George Orwell and free speech

This post is a collection of quotes from George Orwell (1903-1950) about free speech. There are 7 quotes listed below chronologically.

1. "And so the game continues. The logical end is a régime in which every opposition party and newspaper is suppressed and every dissentient of any importance is in jail. Of course, such a régime will be fascism." (Spilling the Spanish Beans, New English Weekly, 1937)

2. "It is almost impossible to think without talking... Take away freedom of speech and the creative faculties dry up." (As I Please, 1944)

3. "Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals." (Freedom of the Press, 1945)

4. "To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment." (Animal Farm, 1945)

5. "The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea of discipline versus individualism. The issue of truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background." (The Prevention of Literature, 1946)

6. "Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for 24 hours a day under the eyes of the police in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed." (Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949)

7. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." (Original preface to Animal Farm, George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography, 1953 posthumous)

Allan Bloom and reason

This post is a collection of quotes from philosopher Allan Bloom (1930-1992) about reason. There are 3 quotes listed below.

1. "Only the search back to the origins of one's ideas in order to see the real arguments for them, before people became so certain of them that they ceased thinking about them all, can liberate us." (Giants and Dwarfs, 1990)

2. "There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is not truth about them." (Giants and Dwarfs, 1990)

3. "The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others of consideration." (Closing of the American Mind, 1987)

Umberto Eco and information

This post is a collection of quotes from writer Umberto Eco (1932-2016) about information. There are 4 quotes listed below.

1. "After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia." (Language and Lunacy, 1998)

2. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay." (The Name of the Rose, 1980)

3. "The problem with the internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate." (AZQuotes.com)

4."Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications." (Travels in Hyperreality, 1986)

Collection of Madonna songs

This post is a collection of Madonna songs. There are 4 songs listed below alphabetically.

• Express Yourself
• Hung Up
• Ray of Light
• Vogue

Collection of White Stripes songs

This post is a collection of White Stripes songs. There are 4 songs listed below alphabetically.

• Blue Orchid
• Fell in Love With a Girl
• Hardest Button to Button
• Seven Nation Army

Collection of quotes about museums

This post is a collection of quotes about museums. There are 3 quotes listed below.

1. "The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the study and education of the public." (Wikipedia: Museum, 3.30.24 UTC 09:15)

2. "[The word 'museum'] is originally from the Ancient Greek Moυσεῖov... which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence was a building set apart for study and the arts." (Wikipedia: Museum, 3.30.24 UTC 09:15)

3. "Ancient Greeks and Romans collected and displayed art and objects but perceived museums differently from modern day views. In the classical period the museums were the temples and their precincts which houses collections of votive offerings." (Wikipedia: Museum, 3.30.24 UTC 09:15)

List of Boards of Canada albums and EPs

This post is a list of Boards of Canada albums and EPs as of April 2nd, 2024. There are 4 albums (bold) and 5 EPs listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Twoism (1995)
• Hi Scores (1996)
• Aquarius (1998)
• Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
• In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (2000)
• Geogaddi (2002)
• The Campfire Headphase (2005)
• Trans Canada Highway (2006)
• Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

Collection of notes about information: 3.26.24 - 3.30.24

This post is a collection of notes I wrote between 3.26.24 and 3.30.24. Many quotes are slightly revised from the original version for grammar and suitability. There are 21 quotes listed below chronologically. Relevant links: Information blogging guidelines (IBG), Belief analysis, Information as an optimization problem (IAAOP)

1. "I see IBG as a network of directories to organize the world's information." (3.26.24)

2. "The advantage of communicating in IBG is that it's adding to an organized, stable, lasting structure whereas other media is ever-changing and replaced by new material at the top (news feeds, TV channels, phones, social media). This is the type of media we need for the future: organized, clear, run by individuals and gets away from 'likes', algorithms and popularity... It doesn't need RSS or any technology other than links and HTML. It's super simple: build a directory network of IBG pages." (3.26.27)

3. "I am a collector at heart and collecting is the key to our problems of communication and information. Organizing is necessary for any advanced collector." (3.27.24)

4. "This is also related to the metacrisis. All problems are wrapped up into one. It's all a big miscommunication. It's all a big trust problem." (3.27.24)

5. "What does the IBG network look like? Who uses it? Who makes it? Is it effective towards addressing misinformation or making things worse? Is it good for communication compared to Twitter, Facebook, RSS and Nostr?" (3.27.24)

6. "Directories and lists are arguably better for discovery than a search engine. Discovery is one of the benefits of organizing." (3.28.24)

7. "Normal literature, writing and books are not the answer. Not podcasts or the news or a social media website. We need a new way of writing and displaying information." (3.28.24)

8. "I'm imagining my idealized IBG website. It would be 100% the best IAAOP pages for every chunk. All the chunks organized the optimal way." (3.28.24)

9. "It's all about organizing the world's information, communication and beliefs. It all overlaps and is not separate." (3.28.24)

10. "We really gotta work towards getting humanity's communication away from social media. People should log their information, beliefs and opinions in an organized network and leave it at that. A feed is too crazy and makes everything so much more temporary. It's like waves crashing down on a sandcastle. The future of communication should be like a static directory. We also need to get away from the popularity contest, likes, shares and subscribers." (3.28.24)

11. "Imagine everyone producing information and analyzing information is using IBG and there's a huge network. Academics, governments, organizations, experts, think tanks, activists, they're all adding to the IBG network. And they're curating lists but there's also people who specialize in curation. It appears as a mess, but then a curator will try to clean it up for a specific topic." (3.28.24)

12. "The question is would this be useful for addressing misinformation? On the face of it, it looks like no. A mess would be the opposite of organized. I think belief analysis has to play a role. Belief analysis is a form of IBG. The curators would be the key. And using belief analysis has to be applied to all misinformation. I just think that standardizing information to be clear is good, not bad." (3.28.24)

13. "The IBG network would be a mixture of clarity and chaos alternating." (3.28.24)

14. "I just see IBG as a way to organize the world's information and beliefs. Misinformation could spread, but I'm not sure. I mean, would it be better than what we have now? The point is being clear and organized." (3.28.24)

15. "It's easier to see IBG as a single directory made by one person... The network of IBG lovers is too unclear. How would a person use it? To discover and explore the organized world of information? I think most IBG websites would be standalone, not too linked to the IBG network." (3.28.24)

16. "Maybe I should be thinking more in terms of what science has become. It's not an organized network and IBG probably won't achieve an organized network either, although it's designed in a way that could via directories and lists. It's a style, a method of clearness." (3.29.24)

17. "IBG is a new medium. Collecting and organizing is key to humanity's communication problems. The curators play a central role in IBG's success toward organizing the world's knowledge, information and beliefs." (3.29.24)

18. "IBG is like the 'academic standard' for the future but for clarity, not academic / scientific rigor. It's a communication standard. It's an art movement. It's a political movement. The goal is to advance the human intellectual project and a large part of it is making the world more transparent and clear. IBG is a catalyst for this, along with belief analysis." (3.29.24)

19. "Clarity is the selling point of IBG. To make a world where all knowledge is transparent. This is how we address misinformation also. Standards for clarity is what's missing in the world, allowing misinformation to grow and deceive people. Misinformation thrives in a world where excessive and unclear mediums dominate, where commentary dominates over information." (3.29.24)

20. "The question is how can we promote a style of clarity? We need a standard or a role model for clarity." (3.29.24)

21. "My focus now is on why IBG is good. And belief analysis. And what role they could play in the future of humanity. IBG won't be a centralized thing, but more like a method like the scientific method. Importantly, it's a mechanism to promote clarity, or a role model. We're tired of information hidden in paragraphs and long essays. We want clear information and transparency. The next frontier is making the obscure and difficult knowledge transparent and clear. Contests of IAAOP. IBG directories and networks curated by individuals. Organized knowledge. Belief analysis for improving communication of opinions." (3.30.24)

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Collection of Michiel van Huysum watercolor nature paintings

This post is a collection of Michiel van Huysum (1703-1777) watercolor nature paintings. There are 3 paintings listed below alphabetically.

Branch with a Sunflower

Branch with Two Flowers

Still Life with Fruits

Collection of Egyptian pyramid photographs by Francis Frith

This post is a collection of Egyptian pyramid photographs by Francis Frith (1822-1898). There are 5 photographs listed below alphabetically.

Pyramid at Dahshur (c. 1857)

The Pyramids of Dahshur, From the East (1857)

The Pyramids of El Geezeh (1856-1860)

The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx (1858)

The Pyramids of Saqqara (1856-1860)

Collection of Simon Andreas Krausz draperiestudie paintings

This post is a collection of draperiestudie paintings by Simon Andreas Krausz (1760-1825). There are 3 paintings listed below.

Draperiestudie

Draperiestudie

Draperiestudie

Collection of Pieter Pietersz Barbiers watercolor bird paintings

This post is collection of watercolor bird paintings by Pieter Pietersz Barbiers (1749-1842). There are 5 paintings listed listed below alphabetically by type of bird.

Crested Guinea Fowl

Denham's Bustard

Francolin

Grey Peacock-Pheasant

Penelope

What is organize?

What does it mean to organize? Here is my definition:

Organize is to arrange something into categories or an order

I believe that the word 'organize' refers to particular types of arrangements and does not refer to all types of arrangements. For example, the Eiffel Tower is an arrangement of iron pieces but I would not say that the pieces are organized. The pieces of the Eiffel Tower follow an overall design and multiple patterns, but there is not a set of categories or an ordering system for the pieces. But if the pieces of the Eiffel Tower were disassembled and sorted by shape, that would be organized because it would be following a set of categories. Or if the pieces were sorted smallest to largest, that would also be organized because it would be following an ordering system.

Although Google's current mission is, "...to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", I do not believe that Google Search adequately organizes the world's information for public use. Besides providing algorithmic rankings of links ordered by 'relevance', Google Search does not arrange the world's information, but instead it is an extendible arm for retrieving information. If Google actually organized the world's information, it would look more like a directory, a yellow pages or an even an encyclopedia.

Although it's not perfect, I believe that Wikipedia is relatively organized, both within each article and in the overall structure. The contents of each Wikipedia article are arranged according to a consistent method (the encyclopedic standard), and Wikipedia also has a directory of vital articles to organize the overall structure of the encyclopedia. For example, there are currently 10,008 level 4 vital articles organized into 11 sections with subsections.

In my opinion, one of the biggest shortcomings that Wikipedia has towards organizing the world's information is that each article is focused on a concept rather than a chunk of information. To describe 'chunking', Wikipedia says,

"...chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory." (Wikipedia: Chunking (psychology), 3.5.24 UTC 16:56)

Chunking allows information to exist in a more granular medium which I believe allows greater precision when organizing and arranging pieces of information in a directory, compared to organizing a list of encyclopedia articles. Since each encyclopedia article is based on a entire concept, I believe it has too much information to be a precise way to organize information. In this regard, I believe that an encyclopedia article is not the ideal base unit to organize the world's information.

To conclude this blog post, I should mention that my preferred method of chunking is the information blogging guidelines (IBG) which I first proposed in 2022. IBG provides a consistent method for displaying a chunk of information that is clear and dynamic. I hope that one day IBG can be used to organize the world's information into a decentralized network of directories.

Maria Montessori and education

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian educator best known for for her contributions to pedagogy and Montessori education. The rest of this post is 4 quotes from Montessori.

1. "The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind." (AZQuotes.com)

2. "The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself." (AZQuotes.com)

3. "A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form." (AZQuotes.com)

4. "It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality." (AZQuotes.com)

Petrarch and literature

Petrarch (1304-1374) was an Italian scholar best known for his contributions to the Italian Renaissance. Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann said,

"Petrarch, a character on whom I never think but with love, formed his mind entirely in Solitude, and there rendered himself capable of transacting the most important political affairs... Even authors are ignorant of the obligations which literature owes him; that he rescued it from the barbarism beneath which it had so long been buried; that he saved the best works of the ancient writers from dust and destruction, and that all these treasures would have been lost to us, if he had not sought and procured correct copies of them." (An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations, 1808)

The rest of this post is some quotes from Petrarch.

Literature

"Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. I know my own powers. I am not fitted for other kinds of work, but my reading and writing, which you would have me discontinue, are easy tasks, nay, they are a delightful rest and relieve the burden of heavier anxieties. There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come." (Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, 1373)

"This age of ours consequently has let fall, bit by bit, some of the richest and sweetest fruits that the tree of knowledge has yielded; has thrown away the results of the vigils and labors of the most illustrious men of genius, things of more value, I am almost tempted to say, than anything else in the whole world." (On the Scarcity of Copyists)

"If you want glory from your books, you must... not just have them; not place them in your library but in your memory; and lock them in your mind and not in your bookcase." (De remediis utriusque fortunae)

Steve Case and the internet

Steve Case (1958 - now) is an American businessman best known for being the CEO of AOL from 1991 to 2000. Wikipedia says,

"AOL pioneered the concept of social media, as its focus from day one was on communication features such as chatrooms, instant messaging and forums." (Wikipedia: Steve Case, 1.6.24 UTC 17:56)

The rest of this post is some quotes from Case.

Predictions

"When I first got started in the late 70's, early 80's, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly." (AZQuotes.com)

"What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when." (AZQuotes.com)

Peter Thiel and new markets

Peter Thiel (1967-now) is an German-American entrepreneur best known for co-founding PayPal and being an early investor in Facebook. The rest of this post is some quotes from Theil.

1. "Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them." (Zero to One, 2014)

2. "Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones." (AZQuotes.com)

3. "There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many start ups people should start." (AZQuotes.com)

4. "I think the future is something that always has to be thought of in relatively concrete terms - and it has to be different from the present." (Peter Thiel on 'The Straussian Moment', Hoover Institution, 2019)

5. "The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism." (The Education of a Libertarian, Cato Unbound, 2009)

Ray Bradbury and ideas

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American writer best known for his contributions to science fiction. The rest of this post is some quotes from Bradbury.

Ideas

"Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible." (The Paris Review Interview, 2010)

"In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required." (Playboy Interview, 1996)

"I just can't imagine being in a world and not being fascinated with what ideas are doing to us." (The Paris Review Interview, 2010)

List of 2023 playlist songs

This post is a list songs on my 2023 playlist. There are 169 songs listed below chronologically.

1. Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
2. DK Isle - Donkey Kong 64
3. Lost - 1080° Snowboarding
4. Atlantis Realm Lobby & Level 1 - Glover
5. I Took a Pill in Ibiza - Mike Posner
6. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival
7. Hang Glider - Pilotwings 64
8. Have You Ever Seen the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
10. Theme From Love Story - Francis Lai
11. Gypsy Woman (KAISER66 remix) - Crystal Waters
12. The Man Who Sold The Wold - David Bowie
13. Saturn - Stevie Wonder
14. glue70 - Casin
15. Don't Know Why - Jessie Harris & The Ferdinandos
16. The Man Who Sold The Wold - Midge Ure
17. Like A Star - Corinne Bailey Rae
18. The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) - Hair
19. Into (10 hours) - The Legend Zelda: Ocarina of Time
20. Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
21. The Flesh Failures / Eyes Look Your Last / Let the Sunshine In - Gavin Creel
22. Astral Observatory (8 Bit remix) - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
23. Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
24. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C+C Music Factory
25. You & I - Dabeull
26. Spotlight Uh (Jacob Barry remix) - Jessie Ware and XXXTentacion
27. The Light - TSHA
28. Good Life (CJ's Living Good Club Mix) - Inner City
29. The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) - Galt MacDermot and Tom Pierson
30. Reach For the Dead - Boards of Canada
31. It's a Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
32. Gemini - Boards of Canada
33. Moonlight - XXXTentacion
34. For One In My Life - Stevie Wonder
35. The X-Files Theme- Mark Snow
36. Nightvision - Daft Punk
37. Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo
38. ELECTRO HOUSE 2020 CLUB MIX -  EJ BL3ND
39. Roundabout - Yes
40. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
41. Night Time Wandering - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
42. More Than a Woman - Bee Gees
43. Rockstar (Jason Nevins remix) - N.E.R.D.
44. Sleep Deprivation (live) - Simian Mobile Disco
45. Sleep Deprivation (live at Barbican) - Simian Mobile Disco
46. Supermoon - Simian Mobile Disco
47. Big Energy - Latto
48. Why Won't They Talk To Me - Tame Impala
49. Borderline (Blood Orange remix) - Tame Impala
50. Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
51. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem
52. Cupid - Fifty Fifty
53. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Danny Elfman
54. Hedwig's Theme - Harry Potter
55. GLBTM (Studio Outtakes) - Daft Punk
56. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Eric Clapton
57. The Roost - Animal Crossing: New Leaf
58. Kill Bill - SZA
59. The Story Begins - Yoshi Story
60. Do It To It (Tiesto remix) - ACRAZE
61. Clouds - BUNT.
62. Don't Forget My Love - Diplo and Miguel
63. There, There - Radiohead
64. 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
65. American Dream - Miami Horror
66. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Ulrich Schnauss
67. Flowers - Miley Cyrus
68. Golden Hour - JVKE
69. Losing It - Fisher
70. Country Riddim- HOL!
71. running out of time - Lil Yachty
72. Prime - Daft Punk
73. Water From Wine - Amaarae
74. the BLACK seminole. - Lil Yachty
75. drive me crazy - Lil Yachty
76. Let The Light In - Lana Del Rey
77. Main Theme - Star Wars
78. When Winter Comes Around - The Lemon Twigs
79. Tabula Rasa - Earl Sweatshirt
80. Fire In the Hole - Earl Sweatshirt
81. A Little Bit - Disclosure
82. Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny
83. Looking For Love - Disclosure
84. Padam Padam - Kylie Minogue
85. Blue Resort - Bomberman 64
86. Feeling of Love - Mega Man Legends
87. All Clear - Super Smash Bros.
88. Kakariko Gaveyard (10 hours) - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
89. Barbie World - Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice
90. Koopa Cup - Mario Golf 64
91. Ancient Blue - Everblue 2
92. Echus - Boards of Canada
93. Stickerbush Symphony - Donkey Kong Country
94. You Could Feel the Sky - Boards of Canada
95. Life Is Perfecto (Point Hsu remix) - CFCF
96. Heard From Telegraph Lines - Boards of Canada
97. Oxygen Lounge - CFCF
98. If You Leave - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
99. Main Theme Song - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
100. Scud - Blank Banshee
101. Beggin' - Chris Lake and Aluna
102. Ironic - Alanis Morisette
103. Car Dealer - Gran Turismo 3
104. ATLiens - OutKast
105. Signed, Sealed, Delivers (I'm Yours) - Stevie Wonder
106. Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops
107. Hold On, I'm  Comin' - Sam & Dave
108. Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops
109. Sometimes - Britney Spears
110. Get Ready - The Temptations
111. Oak's Research Lab - Pokémon Red & Blue
112. Tenderness - General Public
113. Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
114. My Boo (Wave Racer remix) - Ghost Town DJ's
115. Take It Easy - The Eagles
116. Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera
117. (Your Love Keeps Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
118. Finally - Cece Peniston
119. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
120. The Boss - Diana Ross
121. Miss You - Oliver Tree
122. Pause - Perfect Dark
123. Title Screen - Wii Sports
124. Rainbow Castle - Mario Party
125. Summer 91 - Noizu
126. The Boss (Eric Kupper remix) - Diana Ross
127. Miss You - southstar
128. Main Title Theme - The Simpsons
129. Rolling In The Deep - Adele
130. Take Five - Dave Brubeck
131. Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
132. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
133. 99 Red Bob-ombs (SM64 soundfont Deadz64 remix)- Nena
134. Cupid - Sam Cooke
135. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
136. Theme Song - Super Mario Bros.
137. Overworld Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2
138. Real Slow - Miami Horror
139. Athletic - Super Mario World
140. Luv(sic) Part 5 (Jumpster remix) - Nujabes
141. Theme Song - Halo
142. Forest Maze - Super Mario RPG
143. Strange Things -Randy Newman
144. We Are Young - Fun
145. I Swear - All-4- One
146. Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited
147. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
148. The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) - Alvin & The Chipmunks
     
149. Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
150. Short People - Randy Newman
151. Sunny - Boney M.
152. Rapp Snitch Knishes (DKC2 soundfont fxsnowy remix) - MF Doom
153. 8675309 Jenny Jenny - Tommy Tutone
154. Time of the Season - The Zombies
155. Don't Wanna Be (Your Friend) - Euphonik
156. We're Finally Landing - Home
157. Come Away Wit Me - Nora Jones
158. Satisfaction - Benny Benassi and The Biz
159. Stop - Spice Girls
160. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
161. Lovesong - The Cure
162. Ace of Base - All That She Wants
163. Easier to Run - Linkin Park
164. Apartment Ambience - Titanic: Adventure Adventure Out of Time
165. System Focus - Internet Club
166. Better Off (Alone, Pt. III) - Alan Walker, Dash Berlin and Vikkstar
167. Karma Police (Animal Crossing soundfont on4word remix) - Radiohead
168. A&W - Lana Del Rey
169. Sweet - Lana Del Rey

Collection of quotes about MySpace

This post is a collection of quotes about MySpace (launched in 2003). There are 6 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic the more popular website. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch, implemented using ColdFusion." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

2. "The first MySpace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contest to see who could sign up the most users. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into MySpace and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

3. "...Friendster, which was developed in JavaServer Pages (jsp), could not keep up with the speed of development of MySpace and cfm. For example, users could customize the background, look and feel of pages on MySpace." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

4. "On April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in Alexa rankings..." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

5. "...Facebook rolled out communication tools that were seen as safe in comparison to MySpace. In addition, MySpace had particular problems with vandalism, phishing, malware, and spam, which it failed to curtail, making the site seem inhospitable." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

6. "There are several suggested explanations for its decline, including the fact that it stuck to a 'portal strategy' of building an audience around entertainment and music, whereas Facebook and Twitter continually added new features to improve the social networking experience." (Wikipedia: Myspace, 2.1.24 UTC 04:06)

Collection of quotes about Nostr

This post is a collection of quotes about Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays). There are 2 quotes listed below chronologically. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "As an open protocol and FOSS project, Nostr allows for multiple different front-ends for the same data... The protocol's primary form of data transport is the use of a standardized kind of WebSocket server called a Relay. Each user has a cryptographic keypair." (Wikipedia: Nostr, 2.7.24 UTC 16:07)

2. "The first known implementation of the Nostr protocol dates back to Nov 7 2020, created by a developer known as fiatjaf. fiatjaf is widely credited as the creator of Nostr." (Wikipedia: Nostr, 2.7.24 UTC 16:07)

Collection of quotes about Diaspora

This post is a collection of quotes about Diaspora (founded in 2010). There are 4 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "Diaspora is intended to address privacy concerns related to centralized social networks. It is constructed of a network of nodes, called pods, hosted by many different individuals and institutions. Each node operates a copy of the Diaspora software, which is a personal web server with social networking capabilities. Users of the network can host a pod on their own server or create an account on any existing pod of their choice." (Diaspora (social network), 1.31.24 UTC 01:35)

2. "Posts in Diaspora can include hashtags and 'mentions' (a username preceded by an @ symbol). Users can upload photos to posts, and can format text and links using Markdown. Posts can be propagated to connected accounts on WordPress, Twitter and Tumblr." (Diaspora (social network), 1.31.24 UTC 01:35)

3. "Friendica instances are also a part of the Diaspora social network since Friendica natively supports the Diaspora protocol." (Diaspora (social network), 1.31.24 UTC 01:35)

4. "Diaspora software is licensed under the terms of GNU-AGPL-3.0." (Diaspora (social network), 1.31.24 UTC 01:35)

Collection of quotes about Bluesky

This post is a collection of quotes about Bluesky. There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "[Bluesky] emerged from a 2019 initiative within Twitter Inc. to develop what was described as a 'decentralized social network protocol', now known as the AT Protocol, the standard on which the Bluesky platform has been built." (Wikipedia: Bluesky (social network), 2.6.24 UTC 21:01)

2. "The AT Protocol's initial federation architecture centers around three main services: a Personal Data Server (PDS), Relay (previously referred to as a Big Graph Service, or BGS), and an AppView." (Wikipedia: Bluesky (social network), 2.6.24 UTC 21:01)

3. "Bluesky formally incorporated in late 2021 as a public benefit LLC separate from Twitter." (Wikipedia: Bluesky (social network), 2.6.24 UTC 21:01)

Collection of quotes about the fediverse

This post is a collection of quotes about the fediverse. There are 2 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "ActivityPub, a W3C standard, is the most widely used protocol that powers the fediverse. Noted fediverse platforms include Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and Threads." (Wikipedia: Fediverse, 2.5.24 UTC 06:39)

2. "While a traditional social networking site will host all its content on servers owned by the parent company, the decentralized social media sites that make up the fediverse allow any individual or organization to host their own servers (referred to as an 'instance')." (Wikipedia: Fediverse, 2.5.24 UTC 06:39)

Collection of quotes about Mastodon

This post is a collection of quotes about Mastodon (initially released in 2016). There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0

1. "Mastodon is a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter." (Wikipedia: Mastodon, 1.14.24 UTC 00:56)

2. "Users join a specific Mastodon server, rather than a single centralized website or application. The servers are connected as nodes in a network, and each server can administer its own rules, account privileges, and whether to share messages to are from other servers. Many servers have a theme based on a specific interest." (Wikipedia: Mastodon, 1.14.24 UTC 00:56)

3. "Mastodon is powered by the ActivityPub protocol, making it part of the Fediverse... A Mastodon user can therefore interact with users on any other server in the Fediverse that supports ActivityPub." (Wikipedia: Mastodon, 1.14.24 UTC 00:56)

Collection of Georges de la Tour paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Georges de la Tour (1593-1652). There are 2 paintings listed below chronologically.

The Fortune Teller (c. 1630)

The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds (c. 1635)

Belief analysis - deleted paragraphs

This post is two paragraphs that were deleted from a previous blog post titled Belief analysis in 2018.

By clearly stating reasons and pieces of evidence, I believe it becomes easier to identify flaws in a belief. In this way, we can discover that some reasons are false or have a weak connection to the proposition. Overall, I believe this method can help opposing sides in an argument understand each other more clearly.

This method  combines objective and subjective reasons into a coherent whole. When faced with a complicated real world question, there is never an easy formula to provide a solution. Instead we must weigh competing concepts and use our best judgement. This is how human reason operates when we think about complex questions.

Collection of Aelbert Cuyp paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691). There are 5 paintings listed below chronologically.

A View of the Maas at Dordrecht (c. 1645)

The Large Dort (c. 1650)

The Mass at Dordrecht (c. 1650)

The Valkhof at Nijmegen (c. 1652-1654)

River Landscape with Riders (1653-1657)

Collection of Pieter Jansz. Saenredam interior paintings

This post is a collection of interior paintings by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665). There are 2 paintings listed below chronologically.

The Interior of St. Bavo, Haarlem (1628)

Interior of the Church of St. Bavo in Haarlem (1636)

Collection of Pieter de Hooch paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684). There are 4 paintings listed below chronologically.

The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)

A Dutch Courtyard (c. 1658-1660)

A Mother Delousing her Child's Hair (c. 1658-1660)

The Bedroom (c. 1658-1660)

Collection of Guercino paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Guercino (1591-1666). There are 3 paintings listed below chronologically.

Samson Captured by the Philistines (1619)

Portrait of Pope Gregory XV (1622)

The Samian Sibyl with a Putto (1651)

Collection of Albrecht Altdorfer paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538). There are 2 paintings listed below chronologically.

Landscape with a Footbridge (1516)

The Battle of Alexander at Issus (1519)

Collection of Jan Gossaert paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Jan Gossaert (1478-1532). There are 3 paintings listed below chronologically.

Adoration of the Kings (1510-1515)

An Elderly Couple (c. 1510-1528)

Portrait of a Merchant (c. 1530)

Collection of Lorenzo Lotto paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556/57). There are 5 paintings listed below chronologically.

Allegory of Chastity (c. 1505)

Portrait of Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride Faustina (1523)

Annunciation (c. 1527)

Portrait of Andrea Odoni (1527)

Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia (1533)

Collection of paintings from the Andrea del Verrocchio workshop (not attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)

This post is a collection of paintings from the Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) workshop not attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. There are 4 paintings listed below chronologically.

The Virgin and Child with Two Angels (1467)

Mary with the Seated Child (c. 1470)

Tobias and the Angel* (1470's)

The Virgin and Child with Two Angels (c. 1476-1478)

* Possible attribution to Leonardo da Vinci (fish, front leg)

Collection of Benardino Luini paintings

This post is a collection of paintings by Bernardino Luini (1480-1532). There are 5 paintings listed below chronologically.

Madonna and Child (c. 1515-1520)

The Madonna of the Carnation (c. 1515)

Portrait of a Lady (1515)

Christ among the Doctors (1515-1530)

The Magdalen (c. 1520-1525)