March 2013
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TarenSK: MIT On About The #AaronSwartz Evidence:... →
tarensk: Below is the response from Aaron’s father and me to MIT President Rafael Reif’s statement this morning, along with newly released email exchanges between MIT and Aaron’s lawyers about the evidence. Edit: Read/watch my speech last week at MIT about its investigation, evidence, and the protective…
Mar 19th
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September 2012
1 post
NTS
home improvements - perpetual kid (0.1) schedule improvement - gcal updated notebook replacement needed.   .. last night my housemate and I agreed: we miss ken shan.
Sep 17th
June 2011
1 post
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physical refresh
The host-guest relationship is deeply ingrained in me. Having a guest over is motive enough to change major aspects of schedule, house, and work.   A year ago a former girlfriend came to visit and led directly to better relationships with my housemates and landlady.  A month ago I decided to start using airbnb, because I had an idea to help them change the sort of network and service they...
Jun 19th
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September 2010
6 posts
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The Anthony Judge sites
Anthony Judge has worked for a few decades on cataloging global civic initiatives to prepare for the future, through international development, nation-building, cybernetics, modern futurism - a mix of the traditional and the esoteric.  He currently maintains a quartet of sites meant to work together as a spectrum of creative thought about this process, and how to facilitate better large-scale...
Sep 13th
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[Re]construction set for a global village
One of my 17 key elements of a scalable adaptive world is a “Civilization”-style sport, where individuals and teams compete to produce a significant piece of technology from its predecessors as quickly and robustly as they can.  Over time, this work would build up cultural expertise in how to develop all manner of tools and tech from a variety of starting points. The Open Source...
Sep 13th
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Valuing, slimming, joining sources
Information (fat) sources of importance need to be summarized (slimmed down), categorized, linked to related knowledge elsewhere and pointed to from a shared and unified space of ideas.  This can take a long time, especially for low-grade sources (that is, those with much repetition, lack of clarity, or limited application). Sources need first to be valued. Take the Buckminster Fuller Challenge...
Sep 13th
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Sep 13th
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Sattinger and love
The laughter in her voice always reminds me of Q.  Delicious.
Sep 13th
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Sep 13th