Podcasts about Eternal September

Click bait and switch: has the internet swapped out knowledge for monetisation? Search engine optimisation, advertising run amok, users as customers: has the internet become a little bit crap and, if so, how do we fix it? In this podcast, we discuss the problem with the internet's funding model, whether it could learn a thing or two from the BBC, and continue a seemingly futile quest for a decent cheese-ranking website. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - Is Google Getting Worse? https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf - Hacker News forum says ‘yes' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013497 - How Google is killing independent websites https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/ - Dead Internet Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory - The Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email podcast@alephinsights.com

We talk with Daniel about his ACX guest post that posits that thoughts are conscious, rather than brains. LINKS Consciousness As Recursive Reflections Seven Secular Sermons Seven Secular Sermons video on TwitterX LightHaven's Eternal September 0:00:05 – Recursive Reflections 01:29:30 … Continue reading →

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This episode we have a lot of nothing to talk about; tennis, back to school, how many fours in a row can a croupier roll, The real Might Ducks, Jim Abbott, being in gifted and talented programs in the 90s with 100 question tests, Latin class, Eternal September and the Big Bayou Canot rail accident. We also have a big debate on the size of TV Guides. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How I learned to stop worrying and love skill trees, published by junk heap homotopy on May 23, 2023 on LessWrong. There seems to be a stupid, embarrassingly simple solution to the following seemingly unrelated problems: Upskilling is hard: the available paths are often lonely and uncertain, workshops aren't mass-producing Paul Christianos, and it's hard for people to stay motivated over long periods of time unless they uproot their entire lives and move to London/Berkeley[1]. It takes up to five years for entrants in alignment research to build up their portfolio and do good work–too slow for short timelines. Alignment researchers don't seem to stack. LessWrong–and by extension greenfield alignment–is currently teetering on the edge of an Eternal September: most new people are several hundred thousand words of reading away from automatically avoiding bad ideas, let alone being able to discuss them with good truth-seeking norms. We don't have a reliable way to gauge the potential of someone we've never met to do great work[2]. This is not a new idea. It's a side project of mine that could be built by your average first-year CS undergrad and that I have shelved multiple times. It's just that, for some reason, like moths to a flame or a dog to its vomit I just keep coming back to it. So I figured, third time's the charm, right? The proposal (which I call 'Blackbelt' for obscure reasons) is really simple: a dependency graph of tests of skill. Note that last bit: 'tests of skill'. If my intention was merely to add to the growing pile of Intro to AI Safety (Please Don't Betray Us and Research Capabilities Afterward)[3] courses out there then we can all just pack up and go home and forget this poorly-worded post ever existed. But alas, my internal model says we will not go from doomed to saved with the nth attempt at prettifying the proof of the rank-nullity theorem. The real problem is not finding better presentations or a better Chatty McTextbook explanation, but can be found by observing what does not change. That is, let's invert the question of how to produce experts and instead ask: "What things should I be able to do, to be considered a minimum viable expert in X?" So for instance, since we're all trying to get more dignity points in before 2028, let's consider the case of the empirical alignment researcher. The minimum viable empirical researcher (and by 'minimum', I mean it) should probably know: How to multiply two matrices together How to train a handwriting classifier on the MNIST dataset How to implement backprop from scratch How to specify a reward function as Python code etc. Sure, there's nothing groundbreaking here, but that's precisely the point. What happens in the wild, in contrast, looks something like grocery shopping: "Oh, you need vector calculus, and set theory, and–textbooks? Read Axler, then Jaynes for probability 'cause you don't want to learn from those dirty, dirty frequentists...yeah sprinkle in some category theory as well from Lawvere, maybe basic game theory, then go through MLAB's course..." Maybe it's just me, but I get dizzy when every other word of someone's sentence packs months' worth of implied thankless work. Never mind how much it sounds like a wide-eyed Victorian-era gentleman rattling off classics one supposedly has read: reading a whole textbook is not an atomic action, let alone going through entire courses and assuming infinite motivation on the part of the victim[4]. There's no accounting for tests What is a test, really? Related: the most accurate map of the territory is the territory itself, but what happens when the territory is slippery[5]? An apocryphal story goes that, when Pope Benedict XI was in search of a fresco artist he sent a messenger to a man named Giotto. The messenger asked him to provide a demonstration of ...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How I learned to stop worrying and love skill trees, published by junk heap homotopy on May 23, 2023 on LessWrong. There seems to be a stupid, embarrassingly simple solution to the following seemingly unrelated problems: Upskilling is hard: the available paths are often lonely and uncertain, workshops aren't mass-producing Paul Christianos, and it's hard for people to stay motivated over long periods of time unless they uproot their entire lives and move to London/Berkeley[1]. It takes up to five years for entrants in alignment research to build up their portfolio and do good work–too slow for short timelines. Alignment researchers don't seem to stack. LessWrong–and by extension greenfield alignment–is currently teetering on the edge of an Eternal September: most new people are several hundred thousand words of reading away from automatically avoiding bad ideas, let alone being able to discuss them with good truth-seeking norms. We don't have a reliable way to gauge the potential of someone we've never met to do great work[2]. This is not a new idea. It's a side project of mine that could be built by your average first-year CS undergrad and that I have shelved multiple times. It's just that, for some reason, like moths to a flame or a dog to its vomit I just keep coming back to it. So I figured, third time's the charm, right? The proposal (which I call 'Blackbelt' for obscure reasons) is really simple: a dependency graph of tests of skill. Note that last bit: 'tests of skill'. If my intention was merely to add to the growing pile of Intro to AI Safety (Please Don't Betray Us and Research Capabilities Afterward)[3] courses out there then we can all just pack up and go home and forget this poorly-worded post ever existed. But alas, my internal model says we will not go from doomed to saved with the nth attempt at prettifying the proof of the rank-nullity theorem. The real problem is not finding better presentations or a better Chatty McTextbook explanation, but can be found by observing what does not change. That is, let's invert the question of how to produce experts and instead ask: "What things should I be able to do, to be considered a minimum viable expert in X?" So for instance, since we're all trying to get more dignity points in before 2028, let's consider the case of the empirical alignment researcher. The minimum viable empirical researcher (and by 'minimum', I mean it) should probably know: How to multiply two matrices together How to train a handwriting classifier on the MNIST dataset How to implement backprop from scratch How to specify a reward function as Python code etc. Sure, there's nothing groundbreaking here, but that's precisely the point. What happens in the wild, in contrast, looks something like grocery shopping: "Oh, you need vector calculus, and set theory, and–textbooks? Read Axler, then Jaynes for probability 'cause you don't want to learn from those dirty, dirty frequentists...yeah sprinkle in some category theory as well from Lawvere, maybe basic game theory, then go through MLAB's course..." Maybe it's just me, but I get dizzy when every other word of someone's sentence packs months' worth of implied thankless work. Never mind how much it sounds like a wide-eyed Victorian-era gentleman rattling off classics one supposedly has read: reading a whole textbook is not an atomic action, let alone going through entire courses and assuming infinite motivation on the part of the victim[4]. There's no accounting for tests What is a test, really? Related: the most accurate map of the territory is the territory itself, but what happens when the territory is slippery[5]? An apocryphal story goes that, when Pope Benedict XI was in search of a fresco artist he sent a messenger to a man named Giotto. The messenger asked him to provide a demonstration of ...

Today's sermon is "Pursuit of the Eternal" by Rev. Katie Bond. The scripture is 1 Timothy 6:6-19. The gospel isn't at our fingertips so we can use it as a tool to get what we want out of life…the gospel is here to set our hearts and minds on the pursuit of the eternal. Peachtree Christian Church is a cathedral for the city. It is an Atlanta Institution. It wishes to serve the city, and it wishes to belong to the city. Peachtree Christian Church is a Disciples of Christ denomination church located in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more at peachtree.org

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism , published by Eliezer Yudkowsky on the LessWrong. Previously in series: My Way Followup to: The Sin of Underconfidence Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves. Somewhere in the vastness of the Internet, it is happening even now. It was once a well-kept garden of intelligent discussion, where knowledgeable and interested folk came, attracted by the high quality of speech they saw ongoing. But into this garden comes a fool, and the level of discussion drops a little—or more than a little, if the fool is very prolific in their posting. (It is worse if the fool is just articulate enough that the former inhabitants of the garden feel obliged to respond, and correct misapprehensions—for then the fool dominates conversations.) So the garden is tainted now, and it is less fun to play in; the old inhabitants, already invested there, will stay, but they are that much less likely to attract new blood. Or if there are new members, their quality also has gone down. Then another fool joins, and the two fools begin talking to each other, and at that point some of the old members, those with the highest standards and the best opportunities elsewhere, leave... I am old enough to remember the USENET that is forgotten, though I was very young. Unlike the first Internet that died so long ago in the Eternal September, in these days there is always some way to delete unwanted content. We can thank spam for that—so egregious that no one defends it, so prolific that no one can just ignore it, there must be a banhammer somewhere. But when the fools begin their invasion, some communities think themselves too good to use their banhammer for—gasp!—censorship. After all—anyone acculturated by academia knows that censorship is a very grave sin... in their walled gardens where it costs thousands and thousands of dollars to enter, and students fear their professors' grading, and heaven forbid the janitors should speak up in the middle of a colloquium. It is easy to be naive about the evils of censorship when you already live in a carefully kept garden. Just like it is easy to be naive about the universal virtue of unconditional nonviolent pacifism, when your country already has armed soldiers on the borders, and your city already has police. It costs you nothing to be righteous, so long as the police stay on their jobs. The thing about online communities, though, is that you can't rely on the police ignoring you and staying on the job; the community actually pays the price of its virtuousness. In the beginning, while the community is still thriving, censorship seems like a terrible and unnecessary imposition. Things are still going fine. It's just one fool, and if we can't tolerate just one fool, well, we must not be very tolerant. Perhaps the fool will give up and go away, without any need of censorship. And if the whole community has become just that much less fun to be a part of... mere fun doesn't seem like a good justification for (gasp!) censorship, any more than disliking someone's looks seems like a good reason to punch them in the nose. (But joining a community is a strictly voluntary process, and if prospective new members don't like your looks, they won't join in the first place.) And after all—who will be the censor? Who can possibly be trusted with such power? Quite a lot of people, probably, in any well-kept garden. But if the garden is even a little divided within itself —if there are factions—if there are people who hang out in the community despite not much trusting the moderator or whoever could potentially wield the banhammer (for such internal politics often seem like a matter of far greater import than mere invading barbarians) then trying to defend the community is typically depicted as a coup attempt. Who is th...

In which the 1993 back-to-school week that never ended kills an early outpost of the internet, and Ken annoys online Winnie-the-Pooh fans. Certificate #47957.

Ay amigo, escucha, que te la quieren colar en Internet. Wikipedia: El septiembre eterno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Know your meme: Eternal September https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eternal-september Tedium: ¿Es el Septiembre Eterno la raíz de la mayoría de conflicto en Internet? https://tedium.co/2020/10/13/eternal-september-modern-impact/ Aksioma: Septiembre Eterno, la explosión de la cultura amateur (exhibición) https://aksioma.org/eternal.september Economist: El Septiembre Eterno se repite en cada plataforma que se hace popular https://www.economist.com/babbage/2012/04/09/eternal-september-lives-on @eduo: A Eduo le gustaba Pocket casts https://twitter.com/eduo/status/409791994467483648 @angeljimenez: El tweet de los fogones https://twitter.com/angeljimenez/status/1399754029903798279 The Atlantic, Renée DiResta: Ampliganda https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/ El primer segundo del Big Bang https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/ Se descubre el documento original de Galileo y heliocentrismo https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06769-4 Documentos descubren la realidad de la mentira de 4 siglos de Galileo https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/newly-discovered-letter-catches-galileo-400-year-lie-180970392/ Galileo contra (algunos) científicos https://qz.com/1118973/opposition-to-galileo-was-scientific-not-just-religious/ La verdad de Galileo y su conflicto con la Iglesia https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/the-truth-about-galileo-and-his-conflict-with-the-catholic-church Lo que la historia recuerda mal de la historia de Galileo https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/09/18/what-story-galileo-gets-wrong-about-church-and-science 1993: La Iglesia admite 300 años después, que Galileo tenía razón https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460-600-vatican-admits-galileo-was-right/ Síguenos en Twitter @haciafalta http://twitter.com/haciafalta

Dimitri and Khalid discuss 20 years of official lies and unofficial disinfo surrounding the September 11th Bourgeois Terror Spectacle, including: “The 9/11 Chronicles, Part 1: Truth Rising”, Luke Rudkowski's WeAreChange, Alex Jones and the 9/11 Truth Movement that flourished before vanishing/turning right wing after 2008, Sen. Bob Kerrey calling the attacks “a thirty year conspiracy”, Pynchon's “Bleeding Edge”, the “Marxism, Conspiracy, and 9/11” essay from 2010, Hunter S. Thompson questioning 9/11 and Matt Taibbi calling truthers insane, the hysterical boogeyman category of “TERRORIST” extending from 9/11 to the unvaccinated and "Y'all Qaeda", and CIA Alec Station Chief Dr. Michael Sheuer's curious reflections on That September Day. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Back in the (Canadian) saddle; the metaverse has already peaked; tech expat troubles; Facebook is really just truly awful; AI diagnosing dementia; Motorola wants to be Apple; Making the Cut; Suicide Squad; Shazam; the Ms. Pat Show; Pig; White Lotus; Disney nostalgia; bye, Hallo; right to McFlurry; Children of the New World; Stand on Zanzibar; Apple CSAM debate; Amazon wants to read your palms; scamming as a service; Eternal September; creativity is waning.Show notes at https://gog.show/518This week we're sponsored by Feals. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/gog and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping.This episode is brought to you by Hover. For 10% off your first order head over to hover.com/gog and get your domain on!FOLLOW UPCineplex unveils subscription CineClub, offering free movies, perks and discountsNiantic CEO John Hanke says the metaverse is a 'dystopian nightmare'The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let's Build a Better Reality.Canada's got the world's worst internet ideasIN THE NEWSFacebook is rebuilding its ads to know a lot less about youPrivacy-Enhancing Technologies and Building for the FutureScientists trial AI-system which could diagnose dementia in one scanMotorola wants to be the new Apple. Its first attempt is, oh, take a lookMEDIA CANDYMaking the CutThe Suicide SquadThe Ms. Pat ShowPigTed LassoWhite LotusThe Imagineering StoryThe Cure bassist Simon Gallup announces he's leaving the band after 4 decades: 'Just fed up of betrayal'APPS & DOODADSApple iPhone 12 Pro MaxSennheiser Pro Audio HD 650 Open Back Professional HeadphoneWhy the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining OrderAT THE LIBRARYAn Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia KangChildren of the New World by Alexander WeinsteinStand on Zanzibar by John BrunnerThe Candle of Crest: A Rhyming Epic Adventure by Demethius JacksonSECURITY HAH!The CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatRecorded FutureApple's Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood' iPhone Child-Protection Features (Exclusive)Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried?Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram for $60BRIC-A-BRACThe Day the Good Internet DiedEternal SeptemberResearch Suggests We're All Getting Less Creative and Scientists Think They Know WhyChildren born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study findsWhy pop music is obsessed with this one noteCLOSING SHOUT-OUTS6 essential podcasts for tech heads to tune into‘The greatest striker': Gerd Müller, legendary German forward, dies aged 75See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe cover a crazy story about a man who injected psilocybin tea, only to end up having fungi grow in his blood and put him into organ failure. They question the logistics of this and wonder if it’s ever happened before, but Joe has since found an article reporting that this did happen back in 1985. So as crazy as it seems, it is absolutely possible. Be careful out there, folks. They then talk about how the current psychedelic rush is diluting the existing culture, and how we should react to it, comparing it to "Eternal September," the Usenet term for when AOL started mailing out internet disks to millions, providing access to Usenet, and how that affected the long-established and tight-knit Usenet community. This leads to a discussion of what tends to happen in the black market when cannabis is legalized, what lawyers will likely be doing in this space, why outlaw behavior is so attractive to people, and how "plant medicines" is too broad of a term to be used for psychedelics.  They also talk about Dr. Carl Hart's new book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear (which you can win from Psychedelics Today), and let us know that seats are already selling quickly for the next round of Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapists, which begins on March 11th. Curious about what you're missing? Head to the page and view the growing collection of glowing testimonials to find out!  Notable Quotes “Say you have a small music club and you’re used to 20 people coming, or a social club of some kind, and all of a sudden, 20 people get added every day. At a certain point, culture can’t really persist. That original culture’s going to be so diluted that it’s not necessarily a substantial part of the thing anymore. And I was thinking about this in terms of psychedelics, because there’s so much money coming in. If you’ve come in because of Michael Pollan, you’re part of this new wave. There’s some resistance to it- we see a lot of hate directed at Michael Pollan [and] a lot of these businesses. And I kind of get it- the resentment towards newcomers, but how do we balance that? How do we not turn into vicious defenders of our culture, as opposed to emissaries pushing our values in a nice, positive way? ...There’s plenty of room for cultural dissemination. It’s just: how do we do it skillfully without becoming the thing we don’t want to become?” -Joe“There’s this whole tradition that has nothing to do with psychedelics, necessarily, and it’s quite multicultural. Plants were largely medicine for huge portions of our history- probably the majority of our history as a species. And now, in the last 60 years or whenever this whole trend started, people say ‘plant medicines’ and they really mean psychedelics, but they don’t want to sully their perception of their preferred plant allies by saying ‘psychedelic.’ They want to differentiate themselves because ‘those LSD users and those heroin users are dirty. But we’re clean.’ ...Carl Hart pointed out that calling yourself a psychonaut or any of these terms that we use in the psychedelic world- it’s sort of mental gymnastics that we use to justify our drug use and vilify other people for their drug use.” -Joe Links Insider.com: A man injected himself with 'magic' mushrooms and the fungi grew in his blood, which put him into organ failure Annals of Emergency Medicine: Intravenous mushroom poisoning Wikipedia.org: Eternal September Netflix: “Murder Mountain” Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear, by Dr. Carl L. Hart Win a copy of Drug Use for Grown-Ups from Psychedelics Today! Doubleblindmag.com: Somerville, Massachusetts Decriminalizes Naturally Occurring Psychedelics Support the show! Patreon Leave us a review on Facebook or iTunes Share us with your friends Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics  

Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and... https://devonzuegel.com/post/making-is-show-business-now-alexdanco-com Devon Zuegel #clipping #cities #interpersonal #tools-for-thought #programming #travel podcast sponsor my work hereemail newsletter 💌the first heyday of open source in the 90sThe Mythical Man-Monthlearned how to accommodate hundreds of productive contributors"Eternal September"Get it in your inbox every week

In these trying times, we thought a nostalgic little walk down memory lane might be nice. Join us as we look back at the '90s Internet, from PPP connections and .plan files to Gopher, IRC, and Will's part in the Eternal September.Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpodHere's the microsuction stuff Will mentions in the intro: https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct-AirStick-Microsuction-250mmx300mm/dp/B00ITX9OU2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=notthatwill0d-20&linkId=4f0530f913b3084c875bb01bf3140f20&language=en_USDust off your telnet client and let's all play Legend of the Red Dragon: https://lord.stabs.org/

Since 1996, Tiffany Farriss has been one of the driving forces behind Palantir.net, an open-source powered web design and development firm she co-owns and currently serves as CEO. From 2009 to 2017, she also sat on the Board of Directors of Drupal, a popular open-source content management system. Prior to that, Tiffany held similar advisory roles at AIGA Chicago and Northwestern Student Holdings. Join Corey and Tiffany as they discuss how to build stronger open source communities; Tolkien, Snow Crash, and Ender’s Game; why companies have several different levels of obligations for giving back to open source projects; why it’s hard for companies that build products on top of open-source tools to be incentivized to give back; the history of Drupal; Usenet and rise of Eternal September; Slack vs. IRC and losing the open-source mentality; succession planning in open source projects; and more.

Domain investors keep doing stupid things. Attorney John Berryhill has seen a lot in his years practicing domain name and trademark law. He sees domain investors do the same silly things over and over. On this episode, Berryhill walks through examples of what not to do. John explains what the best trademark database is, all […] Post link: Eternal September with John Berryhill – DNW Podcast #244 © DomainNameWire.com 2020. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

We proberen de belofte van de quantum entangled podcasting microfoon en merken dat dat eigenlijk prima werkt. Daarnaast hebben we het ook over de nieuwe iPad, de eternal september door de normies en het Anki Vector robot huisdier. Onderwerpen De sluizen op Schiphol De nieuwe iPad Reinier op Instagram De toekomst van de iPad Sunbeam.city - Solarpunk Fediverse Rustic automata Eternal September Anki Vector mini robot How a Fortnite squad of scientists is hoping to defeat climate change Carbon Removal Technologies Grote dank aan de vrienden van de Appels en Peren Show: Nozzman voor het coverartwork, Clublime voor de introjingle en al onze Patreons.

Luzius Meisser speaks about the early days of Bitcoin and the evolution of a thriving ecosystem in Switzerland, the professionalization of the ICO market, challenges in the foundation model for ICOs, the Swiss FINMA guidelines vs. other European guidelines, the Swiss blockchain taskforce, how the law around cryptocurrencies evolves, the question if bitcoins are data, Bitcoin's "eternal September", why there may be too many different blockchains, why many tokens will go to zero, how he evaluates investments, his own experiences as an entrepreneur, why innovation comes from small companies, why regulation kills innovation in security tokens, the rise of value investing on the blockchain, and much more. Luzius is a computer scientist and very early bitcoin adopter in Switzerland and the co-founder and now board member of the Bitcoin Association Switzerland. He is also an entrepreneur and investor in several startups and the founder Meisser Economics, which focuses on education and consulting at the intersection of economics and computer science.  Luzius Meisser: https://twitter.com/Luzius Meisser Economics: http://meissereconomics.com/ Bitcoin Association Switzerland: https://www.bitcoinassociation.ch/, https://twitter.com/bitcoin_ch Other people mentioned in the podcast: Luka Mueller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luka-müller/  Niklas Nikolajsen: https://twitter.com/nikolajsen_BTCS Alexis Roussel: https://twitter.com/alexis_roussel, my interview with Alexis: http://www.theblockchainandus.com/alexis-roussel  Christian Decker: https://twitter.com/snyke, my interview with Christian: http://www.theblockchainandus.com/christian-decker  Many thanks to our sponsor! This episode is brought to you by Crypto Storage. Crypto Storage offers a proprietary solution to enable Professional storage of Crypto Assets. The storage is secure both physically and digitally on the highest-grade hardware security modules with detailed configuration possibilities for individual - based access control. To learn more visit: www.cryptostorage.ch

01:30 – Federation and Your Internet Identity Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) Stayin’ Alive in Technology: Who Are You? Coraline Ada Ehmke and Identity on the Internet (https://player.fm/series/stayin-alive-in-technology/who-are-you-coraline-ada-ehmke-and-identity-on-the-internet) 05:59 – Flaws of Federated Identity Usenet (https://www.usenet.org/en) 10:18 – Onboarding Eternal September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) 28:51 – All Technology is Political & Speech At All Costs The Californian Ideology (http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/) Survivor Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias) 15:45 – Mastodon Vs. Twitter and The Social Cost of Running an Instance 21:56 – When People React: Internet Backlash and Defensiveness The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto (https://postmeritocracy.org/) Poe’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) 30:58 – Service Lock-in 37:48 – Losing Your Identity: The Failure of witches.town 39:32 – Creating Sub/Micro Federations/Communities Metcalfe’s Law This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993, the month that Internet service provider America Online began offering Usenet access to its many users, overwhelming the existing culture for online forums. The influx in Usenet users was also indirectly caused by the aggressive direct mailing campaign by AOL Chief Marketing Officer Jan Brandt in order to beat out CompuServe and Prodigy, which most notably involved distributing millions of floppy disks and CD-ROMs with free trials of AOL. Before then, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities. Every September, a large number of incoming freshmen would acquire access to Usenet for the first time, taking time to become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct and "netiquette". After a month or so, these new users would either learn to comply with the networks' social norms or tire of using the service. Whereas the regular September freshman influx would quickly settle down, the influx of new users from AOL did not end, and Usenet's existing culture did not have the capacity to integrate the sheer number of new users following September 1993. Since then, the popularity of the Internet has brought on a constant stream of new users and thus, from the point of view of the pre-1993 Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended. Dave Fischer coined the term in a January 1994 post to alt.folklore.computers: "It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended Information Sourced from; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Body Sourced From: Code 2600 - Computer History, Hacking and Surveillance Documentary https://youtu.be/F8uuRSfDqiU Public Access America 
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Enjoy this bonus episode drawn from the Idle Thumbs Patreon Ruination Online! Each month, we do a livestream where all topics have been posed by high-tier backers of our Patreon campaign: patreon.com/IdleThumbs. Due to popular demand, we're releasing the audio of that stream to the main podcast feed for easier listening. We'll be back with a regular episode of Idle Thumbs next week! Discussed: live episodes, our favorite things, Patreon postcards, San Francisco sightseeing, muting your family, our (questionably) deep knowledge, something confusing about a thief and a genie, buying stuff for your dad, Twin Peaks, Jonathan Blow, FPS Myst, RPG Doom, "Let Us Melt" soundtrack by Jessica Curry, "Switched-On Bach" album by Wendy Carlos, game designers and job titles, platforming, Jodorowsky's Dune (Amazon, iTunes), escape rooms, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Eternal September

Usually, at 18-year-old online community MetaFilter, a U.S. presidential election year means a big increase in heated political discussion. But once a victor is declared, and the transfer of power occurs, things go back to normal. Not this time. The 2016 presidential election – MetaFilter’s fifth – has created a situation where, six months after the election, they are still dealing with far more political discussion than they would normally be seeing. For a community that isn’t focused on politics, this is an incredible burden on moderators and has “measurably affected both the distribution and tone of discussion,” according to owner Josh Millard. It has become the election year that will not end. We also discuss: MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer from Matt Haughey to Josh Member suicide deaths and the impact they have had on the community How MetaFilter has addressed casual sexism, racism and transphobia Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Higher Logic. Big Quotes “‘How did this happen? How did we not know? Is there something we could have done?’ [Suicide in an online community] can leave people rethinking their assumptions about the place as a community. You stop and think, ‘This person, who was a long time contributor here, it turns out that they were suffering. They were really not doing well, and we didn’t know.’ Or maybe, there were signs. [They left] comments that they were maybe struggling a lot lately, but we didn’t really know to do something. We guessed that something was up, and then this happened. That can be really challenging. That can be really emotionally devastating to find yourself second-guessing your relationship with that person.” -@joshmillard “As much as we’ve been getting steadily better on [casual sexism and misogyny at MetaFilter], in general, it has remained an incremental process because you have to get people on board. You have to set that expectation, you have to do education. You have to teach people to question things that they had taken for granted previously and that includes things like, who is impacted when you’re just joking? Who actually takes the brunt of your disinclination to re-examine the stuff that you learned in middle school? It’s very step-by-step. Every once in a while it feels a little three steps forward, two steps back, because you can’t teach everybody and new people join and some people come out of the woodwork and something sets someone off. Even when people are trying, it’s really easy when you’re dealing with discussions of isms, in general, for someone to have a fairly defensive reaction to being told that they’re doing something, even if their intent is reasonably good, even if they aren’t a real jerk.” -@joshmillard “The last thing we want [at MetaFilter] is to say, ‘Good enough. We’re pretty not sexist, we’re pretty not racist. Everybody just chill. I think we found a good compromise.’ It’s going to keep being a thing. It’s going to be an ongoing, difficult effort because that’s how improving at this stuff works.” -@joshmillard About Josh Millard Josh Millard is an artist, musician, programmer and generalized weird-creative-stuff-maker from Portland, OR. Josh is the owner and manager of the 18-year-old web community MetaFilter, where he’s worked for the last ten years as a community moderator. Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Josh’s website MetaFilter, an 18-year-old online community, where Josh is owner and manager Patrick’s South by Southwest 2018 proposal, based partially on past episodes of the show about IMDb, closing communities and Photobucket’s hotlinking change Community Signal episode with Matt Haughey, MetaFilter founder, where we discussed how he stepped away from the community Community Signal episode with Jessamyn West, former director of operations at MetaFilter, where she talked about how MetaFilter could have dealt with LGBT and gender issues better than they did “mathowie Transfers Ownership of MetaFilter to cortex” by Josh about MetaFilter’s recent ownership transfer “Sixteen Years” by Matt Haughey, about his decision to move on from the day-to-day management of the community, passing the baton to Josh LobsterMitten, a MetaFilter staff member MetaTalk, a section on MetaFilter where members discuss site-related topics “Where I’m Off To” by Jessamyn West, about her decision to leave the MetaFilter staff “The Road Ahead” by Jessamyn West, also about her exist from the staff “Help Build MetaFilter’s Savings” by Josh, asking the community to contribute financially to MetaFilter’s future. The comments of this post include criticism of the financial side of the MetaFilter ownership transfer “holdkris99’s Death Was a Hoax” by Josh, about the fake suicide that occured on MetaFilter years ago “A Member of Your Online Community Lies About Committing Suicide: What Do You Do?”by Patrick “RIP Bill Zeller” by Matt Haughey, about the suicide of MetaFilter member null terminated Wikipedia page for Eternal September, which we discussed on the Community Signal episode with Howard Rheingold FanFare, a section of MetaFilter for entertainment discussions Josh on Twitter Josh’s paintings Josh’s retro game programming work Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

What happens when so many people join a community that it collapses under the suckitude? Well, you get Eternal September. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Is this a real phenomena (online or in the real world), or just a way for people to feel superior? The guys discuss. Join and chat with us […]

Приятная музыка с 25 метровой высоты. 1.Oh Wonder - Lose It (Retronics bootleg) 2.Memories Of You (Original mix) 3.Hey You (VIP) (feat. Jess) 4.Can't Feel My Face (Diego Torres Remix) 5.Roxy 6.Give It Away (Original Mix) 7.Eternal September (feat. Collette Warren) 8.Air (Original mix)

Recorded on 2016-01-03 In our forty forth episode, we talk about GearVR, Eternal September, consoles, Steam controller, Oculus Touch, managing expectations, crowdfunding, STEM, Samsung rink, Oculus Rift consumer release, CES, excercise machines, tesla suit, Windlands, Elite Dangerous, Kapture, past Boston VR Dev & regular meetups, No Man’s Sky, user feedback, games we’re playing, and stuff […]

theZim is on tour!!! Check out some stories and songs… Version 50 of the podcast WOTS Radio #9!“Hed” by Hammerbox off Numbhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/numb/id304262747“For The Heads” by Leezy Soprano off Supreme Beinghttps://soundcloud.com/1kingleez“Seer” by Motopony off Motoponyhttp://www.motoponymusic.com/store/motopony“Eternal September (ft. Collette Warren)” by Quadrant, Kid Hops & Iris off “206” LPhttps://commercialsuiciderecords.bandcamp.com/album/206-lp“A Call to Arms” by Rob Lyons off When It Haunts Youhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/when-it-haunts-you/id882334945“Get Lost” by The Fame Riot off Dust Funkhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dust-funk/id1040250265“Separator” by Charmshttps://charmsrock.bandcamp.com/“Just Like Murder” by Maktub off Khronoshttp://maktub.com/music“Road Rules” by Passion Party off Bored Gameshttp://passionpartymusic.com/“Horn Ska” by The Panda Conspiracy off Road Sodahttps://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pandaconYou can also find the podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and Spreaker.

downloadon iTunesTh good news  is that th ASMR-esque aspects of our podcast are undiminished (or augmented, possibly) by crappy audio quality. Th bad news is that it is hard to hear what our guests are saying, @ times. Consider listening on headphones as Billy Ray Stupendous and I bring together two giants of th troll community, Doc Carnage and Hooper X, for an informal (and barely audible, @ times) chat about th evolution of yr favourite addiction: social media. Play that game where you eavesdrop on somebody's call and try to guess what th person on th other end of th line is saying. You'll be rewarded w/ @ least 6 or 7 minutes of penis talk, and th birth of perhaps th strangest presidential ticket in historyTable of contents:00:00  "Hangin' on th Telephone" performed by Th Nerves02:01  Welcome back, Doc | technical difficulties harbinger | godforsaken Shockwave | This podcast is the Cullman Nation of social media 06:28  Portal of Evil forum | Usenet illiteracy10:00  Penis talk 13:29  I once got beat up for making fun of a guy's metaphorical penis15:49  People aren't used to being criticized in person | on private thoughts becoming public record | on interpreting personality on th Internet | homeless friend(s)  19:55  Listen to my typing on th Internet | th rise and fall of ello | th collapse of FB 22:08  Myspace 24:08  Welcome, Hooper X | Time To Cock (TTC): 30 seconds 26:07  Phone phreaking & Captain Crunch 29:07  Taking pictures of Hooper | G+30:19  Youtube komments: "the DMV of the Internet" | "I tore down and rebuilt my dryer from a Youtube video" 32:42  On running for office w/ a checkered Internet past 35:13  Cub4udk@aol.com 37:07  Have you guys ever met in person ? | I'm really worried about th audio this time | turning th cameras off | Hooper meets Doc, continued | when rock bands reunite 43:42  Age & social media | Hooper met his wife on Friendster 45:57  Zuckerberg's wishes | FB stalking as a traffic driver | th autistic network 47:55  Generational segregation | what old people use Facebook for | Death comes to FB 54:49  Th Livejournal and Hotmail accounts of Gordon Meuse 56:22  The information superhighway | Anna Paquin ? | iPhone vs Batman's utility belt 59:49  Owning vs renting | worst podcast o.a.t. | shoutout to NOLA Hopitoulas 1:03:04  How have social media changed yr life ? | on growing up in the middle of nowhere and the escape from place | Cullman, Alabama 1:08:19  Th disintegration of local selfhood & th rise of all other kinds of selfhood, including th Brony : correlation or causation ? | American punk infrastructure 1:12:02  On how childhood/adolescent experiences shape attitude toward Internet community | how trolls are born 1:15:03  On demonizing various categories & gradations of Other | th diversification of Internet users | Eternal September | a black lesbian trapped in a man's body 1:18:49  You can't out-weird the Internet | Florida hate | crime stats & th eternal drug-addled murder capital of th world | Roe v Wade's theoretical effect on th crime rate 1:25:55  Ken Baumann tweet re "I don't like what that person's doing" vs "That person is trying to destroy me" | the echo chamber and the great Tea Party/Tumblr emotional crossover (fear) | FEMA concentration camps & FEMA guillotines 1:33:00  Mental illness & social media | ridiculous tribalism 1:36:33  Where do we go next ? | geographical segregation based on political/identity-based fragmentation | sexual barter system 1:41:13  Future political candidates' Internet accountability | Doc Carnage + Hooper X: the weirdest presidential ticket o.a.t. | coitus interruptus1:45:45  Bonus Track: errbody do a Rosie Perez dance 

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Die Welt soll wieder einmal untergehen. Zumindest behaupten das immer mal wieder ein paar Leute. Axel, Neil und Venty haben sich mal durch 2000 Jahre Geschichte des Weltuntergangs gewühlt, eine Rangliste der Anzahl Weltuntergangsankündigungen erstellt und auch noch den Mayakalender kurz erklärt. Trackliste severeTstormer – Angry Birds Dubstep Philos Deploys – Apokalypse Trace – Calling (Mega Warhawk Apocalypse Nächste Sendung am 5. Januar 2013, 19:00 Uhr, falls die Welt nicht doch vorher untergeht! Intro Intro :: Am 30. Mai ist der Weltuntergang! Die Unmoralische :: Chronik der verpassten Weltuntergänge Mystery Park :: Erich von Dänikens Park heisst jetzt Jungfraupark Weltuntergang :: Wikipedia über den Weltuntergang Maya-Kalender :: Wikipedia über den Kalender der Mayas LTB Nr. 434 :: Lustiges Taschenbuch Nummer 434 mit Maya Geschichte XKCD :: Calendar of meaningful dates Least I could do :: Nostradamus was right! Goldenes Brett :: Das Goldene Brett vor dem Kopf, die Auszeichnung für Unbelehrbare Paul Kuhn :: Relinfo über die St. Michaelsvereinigung aus Dozwil Skeptiker Podcast :: Der Podcast der Schweizer Skeptiker Eternal Septembre :: Der September, der niemals endete Y2K :: Wikipedia zum Jahr-2000-Problem sdate :: Debianpaketinformationen zu sdate (berechnet Daten nach Eternal September) File Download (59:51 min / 109 MB)

Die Welt soll wieder einmal untergehen. Zumindest behaupten das immer mal wieder ein paar Leute. Axel, Neil und Venty haben sich mal durch 2000 Jahre Geschichte des Weltuntergangs gewühlt, eine Rangliste der Anzahl Weltuntergangsankündigungen erstellt und auch noch den Mayakalender kurz erklärt. Trackliste severeTstormer – Angry Birds Dubstep Philos Deploys – Apokalypse Trace – Calling (Mega Warhawk Apocalypse Nächste Sendung am 5. Januar 2013, 19:00 Uhr, falls die Welt nicht doch vorher untergeht! Intro Intro :: Am 30. Mai ist der Weltuntergang! Die Unmoralische :: Chronik der verpassten Weltuntergänge Mystery Park :: Erich von Dänikens Park heisst jetzt Jungfraupark Weltuntergang :: Wikipedia über den Weltuntergang Maya-Kalender :: Wikipedia über den Kalender der Mayas LTB Nr. 434 :: Lustiges Taschenbuch Nummer 434 mit Maya Geschichte XKCD :: Calendar of meaningful dates Least I could do :: Nostradamus was right! Goldenes Brett :: Das Goldene Brett vor dem Kopf, die Auszeichnung für Unbelehrbare Paul Kuhn :: Relinfo über die St. Michaelsvereinigung aus Dozwil Skeptiker Podcast :: Der Podcast der Schweizer Skeptiker Eternal Septembre :: Der September, der niemals endete Y2K :: Wikipedia zum Jahr-2000-Problem sdate :: Debianpaketinformationen zu sdate (berechnet Daten nach Eternal September) File Download (59:51 min / 109 MB)