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January 3, 2020

The Isaac Asimov centenary today

*He was a stranger guy than his best-known, rather sententious quotes would suggest. So I’m not gonna quote any of ’em. *A hundred years, that’s...

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Published on January 03, 2020 00:05

January 2, 2020

Meanwhile, in punk San Francisco, after forty years

*I’m glad I didn’t spend those forty years in prison for some obscure form of illicit activity, because I would have missed a lot. From:...

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Published on January 02, 2020 00:01

Figuring out that the English are ethnonationals

This is kinda interesting, but everybody’s got some ethnonationals. Texas has ethnonationals and Texas doesn’t even have a proper ethnicity. *Everybody’s got some kind of...

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Published on January 02, 2020 00:01

January 1, 2020

A Long Now course at Carnegie Mellon

*I bet that’s a pretty good course. Stuart Candy is teaching it Course Overview and Schedule Here is an outline of the arc of the...

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Published on January 01, 2020 00:03

A Jules Verne gaming tie-in

http://www.giochidelloca.it/scheda.ph... REFERENZA 3 Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours d’après le Roman de Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days after the Novel...

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Published on January 01, 2020 00:03

December 31, 2019

Design And Futures by Stuart Candy and Cher Potter

*Well, that looks worthwhile. Look at the global scope on that, and the number of people involved. Futuryst Good news, everyone! The Journal of Futures...

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Published on December 31, 2019 00:01

December 30, 2019

Musica Globalista: Crow, “How to Make Future Garage” tutorial

*He actually makes this garage track in his kitchen rather than his literal garage, but this is the modern equivalent of hanging out in your...

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Published on December 30, 2019 00:02

Dead Media Beat: the old Internet

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/... by Katie Notopoulos (…) The internet of the 2010s will be defined by social media’s role in the 2016 election, the rise of extremism,...

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Published on December 30, 2019 00:02

December 29, 2019

Modern students who have always had cellphones try to manage life without them

Their primary reaction is fear (…) Without their phones, most of my students initially felt lost, disoriented, frustrated, and even frightened. That seemed to support...

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Published on December 29, 2019 00:02

Dead Media Beat: forms of music streaming

*Maybe naming themselves “8tracks” was a harbinger of a brief lifespan. Quite technically interesting here, though; this is the Silicon Valley venture capital business talking,...

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Published on December 29, 2019 00:02

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