelevant

He is widely regarded as one of the“four eminent monks” of the late Qing and early Republican periods, and, likehis three companions on this list, he stands for a particular aspect of Buddhistlife. Taixu is lionized as the preeminent exponent of modernization and reform.Hongyi (弘一, 1880–1942) epitomizes vinaya study and monastic reform.Xuyun (虛雲, 1840–1959) stands for meditation and the Chan School. Finally,Yinguang (印光, 1861–1940) appears as the driving force behind the Pure Landrevival.

Humanistic Buddhism

Taixu coined the term to criticize hisfellow Buddhists for giving up on the present world and waiting passively forrebirth in the western Pure Land of the Buddha Amitābha. He argued that theyshould instead take up the cause of social and political reform and engage inwelfare and relief work to make this world a pure land. In fact, the image of Taixuas a reformer and modernizer was so dominant in the scholarly imaginationthat both specialists and nonspecialists interpreted all of Taixu’s ideas, includingthose found in the Essay, exclusively in its light.

I found that the idea of creatinga “Pure Land in the Human Realm” (renjian jingtu 人間淨土) had currencyamong Buddhist modernizers of the Republican period (1911–49), and thisparticular text seemed to be its fons et origo

“On the Establishment of thePure Land in the Human Realm

Taixu’s

TOWARD A MODERN CHINESE BUDDHISM

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no new Marx articulated a systematic vision of a post-capitalist or radically democratic society,

With over a quarter of all sentient life

Thiel calls a ‘doubly mimetic’ loop, where a person that broadcasts what Stiegler would call digital tertiary retentions – likes, posts, photos, video

Thiel turns to Girard, as ‘the new science of humanity must drive the idea of imitation, mimesis, much further than it has in the past’, where ‘it is not overly reductionist to describe human brains as gigantic imitation machines’

katechon

Peter Thiel, saw in Facebook a capitalist enterprise whose engine of representation and then imitation – mimesis – was theorised by his own philosophical master René Girard as the hidden truth of civilisation.

While SixDegrees and other simultaneous efforts like Friendster failed to achieve the exponential growth beloved by Silicon Valley venture capital, Facebook immediately began going viral.

Hypergraph categories have been rediscovered at least five times

Hypergraph Categories

dult ADHD may bea distinct syndrome, with 90 percent of adults with DSM-V ADHD notmanifesting symptoms as children

symptoms of inattention include difficulty sus-taining attention, failing to pay close attention to details, not listening whenspoken to, not following through on instructions, being easily distractedand being forgetful in daily activities. Symptoms of hyperactivity/impulsiv-ity include fidgeting, running about or climbing inappropriately (or simplyfeeling restless), difficulty playing quietly, talking excessively and interrupt-ing others.

SixDegrees

the concept of the network is merely a renewal of a certain positivist philosophy of Saint-Simon from the dawn of the industrial era, when the followers of Saint-Simon imagined that a vast network would unite all of humanity, abolishing archaic national and religious boundaries via the proliferation of new industrial interconnections in the forms of canals and railways.

what Pierre Musso calls network ideology comprises the unarticulated theoretical underpinnings of Silicon Valley

the status updates were not united into a stream by virtue of their creation by the same individual, but they were rather created as a collective timeline formed for the all-too-practical shared task of supporting protests: collective techno-individuation by design.

but the creation of the Indymedia open-publishing web platform, which allowed any person to upload text and photos to the website without permission. This hybrid concept of ‘tactical media’ allows information to be instantly displayed to the whole world and soon led to a network of interlinked proto-blog websites synthesised as the indymedia.org website.

For decades, the Zapatistas, usually via Subcomandante Marcos, sent out communique after communique to the world, poetically asking for solidarity. Surprisingly, the world responded, forming the alterglobalisation movement that called itself a ‘network of networks’ – a phrase also used at the time to describe the internet.

At the present moment, Facebook has already absorbed nearly a third of sentient life as friends. In 2010 when Facebook was still a new phenomenon, Stiegler presciently asked: But what does this term mean here, ‘friends’? To what type of relationship does it refer, and how do digital relational technologies implemented by social networks affect the relation known as ‘friendship’?

Bernard Stiegler

Because in a sense our universe already contains all possible rules, so there can only be one of it. (There could still be other universes that do various levels of hypercomputation.)

Flancian using An Agora, an app he developed himself.

Our fears associated with answering our questions stifle our desires to seek out answers. As children, we don’t have the same fears we do today. We’re not worried by what society will think. We’re not worried of being wrong - in fact we almost always are in the beginning. We’re not willing to settle. We just want to reach out and touch the flame.

They portray him in various perspectives: as a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, and the universal supreme being.

browser extension where node name is url of page and each annotation is a blockquote with comment for that node

Love chastity.

Do not wish to be called holy before one is holy; but first to be holy, that you may be truly so called.

Obey in all things the commands of those whom God has placed in authority over you even though they (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, "Do what they say, but not what they do."

Fulfill not the desires of the flesh; hate your own will.

Daily in your prayers, with tears and sighs, confess your past sins to God, and amend them for the future.

Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter.

Know for certain that God sees you everywhere.

Keep death daily before your eyes.

Desire eternal life with all the passion of the spirit.

Be in dread of hell.

Fear the Day of Judgment.

Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.

Put your hope in God.

Do not swear, for fear of perjuring yourself.

Prefer nothing more than the love of Christ.

Love fasting.

Chastise the body.

Deny oneself in order to follow Christ.

Do not steal.

Then, love your neighbor as yourself.

First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength.

The classic syntax had :. For example, [[anagora:wednesday]] would link anagora.org/node/wednesday. Doku Wiki chose a different character: >. Mycorrhiza will follow the suite, and wants Agora to choose it as well. [[anagora>wednesday]].

This essay is written for Flancian.

A very similar idea is twin pages AKA sister pages. See Bill Seitz twin pages. See how Odd Muse did it. But can you have multiple twin sites? I think of a queue of twin sites. One site is the closest, the other one is a little farther, and one is very far away. Each of them is checked for the node one-by-one, until it is found. Of course, this is network-heavy.

What if you drop the prefix? [[wednesday]] would link a local node, if there is one, or one in a different Agora, if there is one. This approach is liberating, because it doesn't make you think about places, you only care about the names.

The fungus provides water and minerals, shape and form, while the algae makes food through photosynthesis.

In my paper writing, I put wikilinks around things that I want to follow up on. They stand out visually when you scan back over something afterwards.

These people were prepending “via” to the URLs of websites designed to capture sensitive personal details in such a way as to evade the protections built in to web browsers and other services.

If you would like us to consider adding a domain that is not currently included, please let us know.

Art nouveau

Automation of human labour

Creative re-use of existing infrastructure

voluntary federations of small polities

Software tools and courses can aid intellectual advancement and productivity at certain margins, for some people, but we should be more explicit about what exactly they can help, how they can help, and whom they can help.

The singular written work is a brute force attack, not a bureaucratic spider web. It is preciously rare—always has been and always will be. The ability to create singular written works is mostly impervious to education and technical supplementation; it is overwhelmingly what we used to call gifted or God-given and today call either genetic or inspired.

Obsession with retaining every little idea you've ever had is a kind of digital hoarding. Just as physical hoarders are often physically obese, digital hoarders are often digitally obese.

inversely correlated with the kind of spirit that tends to produce significant creative and intellectual work.

but fancy and trademarked systems often do more harm than good.

A perpetually expanding web of hyperlinked notes is not impressive but oppressive. It’s not useful, and it’s not illuminating.

aucun savoir de réserve

In the words of Deleuze,

The most important thing about writing is discovering novel and non-trivial truths, and determining which of your truths is most important—then imposing order, hierarchy, and linearity—through judgment, decisiveness, and will. To produce meaningful work, and then forget about it, so you can move on to another and hopefully greater act of linear will.

This is possibly a non-trivial contribution to human welfare.

Apps and courses that help you make these pretty pictures are not helping you to advance your knowledge or to write increasingly insightful works.

hey can be aesthetic, perhaps. In which case, that corroborates my theory. You’re not accumulating knowledge and insight—you’re drawing pretty pictures.

The reason Knowledge Graphs and other PKM memes are so trendy is that, by publicizing one’s overwrought Knowledge Management System, people think they are showing off their big brains.

What percentage of history's greatest and most prolific writers did not use a Zettelkasten? More than 99%, probably. Luhmann is an exception that proves the rule.

then it's their brute linear willfulness despite the handicapping of knowledge graph overwhelm.

The point of writing—and what the greatest authors have always done—is to cut through the knowledge graph with a bold and forceful line.

And then courses can be offered to alleviate the pain of overly complicated knowledge graphs!

There’s no good in replicating that web in digital form.

That sounds amazing, doesn't it? Too bad it's totally implausible.

You see, knowledge is a web. Knowledge isn’t hierarchical and linear. Knowledge is hyperlinked, “that’s like, it’s ontology, man.”

hard work is magically done for you!

The sex appeal of the Knowledge Graph derives from the fantasy of not having to decide what’s most important.

so the reality projected by PKM influencers is substantially distorted.

most of the variance between individuals is genetic and relatively invulnerable to intervention

pay him

Next, these naturally organized people realize they’re sitting on a valuable commodity, which they can sell to less industrious and orderly people.

industriousness and orderliness will build sophisticated media diets, note-taking systems, and automated archiving pipelines much more effectively than those less blessed with these traits.

intractable.

My Nitter and Miniflux combo on YunoHost still going well for [[reading tweets without being on Twitter]]. I use it to keep up with what's going on with organisations local to me, who are still on legacy social media platforms. Could still do with something that works well for RSSifying Facebook.

My Nitter and Miniflux combo on YunoHost still going well for [[reading tweets without being on Twitter]]. I use it to keep up with what's going on with organisations local to me, who are still on legacy social media platforms. Could still do with something that works well for RSSifying Facebook.

Also, they're trying out [[cohousing]], which of course immediately pricks up my ears.

zmanim,

a deeper level

But these women were clearly getting something very, very important from going much deeper with much less.

A good explanation of how the protocol works.

Signed up for a spring reading challenge, to read 10 books in 10 weeks. Will use this opportunity to go deep on [[Ernest Hemingway]]. I've only read two of his books before, [[The Snows of Kilimanjaro]] and [[The Old Man and the Sea]]. The ten weeks starts on Monday, so better get ready.

A program with infinite preferences is therefore infinitely bad.

something really radical can be collaged together out of traditional texts

My messaging app golden age is that of Allo. Remember Allo? It was one of Google’s messaging product attempts, and it had the killer feature that all mobile messaging apps should have:

YunoHost]] keeps going from strength to strength in its awesomeness.

Supposedly [[Matrix]] is getting proper native video calling soon. I'm both excited for that and dreading whatever kind of firewall changes will be necessary -- our home network is Extremely Complicated, I am told.

Today (and last night until 1 in the morning) I'm retheming my wiki! Is [[CSS]] a hobby?

(all the garments you own were sewed by skilled workers from whom you are entirely alienated; think about why you can treat clothing casually)

it's not just that you should fold them because it's more practical than having a heap, it's that they merit being treated with dignity.

[[konmari]]

Gabriel Boric]]. This feels like good news today. h/t [[Flancian]]

Why can't I add margin notes to my tweets?

Mentally I attach Agora nodes (concepts, things, topics) to each number, prime or composite. A composite number by default 'means' (recalls) the composition of its factors.

no longer active in CommunityWiki or Facebook or anything else online

I sometimes wonder if we are not all characters, or (using a metaphor which is very apropos at the time of writing) processes. Perhaps characters, people and processes are aspects of the same thing. Or possible instantiations of one another. Perhaps a character in a movie is in a way sad when they cry, and feels horrible just when they're about to die when the plot requires it. They are a kind of process, like we are -- just not one very well described, because of limitations of the medium. Their qualias exist, but they are perhaps weaker than ours. Did you get that? If not, it's alright. We'll be on the same page someday. Now please read this short story:

If you're curious and want to pay someone instead of spending your own time to admin it, check out Beeper which handles not only running the underlying Matrix instance, but also a bunch of bridges that let you talk to closed-source corporate messengers, e.g. WhatsApp, iMessage, etc. etc.

How the hell do you sanitize HTML input? Oh my god the things I have never had to deal with in my job) Slap a whostyle on it and call it good, maybe?

All of this would require mf2 markup all over everything specifying canonical links etc. etc. etc.

(Should it point to my own subnode, or should a self link be presumed to route to the topic node? I can see arguments either way)

Maybe roll with a custom property to denote "this linked node is the 'node id' of this piece of content"

The "hey I have a link on my page to you" protocol. Doesn't have to just be used for likes or replies -- can also indicate an intent for syndication or permission to aggregate. (Also a bunch of stuff that probably seemed more compelling when San Francisco people were really into Foursquare, I guess)

having the published thing be the canonical thing rather than sharing the pre-rendered format,

This is the only dead necessary thing for a really Indiewebby beginning. An option for that hosting could be provided by the Agora for convenience, but the key is that all the integration has to presume it might be, you know, some [[Wordpress]] thing somewhere.

This isn't to say I think it should be done this way, particularly because the amazing thing that's been built exists and works, but I think it's fun to imagine how the Indieweb principles and primitives could build up a similar thing to the good stuff we've got going here.

How can you make [[people]] think a [[majority]] [[believe]] in Something? How can you make it seem like your revolution is inevitable?

Pier Luigi Luisi

Fritjof Capra

An unreasonable amount of my time today went on getting a monitor to display at the right resolution. [[xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed problems]].

Anybody else feel like johnny decimal would require way too much... idk, commitment? I guess now I have the bash skills to rearrange things if necessary.

What is the [[Huffman encoding]] of your life

Why have these been open for weeks? What does it say that I couldn't get rid of them?

I'm (re)building my entire [[digital gardening]] and [[personal knowledge management]] workflow. This means that I'll be inactive for a while here on [[Anagora]]. See you all (hopefully) soon!

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Lock-in does remain at a protocol level, but that seems less bad. [[Protocol cooperativism]]?

Great [[Flancia Meet]] today. I was tired after little sleep so almost didn't go, but really glad I did.

My shoulder pain is getting really bad. Might be time to ditch my old keyboard and get one of these fancy ergo split keyboards. ErgoDox EZ is crazy expensive but looks repairable/durable and if it lasts nearly 20 years like my current one, I can justify it…

(is there a word that's less disgustingly enlightenment-mentality than "Renaissance <man/woman/person>" and less pretentious sounding than "polymath"?)

garden reader]].

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but if over a particular period I was listening to things that I really could be getting there, I'd like to be reminded of that.

“tyranny of structurelessness.”

What markup do I use to link to a “global” node? A particular user’s node?

This is clearly a collaborative doc that should probably be an EtherPad linked to the Agora FAQ page

Anything whose source is Markdown pages in Git can be imported.

Footnotes are not (currently) supported. See my [[Goggles]] node in the agora for footnote examples.

hetzner

Cooperatives and commoning seem a good model for socialising the layers of the stack. I think [[Libre software]], [[libre hardware]], [[right to repair]], [[peer-to-peer networks]], [[Community broadband]] are all good projects to spend time on.