James Wood aka u/Wooden_Underpants has a small typewriter repair service in Mallorca.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wt5isk/my_first_official_client_and_thank_you/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1381074304211340/

I was an IM rating in the Navy. As a instrument repairman I was responsible for repairing typewriters of all types regardless of the make or model as well as adding machines and the calculators of the time like the mighty Monroe 1000 gear long division moving carriage machine.<br /> I retained many special tools and books and have knowledge that will go away when I die

https://www.youtube.com/@Woodys-corner<br /> James Wood, typewriter collector<br /> aka u/Wooden_Underpants on Reddit aka elwoody.typewriters on Instagram

match via<br /> - https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wbs1wq/day_in_the_life/ - https://www.instagram.com/p/DdEvO6Aol-j/?hl=en

James Wood, typewriter collector<br /> aka u/Wooden_Underpants<br /> https://www.youtube.com/@Woodys-corner<br /> match via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wbs1wq/day_in_the_life/

https://www.douglassfh.com/obituary/james-munkres

Conclusion

The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education is open-ended enough for us to try new things in our teaching, explore new tools and new ways of helping students to understand the information in the world around them. These are just a few ways that we see how the Framework addresses ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. When we first were looking at this issue, we took a highlighter to the Framework document

and made several dozen connections, and we’re sure that’s not all. In looking at these tools through the lens of the Framework, we can see both the promise and the pitfalls. Ultimately, there must be instruction about these tools: how they were developed, the ethics surrounding their use, and the specificity of the ways they can both help and hurt students. While we are aware that it can seem burdensome to add “one more thing” onto the plate of librarians who provide information literacy instruction, we urge librarians to have discussions with their faculty partners to share the burden of instruction. We are also confident that instruction librarians will create lesson plans that teach about or use ChatGPT in library instruction and will share them with their peers at places like Project CORA, the Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox, and other lesson plan repositories.

Searching as Strategic Exploration

The Searching as Strategic Exploration frame describes searching as “nonlinear and iterative, requiring the evaluation of a range of information sources and the mental flexibility to pursue alternate avenues as new understanding develops.”13 This section is a succinct summary of why we as librarians provide information literacy instruction. We work with students to increase their information literacy skills and subsequently an awareness of the scholarly conversation that is taking place around them, something that ChatGPT will not do. ChatGPT will not teach students how to evaluate itself. Librarians are still necessary to encourage learners to evaluate the information sources and tools that may not be familiar to them. For example, many students enter college having never searched for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles, so that skill may be entirely new to them. Their range of information sources grows when, through our instruction, we help them see the value in using academic databases for finding the information that they need in an effective, efficient manner. In addition, they will most likely have to take another look at their use of Wikipedia. Through information literacy instruction, they will gain a new understanding of how to use it effectively in a higher education context. ChatGPT is a brand-new source for information and our understanding of it is still developing. Our job, as teaching librarians, is not to shun the tool, but to embrace it and guide students toward using the tool responsibly and ethically. As with any new tool, librarians, as well as students, will need to show their flexibility and adapt to these new tools and resources as they become available.

Scholarship as Conversation

“Learners who are developing their information literate abilities see themselves as contributors to scholarship rather than only consumers of it.”12 This disposition from the Scholarship as Conversation frame, which shows up similarly in Information has Value, means that students are able to see themselves as a part of the scholarly conversation through the ways they critically examine, interact, and synthesize course and research materials, along with how they can contribute their own ideas and research through writing, presenting, and publishing. Whether students are intending to pursue further academic study or not, their voices are valuable in the conversation. This is where we urge caution in the use of ChatGPT, which may undermine the development of their academic voice. On the extreme end, there will be students who use ChatGPT to generate an essay to turn in, and on the other end, there will be students who use it with great skill to enhance or refine their writing, to find a starting place for scattered thoughts, or to break out of creative blocks. As we teach about how students can join the scholarly conversation with their own voice, we need to emphasize the use of ChatGPT as a supportive resource, along with librarians, and other academic mentors.

Introduction

The above screenshot (figure 1) was what was generated when we asked ChatGPT, the generative AI system that has been the subject of a thousand hot takes about how it’s disrupting academia-as-we-know-it, to describe itself for an academic librarian audience. Perhaps it’s learning a bit too much from the public relations documents that were a part of the vast amounts of data it was trained on, when it describes itself as “highly relevant,” “invaluable,” and “accurate.” It did not, however, bring up the caveat that greets you when you open up ChatGPT itself: that it “may occasionally generate incorrect information,” that it “may occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content,” or that it has “limited knowledge of the world and events after 2021.”1 In addition, it doesn’t bring up the reddest of academic red flags—that ChatGPT provides an easy way for students to cheat and plagiarize. The Atlantic has claimed that because of ChatGPT and other AI, “the undergraduate essay [which] has been at the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations

. . . is about to be disrupted from the ground up.”2 A writer at Times Higher Education has suggested that allowing AI to replace a student’s creative voice means “abandoning our responsibilities as educators.”3 For as many handwringing accounts of how generative AI will destroy academia, there seem to be twice as many researchers, teachers, technologists, and pundits embracing what AI (and specifically ChatGPT) can do for teaching and learning. They suggest using it for overcoming writer’s block, generating outlines, creating summaries, generating prompts for discussion, asking for definitions, or generating flawed examples for critique.4 One compelling argument by Christopher Grobe in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that what generative AI can help us with is to “provide new starting points for some of the processes we routinely use to think.”5 We agree with Grobe’s argument that ChatGPT can give us a good starting point from which to work. The text generated by ChatGPT in the screenshot at the start of this article is an overly optimistic and idealized view of itself. We hope that in this article we can add the nuance that it lacks. Academic librarians serve their students and faculty to help them navigate the research process. Therefore, when a new technological tool blazes through higher education, as ChatGPT has over the last few months, it becomes increasingly important that librarians are aware of the tool and its uses so that they can serve their students and faculty. After decades of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education was established with a much more flexible route for integration into curricula. The Framework provides librarians and disciplinary faculty with a customizable way to provide information literacy instruction that meets the needs of students and enables them to become participants in the information that they are producing (not just consuming). Because of the Framework’s flexible nature, librarians can incorporate new technology, like ChatGPT, more easily into their instruction. We have found that the idea of ChatGPT (and generative AI more broadly) can be connected to many of the knowledge practices and dispositions from the six frames of the ACRL Framework. In some places, the Framework enables us to embrace ChatGPT as an exciting new tool that adds value to information literacy instruction. In other places, the Framework’s discussions of evaluating authority and examining bias shines light on the inherent flaws of ChatGPT. In the next section, we will review each of the frames and discuss how ChatGPT fits into each of those Frames.

Research as Inquiry

One of the knowledge practices for the Research as Inquiry frame states that “learners who are developing their information literate abilities deal with complex research by breaking complex questions into simple ones, limiting the scope of investigations.”11 We have found that students will often come to research consultations or library instruction sessions with broad or vague research questions that they often do not know how to simplify or narrow down to research writing sufficiently scoped to a level that they can tackle in five to eight pages. While they might be interested in, let’s say, “the problem of poverty” or “the abortion debate,” they cannot digest the enormous amount of research in multiple academic

disciplines that have attempted to address these types of questions. This is where we believe ChatGPT can help students (and even seasoned researchers) in generating ways to break complex problems down. ChatGPT can help refine research questions, determine search terms, come up with synonyms and related terms or phrases for searching, help decide which databases to search, generate textual concept maps, and even help generate citations. For example, here was the response it gave when we asked it “What search terms should we use for our hypothetical research question, ‘why aren’t college athletes paid?’”

ChatGPT can also create textual concept maps to help think through various aspects of a research topic. This can be useful for students who need to narrow or refine their topic. Simply asking the AI to help narrow a research topic can be useful as it will give you a variety of ways to explore a topic. For example, we asked it to help us narrow our search on why college athletes aren’t paid, and it gave us detailed options in an easy-to-read format:

You can see clearly how ChatGPT can help students push past that inquiry threshold. Often, they don’t even know where to start in their search for information, or how to probe the nuances or facets of a large complex question for a scope they can grasp. Instead of typing their entire research question into Google or a database (as we have all seen students do) and having to sift through a mountain of results, they can type it into ChatGPT and ask “How do I start searching? Where could I go from here? What’s manageable?” As students are growing in their information literacy abilities, ChatGPT can help scaffold their skills enabling them to accomplish this task more confidently in the future. One caveat that always bears repeating: ChatGPT has biases. It is trained on a large dataset of material from the internet. It may not produce underrepresented or less well-researched aspects of a topic. Because of this, it is important for students to explore topics holistically, with ChatGPT as one tool in their toolbelt.

Information has Value

The Information has Value frame indicates that learners who are developing their information literacy skills need to “learn the importance of giving credit to the original ideas of others through proper attribution and citation.”10 As more learners use ChatGPT for citation assistance, they will need to be extremely careful to verify accuracy of all citations. As explained above, ChatGPT does not always provide factual information. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to give you a list of scholarly articles on a particular topic, it will list articles with full citations, including DOIs. The articles appear to be related titles from reputable-sounding journals. However, if you Google each of the articles, you will discover that some of them do not exist. ChatGPT will automatically generate nonexistent articles through predictive language modeling, making article titles appear genuine, even if they are not. If you ask it to give you citations for scholarly articles on the topic of higher education and information literacy, it will give you several citations that look very convincing. Here is an example:

If a student were to take this AI response and incorporate those citations into a paper or assignment, they would include some nonexistent articles. Students citing articles they have not read of course is a problem, but students citing fake articles that cannot be read compounds the problem. As students become creators of information themselves, they will need to accurately cite all information that they use, not only for the ethical and moral good, but also for the sake of their own reputation in their field(s). ChatGPT is a minefield when it comes to citation, and we would not recommend students use it for that purpose. However, asking ChatGPT to generate citations like this in an in-class exercise and discussing the results with students can help them to see the minefield for what it is and navigate around it.

Authority is Constructed and Contextual

The Authority is Constructed and Contextual frame states that learners who are growing their information literate abilities “develop awareness of the importance of assessing content with a skeptical stance and with a self-awareness of their own biases and worldview.”6 On the opening screen, ChatGPT provides a disclaimer to let users know that the information that it provides may contain biases and that it has a limited knowledge of current events. As the usage of ChatGPT increases it will become even more important that students know how to evaluate whether information that they come across is authoritative within the context of their research. Students need to recognize that bias is everywhere and ChatGPT is getting information that exists out on the open web. Much of the information that it produces derives from text from political organizations, nonprofits, companies, and individuals, and this context shapes the model’s output. ChatGPT is built on predictive

language modeling, which means it generates natural sounding language, not necessarily factual language. Students should always approach information, from ChatGPT or elsewhere, with skepticism.

Information Creation as a Process

As with any new technology, there will be people who are hesitant adopters. In the early 2000s many librarians were skeptical of students using Wikipedia. Now we realize that we need to be instructing students about the proper use of Wikipedia, rather than banning it. One of the dispositions for the Information Creation as a Process frame states that “learners who are developing their information literate abilities accept the ambiguity surrounding the potential value of information creation expressed in emerging formats or modes.”7 To us, this is direct confirmation that ChatGPT has a place in the library instruction classroom, both for its use in instruction and for discussion with students. Librarians should absolutely be talking about it with students, trying it out, and discovering together what those problems and promises are. In particular, students should be made aware of the machine learning process: tools like ChatGPT are trained on large amounts of textual data in an iterative process, whereby it “learns” from this data over time. This process is very similar to how information literate scholars learn, research, create, write, and refine their ideas over time, as presented in this frame. The frame challenges us that “the dynamic nature of information creation and dissemination requires ongoing attention to understand evolving creation processes.”8 A technology columnist for The New York Times advised his readers along the same lines: “today’s students will graduate into a world full of generative A.I. programs. They’ll need to know their way around these tools—their strengths and weaknesses, their hallmarks and blind spots—in order to work alongside them. To be good citizens, they’ll need hands-on experience to understand how this type of A.I. works, what types of bias it contains, and how it can be misused and weaponized.”9 It is imperative librarians bring students to that attention about the process of creating information through ChatGPT and similar AI models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_A._Talese

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10164017890544678/

Ellroy's Red Sheets (Knopf, 2026) mentions fictional typewriters Olivetti 2119, Underwood Selectronic, and the IBM Officemaster.

Hammer for typewriter technology, naturally!

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1vc5bd4/happy_65th_birthday_to_the_ibm_selectric/

Poem read as bedtime story in The Waltons S1 E2 "The Carnival" by John Boy to the kids as he put them to bed.

He only read part of one stanza, namely:

An’ they seeked him in the rafter-room, an’ cubby-hole, an’ press,<br /> An’ seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an’ ever’wheres, I guess;<br /> But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout-- An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you<br /> Ef you Don’t Watch Out!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-rea-03a67a6/

Northeast Typewriter Exchange is opening 2026-07-18

Utterly Absurd Contractor Behind Reflecting Pool Renovation Disaster<br /> by [[Rachel Kahn]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-19T13:06:37

It was so important for Trump to have the reflecting pool be blue that they stupidly hired "Greenwater Services" with a no-bid contract.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163275741574678/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1221203766865062/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanval

Little st.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-whitcomb-riley

https://sophsun1.tumblr.com/post/805029439375310848/misery-1990-dir-rob-reiner

James Moylan obituary: Ford designer who invented fuel arrow<br /> by [[David Phillips]] Automotive News on 2025-12-23<br /> accessed on 2026-01-04T12:46:35

Die FPÖ-Politiker Harald Vilimsky und Roman Haider haben dem Chef des Heartland Institutes, James Taylor, den Weg als Lobbyist in das EU Parlament gebahnt. Heartland Institute und FPÖ-Abgeordnete bemühen sich intensiv, mit Desinformation gegen den Green Deal vorzugehen, u.a. duch Beeinflussung ungarischer Abgeordneter. Auch auf der Llimaleugner-Konferenz in Maria Enzersdorf im Juni ist Taylor aufgetreten. Die Heartland-Thesen finden sich im Wahlprogramm der FPÖ. Hintergrundbericht von Benedikt Narodoslawsky. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000237376/mein-freund-harald-fpoe-ebnete-klimaleugner-lobby-den-weg-ins-eu-parlament

for - Medium article - cogress - Part 1 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - definition - cogress - to - Medium article cogress - Part 2 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/t8FhpDGAEfC4J7f0NEFujg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-2-d6fd075a55c7 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap - from - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress - https://hyp.is/r-hmFtjKEfCd8odATbINbA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhmWEDkZUQ

for - paper - The emergence of egalitarianism in a model of early human societies (2017) - author - Guillaume Calmettes - James N. Weiss

for - from - James Hansen 2025 Finland talk - https://hyp.is/DjPP3tTVEfCcLT9Y2FXzLg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2abyXGvELI

for - climate crisis - youtube - James Hansen 2025 October 24 - Climate Reckoning

SRG comment - to - Climate Emergency Forum - analysis of Hansen's paper - https://hyp.is/8JdPEtTqEfCjYTMZfYavLA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVw6gIP7JUw

for - climate crisis - opinion - James Hansen - won't be solve as long as - there is special interest - controlling government

for - climate crisis - power of young people to affect politics - create party which takes no money - young people don't need - opinion - James Hansen

SRG comment - James Hansen - youth and politics -TPF - cISTP -TPF as a vehicle

for - climate crisis - politics - the power of young people - James Hansen

for - example - power of young people - in voting - Bernie Sanders - cited by - James Hansen

for - example - power of young people - in voting - Obama - cited by - James Hansen

for - quote - young people - need to get money out of politics - James Hansen

for - two party system - false dichotomy - opinion - James Hansen

for - quote - Multilateralism - China - James Hansen - If we treat China like an enemy, then they become an enemy

for - James Hansen - youtube - The truth about global warming

Transcript

2:47 We do not have to wait 10 years to conclude that we have reached 1.5 Degrees of warming. Satelllite data shows that earth is strongly out of energy balance.

3:09 An important factor is that IPCC's best estimate of climate sensitivity is a substantial underestimate. I will show that tomorrow in several independent ways.

3:28 Climate sensitivity is probably between 4 and 5 degrees Celcius for doubled CO2 rather than 3 degrees

4:28 What we witness now is scientific reticence on steroids, perhaps because IPCC was granted the position of supreme authority

4:43 But in science, supreme authority is not granted to anyone. Galileo proved that.

4:55 An example of expert herd mentality is the response to our global warming acceleration paper which Annie was coauthor on. The next day, these experts condemned our paper in the media.

5:26 Not one of them discussed the physics in our paper or explained what was wrong. Instead there were ad hominem remarks.

5:51 What could the media do They dropped the paper.

Of space, time, and typewriters<br /> by [[Rebecca Ritzel]] for the JHU Hub<br /> accessed on 2025-12-06T20:51:49

McCord, James Newton. 1920. A Textbook of Filing. D. Appleton. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Textbook_of_Filing/SBowAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.

There’s No Doubt About It. The Great MAGA Crack-Up Has Begun<br /> by [[Michael Tomasky]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2025-11-28T12:40:54

Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson<br /> by [[Lior Pachter]] on Bits of DNA<br /> accessed on 2025-11-08T22:43:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSTSs7zLIo&t=41s James Patterson uses a Triumph Perfekt from the early 1950s

via https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162403163204678/

Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)<br /> by [[Stephen Wolfram]] in blog: Stephen Wolfram Writings<br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:44:18

https://youtu.be/qhD9XzCJCCw?si=sHmdHCS_3ifLd8pg&t=167

Typewriter Artist Creates Meticulously Detailed Cityscapes and Portraits [Interview] by [[Emma Taggart]]

The Point of a College Education by [[C-SPAN]]

Orson Welles quote about so many of him and so few of you at a lecture to 3-4 people in a snow storm.

statistics about the drops in humanities (~42:00)

consumerist spirit in higher education (45:00)

student evaluations (47:00)

education is a buyer's market now instead of a seller's as it had been in past generations

grade inflation

consumerism with respect to feminism and women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, multiculturalism in higher education

radical education as "going to the root"

in short, "let us entertain you" as consumerist education

"The job o education is never finished."

The hidden point of a University of Chicago education: Be an artist, be a scientist, be a statesman, be a teacher of artists, scientists, or statesmen.

for - adjacency - intelligence - testing William James definition of inteligence - Picasso tadpole - artificially mixed up initial tadpole embryo state - to normal frog state - collective intelligence has problem-soving ability that chooses a different pathway to achieve the same goal

for - definition - intelligence - William James - The ability to reach the same goal by different means - adjacency - intelligence - goals

observation - by this definition, goals are intrinsic to life itself

for - definition - cogress - Medium article - Cogress - Part 2 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - from - Medium article - Cogress - Part 1 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/_Nyg2DF_EfCBeu_iuDroYg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-1-5159a575e1c4 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap

Drei führende Klimawissenschaftler kritisieren die Illusion der "Net Zero-Politiken", die darauf setzen, das 1,5°-Ziel durch die Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu erreichen. Sie werfen vielen ihrer KollegInnen vor, unrealistischen Konzepten nicht offen entgegenzutreten, um ihren politischen Einfluss nicht zu verlieren. Sie kritisieren auch die bisherigen Integrated Assessment Models des Weltklimarats, die von der Voraussetzung ausgehen würde, die Klimakatastrophe ließe sich mit marktwirtschaftlichen Mitteln beheben und fordern auf, deutlich zu sagen, dass sich eine Erhitzung der Erde auf 3 und mehr Grad nicht durch kleine Schritte, sondern nur durch einen Bruch mit dem bisherigen Wirtschaftssystem erreichen lässt.

Anstatt uns unseren Zweifeln zu stellen, beschlossen wir Wissenschaftler, immer aufwändigere Fantasiewelten zu konstruieren, in denen wir sicher wären. Der Preis, den wir für unsere Feigheit zahlen mussten: Wir mussten den Mund halten über die immer größer werdende Absurdität der geforderten Kohlendioxid-Entfernung im planetarischen Maßstab.

Greta Thunberg hat diesen Aufsatz als einen wichtigsten und informativsten Texte zur Klima- und ökologischen Krise bezeichnet.

Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap. Thread von Greta dazu auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385869663188492290

for - question - are you asking metaphorically or literally? - James Lovelock' Gaia Hypothesis?

https://climateuncensored.com/has-global-warming-accelerated-a-short-response-to-hansen-et-al/

Zeigt, wie ich finde, sehr gut die Aporien und die Möglichkeiten einer linken Politik angesichts der Klimakrise. Dabei gibt es viele Bezüge zum Buch Klamot Leroyanfern. Wenn Wright sucht eine Position, jenseits einer im weitesten sind kinesianischen Politik und auch einer neoninistischen Politik. Es gibt viele Bezüge zu den Sapatisten und ähnlichen Bewegungen. Argument für eine radikal alternative Praxis ist, dass alle existierenden Politik die Klimakrise nicht aufhalten werden.

https://territories.substack.com/p/hell-is-truth-seen-too-late

Reply to Gertina Blanket on LinkedIn:

Jij legt in één klap uit datgene wat ik nooit goed heb begrepen uit de literatuur... Het verschil tussen interleaving en varied practice (die vaak als hetzelfde worden gebruikt in de "volksmond").

Het een gaat over verschillende hoeken kijken naar hetzelfde idee (varied practice) terwijl het ander gaat over verschillende maar soortgelijke ideëen (interleaving), bijvoorbeeld meerdere soorten wiskunde (algebra, trigonometrie, etc.).

Hierbij wil ik uiteraard wel zeggen dat blocked practice niet per se direct toegepast moet worden als het over automatisering gaat -- de cognitieve schemata moeten eerst goed gevormd zijn. Zie ook 4C/ID (Ten Steps to Complex Learning). Ofwel, eerst goede encoding + retrieval (Spaced Interleaved Retrieval, mindmapping, etc.) en dan focus op "drilling" / knowledge fluency.

Het sneller maken / automatiseren heeft geen enkel nut als het begrip er nog niet goed in zit. Dit moet geverifiëerd worden.

Kennis is natuurlijk ook erg interdisciplinair. Ik wordt er extreem blij van als ik een link leg tussen een boek over filosofie en efficiënt leren/onderwijs bijvoorbeeld.

Zo las ik ooit een boek over romeinse oratoren met een misleidende titel "How to Win an Argument" van Marcus Tullius Cicero, vertaald door James M. May, en hierin kwam ik tegen dat de oude Romeinen al door hadden dat LOGICA is wat het brein doet onthouden, en dit hoeft dus geen objective logica te zijn maar meer een correcte reflectie van hoe je eigen geest werkt en verbanden legt.

Dit is direct in lijn met wat ik weet van cognitieve leerpsychologie en mijn klein beetje kennis van neurowetenschap (waar ik dit jaar dieper in wil duiken).

Informatie in isolatie is nooit stevig, het moet zich vastklampen aan ankers en andere kennis (voorkennis eventueel), en de lerende (niet de onderwijzende) moet actief bezig zijn om deze verbanden te leggen.

Zoals ik wel vaker quote van Dr. Sönke Ahrens: "The one who does the effort does the learning."

Als ik een boek lees denk ik automatisch aan hoe ik dit kan relateren aan wat al in mijn second mind (Zettelkasten) zit. Ik denk niet meer linear, alleen maar non-linear. Standaard in verbanden.

Hier wat bronnen (impliciet) genoemd: - Cicero, M. T. (2016). How to win an argument: An ancient guide to the art of persuasion (J. M. May, Trans.). Princeton University Press. - Ahrens, S. (2017). How to take smart notes: One simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking: for students, academics and nonfiction book writers. CreateSpace. - fast, sascha. (100 C.E., 45:02). English Translation of All Notes on Zettelkasten by Luhmann. Zettelkasten Method. https://zettelkasten.de/posts/luhmanns-zettel-translated/ - Luhmann, N. (1981a). Communicating with Slip Boxes (M. Kuehn, Trans.). 11. - Luhmann, N. (1981b). Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen. In H. Baier, H. M. Kepplinger, & K. Reumann (Eds.), Öffentliche Meinung und sozialer Wandel / Public Opinion and Social Change (pp. 222–228). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87749-9_19 - Moeller, H.-G. (2012). The radical Luhmann. Columbia University Press. - Scheper, S. (2022). Antinet Zettelkasten: A Knowledge System That Will Turn You Into a Prolific Reader, Researcher and Writer. Greenlamp, LLC.

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• Schmidt, J. F. K. (2018). Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: The Fabrication of Serendipity. Sociologica, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/8350

for - adjacency - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - finger pointing to the moon - subject / I am phenomenologically mysterious - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition - potential vs kinetic adjacencies

adjacency - between - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - the eye cannot see itself - self consciousness - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition potential adjacencies - definition kinetic adjacencies - adjacency relationship - William James's I-me relationship is about the paradox of self consciousness - modern humans distinguish themselves through excelling in cognitive abilities - but what happens when we turn this cognitive abilities onto ourselves? - Self consciousness is what results - reasoning about the reasoner - Just as the eye cannot truly see itself, the reasoner who reasons about him/her self cannot really do so because the "I" is NOT really the same as the "me" - the subject is not the object, - the act of framing is not the frame - the qualia is NOT the same as the idea that represents the qualia - the moon is not the finger pointing to the moon - hence the I, the act of framing the subject is phenomenologically mysterious - In contrast, in indyweb, we can replace annotation with Innotation, an inline version of annotation - This is because of the recursive nature of learning of ideas - When we digest an idea, that has an externalised (re)presentation, and it triggers the emergence of a new idea, - We can capture the newly inspired idea a an inline Innotation instead of a side bar annotation. - The reason why we would do this is because this is more homeomorphic to how knowledge context switches its role - from an active new insight - to an existing cultural artefact / object that can be digested by another mind - The difference is the idea - as a spontaneous emergent, embodied, enactive real-time , LIVING experience, which then becomes, post experience, an idea that is - a DEAD cultural artefact that is ready to be digested and potentially evoke a new strong LIVING response in another consciousness - The idea as a linguistically constructed cultural artefact is DEAD - until it interacts with another consciousness, - and at such time, the cultural artefact can deliver upon itz intended promise and potential, and trigger a LIVING learned experience. - Innotation converts the once LIVING experience of the idea at the moment of birth / Inception to the form of existing, timebound knowledge test to do the same in the future, when new minds may stumble upon it - Learning from linguistic cultural artefacts is thus - the act of conversion of - potential adjacencies into - kinetic adjacencies

for - further research - Oligarch's favorite book - The Sovereign Individual - Author - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

On This Day in Typewriter History: Royal’s HH - 'The Greatest New Typewriter of All Time' by [[Robert Messenger]]

for - quote - Flow of wealth to the lowest place - Colonial project stops flow to the lowest place - Todd James - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

https://www.reddit.com/user/Jbhusker/<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7197

same person based on direct message

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/15/weather-tracker-record-23c-at-night-makes-iceland-warmest-place-in-europeau

Class 2, Does Memory Matter? Why Are Universities Studying Slavery and Their Pasts? by David Blight for [[YaleCourses]]

This guy discovers music through Beatport.

Main principle: Look through artists, producers and labels of music you like.

This way you discover new but similar music to what you already like and increase your awareness.

Custom edits can be useful too, but requires more domain know-how

BP investiert in die Erschließung neuer fossiler Lagerstätten und hat damit den Plan aufgegeben, seine Öl- und Gasproduktion bis 2030 um 25% zu senken. Dieser Plan war bereits eine Abschwächung des ursprünglichen Ziels einer Reduktion um 40%. Wie andere große Ölfirmen konzentriert sich BP auf kurzfristige zusätzliche Gewinne aus dem Öl- und Gasgeschäft statt auf die - ohnehin zu geringen - Investitionen in die Energiewende. DIEEE Stategie treibt die globale Erhitzung weiter an. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/07/bp-abandoning-plan-to-cut-oil-output-angers-green-groups

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/25/climate-scientists-call-on-labour-to-pause-1bn-investment-plans-carbon-capture-blue-hydrogen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman

Best Books for Learning Topology by [[The Math Sorcerer]]

Some heavy math shaming at the start of this video... ugh.

Stroop effect

In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/biden-inflation-reduction-act-tax-benefit-wealthy

Very interesting Twitter thread

Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration by [[Justin Elliott]], [[Robert Faturechi]] and [[Alex Mierjeski]]

James Tabor makes the same argument as Dr. Michael S. Heiser.

That Genesis 1:1-3 is a mistranslation, and implies that genesis was not about the creation of the universe.

Kurutz, Steven. “Now You Can Read the Classics With A.I.-Powered Expert Guides.” The New York Times, June 13, 2024, sec. Style. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/style/now-you-can-read-the-classics-with-ai-powered-expert-guides.html.

https://www.phillytypewriter.com/parts-mfg.html#/

James Norris does 3D printing of replacement parts for typewriter restoration projects.

Religious experience (also mystical) emerged as a concept in te 19th century due to the dominant discourse of rationalism in the West.

See William James, but also Rilke who had a religious experience when going to Russia (and probably many others).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/07/joe-biden-big-oil-lng-permits

Der Guardian nennt die Stimmung der meisten von der Zeitung zu ihren Zukunfterwartungen befragten IPCC-Klimawissenschaftlerinnen düster; viele sind deprimiert. Viele der Forschenden, die die Zeitung als die am besten über die Zukunft Informierten bezeichnet, erwarten Hungersnöte, Massenmigration und Konflikte. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

for - adjacency - Dan Carlin - James Burke - Connections

adjacency - between - Dan Carlin - James Burke - Connections - progress - adjacency statement - What an interesting adjacency! - James Burke's Connection has been a major influence on my own thinking on progress and progress traps - Seeing it influence Dan Carlin as well

And this sort of philosophy seems to be exactly how whites disenfranchised the indigenous peoples...

My early memory of Georgia history in 4th grade (1984) was that Georgia was founded "as a penal colony".

At the height of the controversy, in 1739, he argued that African slavery should never be introduced into his colony, because it went against the core principle of the

early slavery in Georgia

note the lack of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" sentiment here in 1730s Georgia.

Description of James Edward Oglethorpe

On 15DEC17, Dr. James Sheehy, Chief Technology Officer for the Naval Aviation Enterprise, wrote a letter to Phillip J. Bonzell, Primary Patent Examiner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, requesting immediate action concerning a denied patent application by a certain Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, an aerospace engineer at Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. Dr. Sheehy anecdotally explained his case to Mr. Bonzell, relating how [Howard] Hughes in the early 1960’s claimed the invention of the “ruby laser”, when factually the United States Army at Picatinny Arsenal built the first such device in 1958. The negligence of not seeking a patent for the invention cost the Department of Defense dearly.

The letter concludes with the marginally cloaked implication of United States’ National Security being severely jeopardized by the then current application’s rejection. Dr. Sheehy supported his position stating: ”Based on these initial findings [Dr. Pais’ supporting feasibility experiments] I would assert this will become a reality. China is already investing significantly in this area and I would prefer we hold the patent as opposed to paying forever more to use this revolutionary technology…”

U. S. Patent Application 15/141,270 (PAX205)/B64G1/409 Unconventional spacecraft propulsion systems Patent Number 10,144,532, Granted 4DEC18, Adjusted Expiration 28SEP36

What can we learn from this? 1) The history of the Ruby Laser needs to be rewritten, wikipedia and anything about the laser does not acknowledge what is being claimed here.

2) The Navy has to use an example from 1958/1960 to avoid any issue but still make the point... "just like this other time we didn't patent what we built and therefor it was a mistake... we should patent this new technology... that we haven't made... but in case we did make it like the Ruby Laser, then let's patent it.

for - Tim Palmer - hot model - James Hansen - warrming in the pipeline

for - climate sensitivity - Sabine Hossenfelder - James Hansen

Der Klimawissenschaftler James Hansen stellt in seinem Bulletin fest, dass die 1,5 Grad Grenze "for all practical purposes" bereits in den kommenden Monaten durchstoßen werden wird. Hansen hat in den 1980er Jahren den amerikanischen Kongress vor der globalen Erhitzung gewarnt. Die Klimapolitik der UNO, die der IPCC abnicke, werde sich für alle als "eine Fuhre Bullshit" entpuppen. Andere Klimaforschende gehen davon aus, dass die 1,5 Grad Grenze nicht vor dem kommenden im nächsten Jahrzehnt durchbrochen werden wird, stimmen aber mit Hansen in der Beurteilung der praktischen Konsequenzen überein. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/08/global-temperature-over-1-5-c-climate-change

ha!

Sarah Ogilvie found a total of three address books from Dr. Murray as well as three address books from Frederick Furnivall which contained details about the three thousand or so contributors to the OED.

Considered outside of Oxford at the time, Dr. Murray fashioned the Scriptorium at his house at 78 Banbury Road. Murray received so much mail that the Royal Mail installed a red pillar box just to handle the volume.

• for: annotate, Michael Mann - critique of James Hansen 2023 paper, climate crisis - James Hansen - Michael Mann, suggestion - debate - james hansen - michael mann, question - has Hansen responded to Mann yet?

suggestion - can we arrange an online debate between James Hansen and Michael Mann?

Es ist noch unklar, ob die Rekordtemperaturen des vergangenen Jahres – vermutlich war es das wärmste seit 125.000 Jahren – Anlass zu einer Revision der zur Zeit benutzten Klimamodelle werden. Die Hypothese James Hansens, dass sich die Erhitzung der Erde beschleunige. wird von vielen Klimaforschenden nicht geteilt. Es gibt noch keine allgemein anerkannte Erklärung der Temperatur-Anomalien 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/climate/global-warming-accelerating.html

Infografik zu den monatlichen Durchschnittstemperaturen seit 1900: https://static01.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2023-12-18-record-hot-year-embed/4055787d-f3af-401d-b252-1dfdff4811f4/_assets/chart_annotated-Artboard-945.png

• for: James Hansen - 2023 paper, key insight - James Hansen, leverage point - emergence of new 3rd political party, leverage point - youth in politics, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics

• Key insight: James Hansen

  • The key insight James Hansen conveys is that
    • the key to rapid system change is
      • WHAT? the rapid emergence of a new, third political party that does not take money from special interest lobbys.
      • WHY? Hit the Achilles heel of the Fossil Fuel industry
      • HOW? widespread citizen / youth campaign to elect new youth leaders across the US and around the globe
      • WHEN? Timing is critical. In the US,
        • Don't spoil the vote for the two party system in 2024 elections. Better to have a democracy than a dictatorship.
        • Realistically, likely have to wait to be a contender in the 2028 election.

• reference

  • paper - Global Warming in the Pipeline
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Foocc%2Farticle%2F3%2F1%2Fkgad008%2F7335889&group=world
  • Michael Mann's critique of the paper
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmichaelmann.net%2Fcontent%2Fcomments-new-article-james-hansen&group=world

• for: key insight- polycrisis - climate crisis - political crisis, climate crisis - requires a new political party, money in politics, climate crisis - fossil fuel lobbyists, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics, James Hansen - key insight - political action - 3rd party

• key insight

  • Both democrats and conservatives are captured by fossil fuel lobbyist interests
  • A new third political party that does not take money from special interests is required
  • The nature of the polycrisis is that crisis are entangled . This is a case in point. The climate crisis cannot be solved unless the political crisis of money influencing politics is resolved
  • The system needs to be rapidly reformed to kick money of special interest groups out of politics.

• question

  • Given the short timescale, the earliest we can achieve this is 2028 in the US Election cycle
  • Meanwhile what can we do in between?
  • How much impact can alternative forms of local governance like https://sonec.org/ have?
  • In particular, could citizens form local alternative forms of governance and implement incentives to drive sustainable behavior?