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jm3 / README.md
Last active July 24, 2026 14:16
Cognitive Bias Codex
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jm3 / 7 Questions All Businesses Must Answer.md
Last active April 16, 2026 13:57
from Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One
pt Seven Questions All Businesses Must Answer
  1. The Engineering Question: Can you create breakthrough technology (vs. incremental improvement)?

  2. The Timing Question: Is now the right time to start this particular business?

  3. The Monopoly Question: Are you starting with a big share of a small market?

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jm3 / patents.md
Last active January 6, 2026 16:28
140 Proof Patents
US8751305: Targeting Users Based On Persona Data, AKA “Persona Matching”

A method of targeted advertisement distribution based on persona data derived from a social network, wherein the social network includes a plurality of content streams, each content stream associated with a user and a user summary. The method includes the steps of receiving an advertisement request from a third party environment with associated content, identifying a content stream that includes a reference to the third party content, identifying a persona based on the user associated with the identified content stream, and serving an advertisement to the third party environment based on the identified persona.

CATEGORIES:

  • 705/14.67: Data Processing: Ads: Personalized ad
US0153423: User-Centric Summaries for Content Distribution, AKA “Keyword Summaries”
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jm3 / looking for the mouse.md
Last active December 26, 2025 00:20
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, or, “Looking for the Mouse”

Clay Shirky / April 26, 2008

transcription of a speech [Clay Shirky] gave at the Web 2.0 in 2008, emphasis by @jm3

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of th

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jm3 / DHS-flagged-word-list.md
Last active October 4, 2025 01:53
DHS flagged word list

via: Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED.pdf and the Daily Mail UK

In addition to the following list of terms, the DHS can also add additional search terms circumstantially as deemed necessary.

DHS Media Monitoring Terms

2.13 Key Words & Search Terms

This is a current list of terms that will be used by the NOC when monitoring

Myths Hackers Believe About Names
  1. People have exactly one "official" full name.
  2. People have exactly one full name which they go by.
  3. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name.
  4. People have exactly N names, for any value of N.
  5. People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.
  6. People’s names do not change.
  7. People’s names are written in ASCII.
  8. People’s names are written in any single character set.
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jm3 / GoT-house-words.md
Last active June 6, 2025 14:52
House mottoes from Game of Thrones

House Mottos from Game of Thrones

IN THE AREA OF KING'S LANDING

  • House Targaryen of King's Landing - Fire and Blood
  • House Buckwell of the Antlers - Pride and Purpose
  • House Follard - None so Wise
  • House Stokeworth of Stokeworth - Proud to Be Faithful
  • House Wendwater - For All Seasons
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jm3 / uninstall-foreign-fonts.sh
Created August 27, 2015 04:06
uninstall the 162 non-English fonts that Apple installs that clog up Photoshop's font menu.
#!/bin/sh
# jm3.net
# uninstall the 162 non-English fonts that Apple installs that clog up Photoshop's font menu.
# ========================
## RUN AT YOUR OWN RISK ##
# ========================
# if this formats your hard drive or deletes your fonts or changes the sex
# of your dog, I'm super sorry, but there's nothing I can do.