(This is going through a long backlog. Hopefully future link lists will posted more often and be less long!)
Categories below: Fun, Post-Capitalism, Networkism, Abundance, Climate Change, Social Justice Activism, Effective Altruism, Progress Studies, Sociotechnical Systems, Blockchain, COVID-19, Language, Ambitious Frontier People, GameB/Metamodernism, Markets in Everything.
Fun
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fayx6x/how_was_your_day/
- A site that only shows tweets about itself.
- https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain
- https://dk30.day9.tv/
- Tens of thousands of people on Twitter wish this random dude happy birthday
- https://aeon.co/ideas/why-are-pop-songs-getting-sadder-than-they-used-to-be
- https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ and https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213
- An awesome map of math
- https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/
- http://endless.horse/
- DJ mixing songs that sound the same.
- https://disappearing-people.glitch.me/
- https://medium.economist.com/why-you-sometimes-need-to-break-the-rules-in-data-viz-4d8ece284919
- https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/fo6pki/ask_me_a_question_then_edit_your_question_to_make/
- A map of the Black MIDI music genre.
- https://www.poshenloh.com/quadratic/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/magazine/63-up-michael-apted.html In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f937om/what_is_the_coolest_website_youve_visited_that_no/
- Neologisms https://www.facebook.com/malcolmocean/posts/10163156599915156
- 1300 hyperlapse: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/frsve4/new_york/
- SomeGoodNews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5pgG1M_h_U
- https://aiweirdness.com/post/614209593176899584/an-ais-idea-of-a-prank
- https://kottke.org/20/04/bong-joon-hos-extensive-storyboards-for-parasite
- Instead of Burning Man, help with this? https://lagi2020flyranch.org/
- An r/AskReddit thread, “How was your day?”
- An awesome map of math
Post-Capitalism
- At Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says: “last year, perhaps there were more books written on capitalism and how capitalism needs to be redefined than ever before.”
- Classic: https://www.responsible-investor.com/articles/jp-morgan-successfully-blocks-proposal-on-business-roundtable-pledges
- https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/02/26/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-venture-capitalist-chamath-palihapitiya.html 29:00. ESG. Borrow tons of money from ECB at negative rates. Just signaling.
- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/how-valuable-is-social-impact-investing.html
- https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-start-a-cooperative/
- Prioritizing Future Me (and our public health system). In Chile, after instituting advertising restrictions on unhealthy food, consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks dropped nearly 25 percent (NYT link).
- Visual representation of the high cigarette taxes in Australia. (Link)
- Was the Open Knowledge Commons Idea a Curse in Disguise? – Towards Sovereign Institutions of Knowledge
- Social capital continues to decrease in the UK.
- Less inequal than we think given social security: https://twitter.com/NatashaRSarin/status/1234477855842717696
- A better version of GDP: https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2020/02/26/democratic-domestic-product/#more-3342
- Markets in Everything and Bentoism: https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2020/03/24/the-power-of-purpose-how-the-advertising-marketing-and-media-industries-can-help-fight-coronavirus/
- How to beat coronavirus capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0
- https://justcapital.com/reports/the-covid-19-corporate-response-tracker-how-americas-largest-employers-are-treating-stakeholders-amid-the-coronavirus-crisis/
- Shifting priorities https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fsor4x/canadian_government_commits_2_billion_to_canadian/
- https://justcapital.com/reports/just-jobs-analysis-why-pay-equity-is-still-critically-important-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/03/24/the-great-coronavirus-reset-five-new-bretton-woods-institutions-for-21st-centurys-exponential-challenges/
- Zebras Unite is creating a fund: https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/new-stripes-for-zebras-unite-1f22352b401b
- Growth of ESG assets: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/5073_Advancing-ESG-investing/DI_Advancing-ESG-investing_UK.pdf
- Library Socialism: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/24/usufruct-complementarity-irred.html
Networkism
- State vs. non-state: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fpb6b3/brazilian_gangsters_impose_curfew_as_president/
- Network response: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1243256628809322496
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21196446/yelp-gofundme-coronavirus-automatic-opt-in-fundraiser-pause
- Networked lending for COVID: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/the-amanda-brown-idea-for-small-business-lending-and-support.html
- WikiSurveys: State crowdsourcing policy: https://www.allourideas.org/
Abundance
- https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/f2zc8t/youtuber_knocks_on_random_doors_and_offers_to_pay/
- #RedirectTheCheck https://twitter.com/GiveDirectly/status/1241398417898770434
- https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1243308371408805890
- https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/f2zc8t/youtuber_knocks_on_random_doors_and_offers_to_pay
Climate Change
- https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/20/21144017/local-food-carbon-footprint-climate-environment
- "Our findings indicate that floodplain homes in the US are currently overvalued by a total of $34B, raising concerns about the stability of real estate markets as climate risks become more salient and severe." (Link)
- How peer pressure can help stop climate change https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/20/how-peer-pressure-can-help-save-planet/?arc404=true and https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206266
- https://climate.careers/
Social Justice Activism
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/audio-features/when-women-run/
- https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/intellectual-property-racist
- Women make 10% less than men, even on Mechanical Turk (an online anonymous market). One of the biggest reasons: women take work with lower advertised hourly pay. (Link)
- Adding 2 and H to LGBTQ+. Two-spirit native folks in USA and Hijra in India and Pakistan.
- Right to be cold
- Can dogs be racist?
- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/the-missionary-roots-of-liberal-democracy.html
- To my working women friends: If you could give your younger working self any advice, what would you say?
Effective Altruism
- Review of new AI safety book https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/30/book-review-human-compatible/
Progress Studies
- https://www.gwern.net/Improvements
- https://itsonlychemo.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/a-list-of-ten-simple-ways-we-are-decadent-and-a-speculative-theory-about-why-it-might-not-matter/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/sunday/western-society-decadence.html
Sociotechnical Systems (Tech Ethics and Disinfo)
- https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-21/twitter-suspends-bloomberg-accounts
- https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615308/youtube-halved-conspiracy-theory-videos-recommends/
- https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf
- Bad notification: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/f7aubx/this_shit/
- Coronavirus disinfo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1AyyeH8Hao
- Smarter Every Day disinfo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYkEqDp760&feature=youtu.be
- https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-this-is-silicon-valleys-chance-to-step-up-for-humanity/ (and https://medium.com/center-for-humane-technology/from-inform-to-persuade-how-can-tech-step-up-for-humanity-3ac21de4c53b)
- Inserting local location to get you to support https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1228311816167657472
Blockchain
- Personal tokens: https://twitter.com/jessewldn/status/1228820263569154048
- Opt-in economic lockin vs. data lock-in w/ staking: https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2020/1/30/thin-applications
COVID-19
- https://www.lesswrong.com/coronavirus-link-database
- Fun: https://6feetcovers.wixsite.com/6feetcovers
- https://jacquesmattheij.com/covid-19-retrospective/
- Why Covid might not be not that bad: https://www.facebook.com/geosol114/posts/10158221226286779
- https://protocollabs.smapply.io/prog/covid-19_open_innovation_grants/
- Practical advice: https://www.notion.so/COVID-19-Practical-Advice-a02f06d9b2be485f93dcbdddd4cc7942#57dc5503e06145609ae5e625f2256600
- In a crisis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6444492-a-paradise-built-in-hell and https://twitter.com/dgardner/status/1243144205167362048 (vs. CV cap)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/fsebvj/korean_government_care_package_to_people_who_are/
- Time. Last 2 weeks: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1244820663438721024
- Simulating an Epidemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs
- Supply chain tracking: https://www.lumi.com/status
Language
- When to use nation-state’s name vs. indigenous name? Do both. https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/april-2020/toponymic-subjugation/
- Syllables indicate parts of speech. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/evb8of/whats_a_littleknown_but_obvious_fact_that_will/ffw0chb/
- Why i’s always come first in ping-pong, tick-tock, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/6d1l7n/why_tick_tock_sounds_correct_but_tock_tick_does/dhzct9l/
Ambitious Frontier People
- On AFP: http://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1241631781704491009
- AFP map https://twitter.com/menandersoter/status/1219785386479714308?s=21
GameB and Metamodernism
- Partnership vs. domination: https://twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1223611660621041669
- Simon Sinek gets excited by infinite games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tRQGWo1p98
Markets in Everything
- Markets in Everything: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/quarantine-markets-in-everything-and-stimulus-at-that.html
- Markets in Everything: https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/03/05/a-coronavirus-pop-up-shop-has-opened-in-dc/
- Attention Markets in Everything https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1238329072897277953
Other
- https://whitney.org/artport-commissions/new-york-apartment/ (Mash up)
- https://www.uncensoredlibrary.com/en
- Nice list of concepts: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1225561131122597896
- https://www.cameo.com/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/style/onlyfans-porn-stars.html as part of https://a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy/
- Tom Scott on Copyright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
