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Jon Minton
@jonminton.bsky.social
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Senior Statistician. Eclectic public and population health background. Very reluctant Twitter refugee. Distant memories of academia. “Evidence informed contrarian”

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
9️⃣ Even nice guys "trade up" - Despite his idealism, TBL's personal life follows familiar patterns of successful men through serial monogamy

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
8️⃣ Apps as walled gardens - Mobile apps became profit-driven gatekeepers,

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
7️⃣ Data ownership revolution - His current passion: SOLID pods that would give individuals ownership and control over their personal data

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
6️⃣ Household microcultures matter - TBL's eccentric brilliance flourished in a family that encouraged unconventional pursuits without judgment

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
5️⃣ The semantic web's legacy - While TBL's vision for machine-readable data didn't materialize as hoped, it may have prevented today's eloquent but unreliable LLMs

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
4️⃣ Information, not engagement - TBL designed the web for information discovery (like Wikipedia), not the addictive engagement models dominating today's commercial web

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
3️⃣ Dancing between structures - The US capitalized on Europe's invention because it balanced top-down internet infrastructure with bottom-up university experimentation

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
2️⃣ The myth of efficiency - CERN's "inefficient" tolerance of TBL's experimentation gave birth to the web, suggesting rigid organizational efficiency can kill innovation

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
1️⃣ Purpose over profit - TBL chose to keep the web open and free rather than monetize it, prioritizing universal access over personal wealth

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
Here’s Claude’s scarily accurate summary of my 9 ideas:
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
Nine thoughts and ideas inspired by reading Tim Berners-Lee's This is for Everyone: (From Monetisation to Marriage Markets)

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 22h
Nine thoughts and ideas inspired by reading Tim Berners-Lee's This is for Everyone: (From Monetisation to Marriage Markets)

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 3d
This seems borderline religious thinking, essentially posing Antifa as a kind of Satanic presence

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 3d
Has the child prodigy who made the game Theme Park in 1994 ‘solved intelligence’?

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 3d
New blog post: the man who solved intelligence - Demis Hassabis and the Thinking Game:

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(I’m not even sure the title is hyperbole…)
Jon Minton’s Blog - The Man Who Solved Intelligence
Some thoughts on Demis Hassabis and The Thinking Game
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · 19d
Hasn’t it been a centuries-long convention that writers for the Economist tend to be anonymous or pseudonymous? (Which in a way seems oddly collectivist/socialist given the magazine’s title!)

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Sep 8
I’ve written about this game as a way of thinking about modern gaming conventions :

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Jon Minton’s Blog - Remembering KGB: 1992’s subtly terrifying social poison simulator
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Sep 7
KGB: 1992’s subtly terrifying social poison simulator:

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Jon Minton’s Blog - Remembering KGB: 1992’s subtly terrifying social poison simulator
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Sep 6
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · Sep 6
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Sep 1
I like Andy Weir’s books despite and because of their formulaic Robinson-Crusoe-in-Space structure. I’d call them ‘Eng-Fi’ more than Sci-Fi, but as the term doesn’t exist I guess they’re good Sci-Fi too!

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 24
I’ve now written about two books worth of idiosyncratic nerdery:

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Aug 21
🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨

I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America.

In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks
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Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 21
@helenlewis.bsky.social and you are, of course, a *much* better pop science writer than this guy:

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(Though there I sort of argue Hari’s more a pop mythologist who’s decided to use ‘science’ as his storytelling clay)
Jon Minton’s Blog - Johan Hari: Superior Inferior Superior Storyteller
…and some thoughts about how new anti-obesity drugs could affect the UK
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 20
Many thanks. It was a joy to read and debate with myself about, which I guess was largely the intent of the post. (Once published, I’m not sure if it being read or not is the better outcome!)
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 20
I wonder what Greek people say when they don’t like or understand algebra…

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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 20
Some thoughts on, and inspired by, Helen Lewis’ The Genius Myth:

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Jon Minton’s Blog - Some thoughts on The Genius(*) Myth: A Review and a Reverie
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 14
Likewise. He was selling some of his artworks after the show. I was very tempted but realised it was for no good reason and that in buying some pieces I’d be speculating on his health. (Also he didn’t seem to have a card reader.)

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · Aug 14
The Microphones of Edinburgh: A memoir
The mic stand of Jain Edwards. Two cloth covered tables are also shown The mic stand of Ian Smith at the monkey barrel The mic stand and set props of Simon Munnery The mic stand of Marjolein Robertson and that is also her on stage covered with a sheet. Spoilers sorry
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 4
Thanks. The (of course morbid) thought I keep having about perinatal mortality risk is it must surely extrapolate somewhat further to the left, to the days, weeks and months *before* birth too
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Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social · Aug 1
What does the square root of ANS actually sell?