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Thu Aug 20 06:00:01 EDT 2020
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Slept from ten-thirty to seven.
Woke around five, and slept fitfully after.
Mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Lollygagged after waking, so no time for a walk in the morning.
Work
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- 9:30 AM business team meeting (short-notice reschedule, for earlier in the morning!)
Done.
- IVR's for portal
Done.
- Heather volunteered to be part of the portal ring group with Jim
Done.
- Can we close any of these open tickets??
Done. Closed a bunch of tickets.
- Follow up with Entrata about WO material quantities — the ticket's been In Progress for a month
Done.
Hmm, the OWL plugin doesn't seem to support opening two mailboxes for different Exchange users;
I just get the same Inbox under both accounts.
Thunderbird is OK, but maybe I should just avoid the OWA message composer bugs by writing my mail in Vim.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Sunny and not excessively hot.
Saw a couple Carolina locusts and a couple little white butterflies.
Cicadas singing.
A glimpse of a chipmunk?
Home
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Took out the trash, vacuumed.
Ho!
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/512889-read-indictment-against-bannon-three-others-in-alleged-fraud-money
> Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and three others face charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a federal indictment made public on Thursday.
> Bannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea allegedly defrauded donors of an online crowdfunding campaign for a private border wall.
Bannon faces one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, each each charge with a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Installed the Castor browser for the Gemini protocol.
Intense deja vu of my first contact with the web.
Fired up Castor, and… didn't know the address of any site to go to.
Heh.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
http://tilde.club/~pfhawkins/othertildes.html
https://github.com/tildeclub/tilde.club
gemini://cosmic.voyage/
The intersection of tilde servers and Gemini really hits my nerd spot.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/best-practices.gmi
The cicadas are LOUD this evening!
https://sarkos.tumblr.com/post/627019971898343424
> > > my grandma embroidered little flowers on her clothes like i do and she taught me how to cook asparagus so it actually tasted good and she wrote about grief so simply that i could make sense of it when i was a child that had just lost a grandfather and sometimes i wonder how much of me is made of her and how much of me is my uncle and how much is my best friend and how much is my little sister. i wonder how much of them is me.
> >
> > A few years back, I got really interested in this topic. I read a book by a man named Douglas Hofstadter, who’s the director for the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University. One of the foremost American researchers of the science of cognition, Hofstadter has written a lot of books, but the one I’m most familiar with is called I Am a Strange Loop. Strange Loop’s focus is on determining how, exactly, does consciousness—individuality, thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, desires, a sense of personhood—arise from inert and unthinking molecules? After all, atoms don’t have personalities. But yet people, who are only atoms all told, somehow do.
> >
> > The crux of his argument is that humans are self-referential feedback loops. We take in information from the world and incorporate it into how we react the next time we receive information. A whole section of Strange Loop is dedicated to Hofstadter’s concern with the memory of his late wife, Carol. She died suddenly and he was left wondering what parts of her, if any, can “survive” in his memory. And he eventually concluded that every human is a combination and response to all the other humans they’ve ever interacted with:
> >
> > As long as you remember someone—a dead friend, a relative, a beloved pet—your experiences with them, the way their personalities influenced you, in turn affect the way YOU act and interact with others. Personhood is a self-replicating concept. Your actions ripple out in ways that can never be fully seen or understood. In a vast, cosmic sort of way, no one ever really dies–they live on in their friends :-)
>
> “We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting other people’s habits and ideas and styles and tics and jokes and phrases and tunes and hopes and fears as if they were meteorites that came soaring out of the blue, collided with us, and stuck. What at first is an artificial, alien mannerism slowly fuses into the stuff of our self, like wax melting in the sun, and gradually becomes as much a part of us as ever it was of someone else (though that person may very well have borrowed it from someone else to begin with).”
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2020-08-20_Generated_Music
Hey, I know Alex from D&D!
> But, I guess what I’m more concerned about is this: think about how big Mozilla is. They had a thousand engineers!
>
> What fascinates me about seemingly retro tech is the dream of having these tools be feasible in the human realm. People
like us can use them and make them, without having to form a company, without business plans and lawyers and project
managers. The web browser project is so big, so monstrous, it needs hundreds of people to get right, to implement all
the features, because we kept adding them and adding them, letting corporations out-organize us.
I wrote a (very minimal) Gemini server in less than an hour.
Nice.
Chatted with Ed and Jay a bit.
https://tildegit.org/solderpunk
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi
> To my mind, the problem with deciding upon a strictly limited subset of HTTP and
HTML and slapping a label on it (let's say "SafeWeb") and calling it a day is
that it would do almost nothing to create a clearly demarcated space where
people can go to consume *only* that kind of content in *only* that kind of way,
which is what I think we really want.
Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 4/2, meat 2/3, nuts 1/0.5
Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee
Lunch: orange, egg and avocado wrap
Dinner: nachos with beans
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