I just read an incomplete account of a 13-year old, female gang leader from the 1870s named Little Dick. The story unsatisfactorally unds with the girl being sent to a juvinile corrections facility after a dashing and dastardly crime spree in san francisco. I wanted to know more about what happened to her so I made a mental note to google her name. Then I realized what kinds of results I was likely to get from a search like that. So I decided I should be more specific in my query. I decided to add the name of the city. Turns out, adding "San Francisco" to "Little Dick" is not actually all that helpful.

I just read an incomplete account of a 13-year old, female gang leader
from the 1870s named Little Dick. The story unsatisfactorally unds
with the girl being sent to a juvinile corrections facility after a
dashing and dastardly crime spree in san francisco. I wanted to know
more about what happened to her so I made a mental note to google her
name. Then I realized what kinds of results I was likely to get from a
search like that. So I decided I should be more specific in my query.
I decided to add the name of the city. Turns out, adding "San
Francisco" to "Little Dick" is not actually all that helpful.

Lamb

Lamb
"I don't understand," Preacher said, "don't the Lost find there way
here?"

The old farmer snorted in response. , "Here? Oh no. They won't come
here. This is a quiet valley. And anyway, I've got my boys protecting
it." He patted little George on the back. The boy made his mean face
and attempted a smiling growl I'm reply before returning to his jerky.

...

When the Father has captured the party, he casually walks by a
breedinf chamber and they see the eldest farm boy chained in there,
Father turns to the party and remarks that it was unfortunate for the
boy that he did not realize what it means to grow up on a farm. "He
knew he was on a farm. His problem was, he didn't understand he was
livestock."

Jounalists share an ethic for catagorization. Black Swan (1st chapter near taxicab wisdom)

Jounalists share an ethic for catagorization. Black Swan (1st chapter
near taxicab wisdom)

Lamb

Lamb

I'm listening to the Black Swan. It ocurs to me that this novel is
about evolution. That evolution follows a patern of violent fits and
starts is the underlying governing premise. The mutants are going to
trade places with the "humans" by the end of the book. The goal would
be to start out with the readers sympathies with the rag tag humans
and then be in a place to acknowledge that maybe homosapiens had had
their run.

The evolution of the new modern humans mind is maybe the ability to
actually perceive extreme randomness and probabilty of improbability.

CSS Is Awesome

CSS Is Awesome

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The medium is the message and the user is the medium.

The medium is the message and the user is the medium.

Google's getting the drugs

Here's something interesting to go with our conversation about perceptions of privacy online. Google and CVS are teaming up to offer people the opportunity to create a log of their drug history. If this takes off, it suggests that perhaps people have a) redefined what information about themselves should be private; b) have extended their notion of what "still private" means because of a high level of trust that Google will use (or rather not use) their data appropriately; or c) an amalgom of the former which suggests that they have some trust in Google and, in any case, don't really care what happens with the data anyway.

Should people participate in this program? Well, just like email, calendars, document storage/access and myriad other "free" services offered, there is a clear life-benefit paid out to subscribers--even to an extent providing competitive advantage or at least techno-informational leveling of the playing field.

The costs, on the other hand, are less visible and therefore dismissible. The potential for exploitation is only a probability which is dramatically lowered once the size of the exploitable dataset is factored (never mind the fact that most perceive the size of this probability based on a human activity scale without realizing the true capacity of modern computing in assisting any malicious endeavor). And anyway, the information about you is already being stored somewhere by someone else, what does it matter by whom or how many?

In the end, people are forced to make decisions regarding their participation that are based not only on their information needs, but also on the social pressures to participate in the modern society. Contemporary social integration depends on many of these services and devices in the same way that consuming mass media entertainment was social currency of its day.

So, in the end, people make the decision to participate because of what it provides them in both personal information gathering and social connectedness. And because they are participating, they paste over the exchange with rationalizations about how they trust or don't care if anyone else knows anyway.

They might make different choices if they had the technical expertise and time to provide themselves with these solutions. That's why the push for idiot-proof personal servers and the expansion of home broadband could become the basis for a re-taking of personal information and a (re)redefining of the meaning of privacy (if people can even remember the value of it by the time these technologies reach their true market).

Of course, the real problem is that CVS doesn't want to share your information with you. They want to share it with Google because google is going to monitize your data for them and sell it back to you.

Anyway, saw this article today and thought i'd share.

rc

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Yuck, these shakes suck!