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I reopened MeatballWiki during the pandemic. I need to clean it up. -- SunirShah

Mission

Some ideas

Online community

I'm doing a lot of online community management work with https://www.HuckAI.com, and I think pragmatically I can still organize patterns and concepts somewhere. Here's as good a place as any.

LifeInText

I think fundamentally I am still interested in the question of LifeInText, or more accurately LifeInCybertext? or LifeInHypertext?. With ArtificialIntelligence progressing and my own age showing, I have been thinking about the progression of the human spirit. We have id, ego, superego, social reality, and an emerging cyberego.

Id. Our emotional and instinctual self, driven by basic urges and desires (pleasure principle).

Ego. The story we tell ourselves, which mediates between the Id and reality (reality principle).

Superego. Our internalized ideals and moral standards, which also include our imagination of what we think others expect from us (moral principle).

Social reality. What is actually being said and done by others around us.

Cyberego. The persona and identity shaped by our interactions with software, AI, and digital environments.

Wikipedia and the InternetArchive?

The staff at Wikipedia seems freaked out about its future in the face of AI and the changing search algorithms cutting their traffic and donation stream down. I'd normally let this go if it was any other company, but Wikipedia is not a company. It's a project of humanity. Maybe it's worth leaning into that project again.

Timeline

I'd like to rebuild the site by the end of 2024. That's my goal. I just need to commit a week to it.

Technical

Rewrite the backend

AlicePurcell? made progress. I have to have a go at her code. Maybe I'll switch to doing it all in Javascript so I can use Node+Express+React. I know there's newer stuff out there, but that's where I am with my skill set.

Authentication

SoftSecurity isn't sufficient. I think logins are required.

Marketing

Reach out to alumni

I'll reach out to alumni to let them know this thing is alive.

Don't care?

I don't know if I care deeply if people come or not right now. I just need to write in public.