The context is lost, and meaning is dependent on context.For instance, if you find a copy of a video with a politician intoningsome bizarre senseless snippet, you don’t know what the context was.Maybe the full version of the video would tell a different story. One ofthe reasons not to make copies is to avoid problems like that.
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The lexicon of the New Age, or self-actualization, movement reserved a special place for the wordAbundance. Abundance could mean two things. At the rational, technocratic, Confucian end of the spectrum,it might mean that people ought to take responsibility for their failures and successes, but they ought tobelieve that great success is possible. This sensibility sprouted the motivational speaker industry. Its tracesare preserved in reality television and popular song.
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Perhaps we should expect to see more elections that are eitherextremely close or extremely lopsided from here on out. If opposingSiren Servers are well run, they might achieve parity, while if one isbetter than the other, its advantage ought to be dramatic. It’s too earlyto say, since big data and politics haven’t mixed long enough togenerate much data as yet. It’s like climate change was for a long time—not enough data yet to really say—though it does look like we’reseeing this pattern.
are we seeing patterns? who/what are the big influencers?
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There would only be the particles that make up things, in exactly the same positions they wouldotherwise occupy, but not the things. In other words, consciousness provides ontology for particles. If therewere no consciousness, the universe would be adequately described as being nothing but particles. Or, ifyou prefer a computational framework, only the bits would be left, but not the data structures. It would allmean nothing, because it wouldn’t be experienced
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In our digital revolution, we might depose an old sort ofdysfunctional center of power only to erect a new one that is equallydysfunctional. The reason is that online opposition to traditional powertends to promote new Siren Servers that in the long run are unlikely tobe any better.
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Belief in the specialness of people is a minority position in the tech world, and I would like that to change.The way we experience life—call it “consciousness”—doesn’t fit in a materialistic or informational worldview.Lately I prefer to call it “experience,” since the opposing philosophical team has colonized the termconsciousness. That term might be used these days to refer to the self-models that can be implementedinside a robot.
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While we have yet to see how Google’s book scanning will play out, amachine-centric vision of the project might encourage software that treats books as grist for the mill,decontextualized snippets in one big database, rather than separate expressions from individual writers. Inthis approach, the contents of books would be atomized into bits of information to be aggregated, and theauthors themselves, the feeling of their voices, their differing perspectives, would be lost. Needless to say,this approach would hide its tracks so that it would be hard to send a nanopayment to an author who hadbeen aggregated.
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The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find theirway to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have.
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Individual Siren Servers can die and yet the Siren Server patternperseveres, and it is that pattern that is the real problem. Thesystematic decoupling of risk from reward in the rising informationeconomy is the problem, not any particular server.
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It’s not always necessary that the data be made absolutelyunavailable; sometimes data can just be decontextualized enough tobecome less valuable. Facebook provides a fine example. If a greatdeal of personal creativity and life experience has been added to thesite, it’s hard to give all that up. Even if you capture every little thingyou had uploaded, you can’t save it in the context of interactions withother people. You have to lose a part of yourself to leave Facebookonce you become an avid user. If you leave, it will become difficult forsome people to contact you at all.
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Some various recent uses:
- I've got writing projects sitting in two different machines.
- I use one on my primary desk for typing up notes on index cards, recipes, my commonplace "book", letters, and other personal correspondence.
- I use a few of my portables on the porch in the mornings/evenings for journaling.
- One machine in the hallway is for impromptu ideas and poetry and an occasional bit of typewriter art.
- One machine near the kitchen is always gamed up for adding to the ever-growing shopping list.
- I'll often get one out for scoring baseball games.
- Participating in One Typed Page and One Typed Quote
- Typing up notes in zoom calls - I've got a camera mount over a Royal KMG that has its own Zoom account so people can watch the notes typed in real time.
- Labels for folders, index card dividers, and sticky labels.
- Addressing envelopes.
- Writing out checks.
- Typecasting
- Hiding a flask or two of bourbon (the Fold-A-Matic Remingtons are great for this)
- Supplementing the nose of my bourbon and whisky collection.
At the end of the day though, unless you're Paul Sheldon, typewriters are unitaskers and are designed to do one thing well: put text on paper. All the rest are just variations on the theme. 😁🤪☠️
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It probably doesn't hurt that Olympia was manufacturing some of the best machines at the height of typewriter manufacturing including the use of great materials (strength, durability), design, and general craftsmanship in the 20th century.
Many of these also tended to be late models which were sold in cases, so they tend to be younger, cleaner, and in much nicer condition that the majority of other typewriters out there, and condition really matters a lot when attempting to compare models. As an extreme, but illustrative comparison, a 1930s Royal portable that was pounded out and left in a barn isn't going to hold a candle to an SM3 that was lightly used and lovingly kept in a closet.
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What is the purpose of a serial number? What does it do for you? There are serial numbers on things all around you; do you know where all of those are? The VIN number on your vehicle maybe?
People now are only using them to approximate manufacturing dates for fun, but they were generally only used by the factory or repair people to identify specific machines and/or tie issues after manufacture back to production line problems. Do they need to be easily accessed or visible for these purposes? The people who really need them generally know exactly where they are and how to find them.
Sometimes they're used to create inventories for owners or in cases of theft, but these generally aren't common uses that need high visibility. Because they can be removed or defaced, should they be put in easily findable and accessible places?
Generally they're stamped in at the factory during production on integral parts of the machine during assembly. As a result, they can often be hidden or covered up by parts (especially exterior panels and body styling) added later. If it's on an exterior, easy-to-remove part, what good is it?
If it helps, here's a diagram of some common locations:
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Are you sure you're not a bot adding to the noise?!? Newport is a computer scientist who probably makes more from book sales than his day job, so wouldn't you expect he's controlling an AI bot or two that stirs the pot in Reddit and other online locations to garner interest in selling more books?
And do you think these topics are really new and intriguing? Has Newport noticed something genuinely new about the human condition? Has he got some innovative new tonic, elixir, patent medicine, or magic bean that is going to solve all your problems?
You'll probably get more out of reading the classics... the greats... the poets... For example try Geoffrey Chaucer in House of Flame (c. 1375)
For when thy labour doon al ys, And hast mad alle thy rekenynges, In stede of reste and newe thynges Thou goost hom to thy hous anoon, And also domb as any stoon, Thou sittest at another book Tyl fully daswed ys thy look.
Or translated into modern English:
For when your labour’s all done And you’ve made all the accounts Instead of rest and other things You go straight home And as dumb as any stone Sit at another book Till your eyes are fully dazed
Chaucer complains in the 14th century of "looking at screens all day" as if he were an office worker in 2025. "Making all the accounts" here is akin to staring at an accounting spreadsheet all day.
But who can productively make money on Chaucer's poetry any more, so you write your own version and reinterpret the greats to make a buck. If only Chaucer had a bot...
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Filing off typewriter slugs? <br /> Using only lower case letters
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The laws of physics and physical chemistry areinaccurate within a probable relative error of the order of I Ivn,where n is the number of molecules that co-operate to bringabout that law - to produce its validity within such regions ofspace or time (or both) that matter, for some considerations orfor some particular experiment.
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And why could all this not be fulfilled in the case of anorganism composed of a moderate number of atoms only andsensitive already to the impact of one or a few atoms only?
Is he getting at the idea of consciousness? An organism must have a "large enough" machinery to be considered conscious at some level? How many physical moving parts and what links between them?
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Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether myway of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short,it was mine. The 'naive physicist' was myself. And I could notfind any better or clearer way towards the goal than my owncrooked one.
an attempt is better than nothing at all
"If at first you don't suck seed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Curly of the Three Stooges while eating a peach
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compare this with crystalized information as expounded in: Hidalgo, César A. Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies. Basic Books, 2015, https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/cesar-hidalgo/why-information-grows/9780465048991/.
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The large and important and very much discussed question is:How can the events in space and time which take place withinthe spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for byphysics and chemistry?
the question on which he'll be focusing the book
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The reason for this wasnot that the subject was simple enough to be explainedwithout mathematics, but rather that it was much tooinvolved to be fully accessible to mathematics.
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Joe Van Cleave had a pencil box with index cards and a pen with which he used to keep a "Random Access Journaling System, using index cards and topical filing by subject" (dated March 2004). He was using 4 x 6" index cards.
He had a 3 x 5" hipster PDA based on Merlin Mann's idea that had thin metal covers with index cards and a book ring to hold it all together. He used colored cards to create section dividers in his hipster PDA.
He mentions the overlap of the hipster PDA with David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) movement.
JVC started using a hipster PDA in February 2007
He archived them in chronological order.
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Based on your original post, I thought you might have been further along with resources, but this makes me wonder a bit, so I'll add some materials for you. Start here: https://boffosocko.com/2024/10/24/learning-typewriter-maintenance-and-repair
Repair manuals:
- https://typewriterdatabase.com/manuals.php
- Munk's Printed manuals: http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreResults?search=Theodore+Munk&ddl=authors
- Munk's .pdf manuals: https://sellfy.com/twdb
- Service Manuals: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html#servicemanuals
Other resources: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/
Be sure to register for an account on the typewriterdatabase.com as that will give you access to more material and research than a non-logged in user.
There are a few "young" folx out there who have recently done what you're considering, and knowing a few of them may help. Reach out if you feel comfortable doing so:
- Matt Snyder of New England Typewriter (see: https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1cxjxt5/new_typewriter_shop_coming_fall_2024/)
- Lucas Dul of Typewriter Chicago
- Paul Lundy
- Antony Valoppi
- Trevor Brumfield
- Aaron Therol of Typewriter Connection
- Bob Marshall of Typewriter Muse
- See also: https://writingball.blogspot.com/2024/05/want-to-run-typewriter-shop.html
Consider a trip to QWERTY Fest which is coming up soon.
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(Notwithstanding accusations of stoking violence, prominent Democrats have consistently condemned Kirk’s assassination. That’s a vivid contrast to the mockery from many on the right—including Donald Trump Jr.—after a man attacked the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the muted reactions, disinformation, and silence that followed the assassination of the Democratic Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband, this summer.)
Hypocrisy of the American radical right with respect to violence.
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But if Cox and Trump represent two rival impulses within the Republican coalition, Trump is undoubtedly winning. “Democrats own what happened today,” Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said on Wednesday. “Y’all caused this,” Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida told Democrats on the House floor. “It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organization,” the influential Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The Left is a national security threat.”Other influential figures on the right have been equally or more strident. “The Left is the party of murder,” Elon Musk declared on X before a suspect had even been identified. Andrew Tate, the misogynist who has been charged with sex trafficking in two countries (which he denies); Alex Jones, the conspiracy-theorist broadcaster; and Libs of TikTok influencer Chaya Raichik all invoked “civil war.”
people calling for retribution without any facts
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The Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Is One of Utah's Own - The Atlantic<br /> by [[Shane Harris]], [[Isaac Stanley-Becker]], [[Vivian Salama]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-13T13:42:12
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It took years to acquire a Model O at a price I could afford. It's my dream machine. The other 8 or 9 machines are now being donated to Goodwill, where most came from. I only need one machine and this is it.
quote of u/RickBuxton at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nfg9tt/im_new_but_obssessed/
Example of someone who likely should have gone to a typewriter shop and bought a well-adjusted and clean typewriter from the start and it would have saved them time, effort, and money.
8 machines * $30 per machine = $240 plus time, energy, travel, shipping, etc.
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Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion<br /> by [[Zoë Bernard]] in Vanity Fair accessed on 2025-09-13T09:18:21
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a middle-class status has not proven to be stablewithout a little help. All the examples of long-term stable middleclasses we know of relied on Keynesian interventions as well aspersistent mechanisms like social safety nets to moderate marketoutcomes.
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Marx wanted something that most people, including me, don’t want:a committee to make sure everyone gets what’s best for them.
Is this an over-simplification of what Marx wanted?
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is this true in all cases?
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A robust solution would be “scalable,” meaning that it willbe strengthened, not weakened, as more and more people embrace it.
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Utopians presume theadvent of abundance not because it will be affordable, but because itwill be free, provided we accept surveillance.
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Audio files from the BBC series Catchphrase at https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/
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Looks pretty, but in the end it won't be as highly functional as it looks pretty. I'd rather have a mahogany card index. Dollars to donuts this doesn't actually launch.
Reminiscent to Ugmonk's Analog System: https://ugmonk.com/collections/analog
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Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)<br /> by [[Stephen Wolfram]] in blog: Stephen Wolfram Writings<br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:44:18
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(I’m happy to have made at least one contribution to Beatrice’s life: introducing her to her husband, now of 26 years, Terry Sejnowski, one of the founders of modern computational neuroscience.)
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“Beatrice’s Law”, that “everything in biology is more complicated than you think, even taking into account Beatrice’s Law”.
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Schrödinger, Erwin. What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Originally published in 1944 based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943
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THE RELATION BETWEEN CLOCKWORK ANDORGANISM
historical evidence of the scientific shift from Newtonian clockwork physics into an underlying statical mechanical one
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n.b. Delbrück was Jim Watson’s postdoc advisor at Caltech
see also:<br /> Golomb, Solomon W. Construction and Properties of Comma-Free Codes. With L. R. Welch and Max Delbrück, København, 1958. Biologiske Meddelelser Udg. Af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 23.
Golomb, S. W., et al. “Comma-Free Codes.” Canadian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 10, Jan. 1958, pp. 202–09. Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.4153/CJM-1958-023-9.
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Date Section <br /> 9/16/25 What is Life? Preface, Chapter 1<br /> 9/23 Chapter 2<br /> 9/30 Chapter 3<br /> 10/7 Chapter 4<br /> 10/14 Chapter 5<br /> 10/21 Chapter 6<br /> 10/28 Chapter 7<br /> 11/4 Epilogue<br /> 11/11 Mind and Matter Chapter 1<br /> 11/18 Chapter 2<br /> 11/25 BREAK<br /> 12/2 Chapter 3 + 4<br /> 12/9 Chapter 5<br /> 12/16 Chapter 6
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Why Who Did What When<br /> by [[Solomon Golomb]] in American Scientist<br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:22:57
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My own assessment is that the book, which reads like a thoroughly researched legal brief (more than 100 pages are devoted to notes, references and a very detailed index), makes the best possible case for the highly dubious proposition that the ideas of information theory influenced the substance, rather than merely the rhetoric, of research in molecular biology in the 1950s and 1960s.
Information theorist Solomon Golomb, who directly participated in the applications of information theory to early genetics, doesn't feel that it influenced the substance of molecular biology in the 1950s and 1960s though it may have influenced the rhetoric.
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asphaltum, a component of traditional black 'japanning' is known to fluoresce
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ncuci4/the_1920_lc_smith_no_8_glows_why_does_it/
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A Thousand Videos! - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-08T08:29:48
A short retrospective of his videos as well as a quick overview of the technology he's used over the years.
DaVinci Resolve for editing now after years of iMovie.
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When you were under contract at MGM, were you writing longhand and then giving it to a transcriber? Yeah. My secretary. It’s almost as though I swore once I got out of the newspaper business that I’d never look at another goddam typewriter. I like writing with a pen. As a matter of fact, I think the less distance there is between you and a piece of blank paper, the better it works out.
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Box 4 contains notecards with notes about the films "Beau Geste," "Raintree County," and "Reprieve," as well as a paperback copy of the novel "Beau Geste." https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fc81n87gk_aspace_5b86d4b8e8a1ee9992ac6f15f3cefe30
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A slide illustrating the six different types of abundance. …What are we even doing here, y’all? (h/t Dave Weigel)
Types of abundance via @ruthgracewong: - red plenty - cascadian - liberal - moderate-abundance synthesis - abundance dynamism - dark abundance
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The term is rapidly becoming an empty signifier, though. Tesla’s new master plan boasts of “sustainable abundance.” The Silicon Valley variant of the abundance agenda is just warmed-over techno-optimism — less “let’s rebuild the administrative state and make government work again!” and more “the government should hand big sacks of money to tech startups and exempt them from taxes and regulations. Let our genius builders build!”
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What Isn't Abundance?<br /> by [[Dave Karpf]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-06T08:42:21
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Gignac, Gilles E. “The Number of Exceptional People: Fewer than 85 per 1 Million across Key Traits.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 234, Feb. 2025, p. 112955. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112955.
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Tett, Gillian. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. Simon and Schuster, 2021. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anthro_Vision/p_kDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.
Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?
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Wilson, Georgina. Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/.
Related to the idea of paper helping, as a technology, create modernity.
See also Roland Allen's The Notebook (2023)
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Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
via: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188_W16/Reprints/Response_to_BillJoy.pdf
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A reprint of: <br /> - “Re-Engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy and the doom-and-gloom technofuturists,” The Industry Standard, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 24 April 2000, p.196. - “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists,” AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.
Cross reference: Bill Joy's paper and notes at urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0
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Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
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Eaton Fire updates: New photos appear to show start of deadly Los Angeles fire as DOJ files lawsuits against SoCal Edison - ABC7 Los Angeles<br /> by [[Josh Haskell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T14:53:04
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did she also recall the opening line of the novel Snoopy never did get to finish? “It was a dark and stormy night ….” Time didn’t allow me to explain that this was not actually a Snoopy original. The celebrated incipit was dognapped by Snoopy’s creator, Charles M. Schulz, from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, a mid-19th century English novelist, poet, playwright and politician who also coined phrases such as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
The incipit line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford.
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New ribbons should look wet and get your fingers a bit inky when you touch them, but shouldn't be dripping ink. I've certainly bought new ribbon that was on the dry side and needed to return it. https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1
Beyond this, your machine may need a ring and cylinder adjustment. Check YouTube for this. Most platens now are typically rock hard and have shrunken a bit, so recovering the platen is always helpful. You can use a backing sheet or two as a stopgap if necessary, but a new platen and proper adjustment will make a world of difference.
reply to u/asdrubalino99 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1n7c1x1/faded_ink_help/
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Collectability in typewriters is different for almost everyone. I like mid-century standards, some only like pre-1900 machines, some red typewriters, some toy typewriters, some less common typefaces, and still others prefer plastic 70s portables. Some treat them like Pokémon and "gotta catch them all".
Typewriters as a whole are all "collectibles"... What is your specific definition and criteria (value, rarity, popularity, etc.)?
In aggregate, knowledgeable pricing may help you determine the most collectible ranking them by most expensive. But by this ranking there aren't many of us who can buy even a single Sholes and Glidden or collect the typewriters of famous authors like Steve Soboroff.
ETC Magazine did a rarity versus desirability survey a while back of some serious collectors: https://www.antikeychop.com/mostwantedtypewriters
Interestingly, on this list you won't find many of the most collected typewriters out there as ranked by general "popularity" including machines like the Hermes 3000 or the Olympia SM3.
The Typewriter Database also has some data (albeit skewed) of the most "popular" machines ranked based on how many examples have been uploaded by collectors: https://typewriterdatabase.com/popular.0.typewriter-models
All these rankings are highly subjective though, so, again, you should figure out what's most interesting to you and create your collection from there. Figuring this out is half the fun of doing this as a hobby.
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Maybe we will look it over at the next SoCal type-in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1n5ytpl/yet_another_typeface_inquiry/
u/HumorPuzzleheaded407 is in/near SoCal
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Both Baco Ribbon and Fine Line offer black/red bichrome ribbon in most of these materials for an incredibly reasonable price:
- nylon ribbon $0.10 - $0.15/yard
- silk ribbon $0.33 to $0.40/yard
- cotton ribbon $0.25/yard
If you're going to buy even 3-6 spools of ribbon at individual prices of $9-20 per spool, you may as well make the investment in a half or full reel of inked typewriter ribbon and save yourself a lot of hassle. This will bring your spool of ribbon price down into the $2-4 range.
Ribbons Unlimited is great, but their prices on most ribbon is comparatively really high because part of what they're selling you is the information about which spools will fit your machine. This is fine if you get a typewriter without spools at all, but if you've got original spools, you can get really great ribbon for a fraction of the price and spool it onto your extant spools.
reply to https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1n58ivm/working_on_my_first_restoration_royal_arrow/
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Use case for the Zettelkasten | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard Griffiths]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T23:59:42
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I found a way to create order from my jumbled ideas | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard]] on writingslowly.com <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T19:54:37
The structure of SOLO reminds me of the relationship of Bloom's Taxonomy and zettelkasten: https://boffosocko.com/2022/04/01/the-zettelkasten-method-of-note-taking-mirrors-most-of-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy/
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I love the idea of "intellectual furniture" though I've seen it in negative contexts before. Compare also with "books as wallpaper".
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What comes after Roam's renaissance? — LessWrong<br /> by [[Itay Dreyfus]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T23:55:03
came to via: https://writingslowly.com/2025/08/24/use-case-for-the-zettelkasten.html
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Buying a New Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-29T18:33:40
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Malthus and Wells—and now Joy—are, indeed, critical parts ofthese complex loops. Each knew when and how to sound the alarm.But each thought little about how to respond to that alarm.
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What do the shapes and sizes in these networks tell us about potential outcomes?
How are these changes created? How are the outcomes and shapes different?
Can we put a mathematical "measure" on them? What do the (topological) "neighborhoods" look like before and after?
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One of the lessons of Joy’s article, then, is that the path to the futurecan look simple (and sometimes downright terrifying) if you look at itthrough what we call “6-D lenses.” We coined this phrase having sooften in our research hit up against upon such “de-” or “di-” words asdemassification, decentralization, disintermediation, despacialization,disaggregation and demarketization in the canon of futurology.If you take any one of these words in isolation, it’s easy to followtheir relentless logic to its evident conclusion.
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Why does the threat of a cunning, replicating robot society look soclose from one perspective, yet so distant from another? The differencelies in the well-known tendency of futurologists to count “1, 2, 3 . . . amillion.” That is, once the first step on a path is taken, it’s very easy toassume that all subsequent steps are trivial.
1, 2, 3, ... profit also follows this general pattern and some companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, etc. have found this difficult to do.
Tesla is another example which seems to fit the profile of this piece with respect to Elon Musk having pissed off the very people he was attempting to sell to.
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But, on the otherhand, social systems—in the form of governments, the courts, formaland informal organizations, social movements, professional networks,local communities, market institutions and so forth—shape, moderateand redirect the raw power of technologies.
I find myself reading this from the perspective not so much of technology, but of these social systems which seem to be being stressed right now. Is it the technologists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc.) who realize that these systems were part of the technology "problem" in the past and now they've figured out a way to attempt to "capture" people to organize their original ends?
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In Joy’s vision, as in the nuclear one, there’s a recognizable tunnelvision that leaves people out of the picture and focuses on technologyin splendid isolation.
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Similar social forces are at work on technologies today. But becausethe digerati, like technoenthusiasts before them, look to the future withtechnological tunnel vision, they too have trouble bringing other forcesinto view.
great reminder in both technology and politics
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Like the nuclearprognosticators, Joy can see the juggernaut clearly. What he can’t see—which is precisely what makes his vision so scary—are any controls.
This observation is important in so many areas of life and research. It's not what you see in aggregate or on the surface, but the details below the surface which help to determine the second, third, and later-order effects.
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Sowhen his article describes a technological juggernaut thundering towardsociety—bringing with it mutant genes, molecular-level nanotechnologymachines and superintelligent robots—all need to listen.
These things can only kill us if we don't manage to kill ourselves first...
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Smith Corona Electric Portable Typewriter Dual Belt Replacement using O rings - YouTube<br /> by [[Phoenix Typewriter]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T12:05:
o-ring replacements for Smith-Corona typewriters<br /> www.torkdistributors.com<br /> Filter O-ring replacements<br /> W34-OR 152030 <br /> 4.125" diameter
also could try Culligan OR-34 versions
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Royal Century - Silver Seiko Typewriter Review - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T11:37:07
Broadly a review of the Royal Century made by Silver-Seiko, but he also compares the performance with the Hermes Rocket/Baby and the Smith-Corona Skyriter, which he feels aren't as solid as the Century despite their lighter weight and portability.
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Avoiding Internal Typewriter Distractions - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T11:08:56
Typewriter distractions<br /> - troublesome mechanical issues<br /> - need for finger strength - poor imprint
Well-tuned standard typewriters are excellent for minimizing distractions, especially internal ones.
Joe Van Cleave thinks the 5TE Smith-Corona electric typewriters are the best of their class.
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Royal standards have the shift lock further away from the letter "a" which can prevent the accidental shifting of the letter "a" while typing. This distraction can be annoying when writing at speed.
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Large horizontally oriented typewriter mats can be useful in that they create a buffer zone that covers the carriage movement and helps to prevent one from accidentally putting their beverages in the way of the carriage.
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Buying a Bad Typewriter: Project IBM (part 1) - YouTube<br /> by Sarah Everett at [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T00:11:36
A small sampling of what you're in for with respect to IBM typewriter repair.
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Reviewing the We R Memory Keepers Typecast Typewriter! - YouTube<br /> by Sarah Everett for [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-27T23:14:56
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505097692/antique-1921-meads-file-index-corrective<br /> Antique 1921 Mead's File Index Corrective Diets Infants Nursing Weight Charts Mead card index geared toward health of infants with details, nursing patterns, growth data, feeding data, case history, etc.
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'Breathes there the man' by Sir Walter Scott<br /> by [[Sir Walter Scott]] in Scottish Poetry Library<br /> from ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’, Canto sixth<br /> accessed on 2025-08-25T11:04:25
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The Smith Corona Five Series (why i love them!) - YouTube<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-25T10:35:08
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The idea of using abstract spaces in a systematic fashion goes backto M. Frechet (1906)1 and is justified by its great success.
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