Paul Lindner

Received a travel pillow as a gift. "for when you're tired on the shuttle"

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If you want some more depth to the Californian Ideology critique consider watching the Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

Hypernormalisation also covers some of the same ideas and is more recent.

https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation

Well worth watching. The blog->book is an interesting thing I didn't know about and I found the email -> blog solution for communicating with her future grown-up children clever.

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14fAzIdLrfKt6K313UraEJATFsjFsqTEumNun4ufhtiU/edit?usp=sharing

https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/10/brianna-privett-the-story-of-your-life-using-wordpress-as-your-memor...

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Nicky did a great talk at Long Now called Seeing Whole Systems. Would anyone be interested in screening it here?

http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/

But for now revel in visualizing the prisoner's dilemma. Also check out loopy http://ncase.me/loopy/

http://ncase.me/trust/

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Reminder that SoCal wildfire donations are being matched.

https://g-give.googleplex.com/campaign/2017-Southern-California-Fires

There's a tile memorial at Rockridge Bart for the Oakland Firestorm. Gets me every time.

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No one has mentioned https://liberapay.com/ ?

They seem to deal with this problem by letting you fund a donation account and then disburse funds on a periodic basis. This is also similar to donor advised funds so I'm not sure why Patreon is doing this when other alternatives are available.

Added to reading list..

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1089.pdf

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Looks like G+ sharing was added to gThanks in

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/9972517

But the shares it creates now are pretty bare-bones and you have to really hunt down that G+ share button...

Oh and big congrats to all the people getting Kudos and PBs lately. Y'all are awesome!

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Inside an AT&T pedestal cabinet in Oakland...

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my new buganizering tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF4u7TG7LfQ

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It took a bit of searching to figure out why I received a check for 8. But if you get one here's why:

This is a wage and hour PAGA action arising from Defendant's failure to pay wages in a timely manner at the end of each pay period. Labor Code § 204( d) requires employees to be paid out by the seventh (ih) day following the closing of the pay period if employees are paid on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Defendant, who paid its employees on a bi-weekly basis, had a consistent policy of paying the wages of its employees on the eighth (8t11) day or later following the close of the respective pay period, and thus, beyond the time periods as allowed pursum1t to Labor Code § 204. This PAGA action is being sought on behalf of Defendant's other aggrieved employees.

In addition to the PAGA action, Plaintiff also asserts individual claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy. Specifically, Plaintiff engaged in protected activity by removing alcohol from the workplace (due to fear for her personal safety and the safety of co-workers), and to prevent sexual harassment. However, by exercising such rights, Plaintiff was terminated from her employment.

Defendant's Position

Plaintiff was employed by Defendant from approximately January 27, 2015 to April 12, 2016 as a Program Manager. In late March 2016, a Google employee reported that several personal items had gone missing. Google's asset investigations team confirmed through video evidence that Plaintiff had taken the reported items. During its investigation, Plaintiff provided inconsistent accounts of her actions, which Google deemed to lack credibility. As a result, Google terminated Plaintiffs employment for violation of company policy and the dishonest conduct she exhibited.

Google denies that its payroll schedule was inconsistent with section 204 of the Labor Code. Moreover, Plaintiff cannot show that she or any of the members of the group she seeks to represent were aggrieved. An award of civil penalties under PAGA would result in an award that is unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_State_Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court/16CV301321/Baid...

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Two new local charities available for gift match for California Wildfires so it's not just the Red Cross now:

http://go/california-fires

Still *0k* to match.

Also I learned that Google Docs has a 'mobilebasic' suffix which generates a simple lightweight doc. Many of the emergency resource docs are using this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

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[Part of a new Collection for Cybernetics as I explore this fascinating discipline..]

Hey there, it's the trolly problem again...

_Ethics modules can be treated like *ethical device drivers*, so that to be fully operational, a hypothetical gun-carrying, tax-advising robot that can drive on roads requires valid ethics modules for gun-law, tax-code, and traffic-rules. Without all necessary modules for the appropriate legal jurisdiction, the robot’s gun, tax advising, or driving capabilities are automatically disabled._

http://ashby.de/

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Not strictly "social" per-se, but there were a number of cross overs from iGoogle. Also relevant as Now is undergoing some historical changes of it's own..

- Pixie Labs ended up moving their games to Google+ Games (remember Farmville?)
- The gadget infrastructure from iGoogle (GGS) was used heavily for the +1 button, OpenSocial, PeopleSense and others. +103390686048441232976 might even still carry a pager for this old infrastructure...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XS9u1D-pFSxTcrbTZRa43CV7VKHztHzWLDCzrj0csJ4/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Google is both a particle (consumer) and a wave (enterprise). We need some kind of general product relativity instead of a newtonian model...

... or quantum mechanics vs classical physics, you get the idea...

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cc: Joseph Smarr

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First install ipfs

then run:

  ipfs pin add QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvuR4iYZrTML8XCR

and wait for a large amount of data to be pulled in....

s/Blockchain/Beyoncé/g

Better than replacing Cloud with Butt.

https://gizmodo.com/the-best-of-cloud-to-butt-the-only-extension-youll-eve-1685863609

https://twitter.com/blkchninstitute

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Hired to work on web protocols. Immediately detoured to the needful work of building a social network. Learned a lot along the way.

I don't have a lot of sage wisdom to offer other than be humble, humane, and empathic. That goes a long way.

That and banjo. Always have banjo.

Looking forward to 7 more years of causing trouble with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLINm2bchY

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Maps and GBUS work pretty well split-screen, especially useful to know if you're going to get to the stop on time.

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Google Assistant as envisioned from 1973's "Designing Freedom"

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8pOruwSkOisC

Much of what we implement today was predicted then. We also forget that people once derided and feared "The Computer".

This work is quite accessible and reading it gave me a better understanding of complex dynamic systems, relaxation time, variety, Ashby's Law and the nature of bureaucracy. Also originally broadcast on the CBC as a lecture series:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

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I hope we've made a breakthrough in user follicle detection for these maps notifications...

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