JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Should have stopped 1/3rd of the way into the transcript. Thanks for sharing.
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#73What a profoundly interesting man. Here's a bit more for those interested in his work:
Forbes: Why Spy?
by John Perry Barlow, 10.07.02
https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042_print.html
Grateful Dead Lyricist and Burning Man's Co-Founder Talk Tech
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#74JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Audio version (with JPB himself):
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-three
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#75Here's a link to his "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" from 1996, published 22 years ago tomorrow: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence I always loved these bits: "Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications." And: "Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing…
This declaration sounds like an excuse to surf cp
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot and we eventually ban accounts that do that.
The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
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#76I've posted this on HN before, but his introduction to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is highly worth reading. Among other things he talks about how (after entirely too much acid) he was planning on becoming America's first suicide bomber, to protest the Vietnam war, but got caught by his friends at the last minute: http://realitysandwich.com/34204/beginning_birth_psychedelic... Fortunately for the rest of us he ende…
You are right. Just a beautiful piece. Full of insight and connections to the many other stories from that time.
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#77I never got to meet JPB, but I was lucky enough to attend his keynote at PyCon 2014 in Montreal. It's a great talk, should you have a spare 45 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVzb5YXmeo He is (indirectly) responsible for the existence of a hackerspace in Fresno, CA. Last year a few of us got together to talk about starting a chapter of the Electronic Frontier Alliance. That conversation morphed into, "fuck…
That was a great little corner of the universe to occupy. That was the first talk at the first conference to which Chelsea and I traveled. And also where my friendship with you began in earnest. Incredible.
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#78JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and former rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist
Now that's a life lived.
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#79JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Well, I wasn't prepared for that. Almost skipped over it, so anyone else trailing through who catches this, go and read it.
Holy crap. Thanks for the pointer.
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#80JPB did a really great audio walking tour of SF's Knob Hill & Tenderloin. It's in the Detour iOS app.