Jon Minton
jonminton.bsky.social
Jon Minton
@jonminton.bsky.social
Senior Statistician. Eclectic public and population health background. Very reluctant Twitter refugee. Distant memories of academia. “Evidence informed contrarian”
If it’s like Among Us, Werewolf, etc, I’m guessing almost everyone is little better than chance in their guesses - because lying and lie-detecting were stuck in an evolutionary arms race for millions of years - but comes up with a lot of reasonable sounding explanations for their decisions?
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Long stolen antiques roadshow: set in the British Museum?
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
9️⃣ Even nice guys "trade up" - Despite his idealism, TBL's personal life follows familiar patterns of successful men through serial monogamy
October 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
8️⃣ Apps as walled gardens - Mobile apps became profit-driven gatekeepers,
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
7️⃣ Data ownership revolution - His current passion: SOLID pods that would give individuals ownership and control over their personal data
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
6️⃣ Household microcultures matter - TBL's eccentric brilliance flourished in a family that encouraged unconventional pursuits without judgment
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
4️⃣ Information, not engagement - TBL designed the web for information discovery (like Wikipedia), not the addictive engagement models dominating today's commercial web
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
3️⃣ Dancing between structures - The US capitalized on Europe's invention because it balanced top-down internet infrastructure with bottom-up university experimentation
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
1️⃣ Purpose over profit - TBL chose to keep the web open and free rather than monetize it, prioritizing universal access over personal wealth
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This seems borderline religious thinking, essentially posing Antifa as a kind of Satanic presence
October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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!)
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM