Ben Werdmüller makes an interesting distinction. Internet tech, and thus Silicon Valley, originated in defense (ARPA etc.), whereas the web originated in academia in a spirit of open academic debate (CERN). Now ARPA etc had deep ties w academia too, and it's mostly defense funding at play. Still there may be something to this distinction. You could also say perhaps it's an Atlantic divide, the web originated at CERN in Europe.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241007071434/https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/03/we-need-help-with-discovery-more-than-generation.html

Author says generation isn't a problem to solve for AI, there's enough 'content' as it is. Posits discovery as a bigger problem to solve. The issue there is, that's way more personal and less suited for VC funded efforts to create a generic tool that they can scale from the center. Discovery is not a thing, it's an individual act. It requires local stuff, tuned to my interests, networks etc. Curation is a personal thing, providing intent to discovery. Same why [[Algemene event discovery is moeilijk 20150926120836]], as [[Event discovery is sociale onderhandeling 20150926120120]] Still it's doable, but more agent like than central tool.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241005072338/https://ruk.ca/content/blog-posts-are-breadcrumbs#comment-28817

[[Peter Rukavina]] on how his blog is something others come across and make connections. Commented that [[Hoe emergence tot stand komt 20040513173612]] is from longer traces. My PKM system is leaving those traces for me, my blog for me and others. My blog is the longest, due to it being 22+ yrs old, trace I'm leaving publicly for others to connect around.

Friction can forestall writing. I've moved to blogging from inside my Obsidian notes through micropub, rather than using the WP back-end. Gives me two things: the back-end pushed me to only write when I had time to finish, the notes allow multiple writings in parallel, and publishing is one key click.

Vgl [[Sturgeons Law most is crap 20190328205135]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/03/90-of-everything-is-crap-a-source-of-imposter-syndrome/ Provides agency and ratchet too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241002133454/https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/29/the-secret-power-of-a-blog/

Tracy Durnell on the personal affordances of keeping a blog. Haven't read just glanced, but usually she makes interesting points, marked to read -[ ] Read this wrt #pkm #15mins

via [[Euan Semple]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20241002103957/https://whyy.org/segments/is-giftedness-a-form-of-neurodivergence/ mentioned in Mensa Heurekasig mailinglist. Art from #2024/05/20 on seeing hiq as neurodivergence, wrt 'gifted burnout'

my comment, in response to someone getting lost in up front organising of notes, and ending up in a 'mess'. Embrace the mess, lengthen traces to stumble upon, earn structure (they're a personal tool not an outside standard or demand). Organise during note usage rather than during note taking, except for curation when saving something external with a remark (tags sometimes) and an internal link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241002072359/https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/10/01/hurricane-helene-tech-chip-shortage-spruce-pine-quartz-supply

Spruce Pine is a key resource for high grade quartz. There's only a few places this is available. It has been hit by a tropical storm in North Carolina and now temp closed. The lenght of closure may impact semiconductor production.

Het EU dataportaal heeft een ERPD data flag voor Chapter II v.d. DGA. Vu NL moet iov met CBS data.overheid.nl dit verzorgen. 1 jr na van toepassing worden zijn er ~1400 datasets veel CZ, maar ook NL zie ik van CBS zelf en rivm. 1045

-[ ] vraag #bzkdga en #cbs om hoe dit tot stand komt wel/niet via data.overheid.nl? #10mins #prio

iAwriter pointing out that from their perspective G and A appstores don't compete but divvy things up between them. A 20B USD / 17,5% revenue deal makes it tangible. Say they appreciate the DMA because of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240929075044/https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/28/routledge-nags-academics-to-finish-books-asap-to-feed-microsofts-ai/

Academic publishers are pushing authors to speed up delivering manuscripts and articles (incl suggesting peer review be done in 15d) to meet the quota they promised the AI companies they sold their soul to. Taylor&Francis/Routledge 75M USD/yr, Wiley 44M USD. No opt-outs etc. What if you ask those #algogens if this is a good idea?

well yes that is standardisation. If you exclude intended users from its creation it won't be one. A standard gets created by the intended field of users, who commit to adopting it once created. It's not idealism or altruism, it's industry.

This entire piece gave me nothing to understand 'what's the problem' other han a personal beef with a key figure, a dislike for organisation and not understanding standardisation as an industry effort. So I see the author's problems, but still don't know anything about Social Web Foundation, other than that many people seem to feel left out.

This entire thing indeed seems to be about the author's personal perspective on Evan Prodromou

organising is suspect by def then?

a standard is only a standard if it is adopted by those in the user group. Creating your 'own' by definition isn't a standard, at most it's a method or protocol.

The Social Web by naming itself thus reduces social web to fediverse and then to AP only.

And 'Fediverse' is what? Some trekkie couldn't decide between universe and The Federation. Idk what the problem is yet w the foundation, but this is the lamest critique thinkable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924182745/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/sep/24/drug-resistant-typhoid-disease-pakistan-antibiotics-superbugs-children

Typhoid of a antibiotics resistant variety has taken hold in Pakistan. International action required in the face of superbugs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924124652/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/business/23andme-board-resigns-nightcap/index.html

23andme postorder DNA profiling is slowly collapsing. CEO wants to take it private, and board has resigned in protest. This is one of the corps that went public using a SPAC to capitalise on the height of hype. Founded 2006, SPAC in 2021. Revenue is down, and money should run out soon. Seems there's no business model on top of the 1 time purchase of a DNA test. Key asset obv is the data, so I think we can wait for it to be sold to whoever bids most.

Charlie Stross provides a personal anecdotal data point to [[Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study]] that revising his writing after covid showed him cognitive issues he didn't realise as he was writing. Comments / responses add to it. Personally I use a type of puzzle and a timer to gauge my concentration and have done for several years. Since my last Covid and in my burnout I now at times don't finish or make mistakes in a puzzle, where I would consistently be in the 5% fastest solvers before.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923184711/https://nlnet.nl/project/MaemoLeste-Telepathy/interview.html

Maemo Leste is intended to be a mobile OS independent and completely separate from Android and iOS. e/OS in comparison I think is more a degoogled Android. Its origins are in a Nokia project called Maemo (never heard of it).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923175503/https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-promise-and-the-distraction/

glorious rant by Baldur Bjarnason, but not much surprisal here. As with other stuff, albeit agile scrum, getting things done, and any of the pitched perfect ways to make notes, whenever the process becomes the thing rather than a tool in the hand of an knowledge artisan stuff is useless and boring.

It's about output, not in units or volume, but in quality. Needing to know why your are making these notes, and weaving your network of meaning.

The people who do things with their system usually don't talk about it much. I've done it on occasion and am happy to share and show how/why I do things, but never with the intention to convince another to do the same or similar.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923073444/https://www.trend-mill.com/p/i-kinda-hate-the-internet-now

Stephen Moore rants about the internet he does not like. Incl the deterioration of search, the adtech, growth hacking for engagement etc. Now no longer human created even but generated slop from bots. Calls it a addictive dopamine machine without joy.

What was that old news editor adagio again? Never use a question mark in the title bc it signals the answer is 'No'. (If it is demonstrably yes, then the title would be affirmative. Iow a question means you're hedging and nevertheless choose the uncertain sensational for the eyeballs.)

Where is this different from the prompt-chaining thing I run locally? Which you prompt for a bunch of steps and then self prompts each one and goes online to further detail or do them.

yeah, externalising the cost of getting it wrong at scale. Testing it in real world circumstances is extremely useful and needed, yet OpenAI's general public customers will mostly not show their own CT and assume any result is true (seen it happen a lot) and thus moving the cost externalisation further down the chain, where it is more likely to have negative real world consequences.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916044350/https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2024/09/critical-thinking-was-famous-21st.html

Donald Clark on the latest closed OpenAI iteration. I can see how it may do the rule based bits of CT (although OpenAI's stuff until now still does very basic stuff wrong even before getting to CT here and at unpredictable times making every output suspect and in need of checking) Anything rule based is codable or will stand out as pattern for prediction.

Says AGI is now more visible. Seems rather Chomsky-esque, assuming language is thinking. Sociocentric (CT!) too, wrt English, while the rest of linguistics world has a century of saying language is communication and thinking a different thing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923070540/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00421-8/fulltext

(Even mild) covid cases are associated with persistent cognitive damage. Empirical data from 2021/2022. Largest diff between measured groups wrt memory and executive functions. No volunteers self-reported cognitive symptoms. Iow covid is associated with cognitive damage, but you won't notice yourself.

Trender et al 2024.

Paper TrenderChangesMemoryCognition2024 in Zotero

https://web.archive.org/web/20240923064617/https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine 'not WordPress' bc it disables key features to save hosting costs. Calls it a VC funded cancer putting the century goal of WP at risk.

Kara-Murza's take on Russia is that collapse will be swift, much like twice before, 1917 and 1991.

Again lineair and productivity/effectiveness overtones. 'learning something irrelevant' as 'wasting time and energy'? ugh. Curiosity and interestingness/surprisal can be directed with intention without being goal oriented, which seems to be the premise here.

#openvraag I wonder if Wu put relevance in the eye of the learner or not. Vgl Feynman's [[Twaalf favoriete vraagstukken 20201006163045]] vs 'society's' relevance.

This is a highly linear sketch, figure out what to learn, gather information, done. In complexity figuring out what to learn does not then give you a clear path to the 'right' information, as it doesn't exist in that form. You iterate your way forward based on pattern recog. Fractals of figuring out what to learn repeatedly along the way

http://www.rachelwu.com/Wu_2019.pdf

proposes ...adaptation is relevant for all age groups because the environment is dynamic, suggesting that learning what to learn is a problem relevant across the lifespan

reviews new research demonstrating the importance and ways of learning what to learn across the lifespan, from objects to real-world skills 2018/2019pub

Robyn Speer will no update longer Wordfreq States that n:: there is no reliable post-2021 language usage data! Wordfreq was using open web sources, but it getting pollutted by #algogens output

Robyn Speer says in his view natural language processing as a field has been taken over by #algogens And most NLP research now depends on closed data from the #algogens providers.

Reddit was another key data source for wordfreq but they too no longer provide public archives, and sell it at high prices (to the likes of the #algogens)

Twitter was a key resource for wordfreq for colloquial use of words. No longer as API shut down and the population of X is skewed to hatemongering in a way that makes it lose utility as data source.

Example of how #algogens slop pollutes corpus data: ChatGPT uses the word 'delve' a lot, an order of magnitude above human usage. #openvraag Is this to do with the 'need' for #algogens to sound more human by switching words around (dial down the randomness, and it will give the same stuff every time, but will stand out immediately as computer generated too)?

paywalled article.

Wordfreq is shutting down because LLM output on the web is polluting its data to the point of uselessness. It would track longitudinally the change in use of words across a variety of languages. Vgl human centipede epistomology in [[Talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]] by [[Maggie Appleton]]

Obsidian is a viewer, each tab essentially a diff one. Putting the two representations each in their own tab makes it possible to work both in the text and visual version of the same file. A combination of the 'flip' that Zsolt's plugin allows plus the tabs in Obsidian.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240920194505/https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/09/enjoying-seamless-visual-and-text-work/

nn: visueel en text naadloos naast elkaar maakt visueel makkelijker adopteerbaar.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240919071804/https://www.myrasecurity.com/

Myra CDN, based in Germany. CDNs need to temp decrypt https traffic, potentially creating a gap in GDPR (and DSA?) compliance. Unless the CDN provider can be shown to be part of the compliance chain. Thus select one that ensures this / is based inside the EU.

Revisiting this after 2yrs, now as board member of mastodon.nl, need to read relevant DSA sections again, and think about if/how this applies. The list here as such is almost completely covered by default, except for the reports, which will come as we're heading towards ANBI status anyway.

-[ ] lees DSA met mastodon.nl bril tav kleine platforms #activityclub #30mins

Matrix seeing DMA as supportive towards their goal of open web's communication layer. Actively demo'ng Android interoperability while preserving E2EE, and participating in IETF / MIMI ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mimi/about/ )

The ability to do deepwork is related to create less distraction because of discomfort during it. To keep at it, where a more gratifying small task is just a click away.

it is easy to pretend interruption is the work. Matuschak descibes focus work as a trained thing he improved upon.

This rings true. The friction, the struggle is the work, at least when it comes to my knowledge work. Interesting is that when the jump happens I tend to phrase it as an escape, a way of fleeing forward. When I got stuck in a major research project in 2020, the key insight to unlock it was a gasp of desperation more than a bolt of lightning. Colleagues immediately told me that was the key, but to me it felt like using a cheat code. Now in hindsight, I think it was the best possible outcome but that oroginal sense of escape remains.

Matuschak through focusing on specific people in a specific context, entering into a deeper emotional connection would provide meaning both in the now and over the long term. This certainly applies to my work #hazp08 and perhaps all my project that stand out in hindsight either have that or are singular efforts where the doing held such a link to myself.

I find the concepts behind my work meaningful, and enjoyable, but usualll not the work. The most enjoyable work usually is disconnected from anything else.

[[Andy Matischak]] on the value and quality of his work. Over the long haul, he found his work (at Apple) meaningless, even if it felt good at the time. The statement 'if someonee alse had done the work' the results would have been similar chimes. My work may be seen by others as meaningful in the moment, but I only see that it doesn't matter in the long run. A million others for any of us. M writes he felt confident, I never had any answer to the question what I'm good at. I just get total internal silence in response, and always have gotten.

vgl [[Sturgeons Law most is crap 20190328205135]]

this paragraph reads like making commonplacing navigable in a new way. Also turns 'snippets' into potenital entry points without them being separate notes, and pivots like tags. Note the clear spatial overtones (landmarks, being lost, navigate, ways, stumble upon, point).

Again the important distinction, here in the context which itch Latticework scratches, between 'evidence' and 'kindle' perspectives. The latter is an emotional thing, where knowledge is not an external thing, but a internal network of meaning.

I recognise this. We spent an hour in Feb. Which was fun, and useful because it was a real effort on actual notes and for an actual purpose (for me a workshop design). Then afterwards I didn't use it much due to tech hurdles, so I didn't get to experience ongoing value. Reinstalled it now because of this article. (Which [[Maarten den Braber]] pointed me to.

adjustable snippet ranges, letting your emergent insight impact your original highlighting/annotation sounds like a very interesting idea. Not because you're pinpointing the info at source more accurately, but because the emergent purpose of your sensemaking reflects back on your source material. It shifts the exact point where your Surprisal originates around.

Naming clusters can be incorporated into sensemaking efforts though, when not used as result but as intermediate step. As in [[2 step archetype extraction 20121130152904]]

exactly. Tags are emergent structure, and are not per se to describe the information stated nor to be used as a taxonomy. Vgl [[%On Tagging 20200818120917]] as associative emergence, as search/find history, as pivots in an exploratory path etc.

This is good way to make the distinction with qualitative research tools, incl. those where the narrators of qualitative bits do their own signification which then serves as filters. Tagging like those two types serve a different purpose, spotting patterns 'out there' rather than provoking thinking 'in here'. Both useful and not unrelated, but different activities. The 'evidence' vs 'kindling' metaphors make sense to me. Diff points of application.

This is where I derive value from Excalidraw as Obsidian plugin: text and image are joined in the same note. And it can have hyperlinks to othern notes, drawings, as well as embed.

The discontinuity between visual and textual has been a main issue for me for decades

this is problematic even if you ignore the obvious hurdle of having to wear overheavy ski goggles.

5 reasons L's bidirectionality is different to pkm tools / Xanadu. The first two are most key imo: they can be initiated from both sides of a link, and result in the same thing. (e.g. diff from [[Webmention 20200926203019]], and two the links are standard URLs (in standard Markdown), whereas Roam / Notion abstract them away in a db, moving outside their role as viewer, and Obs maintains its viewer role, but adds things to the notes not obviously interpretable outside of it.

I'd add that the linked snippets are a different unit of linking from what Obs et al support. Much closer to the granularity where the knowledge work is done. Surprisal I rarely find in a paragraph, mostly in part of a sentence. Questions latch onto a single word sometimes.

Bidirectionality here explicitly tied to Ted Nelson's Xanadu. Call block transclusion in pkm tool transclusion "primitives" which sound like a right charcterisation. Say Latticework differs from both

I did #2024/02/01 https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/02/matthew-and-andy-watched-me-test-the-obsidian-reference-plugin/ where my own similar observations are captured. - shifting from highlighting to linking as emergence occurs - structure is earned over time - keeping the copy commands straight was hard (I kept forgetting too) - preview and multiple panes is what I did too, but it seemed to clash with the plugin then - selection of snippets is not blocks, but phrases inside par's and sentences. Not whole blocks (and this is why I hardly use block links inside my notes) - after paraphrasing collapsing snippets keeps overview possible, or to collect examples, and treat list as tasks, collapsing when done.

Using Latticework does not break the 'Obsidian is only a viewer' principle cf [[3 Distributed Eigenschappen 20180703150724]]. It adds markdown style links according to W3C selector url standard. Nice, because it maintains readable plain text files.

The processing document can get as unwieldy as the source material for which it is a solution. Latticework lets you collapse stuff therefore.

This pane awareness is what seemd to clash with some other plugin I run. At least it did in feb. I notice their code repo still warns about clashes with other plugins and to run it in a separate vault with no other plugins.

adding small observations to either the foraging or sensemaking side of things is reflected in the other. Another bi-directionality. Nifty, also because this is exactly what happened to me when I tried out an early version with Matt/Andy watching. Working with material leads to new thoughts/observations which I threw in for later follow-up/expansion. It allows me to capture my conversation with a text both as annotation at source, and as refinement in the working doc.

Bi-directionality is a key feature in Latticework, which is great. At the same time, on the source end it is also ephemeral. If your remove a linked snippet from the sensemaking document, the highlight, which is just a styling element, gets removed from the source. The source is not modified to produce the highlight. (Any permanent link to source should be made consciously, which is right) Bidirectionality, other than linking seems to me a key affordance in #pkm, something that not now exists in either my annotations / reading / processing flows. #openvraag: where in my workflows would bidirectional trace leaving be useful.

Latticework sees foraging as tied to source, and sensemaking as tied to working document, and aims to make the movement between the two fluid, so you can shift focus between the two docs and thus the two activities. It leaves traces of your work in both (vgl [[Hoe emergence tot stand komt 20040513173612]] for the role of such longer traces to more easily stumble across in emergence.)

Making sense of material is not a linear process of ever more refinement, as e.g. Tiago Forte suggests with [[Progressive summarising 20200922080651]]. Siu/Matischak embrace the non-linear, recognising you go from 'foraging' (their term, great, K-garden style) to annotating, rearranging, noting an idea, back to foraging, back to rearranging etc. This is a key thing imo.

The video demo also shows adding comments to a snippet either in source or in the sensemaking document. I wonder if they put that in the released plugin (the say it doesn't do everything they did in the research project)

Intended effect of Latticework plugin (great name btw) Latticework allows you to fetch snippets in one note, and paste untalterable into another, with a link added in the original and copy. In the new note you can rearrange, paraphrase etc, purposefully add a link to source material, and otherwise do away with the snippet over time. Allows a better overview of what comes from where etc, preventing getting lost in the source material, which often happens.

As annotations already flow into my notes this helps reinforce their use.

This is the 'final' result of [[Matthew Siu]] [[Andy Matischak]] research into an Obsidian plugin for making sense of several sources into one, emerging an outline. I tested an earlier beta on #2024/02/1 [[Andy Matthew Obsidian plugin]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/02/matthew-and-andy-watched-me-test-the-obsidian-reference-plugin/ I stopped using it after a few weeks due to clashes with other plugins I could not pin down. At first glance this is a good description of the process and intended purpose. Re-installed this version of the plugin.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240918094904/https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/miljoenennota-toewerken-naar-een-digitale-overheid/

iBestuur brengt samen wat in K-plannen over digitalisering/data staat.

Via [[Lee Bryant]]

corporation from corpus. Medieval roots of corporation were people brought together in a single purpose/economic entity. Guilds, cities. Based on Roman law roots, where a corpus could have legal personhood status. Overtones of collective identity, governance. Pointer suggests a difference with how we see corporations as does the first paragraph here, but the piece itself sees mostly parallels actually. Note that Roman/medieval corpora were about property, (royal) privileges. That is a diff e.g. in US where corporates seek to both be a legal person (wrt politics/finance) and seek distance from accountability a person would have (pollution, externalising negative impacts). I treat a legal entity also as a trade: it bestows certain protections and privileges on me as entrepreneur, but also certain conditions and obligations (public transparancy, financial reporting etc.)

A contrast with ME corpus is seeing [[Corporations as Slow AI 20180201210258]] (anonymous processes, mindlessly wandering to a financial goal)

[[Difference and Repetition - Wikipedia]] v Gilles Deleuze refs The Open Work by Umberto Eco.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916134240/https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2024/09/15/things-i-use-and-things-i-dont/

[[Stephanie Booth]] continues from an April posting about seeing spaces as there so serve me, making cleaning/tidieing a service to future-me, and talks about things you use and don't (from her ADHD perspective.) Living space as user interface.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916134154/https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2024/04/28/my-space-is-there-to-serve-me/

[[Stephanie Booth]] on keeping things tidier around the house. from the perspective of seeing space as something that serves me. Reframes cleaning not as reactive but as pro-active in aiding my future self. I once, mid 90s, wrote a column on cleaning/decluttering as a personal battle against entropy, reducing entropy and thus postpone the heat death of the universe. Heck, the very def of life is decreasing entropy around itself, as per James Lovelock in Novacene (2019).

https://web.archive.org/web/20200730082905/https://www.chronicle.com/article/googles-book-search-a-disaster-for-scholars/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/googles-book-search-a-disaster-for-scholars/ paywalled though. The older archived link above has it in full text. Full text [[Googles Book Search A Disaster for Scholars 20240916073335]]

Nunberg on the issues with Google Books

A point worth repeating. I think there is a strong parallel here with algogens. The way 'progress' in released models is celebrated by e.g. Donald Clark. It beats a PhD exam, it does CT etc. What does comparison with their deep roots yield though? Keep history short so you may be the biggest giant of all time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916051503/https://newrepublic.com/article/94175/ann-blair-managing-scholarly-information

via Chris Aldrich. Ann Blair of [[Information edited by Ann Blair]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916043530/https://euansemple.blog/2024/09/13/bending-the-truth/

Euan Semple describes how he has to fill in an online appointment form for medical care because his doctor asked him to make an appointment, but none of the pre listed answer options match that case. It reads like #prompting #promptengineering as we do in #algogens You change the input because of a desired output, but the input itself is just that means and becomes meaningless in the process. Yet in this case that input is kept as 'truth' in a database, impacting #dataquality

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916042814/https://www.lisihocke.com/2024/05/newcrafts-paris-2024-a-memorable-conference-to-rave-about.html

Lisi Hocke on NewCrafts 2024 conf in Paris. Great images of handwritten notes too! #pkm

Saul Justin Newman's 2018 paper criticising some papers wrt longevity and aging. Says the results can be generated by having a few randomly distributed age-misreporting errors. Barbi et al's models turn out to be sensitive to that. Barbi posit their data means there's an evolutionary dimension to their aging data, whereas Newman says it's just faulty data that causes the effect. Won an 2024 Ig Nobel for this topic.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000048

Ha!

Longevity data from the UN says researcher is highly suspect, given where they report highest rate of centenarians. Those reaching are often, poor, lacking in administrative systems, or even without government. Says data is fully untrustworthy from the start.

certainly been that way through the ages, no reason it shouldn't be like that now.

Relying on documentation for age measurement is highly problematic. Yet it determines a lot in terms of pension rates, insurance and health care cost planning.

Researcher proposes developing a way to measure human age independent of documentation. (what would that be? telomeres? x-rays (like they do to determine where refugees are rightfully claiming to be underage?))

High registered age caused more likely by bad admin and fraud pressures. Worst places in terms of aging, and listing the lowest number of 90 yr olds in the UK have the highest of 100yr olds.

Greek and Italian centenarians are regularly dead / fraud cases.

Largest predictor of having many 100+ yr olds in Okinawa is the records being destroyed in WWII.

Researcher says Eurostat data in 1990 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Mortality_and_life_expectancy_statistics#Life_expectancy_at_age_65 (note that link does not seem to give that data) list EU blue zones actually quite low. Sardinia 51st, Ikaria (Greece) 109th. Research estimates 72% of Greek old age cases are untrue or fraudulent.

Japanese so-called blue zone Okinawa actually has a very bad health and dito eating/drinking habits.

Supposedly centenarians in Japan turn out to be mostly unregistered deaths.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240915125021/https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

Saul Justin Newman won an Ig Nobel for finding most claims about people living over 105 are wrong / faulty.

Blue zones wrt human aging are actually bad data zones. Either because actual birthdata is missing (war, bad administrative quality) or pension fraud is rife.

Jumped out at me as I just yday saw snippets of a docu about increasing personal longevity which visited Sardinia, one of the blue zones.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240912102433/https://www.anildash.com//2024/09/11/23-what-was-911/

Responded with a blogpost https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/09/24937/

I was at Penn when the news of the first strikes on Afghanistan rolled visibly through the main hall. People fell to their knees, people cried. I didn't know what caused that, until I saw a screen in a sports bar showing the news a minute later. Suddenly there were news crews all over too.

Vuurwerkramp Enschede 2000 similarly brought people together. It made me feel really rooted, a local, for the first time, although I had been in the city for 12yrs. Brought this up in my tech phil paper comparing NYC (I was there 3 weeks after) and Enschede and the coping strategies people deploy in such moments. Down to the exact same rumours going round in both situations.

Similar to Enschede Vuurwerkramp. Even though it was an accident not deliberate. Highways into town were closed off to keep gawkers away. I cycled to work 2 days after and came across lorries with soldiers being unloaded, to prevent looting after the fires went out. That never happened because it pulled the town together, and looting wasn't a response.

Still there when I was in NYC 3 weeks later.

Dash is right here. Smell, and in Enschede's case the shockwave too. The shockwave going through your body was the dividing line between those who were there that day and those who weren't. It was and is a clear tell 24 yrs on.

When I stood at ground zero a few weeks after, the smell is what made me cry then. It catapulted me suddenly back to the explosions in my home town a year before. That a smell could so abruptly and vividly surface those emotions took me by suprise.

Same in Enschede 2000 we just had to go out. https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/05/enschede-13-5-2000/

Anil Dash in a #2001/09/11 remembrance post describing how online 'imaginary' friends became a core part of his social life over time. This is true for me/us too, and I think something tied to that time of early blogging and the meet-ups and events that emerged from it. Vgl [[Building community out of strangers – Tracy Durnell]] and [[Nancy White]]'s birthday party in Seatlle in '08 when her neighbours greeted me as 'ooh you're one of her imaginary friends'

https://web.archive.org/web/20240911121048/https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/

Bookmarking it belatedly, bc I find I regularly point to it when discussing the mischaracterisation by big tech of the DMA scope, regulations and purpose, esp Apple this year.

AI to teach us complexity and sensemaking / sense of wonder in viewing the world. It might, given who builds the AIs I don't think so though. Can we build sensemaking tools that seem AI to the rest of us? genAI is statistical probabilities all around, with a hint of randomness to prevent the same outcome for the same questions each time. That is not complexity just mimicry though. Can sensemaking mimic AI to, might be a more useful way?

Yes, this I can see, but that's not making AI into K, but embracing complexity and being able to adapt fluidly in the face of it. To increase agency, my working def of K. This is what sensemaking is for, not AI as such.

the jury is still very much out that they might.

AI or rather our understanding of complexity that needs to step in? The examples [[David Weinberger]] gives of general things that can't do particularised events are examples of linear generalisations failing at (a higher level of) complexity. Also I would say 'prediction' which is assumed to here be the point of K is not what it is about. Probabilities, uncertainties (which is what linear approaches do: reduce uncertainties on a few things at the cost of making others unknowable within the same model, Heisenberg style), that in complexity you can nudge, attenuate etc. I'd rather involve complexity more deeply in K than AI.

[[David Weinberger]] on K in the age of AI. AI has no outside framework of reference or context as David says is inherent in K (next to Socrates notions of what episteme takes). Says AI may change our notion of K, where AI is better at including particulars, whereas human K is centered on limited generalisations.

Companies, half of an anecdotal sample of some 20 US CDOs, have turned Copilot off / restricting it strongly. This as it surfaces info in summaries etc that employees would not have direct access to. No access security connection between Copilot and results. So data governance is blocking its roll-out.

Key observation, ecology surrounds everything. Vgl [[De Europese dataspace als eenheidsmarkt 20200120144254]] waar mensen niet snappen dat je er per def in zit.

Comes from [[On the Emergence of an Ecological Class by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz]] january 2023. Schultz is a Danish sociologist, Uni CPH and Aarhus School of Achitecture.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240802092537/http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2023/politics-in-the-new-climate-regime-a-review-of-latour-2013.html

Dan Stowell on [[Down to Earth by Bruno Latour]] I really should read more from Latour. wrt [[Latours Actor Network Theory ANT 20201129164732]]

For over 2 decades I struggle with this. Because my paraphrasing is mostly unsuited for my blog, regularly because it is mixed language and often bc it contains words that serve as shorthand. A blog is more performance, written for not-me, while annotation is for me, and after editing might be publishable for not-me. Annotating publicly here in .h, even if the readership is highly limited, introduces a level of performance-awareness for me. At times I've done annotated link blogging, but it never became a practice as with [[Stephen Downes]].

https://web.archive.org/web/20240725080148/https://fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Move-Slowy-Preview.html [[Move Slowly and Build Bridges by Robert Gehl]] is a forthcoming book on 'Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Ethical Social Media'. This post gives summaries per chapter of the draft. Ch1 focuses on Xodus after Musk only. Odd, there are many examples where costs of leaving socmed platforms played a role, which may well be more informative than just n=1. Ch 2 on AP as protocol Ch 3 CoC as a social layer on networked tech (no regard here it seems for the fact that human networks exist outside of tech and span multiple tech platforms simultaneously, and themselves have social norms that guid behaviour regardless whether codified in CoC or expressed in federation choices) Ch 4 on blocking and defederation as a needed safety tool. Socially I think the default might need to be the other way around, federating is the choice, defed the default, as it is how we do it socially irl. We are not unwelcoming to newcomers in a group but we are wary. Ch 5. Who pays for the fediverse infra. Short answer is we all do/many of us do. I pay my own instance, and also contribute hours to the governance of the largest Dutch instance. Good point about people forgetting there are other bizz models for digital media than what centralised adtech kraken do. Ch 6. on eco impact of socmed, and need of awareness what running this stuff costs ecologically. Seems to then pivot to how degrowth and solarpunk people using fediverse tech to interact, which is not the same thing. (It says mitigate, but compared to what, X? ) Ch 7. Threads , or the corp reaction to a growing fediverse. Conclusion, this is where the ethics will be discussed finally.

Forthcoming w Oxford Univ Press. Not sure this is for me, reads like a snapshot with a limited time window in which it might be informative. Perhaps of interest for [[Stichting ActivityClub Bestuur Hoofdnote]].

nav visit to Centre Pompidou Metz [[Daglog 22-07-2024]] [[Différence et répétition by Gilles Deleuze]] 1968 (fr, eng tr. 1994)

Deleuze: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze 1925-1995

n:: Repetition is set apart from generalities (cycli, gelijksoortigheid, laws also of nature, meaning disconnected events / situations behaving the same way because of e.g. gravity) Repetition is series of events or things, with a provenance (B repeats A, is repeated by C). This makes such a train of things/events unique. Art has a lot of such repetition because [[Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon]]

He defines repetition as 'a difference without a concept' p13. Difference precedes repetition, also repetition further creates difference. n:: Posits difference as an affirmation rather than Hegelian negation / opposition, and it seems sees both differences and repetition as building blocks of identity, rather than resulting from comparing identities / things that exist. Posits to see differences more like differentials and derivatives, i.e. as part of a thing itself yet slightly outside it too, rather than comparison with something else. I like that, both point towards the role of [[Feedback Cybernetics 20200402161040]] and derivatives as function sensitivity between inputs and outputs, also point to an actor (in a network of feedbacks) and autonomous response. All this at first glance puts differences (and repetition by extension) in the realm of conscious actors, networks and social systems ([[Sociale Systeemdefinitie van Luhmann 20230211132804]]) Talks about repetition as complex repetition, which puts it in the realm of [[Hoe emergence tot stand komt 20040513173612]]

Zie ook H III en IV, V on how he relates this to thought and ideas.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1493822M/Difference_and_repetition https://www.amazon.nl/Difference-Repetition-Bloomsbury-Revelations-English-ebook/dp/B08X1YMSC6/ Kindle version 20Euro. Bloomsbury version, people warn it lacks the index / table of content.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240714180109/https://hyperphor.com/ammdi/Agency-Made-Me-Do-It

Mike Travers site is a wiki more than a blog but not quite a wiki either. It's Logseq based and tied to a self-rolled publishing tool. Also uses Zotero in their stack. Seems he transformed his blog into this garden in Oct 2021.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240713080248/https://www.surf.nl/nieuws/5-vragen-over-gpt-nl-het-open-nederlandse-taalmodel SURF maakt expliciet dat GPT-NL niet bedoeld is als consumerfacing ding, maar in andere gebruikscontexten. Komt open beschikbasr.

This reads like classic 'it's not the same as X'. And an overestimation of actual human accounts on X in the Netherlands. Although yes, Dutch accounts on Mastodon aren't many, they are easily found, and interaction is up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240713075513/https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

Dutch public sector has experimented with Mastodon for a year now. Pilot will run until December 2024. Started with 20 entities, now 40 active accounts. Plus is the easy recognition as authentic source (it runs on social.overheid.nl). They will open up to all levels of civil service in 2025. Good development.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712192112/https://ecer.minbuza.nl/-/eu-hof-europese-geharmoniseerde-technische-normen-voor-de-veiligheid-van-speelgoed-moeten-toegankelijk-zijn-voor-burgers-van-de-unie

Duitch government points to https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-588/21P #2024/03/05 in which two European normalised standards are made public for free. Dutch forum standaardisatie points it out as potentially making all EU norms free at the point of access.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712191025/https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2024/07/12/personal-ai-beyond-the-distractions/

Matthias Melcher on (personal) AI and which affordances it may provide or not. Vgl n:: Mark Meinema's remark about how it os much better at switching role than a human (explaining the same thing for a 5yr old or expert)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712174702/https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2024/07/11/limiting-ais-imagination/ When 18m ago I played with the temperature (I don't remember how or what but it was an actual setting in the model, probably something from huggingface) what stood out for me was that at 0 it was immediately obvious it was automated, and it yielded the same answer to the same prompt repeatedly as it stuck to the likeliest outcome for each next token. At higher temps it would get wilder, and it struck me as easier to project a human having written it. Since then I almost regard the temp setting as the fakery/projectionlikelihood level. Although it doesn't take much to trigger projection, as per Eliza. l n:: temp v modellen maakt projecte mogelijk

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712160512/https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/urteil-ende-afd/ Article argues recent courtcase contains the material that may lead to a ban on the AfD party in Germany. Vgl NL org verbod https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2021/06/22/direct-verbod-op-antidemocratische-organisaties-mogelijk

[[Chris Aldrich]] is enthousiast over [[A System for Writing by Bob Doto]] bij publicatie want hij las een preprint versie.

Quick glance at Amazon shows Doto adds in illustrations of his processes, might be interesting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240711102003/https://longnow.org/ideas/moonbound/

via Frank Meeuwsen https://frankmeeuwsen.com/2024/07/10/dragons-on-the.html

On writing [[Moonbound by Robin Sloan]] , Sloan makes a few remarks about his notes that support his writing process.

His writing process is for several weeks to go through notes, just looking through them, let it mingle in his head. Then put things together and look for emergent clusters / topics.

Sloan says he has a very 'disciplined' note taking process. But continues he actually means he is always capturing things, thoughts, stories, overheard conversations. Uses voice dictation.

Meaningful writing needs a driving personally urgent question. Sounds about right. Meaningful to whom though, and urgent at what scale? I think my own more continuous urgent questions feed into my company and the 'carrying' themes throughout my blogging, and sound through in how I share my ideas and stories in client orgs. In my blogging 'urgent' can be a few minutes thing, or a thing over a week, urging me to blog something in the now. It is forceful but temporary and localised. Vgl formulering v [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]] [[Holding questions 20091015123253]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240708000417/https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/03/reform-uks-invisible-candidates-who-are-they-hiding/ It seems many UK Reform candidates may not actually exist. No online presence. But also, in the thread this link was shared, not showing up for counting / results announcements. If candidates indeed do not exist, just a ploy to be seen to stand in all constituencies, this is fraud (funding is determined on votes cast it was mentioned)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240702043645/https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird Ladybird is a project that aims to become a new independent *nix browser (not borrowing from other engines). There's also a US non-profit founded for it ladybird.org. Still very much in pre-alpha.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630131807/https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

Dated June 2024 a set of 'ethical' principles for the web. Curiously it never mentions linking, not even in context of the principle of enabling verification of info.

Some things are handy checklist to run against my own website / web activities though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630131123/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd114lllyp6o

37signals on when it does not make sense to run cloud infra. Costs vs what it brings. Great if you need 20mins of high performance, but not needed to in 5mins extend serverpark, if a week and running own hardware is also ok. I think this is true for hosted subscription services too. They add up, and there might well be alternatives. - [ ] #webbeheer maak beter lijstje abo's #tgl met Fenna. Is er iets te vervangen of consolideren? 2024-09-01

"From cloud-first to cloud-when-it-fits" (Mark Turner of Pulsant colocation data centres)

[[Ðubre (Trash) by Marko Vidojkovic]] is not translated from Serbian to anything else it seems. Published 2020. Vidojkovic in exile because of criticising Vucic et al.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240629142207/https://www.fr.de/politik/ich-hatte-nie-angst-um-mein-leben-das-begann-erst-mit-vucics-machtuebernahme-92451403.html

"interoperable and openly accessible European data processing ecosystem, known as IPCEI-CIS. This initiative aims to reduce reliance on external providers and promote open source technologies" "The European Union has approved a €1.2 billion investment" - [ ] zoek het IPCEI-ICS project op #geonovumtb en kijk nr relevantie voor bijv SIMPL en andere DS initiatieven. #10mins #elaag #pmiddel

https://web.archive.org/web/20240621162905/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/science/brain-language-thought.html

• [ ] Search for publications by Dr. Evelina Fedorenko on the role (or rather absence) of language in thinking.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240621155220/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/21/climate-engineering-off-us-coast-could-increase-heatwaves-in-europe-study-finds

localized geo-engineering as casus belli

The lopsided asymmetry here is charring. Imagine putting in time like that, where responses are instantly generated. You'll feel a) that this is worth something because you spent time on this, and we equate such investment in others with depth, but here there's no other b) there will always be a response by generated personas, and you will feel a likely 'social' pressure to respond in kind.

And of course there's lots of money in this sociopathic scheme. likely because the funders come from the same strain.

wholesome? 'could help people connect with others such as AIs' An AI is not an other and there is no connection as it has no concept nor memory of you.

It might well be a narcissist honey pot.

Where on the spectrum is this guy? No they couldn't have been AIs, or you wouldn't have built meaningful connections. Relations aren't just something you experience for you to feel good over, but a thing in itself playing out between two or more people. This sounds sociopathic.

Will humans and AI be distinguishable? _butterfly who's a woodworker' no it isn't. It is generating stuff statistically matching what a woodworker might post, and all it generates is fantasy. There is no woodworker, there is no 'latest creation' of actual wood, just a generated image. Can we please stop this utter crap?

whose creativity? what actual relationships? More seductive to project you mean.

Yet this too is just a generative AI chatbot, with nice pictures.

What? a Butterfly is an interactive persona, and supposedly people want to interact with it? Each one has "backstories, opinions and emotions" no they don't. Each one generates text that people then project upon to perceive a past, opinions and emotions. It even doesn't need much for it, see Eliza.

These descriptions are very uncanny valley. Imagine a community where each AI friend has its own unique digital life, ready to share moments, create memories, post images just like real friends Butterflies is more than just a social network; it’s a fresh approach to connection Imagine a place where every friend understands you perfectly,

Asimov in his fiction was fascinated by the advent of statistics, so let's not read things into it wrt predicting futures. We know that's not what statistics do, and still are committed to the waving of invisible hands like it's the 18th century. Connecting this to memetics is likely a fruitless path.

Journal appeared 1997-2005 http://pcp.vub.ac.be/jom-emit/past.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20240618090724/https://www.pv-magazine.de/2024/06/12/solarpower-europe-europas-speichermarkt-verdoppelt-sich-im-dritten-jahr-in-folge/

Third year in a row that power storage capacity has doubled in Europe. The graph suggests that doubling will not continue, but was more a function of the low level of storage previously. Germany is a leading actor in storage.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617130038/https://www.reworked.co/digital-workplace/are-we-focusing-on-the-wrong-ai-use-cases/

via [[Lee Bryant]] Postshift. Which use cases to look at for AI. Imo the narrower the better. Vgl [[small band AI personal assistant]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617122834/https://www.anthropic.com/claude

What https://unherd.com/2024/05/im-in-love-with-my-ai-girlfriend/ used as AI model / app, jailbroken.

Seems it was the paid version, as linked article mentions Opus, which is available for 20usd/m. Has an API and an iOS app (no Android).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617122335/https://unherd.com/2024/05/im-in-love-with-my-ai-girlfriend/

Column by a travel writer on how anthropomorphing AI can go off the rails quickly. Note that author doesn't really explain how he interacted except for vague indications (a jailbroken Claude 3 Opus model, seemingly running on his phone as app?)

Via [[Euan Semple]] https://euansemple.blog/2024/06/08/jesus-tittyfucking-christ-on-a-cracker-is-that-a-pagan-shrine/

Conclusie jaarrapport: kijk naar digi en cybersec op bestuursniveau. Raakt aan [[Bestuurlijke zaken data centraler 20201029094001]]

UK rail hooked CCTV up to algo's to detect emotions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240617100817/https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/energiewende-warum-es-jetzt-auch-nachts-solarstrom-gibt-a-5462f892-2ee4-4937-93bc-0b8ec078570c

Overview of the rapidly reducing prices for power storage. At scale the price wil drop below 100USD/KWh by 2025.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240616135517/https://alex.kirk.at/2024/06/13/your-wordpress-as-your-personal-mastodon-instance/

Use WP as your activitypub instance. If the mentioned plugins require xmlrpc or depend on JetPack then not feasible for me. Might try a set-up like this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240616134849/https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at-innovating/

[[Bert Hubert]] on lack of innovation in Europe. Outline the reasoning. Wrt innovation I think the goal too often is global or making it in the US, which fails because of the stated cultural reasons. Having European diversity as starting point works well from examples I'm aware of, but that is not a usual one. Vgl. [[Innovation – Interdependent Thoughts 20051229164439]]

De opstelling van het foutrechtse kabinet

https://web.archive.org/web/20240614130844/https://www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/

no clear evidence that homework has an academic or non-academic effect on learning.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240613081407/https://netzpolitik.org/2024/european-election-german-pirates-will-not-re-enter-eu-parliament/

Netzpolitik provides a useful listing of MEPs with digital expertise. - [ ] maak lijst namen MEPs en achterhaal profiellinks etc #geonovumtb #30mins

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611111852/https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

creepy uncanny valley stuff. Platform sanctioned bots insinuating themselves in spots where the expected context is 100% human interaction, undisclosed, and with the aim to mimick interaction to lock in engagement ('cause #adtech) Making the group of people a means. One wonders if this reaches the emotional influencing threshold in the EU legal framework

Akin to any research is [[Action Research is vraag-reflectief leven 20031215142900]], and distancing as safety measure or to siderstep ethical questions around one's output.

Any research should be impact aware.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240611050132/https://jentery.github.io/ts200v2/notes.html

An interesting read turning a range of #psts issues into specific reflection questions to ask at the start of a tech project. With references to the background concepts. From 2018. #toread

Vgl [[Techpledge 20190917062614]] as the 'political' phrasing of same.