One of the interesting realizations I’ve had curating these links from a crowdsourced firehose is that the web looks subtly different from the perspective of a weakly interacting read/write crowd with a semi-permeable boundary, like a Mastodon instance fed by a hyperlocal blogosphere neighborhood. It is neither as incoherent as Twitter, nor as echo-chambery as a Facebook group, nor as aesthetically uniform as a single-curator feed. An open crowd mind seems to have certain harmonies and rhythms in the things it reading/writing/talking about. I like to think an ancient Silk Road bazaar would have had a feel something like this. Polyglot persistence of a network of human minds or something.
Straight Shot. Sculpture by Perri Lynch, Magnusson Park, Seattle
I have a month’s worth of curated links in this post. Ten new posts by friends of ribbonfarm, 27 assorted links from elsewhere.
This roundup is a human-filtered subset of links and short takes aggregated by the Feed Fox bot authored by Zach Faddis, and running on the refactorcamp.org Mastodon instance. You can follow the bot directly if you want the unfiltered firehose.
New Posts
- A Natural History of Beauty by Kevin Simler. Link
- Incipit as Infrastructure by Drew Austin. Link
- Things I Learned From Working With A Marketing Advisor by Sarah Constantin. Link
- The Algorithmic Bonus Mindset by @vgr. Link
- The Clock, Parts 1 and 2 by @bkam. Link Link
- Mandatory Obsessions by putanumonit. Link
- The floor and the canopy by @msweet. Link
- The Conflict by omniorthogonal. Link
- What poetry has to say about “the mob at the gate” by zenpundit. Link
- Towards Burja Mapping. Link. ht @tasshin
Comment on this post with your blog link if you want it monitored by Feed Fox for potential inclusion, along with your mastodon (preferred) or twitter handle.
Stuff We Read
- Godzilla constellation. Link. ht @vgr
- Rewilding in Autumn. Link. ht @jayantkalawar
- Contrarian view on NIMBYism. Link. ht @machado
- Cats are good at hunting mice, but not at hunting city rats. Link. ht @vgr
- Left vs right = forager vs farmers? Hanson and Alexander’s take. Link. ht @steve
- Origins of Impersonal Markets. Link. ht @steve
- Algebra versus geometry views of the world. Link. ht @steve
- Sugihara’s list. Link. ht @vgr
- A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex. Link. ht @dereklh
- The Big Blockchain Lie. Link. ht @Elmkast
- Why fighter jets can’t just fly away from storms. Link. ht @vgr
- “Where were they radicalized?” Link. ht @britt
- Are gestures universal? Link. ht @vgr
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail. Link. ht @vgr
- Neat map of history of western philosophy. Link. ht @vgr
- Deadly vs. Holy theater is a useful lens for viewing politics in America right now. Link. ht @britt
- How to tell the temperature with cellular biology, I mean, crickets. Link. ht @britt
- Agreeableness linked to longer life in male chimps. Link. ht @dereklh
- Reading books and digital streams necessitates a “biliterate mind” Link. ht @dereklh
- A greypill manifesto. Link. ht @britt
- Doctors hate computers. Link. ht @vgr
- Gerrymandering is fragile. Link. Link. ht @vgr
- The kilogram is being redefined. Link. ht @vgr
- Why do we bother wearing bicycle helmets? Link. ht @vgr
- Nice deep profile of Bruno Latour. Link. ht @vgr
- Hayao Miyazaki makes films about what it means to live ethically in a cursed world. Link. ht @britt
- Schizophrenics can tickle themselves. Link. ht @vgr
If you are on the refactorcamp mastodon instance, you can tag links #heyfeedfox so they’re picked up by Feed Fox.
No short takes this time.
If you are on the refactorcamp mastodon instance, you can tag short takes #heyfeedfox so they’re picked up by Feed Fox.
