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A counter-intuitive feature of wind power is that it is usable regardless of the direction the wind is blowing, so long as it is sufficiently steady and you have the right technology. A windmill th… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/12/07/worldwinds/ [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/12/07/worldwinds/] * divergence [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/02/23/divergentism/] * points of sail [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sail] * Wisner-Gross model [https://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf] * Gary Marcus points out [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-grand-unified-theory-of-everything] * Destruction and Creation [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Destruction-and-Creation-Boyd/483359fa9420efcddde5a17da597f462c2a788c2]

Transferring your domain to Cloudflare tells your registry that a different registrar can now set those authoritative records for you. The relationshi...

My 2-volume collection of essays about independent consulting and life in the gig economy, The Art of Gig, is finally out. It is available in paperback and Kindle ebook form on Amazon. Art of Gig, … https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/11/17/the-art-of-gig-books/ [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/11/17/the-art-of-gig-books/] * The Art of Gig [https://amzn.to/3TLmvri] * Tempo [https://amzn.to/3tF0905] * The Art of Gig [https://amzn.to/3TLmvri] * The Art of Gig [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/19/the-art-of-gig/] * artofgig.com [https://artofgig.com] * Yak Collective [https://yakcollective.org] * go buy them [https://amzn.to/3TLmvri]

It is perhaps a bit of a conceit, but I don’t like posting anything on this blog that doesn’t feel timeless. This does not mean ahistorical. In fact, timeless to me means acutely histor… https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/11/03/storytelling-end-times-tales/ [https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/11/03/storytelling-end-times-tales/]

"Blockchain solutionism". A guest lecture by Molly White at the University of Texas at Austin on September 21, 2022. This lecture was for a course in the School of Design and Creative Technologies called "Anti-Solutionism". There is a Q&A portion at the end—to protect the privacy of students only my own audio is included, and I've replaced the question audio with a text summary of the question. 00:00 Intro 00:52 Overview of concepts 10:35 Pros and cons of blockchains 16:43 Claimed use cases 17:32 More believable use cases 20:01 Solutions looking for problems 22:52 The XY problem 33:35 Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k_GjxuJDM [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k_GjxuJDM]