Jim Willis

Category: Notes

  • Read: Vision Con

    Unable, then, to see the world because I have forgotten the way of being in the world that enables vision in the deepest sense, I can then be convinced of the superiority of virtual worlds.³ Increasingly captivated by virtual worlds, I am less likely to demand anything more or better. The tools that diminish my…

  • Read: I Made This

    Suppose Bob writes an email to Sue, who has no existing business relationship with Bob, asking her to draw a picture of a polar bear wearing a cowboy hat while riding a bicycle. If Sue draws this picture, we all agree that Sue is the creator, and that some arrangement is required to transfer ownership…

  • Only half-jokingly wondering if Amazon’s AI’s emergent capabilities are due to being trained on audio from all of those Alexa devices out there? 🤔 #AI #Alexa Also on:

  • Not going to lie, I’ve been ignoring all the hype around Drafts and sticking with emacs to my detriment. I dismissed Drafts as a rabbit hole for Zettelkasten-types where you spend more time tweaking the system than using the system, but Drafts is really close to what I imagine emacs would be if it were…

  • The impermanence of the web is a weakness. I have a journal entry from 19 years ago with 8 hyperlinks in it, many to major news outlets and publishers. Every link is broken resulting in some kind of 404-ish error. Archivists were right to mistrust this thing. Also on:

  • Read: Is It Time to Shake Up Your Coffee Routine?

    The large majority of the world’s decaffeination still happens through chemical-based processes that use things like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate. I don’t know what those are but it doesn’t sound like I want it in my body! Luckily, there are brands out there who are using a more natural method of stripping caffeine from…

  • Read: The Thing That Is Silence

    All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in understanding the nature of these forces. The critical conversation remains important. But I’m increasingly interested in how we might find and deploy alternative ways of being in the world. What are the practices that…

  • Read: Browsing in Emacs

    FWIW, my Emacs of the moment is emacs-plus@29 installed by Homebrew: brew install emacs-plus@29 –with-mailutils –with-xwidgets \ –with-imagemagick –with-native-comp Source: Browsing in Emacs – Volume 8 Also on:

  • Read: Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For?

    ![](https://jetpack.com/redirect/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2hyaXNjb3lpZXIubmV0XC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI0XC8wMVwvY0hKcGRtRjBaUzlzY2k5cGJXRm5aWE12ZDJWaWMybDBaUzh5TURJeUxUQTFMMlpzTXpFeU1UVTRPRE13T0RFdGFXMWhaMlV1YW5Cbi0xMDI0eDY4My5qcGciLCJ0eHQiOiJ5b3UnbGwganVzdCBjYXJlIG1vcmUgaWYgaXRzIHlvdXIgdGhpbmciLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImZ1bGxzY3JlZW4iLCJibG9nX2lkIjo3NDA3NDI0OH0.WNG9NhzVQsHLFONG5MU8TEcqBUInUj7kZkUJPpR9s7YMQ) Source: Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For? – Matthias Ott Also on:

  • Read: Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For?

    ![](https://jetpack.com/redirect/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2hyaXNjb3lpZXIubmV0XC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI0XC8wMVwvY0hKcGRtRjBaUzlzY2k5cGJXRm5aWE12ZDJWaWMybDBaUzh5TURJeUxUQTFMMlpzTXpFeU1UVTRPRE13T0RFdGFXMWhaMlV1YW5Cbi0xMDI0eDY4My5qcGciLCJ0eHQiOiJ5b3UnbGwganVzdCBjYXJlIG1vcmUgaWYgaXRzIHlvdXIgdGhpbmciLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImZ1bGxzY3JlZW4iLCJibG9nX2lkIjo3NDA3NDI0OH0.WNG9NhzVQsHLFONG5MU8TEcqBUInUj7kZkUJPpR9s7YMQ) Source: Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For? – Matthias Ott Also on: