Diary (May 28, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday May 28, 2020.
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Minneapolis riots
Screenshot of web search results for "Minneapolis News":
Captain Crunch with Crichtonberries
Captain Crunch with Crichtonberries!
The adverbial form of corollary
What is the adverbial form of "corollary"?
Reducing phantom traffic jams is like seizing power in a rebellion
Boing Boing reports: What are "phantom traffic jams" and how can technology get rid of them?
Interestingly, models have shown had just one self-driving vehicle for every 20 human-driven vehicles can dampen a stop-and-go phantom traffic jam wave.
I am reminded of this passage from John Brunner’s The Jagged Orbit (1969):
[Tactics by which rebels seize power] go way way back to the industrial unrests of the nineteenth century, at least, and probably a good deal further. What [fictional rebel Morton Lenigo] did in Britain followed exactly the same pattern. He exploited the long-standing truth that if you can get five percent of the population behind any movement, whether it’s pro or anti, you can bring down governments.
- Comment @ Boing Boing