Rebecca Wirfs-Brocc: Observations on Growing a Software Design Umwelt. Pattern authors ostensibly are experts on the topic their patterns address. Since most software developers don’t share those experts’ underlying design values, practices, and principles—let alone their design context—there’s a disconnect between what is said in pattern descriptions and that which is perceived and understood by pattern readers (more)

Rebecca Wirfs-Brocc: Discovering Our Software Umwelt. Last week ¾ of the family Wirfs-Brock present the talk, “Discovering Your Software Umwelt”, at the Onward! Essay track of the SPLASH 2024 conference... The back story on how we wrote our essay: Initially, we had no idea what we could write about together… (more)

Incel (/ˈɪnsɛl/ IN-sel; a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate"[1]) is a term associated with an online subculture of people (racially diverse but mostly white,[2] male and heterosexual[3]) who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one, and blame, objectify and denigrate women and girls as a result.[4][5][6] The movement is strongly linked to misogyny. Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999,[7][8] and the term later rose to prominence in the 2010s, following the influence of misogynistic terrorists Elliot Rodger and Alek Minassian.[9] The subculture's attitude can be characterized by resentment, hostility, sexual objectification, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, sense of entitlement to sex, blaming of women and the sexually successful for their situation (which is often seen as predetermined due to biological determinism, evolutionary genetics or a rigged game), nihilism, rape culture, and the endorsement of sexual and non-sexual violence against women and the sexually active.[10][25] Incel communities have been increasingly criticized by scholars, government officials, and others for their misogyny, the endorsement and encouragement of violence, and extremism.[26] Over time the subculture has become associated with extremism and terrorism, and since 2014 there have been multiple mass killings, mostly in North America, perpetrated by self-identified incels, as well as other instances of violence or attempted violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

David Ronfeldt (from 2002) on "NGOs, Network-s, and Future Social Evolution" - This framework holds that people have developed four major forms for organizing their societies: first tribes (Tribalism), then hierarchical (Command And Control) institutions, then Markets, and now Networks... Today, it is often said that "government" or "the market" is the solution. In time, it may well be said that "the network" is the solution. (Network Economy, Network Enlightenment) (more)

BigCo, Big Media, Big Government, Big Agriculture, Big Medicine, Big Education, Big Retail, Big Religion, etc. (more)

Samuel Stebbins Bowles (/boʊlz/; born June 1, 1939),[1] is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he continues to teach courses on microeconomics and the theory of institutions.[2] His work belongs to the neo-Marxian[3][4][5] (variably called post-Marxian)[6][7][8] tradition of economic thought. However, his perspective on economics is eclectic and draws on various schools of thought, including what he and others refer to as post-Walrasian economics.[9]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bowles_(economist)

Cinema audience historian at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Sometime educational designer with a focus on spatial and navigational models for thinking and learning... worrying about climate, healthcare governance, international education....

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the Newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case (Murray Gell-Mann), physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the Journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?" speec. (more)

Within the permaculture movement, more and more of us have been looking at aspects of something we’ve come to call “social permaculture.” But what is that? People often think of permaculture as another system of gardening or land management, but it is far more. Permaculture is a system of ecological design that looks to nature as our model. It originated in the ’70s with Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, who were looking to create a “permanent agriculture.” Now it has become a worldwide movement, and expanded to encompass “permanent culture.” (more)

Exploring the Remarkable Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the IETF, by Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young and Day Davis Waterbury. (more)

mentor of Tim O'Reilly, relating to General Semantics (more)

A particulate air filter is a device composed of fibrous, or porous materials which removes particulates such as smoke, dust, pollen, mold, viruses and bacteria from the air. Filters containing an adsorbent or catalyst such as charcoal (carbon) may also remove odors and gaseous pollutants such as volatile organic compounds or ozone.[1] Air filters are used in applications where air quality is important, notably in building ventilation systems and in engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_filter (more)

Taking what might be Garbage and making it valuable/useful/used. (more)

book by SusanLammers, 1986?, ISBN:0914845713 (more)

Game Engine https://godotengine.org/ Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) (more)

Dan Shipper: Is NotebookLM - Google’s Research Assistant - the Ultimate Tool for Thought? I sat down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to see if we could come up with a concept for his next project—using AI. We loaded 200,000 words of interview transcripts that NASA conducted and all of Steven’s reading notes since 1999 into NotebookLM, Google Labs’s personalized research assistant. (podcast notes) (more)

Steven Johnson: Introducing NotebookLM. About five months ago, I shared the news that I was collaborating with Google on a new AI-based tool for thought, then code-named Project Tailwind. (more)

Steven Levy: Google’s NotebookLM aims to be the ultimate writing assistant. For over a year now, Steven Johnson's been a full-time employee of Google, a status that’s clear when he badges me into the search giant’s Chelsea offices in New York to show me what his team has been creating. (more)

Introducing NotebookLM. At Google I/O this year we introduced a number of AI-first experiments in development, including Project Tailwind — a new kind of notebook designed to help people learn faster. (more)

Journaling File System for Linux. http://www.namesys.com/ (more)