#RandomParagraph
"It’s a bit ad hoc. We noticed, just by observation, that people don’t optimize the expectation value of money. That doesn’t work. And then we said, “Well, let’s just compute the expectation value of something else,” and choose that something else so that it sort of fits with what we see. It also gives you an immediate focus on psychology, not circumstance. So these utility functions are believed to be neurological imprints in your brain, essentially. This is your character." #RandomParagraph
"For tools and environments to support deep literacy they must reward curiosity and this is done through providing flexible foundations and infrastructure giving rise to rich interactions, letting the deeply literate knowledge worker do much more with the material than any author could imagine..."
#FrodeHegland; #RandomParagraph
https://www.deep-literacy.com/tool-development.html
"The “Loldiers of Odin” formed in Finland to counter a citizen patrol called Soldiers of Odin. The clowns danced around the streets the same nights that the patrols went out in the community, bringing acrobat hoops and a hobby horse. They also danced around the “soldiers” while playing in the snow. Their actions countered right-wing propaganda of making the streets “safer” from immigrants by bringing humor and silliness to their actions." #RandomParagraph
Srdja Popovic: #PrankstersVsAutocrats
"During the spring of 1968, when Russian broadcasts aimed at Czechoslovakia had been stepped up, it was reported that Czechoslovak employees working for the Soviet Union in Moscow as broadcasters refused to broadcast polemics critical of the liberalization taking place at home." wow actual honest journalists?
#RandomParagraph
Gene Sharp/The Politics of Nonviolent Action
"there is not only something in organization that tends toward massiveness, elaborateness, solidity and entrenched power, there is something that glorifies forms and formalities, the superficial and external."
#RandomParagraph
John W. Gardner/Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society
"Result: Tomato clocked at 124 mph. Subject suffered a broken nose."
#RandomParagraph #SCP
"The traditional idea in International Trade Theory was that it is precisely the existence of a legal framework that reduces the risk of the principal-agent relationship, making it possible for costs to drop and exchange to develop. However, Greif after carefully studying historical sources bravely argued that the trade revolution which took place between the 10th and 13th centuries pointed towards exactly the opposite conclusion." #RandomParagraph #Phyles
"He’s got money—he thinks it makes him important, and he’s probably right. He’s got the IQ of a fieldmouse." #RandomParagraph
"Looking for Rachel Wallace"
"It was then that a shadow passed over Finn’s innocent eyes. . . . There were no rules, no consequences: he could do what he wanted, take what he wanted, kill as he wanted. The inhabitants of Ooo cried out for mercy. And the world burned a second time. Melted sugar spilt out into the streets. . . . Caramel."
#RandomParagraph "Adventure Time and Philosophy"
I'm gonna need to extend my #RandomParagraph stuff to (a) liked/unposted Instapaper, and (b) unread Instapaper.
@anticdent @interstar my other blocker is that my #linode is so old I'm going to have to have them spin up a brand new node for me to set up and migrate to, which I just don't want to face. So I've been playing with some local stuff (#RandomParagraph, #VibePrototyping).
keeping #RandomParagraph-app in terminal window for now
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/2025-08-06-RandomToReadParagraphApp
