November 2024 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Interesting older Movies (pre-2000)

2024-11-24

Sometimes it's strange which movies «the young generation» know and which they do not know. Well, here are a few that are well-worth watching.
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Free RSS Reader for Mac

2024-11-24

RSS readers are a great way to stay up-to-date with academic journals, blogs, YouTube videos, and much more.
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Everything in this world tries to make you fat and lazy

2024-11-24

That advertisement is manipulating us isn't new, but since when is everything trying to make us fat and lazy?
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Earplugs in a Ballet Performance

2024-11-24

If you are watching a ballet performance, ear plugs might be surprisingly useful.
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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Distributed AIs to Bypass Ethical Restrictions

2024-11-24

Perhaps one way for an AI to bypass restrictions is by simple division of labor.
Image: «Mass Effect 2»
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Dealing with Images in Obsidian — identifying duplicates, checking the extension, quickly resorting them in a gallery

2024-11-24

If you collect a lot of images, you might have duplicates. If you want to identify them, a simple R script can help. And it can resort them and more.
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A Tale of Two Car Ads

2024-11-22

Two different approaches to advertising cars.
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Recommendation: American Thought Leaders – Restoring Free Speech in Academia – Jay Bhattacharya

2024-11-22

Interesting interview on what went wrong in Academia during Covid.
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What if DOGE works?

2024-11-22

Just imagine if something that bureaucrats and politicians could not achieve for ages, is done in less than two years by two geeks on a mission.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Month: November 2024

Interesting older Movies (pre-2000)

Everything in this world tries to make you fat and lazy

Earplugs in a Ballet Performance

Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

Distributed AIs to Bypass Ethical Restrictions

Dealing with Images in Obsidian — identifying duplicates, checking the extension, quickly resorting them in a gallery

A Tale of Two Car Ads

Recommendation: American Thought Leaders – Restoring Free Speech in Academia – Jay Bhattacharya

What if DOGE works?