And take it further, long-term what use is any of it if at the very bottom layer of the stack is a capitalist society?

And the 'stack' element is vital - what use would a democratically-owned social media platform be, say, if it runs on a server owned by Amazon and you access it on a device locked down by Apple or Google over internet from a big telco.

The ability to self-govern feels key to any alternative to big tech that we build or use, and feels a lot like commoning.

Fixing my sites URLs

well just do what you want, it's technically supported

to whom is something addressed?

is it awkward?

How do Agora folks tend to save these in their personal notes systems? How do Agora folks tend to share them? How do Agora folks like reading others' quotes?

I automatically pull my [[hypothesis]] [[annotations]] into my personal wiki. I can then very easily shove them into the agora. Is that... bad? Should those be shared in that way? Is there different hypothesis integration planned?

Fuck Spotify, join [[Resonate]].

It would be good for other [[Agora]] instances to come online, to be able to quickly get a peek at multiple different groups' subjective view. I wonder if one may in some sense see it as similar to [[liquid democracy]]. On any topic, I could choose who I am most interested to see definitions from. I 'delegate' the definition to them, if I've not had chance to do my own yet. I would probably start in my local instance of Agora. Then perhaps my instance federates with others. At the end of it all, if noone has defined it yet, see what Wikipedia says. also on matrix here

productive

I've been unwell the last 3 days, and haven't done much of interest during this time. Starting to be on the mend now though.

Tomorrow the first concert since [[covid]]. I wonder if it'll feel strange to be there.

Thinking about some conversation from the [[agora discuss]] channel. What is the value of automatic [[licensing]] for text? I think there is a nice spirit in the idea of imbuing everything you do with sharing, as [[neil]] noted. That isn't without value. But I want someone to come and ask me if they want to do something with my words. I want that connection, I think. [[m15o]] emailed me when they started nightfall city to see if my feed could be added and it was great.

"We have good reason to doubt the cogency of what has been called Marx’s '[[utopophobia]]'". i.e. we actually should be creating [[Recipes for the cookshops of the future]].

This was less interesting than I thought it would be. Oh well.

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I wish I could forcibly start animal crossing music playing on people's computers while they're talking to me. maybe [[mozilla hubs]] really should be the office of the future...

I've finished [[Shōjo Kakumei Utena]] today.

[[bullshido | bullshit

I missed [[flancia meet]] this morning. I was too tired and was sleeping lol. At least I had some good sleep. I suffer from pretty bad [[insomnia]] and I'll go days without sleeping. It looks like [[esperanto]] came up which is an interesting throwback. I used to study esperanto back in the day with friends and I'm somewhat fluent.

There was a lot of nuance from the chat yesterday, but I think the conclusion was along the lines of: sometimes it's useful to have one-directional links, and this is what tags are. You can do that with wikilinks fine, but having a specific syntax for them enables filtering them out of other views (e.g. graph views).

Season 2 of [[node club]] has begun! This week I took a little look at [[Agroecology]]. Some notes from [[Jayu]] on it helped me to form an initial gut feeling that [[I like agroecology]].

We've been having great conversations at [[agora discuss]] lately.

I've finished [[read]]ing [[Clarice Lispector]]'s [[Uma aprendizagem ou o livro dos prazeres]].

Mikhail Bakhtin]]'s [[polyphony]] and [[dialogism]]

Below is a draft of the [[thought process]] that led me to decide adopting the practice of [[inserting wikilinks into quotes]].

So I was thinking about the brief conversation we'd had about [[effective altruism]], and I started writing, and I wrote a lot, so my preamble is that I mean here to put words to a seed of a heuristic I'm working with, not just criticize. But I don't really have a clean phrase for the topic... so I'm tossing this in my daily note, and maybe it'll make sense to move later?

I've finally visited [[Maggie Appleton]]'s [[digital garden]] again after a long time. The "[[Neologism]]" [[budding note]] caught my attention. Some of the [[neologism]]s she has collected there are really funny.

The Pattern Language of Project XanaduLink to Maggie's GithubLink to Maggie's LinkedInLink to Maggie's DribbbleLink to Maggie's Twitter (Created using [[markdown-link-expander]])

I continue to want a lefty equivalent to the work of [[robert putnam]], looking at his new book. building little communities that aren't toxic seems so, so important but I don't trust the man

what do people do instead of leggings that's not [[polyester]]?

hope I have time to paint this evening.

today is a day for best effort and gentle improvement. writing a self-review for work always makes me want to unalive myself (even when I think I'm doing well???) so we're not being real ambitious outside of getting that done (well, besides all the normal work nonsense).

I think it sounds kinda [[cute]] and slightly [[quirky]]. At least, that's the [[tone]] I wanted to achieve. At the very least that's how I want myself to be: kinda cute and slightly quirky.

Gordon Brander]]

On the flip side, too much variety leads to a [[cacophony of voices]].

Maya]] has an article related to [[Oblique Strategies]] and [[tarot for thought]] - introducing randomness into chaos: culture, oblique strategies, and tarot for… (shared by Maya in hypothesis annotation to my journal from yesterday, thanks Maya!)

Elza Soares]], one of the biggest names of [[Brazilian music]], has suffered a [[death by natural causes]] today at [[home]].

Spotify is going to ruin podcasting

Hi, I'm Matthew Thomas. I am an Economics PhD candidate. Keyoxide and my website contain contact information.

but also because it predates the influence of [[Crowley]] and I just can't stand his shit.

📚 node [[decentralized identifier document]]

I think this is a sign that I should reinstate my [[meditation]] routine. It helped me a lot when these episodes were more frequent in [[2017]].

messing with [[gitea]] integration with the [[agora]]

You can learn more about this [[garden]] through its [[index]] [[element]]; and more about me through the "[[Jayu]]" [[element]]. For [[Agora]] [[user]]s' convenience, I've [[pull]]ed both below, and you'll be able to see them somewhere on the "[[README]]" [[node]].

And as with ActivityPub, where it's kind of absent, I'd want for there to be a 'group' concept that isn't based on infrastructure, just on interest groups.

Increasingly convinced that the distributed/federated digital garden approach is the way to go for knowledge commoning. I say this because I've been doing it for a while and it is working well in practice.

Maya]] has an article related to [[Oblique Strategies]] and [[tarot for thought]] - introducing randomness into chaos: culture, oblique strategies, and tarot for… (shared by Maya in hypothesis annotation to my journal from yesterday, thanks Maya!)

Interestingly, as anti-Marxist as our society often is, this idea has been pretty much absorbed by culture writ large.

Materialism sees history is as having distinct time periods that are determined by the material and technological conditions of the times

Indeed, if you are, say, Marx, you might that capitalism

Knowledge commons is a misnomer bcos there is no such thing as knowledge. (!!)

I do like the phrase 'digital garden' but I still don't feel comfortable enough to not put it in quotes.

Follow people wherever they are (including the big silos). This is with a [[social reader]]. Write locally, in my [[personal wiki]], first. This is with [[org-roam]]. Publish on my own site, my '[[digital garden]]'. I for sure own the data this way. This is via [[Micropub]] (stream), and [[org-publish]] (garden). Syndicate things elsewhere, wherever the community best fits for my post. But don't feed the big tech beasts. This is via [[Webmentions]], [[brid.gy]]. Interact with people wherever they are, but still via my own site if possible. Some combo of [[social reader]], [[Micropub]], [[brid.gy]]. At present, a combo of [[org-mode]], [[IndieWeb]], [[Fediverse]], [[Agora]] make this possible for me.

Without a strategy that stems from common political agreement, revolutionary organizations are bound to be an affair of reactivism against the continual manifestations of oppression and injustice and a cycle of fruitless actions to be repeated over and over

Active involvement in and building of autonomous and popular social movements, which is described as the process of “social insertion.”

In response to [[expectations]], we often attempt to incorporate something (passion in Buddhism), reject something (aggression in Buddhism), or ignore it all.

Art]] is creating anything you can [[play]] with that is wealthy.

When envious, comparing, and jealous, let your actions be fulfilled.

Bill Hamilton

DANIEL M. INGRAM

ARAHANT

MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OFTHE BUDDHA

Though the poem kind of has it backwards - a kind of [[accelerationism]] of the technology, rather than maybe a [[degrowth]] to natural boundaries.

creepy

the extraordinary degree of agreement in people’s feelings about patterns.

(I wonder if there is a mathematical proof written somewhere that the system will eventually reach an "all off" state; I'm guessing that Alexander did consider this as a rigorous mathematical statement and I wonder how it was formalized precisely).

If a bulb is on, it has a 50% chance that it will turn off in the next time step. If a bulb is off, it has a 50% chance of turning on in the next time step if it is directly connected to a bulb which is currently on; otherwise it stays off in the next time step.

what it is that prevents adaptation from taking place in the selfconcious culture, which is what we want to know most urgently

In place of "culture", I will use "design processes"

For a formal treatment of the rules governing string diagrams, try the original papers by Joyal and Street [55]and the book by Yetter [101

Definition 7Amonoidal categoryconsists of:

In physics, it is often useful to think of two systems sittingside by side as forming a single system. In topology,the disjoint union of two manifolds is again a manifold in itsown right. In logic, the conjunction of two statementis again a statement. In programming we can combine two data types into a single ‘product type’. The conceptof ‘monoidal category’ unifies all these examples in a singleframework

It is difficult to do much with categories without discussing the maps between them. A map between cate-gories is called a ‘functor’

Feynman’s idea that antiparticlesare particles going backwards in time

Tangk: the category where morphisms arek-codimensional tangles

Traditionally, mathematics has been founded on the category Set, where the objects aresetsand the mor-phisms arefunctions. So, when we study systems and processes in physics, it is tempting to specify a system bygiving its set of states, and a process by giving a function from states of one system to states of another

the idea is that objects ofour category label ‘strings’ or ‘wires’:

A category is the simplest framework where we can talk about systems (objects) and processes (morphisms).

for every pair of objects(X,Y),a sethom(X,Y)ofmorphismsfrom X to Y. We call this sethom(X,Y)ahomset. If f∈hom(X,Y),then we write f:X→Y.

a Feynman diagram. This is a 1-dimensional graph going between 0-dimensional collections of points, withedges and vertices labelled in certain ways. Feynman diagrams are topological entities, but they describe linearoperators.

categorynCob

a basic ingredient of quantum theory: the category Hilb whose objects are Hilbert spaces, usedto describe physicalsystems, and whose morphisms are linear operators, used to describephysicalprocesses

Table 1: The Rosetta Stone (pocket version)

a general science of systems and processes. Building this science will be very difficult. There are good reasonsfor this, but also bad ones. One bad reason is that different fields use different terminology and notation

a general science of systems and processes

it is only in the 1990sthat the logicians and computer scientists bumpedinto the physicists and topologists. One reason is the rise of interest in quantum cryptography and quantumcomputation [28]. With this, people began to think of quantum processes as forms of information processing,and apply ideas from computer science. It was then realized that the loose analogy between flow charts andFeynman diagrams could be made more precise and powerful with the aid of category theory [

Curry–Howardcorrespondence

cobordism

linearoperators

Hilbert spaces

n physics, the objects are oftenphysical systems,and the morphisms areprocessesturning a state of one physical system into a state of anothersystem

A category hasobjectsandmor-phisms, which representthingsandways to go between things.

closed symmetric monoidal category

Feynman diagrams

cobordism

Candidates for still-live infohazards include the collected essays of Nick Land.

FMEA

Insafe

Providing the control action leads to a hazard

These four categories are provably complete—there is no other category of unsafe control action.

Now let’s consider an alternative situation: the BSCU Autobrake provides two separate discrete control actions to Start Braking andto Stop Braking

V1 point

It can also be helpful to realize that mistakes about who controls whom in the control structure usually do not have a significant impact on the results of the analysis.

Chapter 5 contains further discussion about control structures and control relationships as they relate to organizational and social analysis.

Controller A could represent pilots that normally use automation in Controller B to actuate the brakes. However, in an emergency the pilots may be able to bypass Controller B and directly (manually) actuate the brakes

it can behelpful to first apply STPA at a higher abstract level first to provide quicker results and identify broader issues

the most efficient way to apply STPA is to begin before those design decisions have been made and before such details are known.

needed enforce

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Common Points of Confusion

n some cases, simply drawing a control structure diagram can make previously undiscovered flaws painfully obvious.

For humans, the process model is usually called a mental model and the control algorithms may be called operating procedures or decision-making rules, but the basic concept is the same

an aircraft that is uncontrolledor that is too close to other aircraftwould be unsafe.

Common mistakes

There are three basic criteria for defining system-level hazards:-Hazards are systemstates or conditions (not component-level causes or environmental states)-Hazards willlead to a loss in some worst-case environment-Hazards must describe states or conditions to be prevented

This is the primary reason for distinguishing between hazards and losses—losses may involve aspects of the environment over which the system designer or operator has only partial control or no control at all.

A system is an abstraction conceived by the analyst.

A systemis a set of components that act together as a whole to achieve some common goal, objective, or end. A system may contain subsystems and may also be part of a larger system.

A hazardis a system state or set of conditions that, together with a particular set of worst-case environmental conditions, will lead to a loss

Losses should not reference individual components or specific causes like “human error” and “brake failure”

tips to prevent common mistakes when identifyinglosses

customers

Because every STPA result will be traceable to one or more losses, the analysis results can be easily ranked and prioritized based on the losses to which they refer.

: Overview of defining the analysis purpose

Defining the purpose of the analysis has four parts:1.Identify losses2.Identify system-level hazards3.Identify system-level constraints4.Refine hazards (optional

Nancy Leveson

STAMP

STPA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

‘A formulais worth a thousand pictures

hey, it's been a while. it's like, i forgot about this almost but it was in the back of my mind. today i thought, "maybe i should pick this back up." so, here i am. hopefully i can get back on track for daily entries.

Many use Markdown, a system with no standard,never mind support for footnotes.†

aformto facilitate making the choices

maybe sticking to a todo list despire a lack of motivation is very helpful for keeping my priorities straight, maybe it isn't. enthusiasm is hard to measure, track, and maintain, especially when working on projects with long time scales. it's often hard for me to see what the right decision, level of dedication or measure of effort is to invest into a task, so i will go all or nothing. i think most of this is a result of being overstimulated - overexposed to loads of information i can't absorb at my own pace, because social networks set the pace instead. i should write more about how unhealthy social networks are but i feel like i've leveraged instagram very well - though what real connections has it lead to? regardless, i'll keep up my posting regimen to ensure that i'm holding myself accountable in terms of my creative goals - three posts a week no matter what.

Hopf says that 3-space fibers over the 2-sphere

[[flancian]] asked if I was noting today. I guess this answer's that question lol

[[flancian]] asked if I was noting today. I guess this answer's that question lol

Program

grandkids

that’s a job best left to well-governed robots

Since the 1970s, thousands of companies have become employee-owned through Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

Lately, my collaborators and I have been working to advance the possibility of a new option: “exit to community,” or E2C for short.

“In the E2C vision, successful startups would aim toward becoming owned not by a new round of speculative investors but by the people who love and rely on them.”

All of us, no matter what we contribute, should benefit because a truly distributed web should be a commons for everyone.

$400,000.

Decentralized Web Principles.

tag format e.g. #go #push

action:{{action name}}

‘This morphological law can always be expressed in the same general form: X—>r (A,B, ... 3, which means: Within a context of type X, the parts A, B, . .. are related by the relationship r.

A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves even.

our person, and the hkes and dishkes winch are part of you, are themselves forces in your garden, and it reflects the othe + forces which make leaves grow and birds sing. your garden must reflect those forces just as 1

The word which we most often use io talk about the quality without a name is the word “alive.”

his is the slow emer gence of the quality without a name, as if from nothing.

Once the buildings are conceived like this, they can be built, divectly, from a few simple marks made in the ground-—again within a common language, but directly, and without the use of drawings,

Por once we have a common paitern language i in our town, we shall all have the power to make our streets and buildings live, through our most ordinary acts. The language, like a seed, is the genetic system whith gives our millions of small acts the power to form 4 whole.

But in our time the languages have broken down. imce they are no longer shared, the processes 1 whic keep them deep have bro ken down;

he people can shape buildings for themselves, and have done it for centuries, by using languages which I cail pattern languages.

it cannot be attained, bui it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it,

A building or a town will only be alive to the ex- tent that it is governed by the timeless way.

The organization of any complex physical object is hier­archical. It is true that, if we wish, we may dismiss this observation as an hallucination caused by the way the human brain, being disposed to see in terms of articulations and hierarchies, perceives the world. On the whole, though, there are good reasons to believe in the hierarchical subdivision of the world as an objective feature of reality.

They must be chosen (1) to be of equal scope, (2) to be as independent of one another as is reasonably possible, and (3) to be as small in scope and hence as specific and detailed and numerous as possible.24

It demands that p(x; = 0) should be the same for all i, or that the proportion of all thinkable forms which satisfy a requirement should be about the same for each requirement. What this amounts to, in common-sense language, is that all the variables should be roughly comparable in their scope and significance.

It demands that p(x; = 0) should be the same for all i.21 Again, if this is not so, the analysis will be invalid.

The simplest corre­lation coefficient is that for two variables:

We shall call the proportion of forms in D which do not satisfy requirement Xi the probability of the misfit xi occurring.

By leaving the designer to work out the relative importance of different requirements at his own dis­cretion during the diagram phase of the design process, it is therefore possible for designers to agree about the contents of the set M, whether or not they agree about their relative importance, because mere inclusion of a requirement in M, as such, attaches no weight to it.

And each of these subsets of M, because it contains fewer requirements than M itself, and less interaction between them, is simpler to diagram than M.

Le Corbusier's ville radieuse is a diagram, which expresses the physical consequences of two very simple basic require­ments: that people should be housed at high overall density, and that they should yet all have equal and maximum access to sunlight and air.3

Author:: [[Richard O'Connor]] Full Title:: Undoing Depression Category:: [[books]] [[depression]] Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]

3 3 NIGHT LIFE*

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The way to improve this is to make a further abstract picture of our first picture of the problem, which eradicates 7 7

There is at present no prospect of introducing these principles mechani­cally, either into science or into design. Again, they require invention.

Vitruvius

But once these concrete influences are represented symbolically in verbal terms, and these symbolic representations or names subsumed under larger and still more abstract categories to make them amenable to thought, they begin seriously to im­pair our ability to see beyond them.20

Take the concept "safety," for example. Its existence as a common word is convenient and helps hammer home the very general importance of keeping designs danger­free. But it is used in the statement of such dissimilar problems as the design of a tea kettle and the design of a highway interchange. As far as its meaning is concerned it is relevant to both. But as far as the individual structure of the two

We define a concept in extension when we specify all the elements of the class it refers to. And we define a concept in intension when we try to explain its meaning analytically in terms of other concepts at the same level.15

Similarly, the principle of the "neighborhood," one of the old chestnuts of city-planning theory, has been shown to be an inadequate mental component of the residential planning problem.1

The constant burden of decision which he comes across, once freed from tradition, is a tiring one. So he avoids it where he can by using rules (or general principles), which he formulates in terms of his invented concepts. These principles are at the root of all so-called "theories" of archi­tectural design.12

o put it in the language of psy­chology, there are limits on the number of distinct concepts which we can manipulate cognitively at any one time, and we. are therefore forced, if we wish to get a view of the whole problem, to re-encode these items.1

It must pour cleanly.

The selfconscious process is different. The artist's self­conscious recognition of his individuality has deep effect on the process of form-making. Each form is now seen as the work of a single man, and its success is his achievement only. Selfconsciousness brings with it the desire to break loose, the taste for individual expression, the escape from tradition and taboo, the will to self-determination. But the wildness of the desire is tempered by man's limited invention. To achieve in a few hours at the drawing board what once took centuries of adaptation and development, to invent a form suddenly which clearly fits its context-the extent of the invention neces­sary is beyond the average designer.

One example, of an early kind, of developing selfcon­sciousness is found in Samoa. Although ordinary Samoan houses are built by their inhabitants-to-be, custom demands that guest houses be built exclusively by carpenters.2 Since these carpenters need to find clients, they are in business as artists; and they begin to make personal innovations and changes for no reason except that prospective clients will judge their work for its inventiveness.3

high temperature of selfconsciousness.

change for its own sake becomes acceptable

The reaction to failure, once so direct, now becomes less and less direct. Materials are no longer close to hand. Build­ings are more permanent, frequent repair and readjustment less common, than they used to be. Construction is no longer in the hands of the inhabitants; failures, when they occur, have to be several times reported and described before the speciali st will recognize them and make some permanent adjustment. Each of these changes blunts the hair-fine sensi­tivity of the unselfconscious process' response to failure, so that failures now need to be quite considerable before they will induce correction.

The man who makes the form is an agent simply, and very little is required of him during the form's development.

minor changes

And though words may accompany his action, they play no essential part in it.

Again the gravity of the rituals, and their rigidity, make it impos­sible that the form of the hogan should be lightly changed

hogans of the Navaho

lack houses of the Outer Hebrides

trulli of Apulia

capanne of Anzio

If the light always flashes just once, and then goes off again and stays off, we deduce that the lights are able to adapt independently, and hence that there are no interconnections between lights. If the light activates a few other lights, and they flash together 44

I gave a talk back in Oct 2019 about #opensource licensing evolution.A good time to reflect about what you want from your software and your licenses.

Alan Kay