Nicely done browser based but fully local way to look at Kobo highlights and annotations. Downloads in both markdown and text.
Via Adri Mathlener at Digitale Fitheid community who pointed to Rob Hoeij's https://robhoeij.nl/een-betere-manier-om-kobo-notities-en-markeringen-te-exporteren/
Wir sind nicht digital souverän, sondern extrem abhängig von einer Handvoll männlicher Milliardäre mit fragwürdigen Werten
"We don't have digital sovereignty, we have an extreme dependence on a handful of male billionaires with sketchy values."
[[Anke Domscheit-Berg]] on Germany's digital policies , or lack thereof. First met her in 2010.
So long, and thanks for all the fish,
This is what the dolphins said after they were unsuccessful in warning humanity of Earth's impending demolition by the Vogons, and left.
Is Dohmke just doing a nerdy goodbye here unaware of the context of the phrase or is this the actual message after various paragraphs of corporate marketing speak?
GitHub CEO steps down, will not be replaced, as GitHub will be folded into MS' CoreAI unit. This means attention will be unfocused wrt GitHub. Inertia will keep it upright for a while I'm sure, perhaps until GitHub is once more repositioned, but it may well be the end of it. Moves like this put community infrastructure as GitHub is under the hood and makes it invisible as just another piece of plumbing while ignoring the core role users have in its functioning.
(Dohmke exited German startup HockeyApp to MS at the end of 2014 and moved to MS as part of that deal)
IDSA announces near release of the data space protocol. Tested it with TNO's connector a good while ago.
Successful tests have already been completed by both the Eclipse Dataspace Connector (EDC) and the TNO-developed connector, demonstrating that multiple independent implementations can interoperate effectively.
TNO connector I've played with, but wasn't convinced yet, as it assumes extremely simple 1-on-1 data transactions which will hardly ever be a real case. The control layer seems ok though.
mathematical foundation of physics improved.
Greg Morris with useful / working description of how to export annotations from my Kobo device (by default, Kobo only syncs annotations from books bought at Kobo platform to your account, not from sideloaded books). Edited the Kobo settings and then was able to export annotations. They do not contain the location for an annotation, so you're referencing is 'blind'. Also mentions a Calibre plugin for annotations I have not tried yet.
Nan Shepherd wrote 'The Living Mountain' in the 1940s, which only got published in 1977. Book was influence on Robert MacFarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Macfarlane_(writer) ([[Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane]] was mentioned in [[Wayfinding by Michael Bond]] and recently 2025 published Is a River Alive ([[Rights of nature - Wikipedia]])? Vgl [[Landschap is medium niet achtergrond 20240731205412]] [[Exploratie zit in onze natuur 20240731202104]]
[[The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd]]
https://web.archive.org/web/20250808094937/https://pine64eu.com/product/pinenote-community-edition/
e-ink device w linux. Very pricy though at 610 Euro (500 excl vat)
via E
vgl [[Boox Nova2]]
E referred me to this as a fellow 'list maker' example. My current list is about 1600, mostly because I lost a 2k delicious library list. Not all read though. [[Boekenlijst is bibliotheek 20210507092034]] #blogdit
suggests quantitative methods wrt predicting future tech impact on behaviour/socialaspects, in contrast with the usual qualitative narrative methods (futurism, narrative inquiry, scenarios presumably) The Science Fiction Science Method as PDF in Zotero PDF available CC BY at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394323287_The_Science_Fiction_Science_Method
via Bruce Sterling (Mastodon)
Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview John Danaher & Henrik Skaug Sætra 2023
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of techno-moral change. It argues that technology affects moral beliefs and practices in three main domains: decisional (how we make morally loaded decisions), relational (how we relate to others) and perceptual (how we perceive situations). It argues that across these three domains there are six primary mechanisms of techno-moral change: (i) adding options; (ii) changing decision-making costs; (iii) enabling new relationships; (iv) changing the burdens and expectations within relationships; (v) changing the balance of power in relationships; and (vi) changing perception (information, mental models and metaphors). The paper also discusses the layered, interactive and second-order effects of these mechanisms.
DOI 10.1007/s10677-023-10397-x
Vid overall is a bit meh, but the label clarity maximisation is useful to express the difference to productivity aims. Then starts to idealise these types of people as analog first, ruthless curators, and then as cutting out social stuff bc not helping their thinking. That's the meh. Puts purity porn as replacement of productivity porn. Joan Westenberg https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
Does point to [[Rust is geen restpost 20200531155900]] and reducing friction wrt (creative) thinking, as well as 'output' measured in insights etc not artefacts. Agreed, yet ultimately artefacts are the only output, also of thinking. More like Matuschak , and my k-work artisan approach. (Joan Westenberg posts in a strict rhythm themselves, so do measure artefacts as output too)
via [[Frank Meeuwsen]] in https://frankmeeuwsen.com/2025/07/28/paper-trails-weekoverzicht-juli.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20250727063255/https://dailystoic.com/oikeiosis/
w.r.t. oikeiosis (orig οικειοσις οικειωσις?) meervoudige betekenis, mbt zelf vs/icm non-zelf.
Vgl [[Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia]] where it is taken as a key starting point.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250719082633/https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ by Paul Kedrosky On the enormous capital expenditures for AI related data centers, at the level of 2% US GDP. A volume big enough to influence overall economy / hide other currents in economy.
A brief description of Obsidian Bases I have created a simple one as overview of my ongoing projects in my company. Works fast on the fly, but not sure there's a huge diff with previous dataview queries.
The figure Grothendiek sounds like the inspiration for the hermit genius in [[Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner]]
iBestuur artikel over Q v chatbots in gem websites. Kort antwoord: waardeloos. Bovendien lijkt het dat iedereen zelf maar wat kiest ipv dat er coord is. Veel gems duren 'experiment' er op te plakken om vervolgens wel de gevolgen daarvan op hun burgers af te wentelen ongevraagd (ergernis, tijdsverlies), en zonder dat er een experiment is in de zin van hypothese empirie en evaluatie
Textbook on LLMs by Yuguang Yang, 2023.
Bank statements, by showing shifts in transactions and usage, can point to cognitive decline years before any symptoms.
William Nordhaus is the source of generally accepted modeling of the economic cost of climate urgency and inaction, yet increasingly his models are seen as wildly wrong, not accounting for asymmetric risks and uncertainty (and using GDP as main yardstick it seems). Reads like a linear modeling which disregards cascades and non-linear complex causality chains.
Ons project Democratie in het Verkeer: een 5-sterrenmodel voor verantwoorde inzet van iVRI’s is 1 v 10 toegekende projecten. Samen met RUG. Mooi.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250630193609/https://taylor.town/
'my website is ugly because I made it'. Interesting approach for the front page. Breaking up the blog feel. I can see something like this for my own site, vgl [[0 Tondriaan dtd]] which I 2021/2 attempted but was too structured really. Why not unstructured. And then add a few zones that do what I wanted the structure to do before. (tagged WP bc I use wp, not bc the site is in wp)
Sea wind turbines create new habitats for marine life. Check some of the sources. The 'wolves changed the flow of the river in Yellowstone' mention is debatable, and using it as lead in here. raises some questions.
'agent washing' Agentic AI underperforms, getting at most 30% tasks right (Gemini 2.5-Pro) but mostly under 10%.
Article contains examples of what I think we should agentic hallucination, where not finding a solution, it takes steps to alter reality to fit the solution (e.g. renaming a user so it was the right user to send a message to, as the right user could not be found). Meredith Witthaker is mentioned, but from her statement I saw a key element is missing: most of that access will be in clear text, as models can't do encryption. Meaning not just the model, but the fact of access existing is a major vulnerability.
Mogelijk [[Aan te schaffen boeken 2025]]
published 2021. "critique of the infosphere"
Vgl [[Physical and Information Landscape 20060302150900]]
Byung-Chul Han (1959) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han German university prof. phil. German title: Undinge. Umbrüche der Lebenswelt. Ullstein, Berlin 2021. ISBN 978-3-550-20125-7.
e-book at Dussmann: https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/en/detail/ISBN-2244025495146/Han-Byung-Chul/Undinge
Minima Moralia der Informationsgesellschaft: Heute bewohnen wir nicht mehr Erde und Himmel, sondern Google Earth und Cloud. Informationen beherrschen unsere Lebenswelt. Wir berauschen uns regelrecht an Kommunikation. Byung-Chul Hans Kritik der Informationsgesellschaft klärt uns über die Folgen unseres Informations- und Kommunikationsrausches auf.Schon vor Jahrzehnten stellte der Medientheoretiker Vilém Flusser fest: »Undinge dringen gegenwärtig von allen Seiten in unsere Umwelt, und sie verdrängen die Dinge. Man nennt diese Undinge Informationen.« Die Dinge rücken heute immer mehr in den Hintergrund der Aufmerksamkeit. Die Welt als Infosphäre überlagert die Welt als Dingsphäre. Der Übergang vom Ding zum Unding verändert massiv unsere Wahrnehmung und Weltbeziehung. Byung-Chul Hans neuer Essay kreist um Dinge und Undinge. Er entwickelt sowohl eine Philosophie des Smartphones als auch eine Kritik der Künstlichen Intelligenz aus ungewohnter Perspektive. Gleichzeitig wendet er sich der Magie der Dinge zu und reflektiert über die Stille, die im Informationslärm verlorengeht.
Caesar, L., Sakschewski, B., Anderson, L. S., Beringer, T., Braun, J., Dennis, D., Gerten, A., Heilemann, A., Kaiser, J., Kitzmann, N. H., Loriani, S., Lucht, W., Ludescher, j., Martin, M., Mathesius, S., Paolucci, A., te Wierik, S., & Rockström, J. (2024). Planetary Health Check Report 2024 (1). Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_30275_5/component/file_30276/content Rockström, J. (2024a). Reflections on the past and future of whole Earth system science. Global Sustainability, 7, e32.
https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_30275_5/component/file_30276/content Planetary Health Check Report 2024
Grund für die Nervosität, von der Rockström spricht, sind Entwicklungen der Jahre 2023 und 2024 wie die sprunghafte Erhöhung der Temperaturen der Luft und der Meeresoberfläche und das Umkippen großer Waldgebiete von CO2-Senken zu CO2-Quellen. Was sich gerade im Erdsystem verändert, ist wissenschaftlich noch nicht ganz verstanden. Das Risiko dafür, dass dieses System sich so unwiderruflich von den Holozänbedingungen entfernt, dass sich auch Holozän-ähnliche Bedingungen nicht mehr aufrechterhalten lassen, ist deutlich größer geworden. Ausführlich informiert darüber der „Planetary Health Check Report 2024“ (Caesar et al., 2024), zu dessen Herausgebern Rockström gehört.
The last 2 yrs saw non-linear changes. While scientifically not yet fully understood, risk for moving out of Holocene conditions became higher.
Planetary Health Check Report, Caesar et al 2024
Großen Beschleunigung
Great Acceleration, term?
Das Konzept der planetary boundaries, das vor allem auf Johan Rockström zurückgeht, integriert die Ergebnisse dieser Forschungen zu einem diagnostischen Framework: Es erlaubt festzustellen, wie groß das Risiko ist, dass das Erdsystem sich unwiderruflich von den Bedingungen des Holozän entfernt.
Planetary boundaries as a concept mostly coined by Johan Rockström, Heinz says.
The concept of planetary boundaries is a diagnostic framework for how far / irreparably we're moving out of the Holocene climate conditions.
Johan Rockströms
Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. it says at linked page.
[[Heinz Wittenbrink]] about this year's re:publica conf in Berlin. (E and I visited in 2014 didn't go back)<br /> Discusses if there's a proper connection between the digerati of old (see my Reboot at 20yrs post) and climate aware circles, wrt getting to action.
Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250611071342/https://ruk.ca/content/bots-are-eating-my-blog-lunch
[[Peter Rukavina]] blog sees high spikes in bot traffic. This blogpost shows how he blocked those bots both in robots.txt and in Apache. I think my hoster blocks a bunch of bots, but not sure whether my site traffic still has a lot of bot traffic.
On the fragmented comment chains in ActivityPub and two approaches for it. Calls it the 'quiet fediverse' problem. Reminds me of [[Zijn VR virtual worlds leeg 20070917131806]] the quiet VR worlds problem, though that's different. English translation of original Korean post.
Koppermaandag ken ik van de Groningse kunstkring De Ploeg waar E's oudoom ze ook maakte (vgl https://www.kunstbehoudgroningen.nl/collectie/82 ). Oorspronkelijk een feestdag van alle gilden , later alleen nog in de grafische sector. #idee iets voor [[% Practice Praktijk OP]] op #2026/01/12
nav dat ik bij [[Roy Scholten]] in het Grafisch Atelier Hilversum koppermaandagprenten tegenkwam. #2025/06/07 en ze al eerder daar had gezien.
2019 WSJ report on the vaporware Build.ai. Folded 6 yrs later. Meaning investors turned a blind eye for all that time.
March 2022 Techcrunch article already pointing to the vapor aspect of Builder.ai which folded in June 2025. Points back to 2019 reports where the same issue was already raised. Meaning later investors were wilfully blind for 6 yrs.
'It turns out the company had no AI and instead was just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI,
'AI' softw dev company, is actually a pool of 700 India based coders. Exposed because they couldn't meet payroll....
Only Office is created/owned by a Russian outfit. What does our Nextcloud use?
[[Doug Belshaw]] responds to [[Stephen Downes]] wrt literacy and how to see it / define it.
Belshaw ties literacy to a community of literates, Downes is more focused on literacy as individual skills in reading and writing. Skills are of course individual in principle. Yet there's a diff between rod fishing and reading/writing: rod fishing's personal use value remains flat regardless the number of capable rod fishers, whereas the value of reading/writing increases in a community in which such individual skills have spread. [[Howard Rheingold]] defs literacy as skill+community. [[Geletterdheid als gemeenschappelijke vaardigheid 20100705123145]] Literacy as a communal skill.
Doug points to [[Etienne Wenger]] 1991 / 1998 work on CoPs. CoPs go further (than a network effect in skill utility spread across a community) in positioning learning and k transfer as embedded in a community of practitioners, and that community being prerequisite for that learning. Wrt literacy this brings on board the cultural existing/evolving practices around literacy, and thus as Doug holds values and ethics.
My pos thus is a third pos, between Doug and Stephen, closer to Howard's point: the network effect of a skill as determining element if something is a literacy. Reading/writing has a powerful network effect, adding readers/writers increases the agency / utility that reading/writing skills provide. Rod fishing doesn't. Stephen sticks way closer to skills, imo to the point of literacy being just another word for reading/writing skills but not different from skills. Doug goes further than the network effect putting the community more central, which importantly allows to bring the evolution of a literacy over time, contexts and geography in view. Doug and I both see literacy as a social tech. In my take various things called literacy don't much exist perhaps (indiv skills aren't lit, and where spreading those skills doesn't bring much network effect), but there can always be CoP like groupings where social learning around such otherwise indiv skills takes place. The network effect can take place without a CoP too. However the communal layer brings in additional dynamics that will influence lit. As deleniation between communities (of practice and otherwise), or in the form of non-lit people being largely excluded from the community/society they live in.
Probably not, given Google’s long history of interpreting multilingual as serial monolingual (see this 2007 presentation at Google by Stephanie Booth pointing this same stuff out), ignoring that multilingual people tend to change languages throughout their activities even for just a single word or short phrase. (I don’t have Dutch, English or German days or topics, in the case of books I may want to find the German original of an English translation, or want to search for a specific thing in French because I know it exists, while also interested in any Dutch translation that might be available or the Italian original. My notes are always in multiple languages.)
Multilingualism is never serial monolingual. I use my languages all mixed up, it's a tapestry in which different languages can provide different nuances, associations, emotions. A tapestry. As I wrote here Google has never understood that throughout its history.
Overview of Rights of Nature, of which Buen Vivir is an expression. parallels in indigenous cultures, religion and human rights law.
Mentions a range of countries that have them, but doesn't mention legal entity it seems at first glance.
Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, #2010/12 Ley 071 Bolivia. First national law enacting Buen Vivir.
An adapted law was enacted #2012/10/15 , La Ley Marco de la Madre Tierra y Desarrollo Integral para Vivir Bien (Ley 300) that mentions Buen Vivir as Vivier Bien explicitly in its title.
deals encapsulated in the concept of Buen Vivir and the recognition of the rights of Mother Nature draw from ancient Andean indigenous traditions that pre-date the Spanish colonial era.
Buen vivir ties in with pre-colonial Andean identity aspects, which was a success factor, I suspect as convening call too. Vgl [[SC Identity work 20230907073823]] and [[Convening call 20230908135351]] Bolivia's progress also strongly tied to indigenous population and lifting themselves out of poverty.
Bolivia’s 2011 Law of Mother Nature was the first national-level legislation in the world to bestow rights to the natural world
Bolivia adopted a 2011 law of mother nature which gives the natural world legal rights.
Bolivian Constitution of 2009 recognises Buen Vivir as a principle to guide state action
Bolivia adopted Buen Vivir in its constitution in 2009 as guiding principle for state policy.
rooted in the cosmovision of the Quechua peoples of the Andes, of “sumac kawsay”, a kichwa term which denotes the fullness of life, rooted in community and harmony with other people and nature
Buen Vivir has its roots in the Andes Quechua peoples view of life as 'sumac kawsay'
The Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 declares “We … hereby decide to build a new form of public coexistence, in diversity and in harmony with nature, to achieve the good way of living.”
Buen Vivir as term comes from a sentence in the 2008 constitution of Ecuador, equating harmony with nature as the good way of living.
Richting gevend plan van Aanpakversie: 2024-05-06
Dit plan is v mei 2024. Is het onderzoek inmiddels in gang? Auteur plan is niet duidelijk, denk beleidsambt.
Hoe kijken (juridische VN-)experts op het gebied van RvdN aan tegen de toepasbaarheid vanhet concept in de gemeente Eijsden- Margraten?
interessant expliciete formulering: auteur heeft hier denk ik gericht iets voor ogen. Welke VN experts?
#openvraag is natuur rechtspersoon iets dat VN aandacht aan geeft?
Hoe is het concept wereldwijd al toegepast in wet- en regelgeving? Wat is de historischecontext in deze gebieden? Waarom is RvdN hier toegepast?
Voor fase 1 worden 9 vragen gesteld, maar dit is de enige belangrijke: hoe landt dit elders in wet/regelgeving? Hoe wordt een nieuwe rechtspersoon daadwerkelijk gecreëerd. Of is het niet een echt nieuwe? Maar een civic org met een bestuur dat zich opstelt als de rivier/lagune/gebied?
Er wordt dan pasonderzoek gedaan naar de mogelijkheden voor implementatie, en dus naar het juridische -, enbeleidsvraagstuk. Fase 1 van het onderzoek dient enkel als verkenning over de passendheid van hetconcept RvdN in de gemeente Eijsden-Margraten
Fase 2 kijkt pas juridisch tav uitvoering (tikje vreemd want landelijke wetgeving zal bepalend zijn, de lit studie in f1 zal toch ook hierover moeten gaan: kan het in NL?) Stelt verwachtingen Fase 1 laag.
eze eerste verkenningsfase is enkelgericht op het uitdiepen van enerzijds de academische literatuur over het onderwerp, anderzijds ophet overzichtelijk krijgen van de belanghebbenden en diens kennis over de regio
literatuurstudie en stakeholder analyse in fase 1.
RvdN als concept benadrukt het benoemenvan de natuur als rechtspersoon als manier om deze beter te beschermen. Als de natuuronafhankelijk van diens belang voor anderen bestaansrecht krijgt, wat de intrinsieke waardeversterkt, is dit uiteindelijk positief voor het behoud van een gezond leefgebied voor alle soorten inhet gebied (inclusief de mens)
Onderzoeksoorstel is verder behoorlijk vaagtaal, maar hier staat het zinnetje dan wel expliciet dat het om rechtspersoon gaat.
Rechten van de Natuur (RvdN) is gebaseerd op Latijns-Amerikaans gedachtegoed bekend als BuenVivir (vertaling: goed leven), waarin gelijkwaardig samenleven met de natuur een actief onderdeelvan de maatschappij is. RvdN is op meerdere plekken wereldwijd geïmplementeerd voor duurzameontwikkeling met een lange-termijnsvisie.
Inspiratiebron is niet N-Zealand rivier, maar de Buen Vivir gedacht uit Z-Amerika. Label Rechten van de Natuur RvdN.
De motie van PRO verzoekt de gemeente Eijsden-Margraten om onderzoek te doen naar dejuridische en praktische haalbaarheid van het toekennen van rechtspersoonlijkheid aan de natuur inde gemeente Eijsden-Margraten
Gemeentemotie ging om onderzoek naar mogelijkheid lokale natuur status v rechtspersoon te geven.
Beetje raar art. omdat aan het eind blijkt dat we ook in EU en NL dit soort initiatieven hebben, en het tot die tijd als een soort curiositeit beschrijft.
#openvraag hoe kregen de genoemde voorbeelden status v rechtspersoon eigenlijk (is het via een bestaande vorm, stichting bijv, of is het een nieuwe vorm, met aanpassing wetten?)
In 38 landen voorbeelden zegt artikel (Heeft Karl Schroeder er een lijst van wellicht?)
2017 Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui) rivier krijgt rechtspersoon status, N-Zealand 2022 Mar Menor lagune, Spanje, eerste EU voorbeeld 2023 Eijsden-Margraten motie
Vgl [[Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder]] en [[Email Stop Ecocide International Team Massive EU News 28-3-202411:05:08]] mbt ecocide
Use social media to shape political narratives. But also, unplug. Switch on to political aeroplane mode. Think long-term. Don’t get caught in the news cycle or buried under the “flood the zone” avalanche of absurdities populists use to wear down their critics.
Some contrast with previous. As news cycle is also source of stories to collect in previous point, no? Focus on actions not words the diff?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250428054937/https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2019/11/27/writing-artist-bio-statement/ Via [[Roy Scholten]] https://bildung.royscholten.nl/nl/posts/2025/art-for-a-living-vonk/ Makes me wonder about using it for artisans, not artists, and by extension for knowledge-artisans. As it puts the creative acts of K-work more central. Vgl [[Convening call 20230908135351]] en [[Kenniswerk is ambacht 20040924200250]]
Val-de-Travers canton Neuchâtel, has a stretch of rail where solar panels are placed between the tracks. Pro is there's already electricity infrastructure in place, and doesn't require additional space. 5K km of track in CH, theoretically fit for 2.5M solar panels.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250423134653/https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/publicaties/2025/04/22/het-overheidsbrede-standpunt-voor-de-inzet-van-generatieve-ai Rijksstandpunt genAI, mede gebaseerd op IEC advies IPO. Niettemin wordt het hier lijkt me behoorlijk vrij gegeven, en de formulering klinkt heel los. Gaat problemen opleveren, want een bmw die met genAI speelt bij het opstellen van een stuk het voor zichzelf als 'experiment' labelt of 'innovatie' heeft het voor zich daarmee gerationaliseerd. Never mind dat experimenten gecontroleerde omstandigheden vergen, en innovatie een gedeelde intentie moet hebben in de org. Dit voelt heel zacht aan, staan de juiste dingen in desondanks
[[When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst]]
575k books published yearly in EU. Contains several pointers to initiatives to foster literary diversity / multilingual approaches. [[Europa kracht in diversiteit 20060610163705]]
Schleswig-Holstein transitioned away from MS Office stuff to FOSS. Vgl [[Data Sovereignty is the Translation of Digital Ethics into Practice 20210819161920]]
Joe Wood keeps a 'vague' list of tasks that are equally important as other more tangible tasks but lack clarity about what steps to take. He added this within his GTD implementation. Interesting, as I notice I tend to put off important things when I don't have a clear path to execution yet (and the next action would be to think about those steps). I also think such vague actions may actually not be actions but projects lacking definition. It makes beginning harder, and keeping a vague list might help address it. I think I might use it as a tag in tasks, not as a separate list.
I do, however, still use a memory palace as a mnemonic device on most days. It’s a pretty short one — just the floors in my office building — but there’s only one place where I need to use it — the only place where I don’t have access to my todo list: Shower thoughts. I do some of my best thinking in the shower; the freedom from other distractions is probably a big part of it. Inevitably, I end up with a list of multiple, disconnected thoughts that I want to take action on: new ways to approach work I want to do, ideas for fun new projects, or things to look into. All of these end up feeling really important, so I cram them into my short-term memory and inevitably sprint out of the shower to go write them down somewhere more permanent.
Joe Woods in response to my posting asking about [[Wat wil ik onthouden mempalace 20250323081216]] says he uses #mempal for remembering thoughts that come to him in the shower. I recognise it as a place where no capturing can take place, and ideas do come. Intriguing application. I wonder how many places he has in his mem palace to store ideas like that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250413154306/https://tailscale.com/ Tailscale allows your devices remote access to your local network, as a software defined network.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250413154154/https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/
Tailscale to access local network devices (found via Alper)
On defending federated projects / commons projects against EEE by corporations. Mentions XMPP as example of the danger, as well as SMTP (#openvraag waarom is SMTP een voorbeeld van corporate capture?) Mentions 3 defences: - Ensure that governance requires majority consensus in the network of stakeholders for protocol design adoptions (increases the cost of capture) - Ensure projects reside in an entity (foundation) independent of corporate funding (counter example would be Mozilla's financial management over the years, but valid point money w strings is always an issue). - Use contributor license agreements, so that output is owned by the project (meaning you can kick people out when needed. This is all at the project level. From a #netag perspective there's also something wrt how you deal with the social bounding of a group around a project. Author warns about corporate people participating without announcing they represent a corp. Also mentions that where corp contribs initially may be from aligned people, at any point they might be replaced by other corp people that don't have the same agenda as the person that initiated the contribs.
Two things: - the notion of 'harvest' i.e. both putting what you created into the world with yourself and acknowledging what you did/created, celebrate it in some way. Not what I do at all, I tend to switch to the next thing and forget about the previous. - the notion of seeing your daily practice as practicing (NB vgl [[Deliberate practice 20220715150100]] which is disregarded here, so the rote / routine parts of your daily work are swept up as part of practicing.), asking what it is you're practicing at becoming (as both in intentionally, and by how you get shaped by what you do, and contrasting them both for reflection). Sees the practicing as a type of harvest of point one.
This sounds like gratitude journaling, daily check-outs, interstitial journaling, and such but tied to [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]]. Also sounds like [[Compound interest of habits 20200916065059]]
Multiple frequency-shift keying MSK as means for HF (shortwave) text transmission as it's robust in the face of noise, weak signals and fading.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250324061255/https://swradiogram.net/
This is the text-over-shortwave 'radiogram' mentioned in Vgl [[Ham amateur radio SWL 20201010070113]] Dorkweb
A proposal to revive short wave radio, esp to overcome splinternet and internet blocking conditions. Mentions radio transmitted text. Mentioning ham transceivers capable of this. Seems a suggestion, of which none of the parts currently are in place (not broadcasters, not equipment, not antennaparks (RNWO shut down their stuff in 2012, since then a tiny part goes on internet only), not receivers. Interesting though, re #2025/03/23 Ius Winterwandeling dinner conversation on SSB.
AI slop as brute forcing algorithmic timelines. Intended audience isn't people, but the algp's shoving stuff in timelines.
List of DNS resolvers other than Google -[ ] explore and pick a new default DNS resolver that is EU based. #webbeheer #15mins
In tech, we have four of these constraints, anti-enshittificatory sources of discipline that make products and services better, pay workers more, and keep executives’ and shareholders' wealth from growing at the expense of customers, suppliers and labor.
1) markets 2) regulation 3) interoperability 4) labor
And I think there's good news there, because if enshittification isn't the result of a new kind of evil person, or the great forces of history bearing down on the moment to turn everything to shit, but rather the result of specific policy choices, then we can reverse those policies, make better ones and emerge from the enshittocene, consigning the enshitternet to the scrapheap of history, a mere transitional state between the old, good internet, and a new, good internet.
enshittocene enshitternet bit too cute I think. Valid point: if it's policy that results in it, we can roll things back. Also w the current Trump chaos-admin there's opportunity as US is dismantling international agreements, making room for other nations / EU regs to disalign too.
I think we created a crimogenic environment, a perfect breeding pool for the most pathogenic practices in our society, that have therefore multiplied, dominating decision-making in our firms and states
'crimogenic', indeed, I think e.g. all current adtech is illegal in the EU, except it hasn't been tried in court much yet.
I believe that enshittification is caused by changes not to technology, but to the policy environment
[[Cory Doctorow]] exploring enshittification in a third talk. Says here it's enabled by changes in the policy environment rather than technology. This as tech platforms started doing it at the same time, not in the same phase of their existence.
Korean perspective on the shifting geopolitics wrt US shifting to explicit transactionalism/bullying. n:: Mentions 'like-mindedness' as principle, and Nordic/Netherlands as source of this term. First time I see it mentioned this directly as a guiding principle, though in practice this is reflexive here in NL (e.g. for JTC25 I also first approached DK for their take).
As I told the Washington Post, Musk is distorting and then weaponizing open spending data using social media, which Trump is then picking up and validating as “corruption.” This is what the Sunlight Foundation warned about in 2017, but on steroids. Authoritarian governments on the far-left (communism) and far-right (fascism) use weaponized transparency to intimidate civil society organizations and the press, create fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and cloud public understanding of public facts and policy outcomes. We defined weaponized transparency in 2017 as the use of data disclosure as a tool for division and public intimidation, rather than a means for achieving transparency and accountability. That holds up.In 2017, we observed that “the disclosures ordered by the Trump White House support a political and racial narrative advanced by an administration that has repeatedly dissembled about violence, fabricated narratives about vulnerable populations, and explicitly vowed to ban Muslims from entering the United States of America. Modern history has repeatedly demonstrated that vilifying vulnerable populations, racial minorities or minority religions has led to the worst chapters of our shared history.”This remains true.
Weaponized transparency, as defined by [[Alex Howard]] / Sunlight Foundation. Disclosure as tool for public intimidation and division, as opposed to transparency and accountability. It happened under the previous Trump admin, and now returns at a orders of magnitude larger scale.
[[Alex Howard]] on the current US wrecking of public governance. Such a blow against all his work the past 10-15yrs.
Dutch human rights monitor (https://www.mensenrechten.nl/) judges Meta discriminatory when showing job adverts to men and women Facebook users in NL.
'the cloud' i.e. 'ransomware of America'
Unsurprisingly US gov rails against EU digital/data legislation.
Blogger Jared White warns that LLMs coding output is as bland as its prose output and seem biased to some specific frameworks. #slop Horrifying example of people waiting on AI to catch-up with new versions of framework. That is really bad.
The same link means different things coming from different people. Knowing who’s recommending something adds context to a link:
[[Infostrat Filtering 20050928171301]] [[Je informatie is een expressie van je netwerk 20230904121816]] [[Wiens notie van informatie leid je interpretatie 20230905111913]] [[Optimal unfamiliarity 20040107122600]] [[Andermans tags zijn een maat van social distance 20200818124518]] [[Informatie overvloed 20051122162501]] [[Correlatie tussen netwerken en informatie 20230904121802]] [[Weblogs as community info filter 20041117122100]] [[Online sharing is signification of stories 20190614154934]] [[Andermans perceptie van significantie is mijn signaal 20190614154731]] #blogdit
Vgl [[On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder]] (2017 I think)
This outlines running githubcopilot like functions from my locl models, and making a copilot subscription superfluous
-[ ] explore using Continue as copilot replacement in VSCode and use local model thru LMstudio or ollama #webbeheer -[ ] cancel github copilot subscription #webbeheer #finance
Italian DPA bans DeepSeek after the Chinese company refused to provide GDPR related info. Pertaining to app, pd collection, contactpoint and transmission of data to outside the EU. In 2023 it did the same for a few weeks until OpenAI provided answers and point of contact. (And it fined OpenAI). Will other DPAs follow suit?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250127142842/https://www.internetconsultatie.nl/rtmswijziging/b1
internetconsultatie wetswijziging KNMI mbt markt/overheid. Uitbreiding en detaillering publieke taak 'alg weerbericht' en 'waarschuwingen'.
a wide range of critical gen AI bookmarks
improved book shelf sorting algorithms w randomness and some history-dependence thrown in. Vgl [[Poems That Solve Puzzles by Chris Bleakley]]
Chinese LLM spooking US based corps it seems. #openvraag why?
opsec / infosec tips around mobiles. Vgl re:publica [[Berlin 2014]]
Major Hockney exhibit in Paris Apr 9th-Sept 1st. We need to plan to be in Paris at some point before this summer then.
[[Cory Doctorow]] explaining the issue with Amazon in terms of racketeering and market dominance. Am in process of writing a post on moving my reading out of Amazon [[Amazon aankopen vermijden]]
'Strict Father Morality' (George Lakoff) as model to understand the MAGA Bigtech bromance. "a coherent, intersectional, organized system of supremacies.", and reactionary / authoritarian
He said Meta would “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.
This is the key statement. Increasingly Meta is pushed towards accountability, including inside the US. That push is bad for their business bc their core business model is founded on factors that can only keep 'growing' if there is no accountability.
He cited Europe as a place with “an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative”
Meta's step is also a hedge against DSA fall-out. Whereas the current US gov was acting towards similar conditions removing contrast beween DSA en US regs, increasing the contrast allows Meta to be a victim. Using the word 'censorship' is a tell in itself, as that is not what the DSA does.
Angie Drobnic Holan, the director of the International Fact-Checking Network which certified the factcheckers used by Meta, denied factcheckers had been biased and said: “That attack line comes from those who feel they should be able to exaggerate and lie without rebuttal or contradiction.”
Yeah, moving moderation teams from California to Texas just signals from the right everything looks biased to the left, because everything is to their left, and you're adding bias to make it seem in line with where the US Overton window has steadily shifted to since 1980.
We are looking closely at Meta’s announcement impacting its US platform. The UK’s Online Safety Act will oblige them to remove illegal content and content harmful to children here in the UK, and we continue to urge social media companies to counter the spread of misinformation and disinformation hosted on their platforms.”
Meta might be running into UK OSA too. - [ ] zoek de UK online safety act op en vergelijk structuur met DSA #eudata #30mins
Meta/FB decision to remove factchecking likely puts it at odds with the EU DSA. Likely that's why the announcement includes 'starting in the US'. Clashes certain in EU.
The Hemming question after Richard Hamming math.: what are the most important questions in your field? And by extension how you could work on them. Notice the comments, and the link that is made there to EA / existential risks as it is on lesswrong.
male flight: when a environment becomes balanced m/f less men want to be in it.
Where in NL environments do we see parallels?
Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this “BASE,” she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.
via Chris Aldrich h. annotations. Author posits succesful academic writing rest on behavioral, artisanal, social and emotional habits. That last part of this blurb suggest a connection to [[Personal Knowledge by Michael Polanyi]]'s point.
[[Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher]] reads, based on both their blurbs, like a continuation of [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]], exploring how actual ethical changes have occurred in time. Moves towards method rather than big-T truth (in line w social evolution perspective of the Ethical Project) and strengthens the pragmatism in pragmatic naturalism. 10yrs between the 2 books. Blurb mentions progressing away from something rather than to something, which chimes neatly with the evolutionary perspective of moving away from being hindered by a selective pressure. The attention to moral progress as method brings it closer to my notion of [[Ethics As A Practice (EaaP) 20200819161530]]
Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate their interactions with one another, and how human societies eventually grew into forms of previously unimaginable complexity. The most successful of the many millennia-old experiments in how to live, he contends, survive in our values today.
pushes virtue ethics and natural law ethics aside for a more evolutionary view of ethics enabling societal conviviality it seems. I sense a link to Dennett's culture as evolution and speeding up evolution, and to networked agency. Perhaps also the Latour's ANT? Link w the relational ethics in AI work C did?
Our human values, Kitcher shows, can be understood not as a final system but as a project-the ethical project-in which our species has engaged for most of its history, and which has been central to who we are.
The book title [[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] reflect the ongoing nature of our evolving human values. It is not a final system, but a collective project that continually defines our sociality and through it our humanity.
an approach he calls "pragmatic naturalism," Kitcher reveals the power of an evolving ethics built around a few core principles
Author calls it this ethics to make evolutionary social groupings work 'pragmatic naturalism'. I get those terms at first glance, but if the functioning of social structures is its aim, a term closer to relationships focused ethics, and evolution might be more telling, next to the clearly involved pragmatism. This term sounds closer to a fork of natural law ethics, which it doesn't seem to be, to indicate its early origins and evolutionary past. evolutionaryrelationalethics?
[[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] 2011/2012/2014?
Philip Kitcher, The Ethical Project This is a very substantial book which attempts to re-cast the nature and history of ethics as a form of "social technology", aimed at remedying "altruism failures", and generally moving humanity beyond the kind of social life endured by other primates — nasty, poor, and brutish, but not solitary. (Though he doesn't mention it, this is almost an inversion of Brecht's line "grub first, then ethics".) The guiding stars are Dewey (especially Human Nature and Conduct), John Stuart Mill (especially On Liberty and The Subjection of Women), and modern work on the evolution of cooperation. Kitcher builds from here to an examination of what counts as ethical progress, appropriate method and substance for meta-ethics, and appropriate method and recommendations for actual substantive ethics at the present day. The latter are strongly egalitarian, and not just founded on the "expanding circle" of empathy notion.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250103085440/http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2011-11.html#kitcher
[[The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher]] here said to posit ethics as 'social technology' as response to 'altruism failures' (?responses showing it was undeserved), allowing a diff social life as other primates / animal groups. An ethics for networked agency perhaps? http://www.columbia.edu/~psk16/
blog by Cosma Shalizi, saw it mentioned in 2007 Aaron Swartz interview https://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html Started about same time as me, jan '03 in his case.
30 yrs worth of online notebooks by theme by Cosma Shalizi. Shalizi is an assoc prof of stats at Carnegie Mellon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi Mentioned in Oct 2024 blogpost http://bactra.org/weblog/30-years-of-notebooks.html he started them in sept '94, based on a list of topics of interest he wrote out (orginally intended to use as filter for Usenet). Making such a list of topics is very commonplace like.
Daniel Wirtz writes about his note making, 'writing at the speed of thought', based off his interstitial journaliing as day log, w links/tags for finding things back similar to my mo, types/actions added. Objects used for things w more permanence, like I split off notes from my day log too. All that doesn't say 'at the speed of thought' to me however.
First review of the EDPB opinion on personal data in AI models by an Irish lawyer.
Opinion by EU Data Protection Board wrt personal data processing in AI models.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241214082330/https://www.datalandelijkgebied.nl/pages/over-ddf
Digitale Data Faciliteit DDF
De Digitale Data Faciliteit is een dienst van het Samenwerkingsverband van zes Rijksuitvoerings-organisaties (RUO’s), in opdracht van het Ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (LVVN). Samen ondersteunen we de provincies in hun regierol en andere decentrale overheden en gebiedspartners bij het opstellen en uitvoeren van gebied specifieke plannen. Deze zes RUO’s zijn: Kadaster Staatsbosbeheer Rijksvastgoedbedrijf Rijkswaterstaat Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland
Zes landelijke uitvoeringsorganisaties werken in DDF samen. Kadaster, Staatsbosbeheer, Rijksvastgoedbedrijf, Rijkswaterstaat, RCE, en RVO
De onzin van ons extreemrechtse kabinet over de niet bestaande asielcrisis.
This seems to describe the proposal akwardly, bc as is would run afoul of AI Act. I think it actually says: AI used in realtime to detect suspicious behaviour/movements. Then w human decision, follow a person specifically in vid streams, then recordings to fish out face to be compared w existing databases.
this is not the same as real time mass identification which is disallowd in AI Act. The detection is automated, id upon human decision later.
Also a mention of a faces dbase based on public online images for police to use.
Dominic system (after Dominic O'Brien is a Person-Action image association system for numbers in specific order. Uses it to turn two digit numbers into famous people. Also associates an action with a famous person, representing the same two digit number. Now you can imagine a 4 digit number as a person doing an action A mobile number would be 2 person action combinations in sequence. The upfront work is remembering the persons and actions as images for each of the 00-99 two digit numbers. Then putting a four digit number together requires putting them in sequence e.g. in a one of your preselected [[Memory palaces 20201007192310]], The act of remembering is constructing the images and placing them in the memory palace of choice.
There is also a Person-Action-Object system PAO, which allows you to do three pairs of digits in one image. Allowing 1 million numbers to remember.
Tim Ferris posting a text by Gabriel Wyner from 2014 on learning a new language in several steps 1) hear the novel sounds in the language and how to spell them 2) learn a list of basic words by connecting them to their image not their translatiojn 3) learn (simplified) grammar 4) continue the game (adding focused vocab, reading, listening speaking etc)
My book, Fluent Forever: How to learn any language fast and never forget it, is an in-depth journey into the language learning process, full of tips, guidelines and research into the most efficient methods for learning and retaining foreign languages.
[[Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner]] 2014. vgl [[7 talen in 7 dagen door Gaston Dorren]] which starts more with grammar and reading comprehension actually.
Fluency in speech is not the ability to know every word and grammatical formation in a language; it’s the ability to use whatever words and grammar you know to say whatever’s on your mind. When you go to a pharmacy and ask for “That thing you swallow to make your head not have so much pain,” or “The medicine that makes my nose stop dripping water” – THAT is fluency. As soon as you can deftly dance around the words you don’t know, you are effectively fluent in your target language. This turns out to be a learned skill, and you practice it in only one situation: When you try to say something, you don’t know the words to say it, and you force yourself to say it in your target language anyways. If you want to build fluency as efficiently as possible, put yourself in situations that are challenging, situations in which you don’t know the words you need. And every time that happens, stay in your target language no matter what.
speaking fluency comes from staying in the target language.
Podcasts and radio broadcasts are usually too hard for an intermediate learner. Movies, too, can be frustrating, because you may not understand what’s going on
suggests podcasts, movies, and radio are too hard to follow at intermediate level.
Reading: Books boost your vocabulary whether or not you stop every 10 seconds to look up a word. So instead of torturously plodding through some famous piece of literature with a dictionary, do this: Find a book in a genre that you actually like (The Harry Potter translations are reliably great!) Find and read a chapter-by-chapter summary of it in your target language (you’ll often find them on Wikipedia). This is where you can look up and make flashcards for some key words, if you’d like. Find an audiobook for your book. Listen to that audiobook while reading along, and don’t stop, even when you don’t understand everything. The audiobook will help push you through, you’ll have read an entire book, and you’ll find that it was downright pleasurable by the end.
Reading to deepen understanding suggests any book and go through, find online chapter summaries in target langauge, listen to audiobook while reading it, as it forces you along.
Vocabulary Customization: Learning the top 1000 words in your target language is a slam-dunk in terms of efficiency, but what about the next thousand words? And the thousand after that? When do frequency lists stop paying dividends? Generally, I’d suggest stopping somewhere between word #1000 and word #2000. At that point, you’ll get better gains by customizing. What do you want your language to do? If you want to order food at a restaurant, learn food vocabulary. If you plan to go to a foreign university, learn academic vocabulary
Adding to vocabulary has diminishing returns if you go by freq of usage after 1k-2k words. Use thematic lists for your purposes. E.g. [[% Interessevelden 20200523102304]] as starting point. Then go back to the flashcards w images used before. I can see building sets like these.
Stage 4: The Language Game 3 Months (or as long as you want to keep playing)
Stage 4 is the deepening / getting to fluency bit. Reinforced by actual usage. Either through adding more vocab, reading texts, listening to speakers etc.
On its surface, Google Images is a humble image search engine. But hiding beneath that surface is a language-learning goldmine: billions of illustrated example sentences, which are both searchable and machine translatable
Suggest that google image headlines are a good source of additional example sentences for grammar learning, as it includes machine translation in the search results on mouse over. Grabs those sentences for flash cards. I think the time used to make the cards may well be the key intervention.
How do you learn all the complicated bits of “My homework was eaten by my dog”? Simple: Use the explanations and translations in your grammar book to understand what a sentence means, and then use flashcards to memorize that sentence’s component parts, like this:
Suggests making flashcards for each of the three types of changes, in any given example. allows speeding up compared to the book, as you do them w visuals on flash cards, and the spaced rep takes out most examples in a grammar book, leaving you with the repetition you need only.
n every single language, grammar is conveyed using some combination of three basic operations: grammar adds words (You like it -> Do you like it?), it changes existing words (I eat it -> I ate it), or it changes the order of those words (This is nice -> Is this nice?). That’s it. It’s all we can do. And that lets us break sentences down into grammatical chunks that are very easy to memorize.
Boils grammar down to adding words, changing existing words, changing the order of words. Allows [[Chunking 20210312215715]] that makes it easier to memorise.
2-3 months Now it’s time to crack open your grammar book. And when you do, you’ll notice some interesting things: First, you’ll find that you’ve built a rock-solid foundation in the spelling and pronunciation system of your language. You won’t even need to think about spelling anymore, which will allow you to focus exclusively on the grammar. Second, you’ll find that you already know most of the words in your textbook’s example sentences. You learned the most frequent words in Stage 2, after all. All you need to do now is discover how your language puts those words together.
3rd stage is the grammar. Suggests using a book, but with the advantage of already knowing the words and spelling of any examples, allowing focus on the grammar. Takes 2-3 months.
To begin any language, I suggest starting with the most common, concrete words,
Suggestion to start learning words with a basic list. Author compiled a list of 625. See [[A Base Vocabulary List for Any Language 20241208160954]]
Suggests the basic list takes about 1-2 months
These are words that are common in every language and can be learned using pictures, rather than translations: words like dog, ball, to eat, red, to jump. Your goal is two-fold: first, when you learn these words, you’re reinforcing the sound and spelling foundation you built in the first stage, and second, you’re learning to think in your target language.
Use flashcards with images to learn words in a new language. Skip the translation part. Also reinforces the visual/spatial brain connection. Search images in the target language not with the translation, so subtle diffs in meaning are maintained.
Spelling is the easiest part of this process. Nearly every grammar book comes with a list of example words for every spelling. Take that list and make flashcards to learn the spelling system of your language, using pictures and native speaker recordings to make those example words easier to remember.
To learn spelling find a grammar book that has lists of examples. Turn those into flashcards for spelling.
Flashcards are the primary mnemonic tactic in this article.
This gives you a few super powers: your well-trained ears will give your listening comprehension a huge boost from the start, and your mouth will be producing accurate sounds. By doing this in the beginning, you’re going to save yourself a great deal of time, since you won’t have to unlearn bad pronunciation habits later on. You’ll find that native speakers will actually speak with you in their language, rather than switching to English at the earliest opportunity.
Hearing and pronunciation tackled upfront makes you sound more fluent. Prevents the effect of never getting a chance to use it bc others switch to your language.
Once your ears begin to cooperate, mastering pronunciation becomes a lot easier.
listening precedes pronouncing. Vgl how I 'suddenly' heard the begin and end of words in Vorarlbergerisch and then quickly learned to speak it too.
to rewire your ears to hear new sounds, you need to find pairs of similar sounds, listen to one of them at random (“tyuk!”), guess which one you thought you heard (“Was it ‘gyuk’?”), and get immediate feedback as to whether you were right (“Nope! It was tyuk!”). When you go through this cycle, your ears adapt, and the foreign sounds of a new language will rapidly become familiar and recognizable.
this sounds like an impossible step if you are indeed foreign to a language. How would you ever find such pairings? The vid doesn't say other than describe a feedback system to learn to hear new nuances. I think perhaps using DeepL or some such to read texts to me would help.
If I had rushed ahead and started learning words and grammar immediately, I’d have been at a severe disadvantage whenever I learned words with those letter combinations, because I’d be missing the sound connection when trying to build memories for those words
being familiar with the sound of pronunciation will help better memorise the words later. Adding a sense to the memory. Vgl [[Fenomenologie Husserl 20200924110518]]
Spelling and Sound: Learn how to hear, produce and spell the sounds of your target language
Create a foundation for spelling and sounds, to get a feel/sense of it, making it less 'other'.
Vid of learning to hear diff in novel sounds in foreign language you can't easily tell apart. Find them in a language. Have a script play them to you randomly and choose an answer. Feedback will bring you up from random to about 80% being right. Rewiring your brain to hear the differences. I bet non-anglo speakers wiill find this easier as they are never accomodated outside their own country.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241207143328/https://artofmemory.com/ Art of memory community platform.
The Romanian Presidency has released declassified material looking at the social media role in the unexpected presidential election outcome.
Nesrine Malik on changes in the Arab world, pointing to how across the region cultural heritage is disappearing and destroyed. A wider pattern underneath the headlines of late, that has been in place for decades.
I have [[We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik]] picked up fr Sh&co in [[Paris 2021]].
https://web.archive.org/web/20241202062809/https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol MCP documentation. Includes basic server exercises. The spec doesn't say much at first glance about how resources would actually be connected to a MCP server to serve as context.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241202062707/https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol
Github repositories for MCP by Anthropic. MIT Licences at first glance.
Anthropic proposes 'Model Context Protocol' MCP on how to connect local/external info sources to LLMs and agents, as a standard. To make ai tools more context aware. Article says MCP is open source. Idea is to attach a MCP server to every source and have that interact over MCP with the MCP client attached to a model and/or tools.
Anthropic is the org of Claude model.
Reinforces the communal nature of knowledge workAll ideas are in communication with and informed by others, regardless of whether we work in direct collaboration with others. A collaborative zettelkasten not only shows this in real time, but allows participants to actively engage with a collective web of insight.
This is key imo. The link between personal knowledge and communal K. In context of TGL it also means fleshing out the purpose, identity and intent of our work. A step to and in support of [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] , here the functioning as a company Can I express this to the team?
This is a benefit that Doto does not express (because he stays within the context of ZK, and this one becomes apparent if you look at the ZK in the context of the group of collab. Any non-random and pre-existing group will find theur benefit in that context, rather than in the instrument's built-in affordances. tech+issue=value.
Once the ideas have been organized in a way that makes sense, the real writing begins. Bring the ideas and any useful comments into a new writing doc. Decide on who will do what, taking into consideration each participant's strength.
In TGL this would the diff domain teams and project teams, putting stuff to their own purpose.
simply make note of the connection, state why you've done so, and move on to the next note. No consultation between participants is required.
Agreed, but indeed any connection must be annotated, to be understood by collab partners. Counterexample is the usually meaningless linking in Wikipedia.
A Collaborative Zettelkasten for Collaborative Output
Vgl landscapes, IEC writing projects, deskresearch/essays in general.
Working with the Collaborative Network of Ideas
For me the purpose of a collab zk would need to be aligned to what drives the collaborators. E.g. how I tie pkm to individual professional activism and autonomy, and extended/aggregated to teamkm it drives the core value of constructive activism of my company, and how we use [[Systems convening denken Wenger Trayner 20230914131102]] to translate that into interventions and desirable client projects. Vgl [[PKM systems convening activisme relatie 20241123085857]] expressing that connection.
Participants may or may not have a common output, goal, or project in mind when they start. The only requirements are: all participants add to the collection of main notes all participants establish connections between ideas all participants are free to pull from the zettelkasten for their writing projects
This describes a wiki too. What difference? Wiki tends to follow the Wikipedia model perhaps, aiming for completeness / definitive state? Wikipedia is not atomic in the ZK sense. Also public wiki's (the ones one is by def aware of) are an output themselves. My internal wiki 2004-2012 was much more atomic and not an output but an instrument. So if wiki then more of the instrument style, iow ZK by another name. A collective network of meaning and sense making
LM Studio can run LLMs locally (I have llama and phi installed). It also has an API over a localhost webserver. I use that API to make llama available in Obsidian using the Copilot plugin.
This is the API documentation. #openvraag other scripts / [[Persoonlijke tools 20200619203600]] I can use this in?
https://web.archive.org/web/20241201071240/https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
Richard P Gabriel documents the history behind 'worse is better' a talk he held in Cambridge in #1989/ The role of LISP in the then AI wave stands out to me. And the emergence of C++ on Unix and OOP. I remember doing a study project (~91) w Andre en Martin in C++ v2 because we realised w OOP it would be easier to solve and the teacher thought it would be harder for us to use a diff language.
via via via Chris Aldrich in h. to Christian Tietze, https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/22075/#Comment_22075 to Christine Lemmer-Webber https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ to here.
-[ ] find overv of AI history waves and what tech / languages drove them at the time
But perhaps that's too ambitious to suggest taking on for either camp. And maybe it doesn't matter insofar as the real lessons of Worse is Better is that both first mover advantage on a quicker and popular solution outpaces the ability to deliver a more correct and robust position, and entrenches the less ideal system. It can be really challenging for a system that is in place to change itself from its present position, which is a bit depressing.
Succinct description of worse is better
The 'worse' bit moves you along in the adjacent possible paths of the [[Evolutionair vlak van mogelijkheden 20200826185412]], where as the 'better' bit puts you at a peak in the evol landscape from which you can't move and hard to get to for others.
via via Chris Aldrich in h. pointing to Christian Tietze comment https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/22075/#Comment_22075 pointing to this Christine Lemmer-Webber post, following it onwards to https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html by Richard P. Gabriel
https://web.archive.org/web/20241130143502/https://writing.bobdoto.computer/how-a-collaborative-zettelkasten-might-work-a-modest-proposal/ [[Bob Doto]] proposes a collab note collection. The collab is that multiple people add notes, connections, in parallel to their own. Collab is both using it as resource individually and in writing collectively. Read again, think about SC and essay machine contexts for TGL. We already have shared vaults, but no process. Add instructions to Geheugen and link in Notes? Via [[Chris Aldrich]] h.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241130094952/https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-kids-are-too-soft
'the kids are too soft'. on shifting perceptions of gens, point out the obvious lack of attention to cause and effect. walking barefoot to school in the snow etc etc as if it's a sine quae non. Reminds me of a Gulag discussion, what doesn't kill you makes you harder, is actually the other way around. The hardest going survive, and more might have in conditions had been better. We see more people survive and mistake it for lack of selection and rigour, where it's the lifting of more if not all boats.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241130094714/https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/if-mmt-is-wrong-why-is-it-so-much On Modern Monetary Theory.
Vgl [[%Money geld OP]]
Vgl Sunnekloas Ameland
those with a card index or zettelkasten-based reading and note making practice will realize that they’re probably automatically following the advice
Note making does create space for reflection, is the thinking. But even before notes, annotation does too.
n:: notes as thinking vgl 'writing is thinking' annotation as thinking vs conversation, conversation as thinking through expression
followed by a mention that no one does this with the implication that information overload and the pressures of time don’t allow this.
I only feel such overload if I don't pause to reflect and merely keep taking stuff in. [[Information overload 20040327145709]] [[Info overload of overvloed verschil is surprisal 20220810090704]] Information value is not determined by the sender but by the receiver. If I don't pause the firehose just isn't information. It takes me as an observer to collapse noise into information in one's personal reality.
Conkin admonished students that for every hour they spend reading, they should spend an hour in reflection.
Paul Conkin 1929-2022 no wikipedia page, US historian suggested to graduate students to spend an hour reflecting for every hour read. Anecdotal quote from David Blight lecture (link to vid in post). There is a point here, wrt to keeping one's own pace and intent behind attention. [[Attention literacy and the value of slow learning 20211209063437]] [[Stuur aandacht met intentie 20220213080032]]
On AI Agents, open source tools. Vgl [[small band AI personal assistant]] these tools need to be small and personal. Not platformed, but local.
Meta's next step in their malicious compliance with GDPR/DMA is making less-tracking (not non, still DOB and location used) ads more annoying than tracking ones. Another round of delaying tactics to clearly spelled out legal reqs: no perceptible diff in service allowed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241127105840/https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/
This looks very interesting to read (via [[Stephen Downes]]). Any link w Maggie Appleton's dark forest metaphor use [[The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]]? Seems to settle on [[People Centered Navigation 20060930163901]] in the end?
Open Future report on exclusivity clauses in the ODD, and the Google book scanning projects. This text seems to say exclusivity clauses are regulated since the latest incarnation of the ODD, but in fact they have been in place since the very first PSI Directive 2003, and steadily tightened in 2010, 2019, as well as in the DGA. Is the report more nuanced? Report in Zotero
data center usage of water and electricity for cooling are inversely connected. Either huge amounts of water, or huge amounts of electricity. Beware if plans are focused on just one of the two.
2021 paper looking at data governance legal frameworks globally in 80 countries, EU and USA are absent (Estonia, UK included though), and lumps Europe and Central Asia together, which leads to phrases like 'UK and Estonia have this, but elsewhere in the region Kyrgyzstan hasn't' so the region is mediocre at best. Apples/pears. Mentions GDPR more or less as the single EU framework here, despite the 2018 free flow of non-personal data regulation which became applicable in May 2019. (others within the EU Data Strategy / single market for data had been announced or proposed by 2021 but not in place and aren't mentioned here either.)
WeTransform compares different but similar (D, DK, NL) approaches to adding HVD metadata for harvesting and discovery.
Signal allows you to set usernames. They are unique but temporary (and you can have only 1 at a time). User names can be used to connect to you without sharing your phone number. Set an optional username in Settings Profile. They have two numbers at the end (you can set them).
User names can be shared in three ways: - tell someone (and then change it so they cannot communicate it further) - share a QR code - share a unique URL (which does not contain your username in clear text)
Signal can't 'easily' see which phone number has which username. But given a username it can find the associated phonenumber. 'easily' means it can be done though, and thus both ways.
An old username will become available to others after a week, meaning imo they should not contain any identifiable or associative information.
Found this through someone suggesting that sharing your Signal username through Mastodon would allow private msgs. Yes, but the world will know your username, so you're open to all people who might think it fun to msg you.
Stafford Beer coined and frequently used the term POSIWID (the purpose of a system is what it does) to refer to the commonly observed phenomenon that the de facto purpose of a system is often at odds with its official purpose
the purpose of a system is a what it does, POSIWID, Stafford Beer 2001. Used a starting point for understanding a system as opposed to intention, bias in expectations, moral judgment, and lacking context knowledge.
I’ve come to feel like human-centered design (HCD) and the overarching project of HCI has reached a state of abject failure. Maybe it’s been there for a while, but I think the field’s inability to rise forcefully to the ascent of large language models and the pervasive use of chatbots as panaceas to every conceivable problem is uncharitably illustrative of its current state.
HCI and HCD as fields have failed to respond to LLM tools and chatbot interfaces a generic solution to everything forcefully.
hegemonic algorithmic systems (namely large language models and similar machine learning systems), and the overwhelming power of capital pushing these technologies on us
author calls LLMs and similar AI tools hegemonic, worsened by capital influx
gravitating away from the discourse of measuring and fixing unfair algorithmic systems, or making them more transparent, or accountable. Instead, I’m finding myself fixated on articulating the moral case for sabotaging, circumventing, and destroying “AI”, machine learning systems, and their surrounding political projects as valid responses to harm
Author moved from mitigating harm of algo systems to the moral standpoint that actively resisting, sabotaging, ending AI with attached political projects are valid reaction to harm. So he's moving from monster adaptation / cultural category adaptation to monster slaying cf [[Monstertheorie 20030725114320]]. I empathise but also wonder, bc of the mention of the political projects / structures attached, about polarisation in response to monster embracers (there are plenty) shifting the [[Overton window 20201024155353]] towards them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241116074149/https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/fuck-up-ai Ali Alkhatib (anthropology/informatics academic, QS and HCI) #2024/06/24 call for active resistance against AI / ML
On AI agents, and the engineering to get one going. A few things stand out at first glance: frames it as the next hype (Vgl plateau in model dev), says it's for personal tools (doesn't square w hype which vc-fuelled, personal tools not of interest to them), and mentions a few personal use cases. e.g. automation, vgl [[Open Geodag 20241107100937]] Ed Parsons of Google AI on the same topic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241115134320/https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/confirmed-llms-have-indeed-reached?triedRedirect=true Gary Marcus in a told-you-so piece on algogens hitting a development wall, same as the other piece by Erik Hoel on models plateauing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241115134446/https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/ai-progress-has-plateaued-at-gpt Erik Hoel notices that LLM development is stalling at the GPT-4 level. No big jumps in recent releases, across the various vendors. Additional scaling is not bringing results. Notice the graph, might be interesting to see an update in a few months. Mentions overfitting, to benchmarks as in teaching to a specific test.
Counternarrative to rural-urban divide in US politics, says data suggests it was city dwellers not showing up for Harris that tipped the balance. Main point Trump got about the same popular vote numbers but where Biden got 81M in 2020, Harris got just under 72M losing the popular vote. The diff is in core metropolitan counties in swing states.
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -boolean yes
This worked for me. I had to switch to Apple Mail a few months ago and it is extremely annoying that if you add small attachments it will preview inline. And at times even resizes them for that, and sends only the smaller version.
A great collection of sources on tools for thought, by the looks of it by [[Chris Aldrich]] Books, texts and more.
these teammates
Like MS Teams is your teammate, like your accounting software is your teammate. Do they call their own Atlassian tools teammates too? Do these people at Atlassian get out much? Or don't they realise that the other handles in their Slack channel represent people not just other bits of software? Remote work led to dehumanizing co-workers? How else to come up with this wording? Nothing makes you sound more human like talking about 'deploying' teammates. My money is on this article was mostly generated. Reverse-Turing says it's up to them to say otherwise.
There’s a lot to be said for the promise that AI agents bring to organizations.
And as usual in these articles the truth is at the end, it's again just promises.
People should always be at the center of an AI application, and agents are no different
At the center of an AI application, like what, mechanical Turks?
Don’t – remove the human aspect
After a section celebrating examples doing just that!
As various agents start to take care of routine tasks, provide real-time insights, create first drafts, and more, team members can focus on more meaningful interactions, collaboration,
This sentence preceded by 2 examples where interactions and collaboration were delegated to bots to hand-out generated warm feelings, does not convey much positive about Atlassian. This basically says that a lot of human interaction in the or is seen as meaningless, and please go do that with a bot, not a colleague. Did their branding ai-agent write this?
gents can also help build team morale by highlighting team members' contributions and encouraging colleagues to celebrate achievements through suggested notes
Like Linked-In wants you to congratulate people on their work-anniversary?
One of my favorite use cases for agents is related to team culture. Agents can be a great onboarding buddy — getting new team members up to speed by providing them with key information, resources, and introductions to team members.
Welcome in our company, you'll meet your first human colleague after you've interacted with our onboarding-robot for a week. No thanks.
inviting a new AI agent to join your team in service of your shared goa
anthropomorphing should be in this article's don't list. 'inviting someone on your team' is a highly social thing. Bringing in a software tool is a different thing.
One of our most popular agent use cases for a while was during our yearly performance reviews a few months back. People pointed an agent to our growth profiles and had it help them reframe their self-reflections to better align with career development goals and expectations. This was a simple agent to create an application that helped a wide range of Atlassians with something of high value to them.
An AI agent to help you speak corporate better, because no one actually writes/reflects/talks that way themselves. How did the receivers of these reports perceive this change in reports? Did they think it was better Q, or did all reflections now read the same?
Start by practising and experimenting with the basics, like small, repetitive tasks. This is often a great mix of value (time saved for you) and likely success (hard for the agent to screw up). For example, converting a simple list of topics into an agenda is one step of preparing for a meeting, but it's tedious and something that you can enlist an agent to do right away
Low end tasks for agents don't really need AI do they. Vgl Ed Parsons last week wrt automation as AI focus.
For instance, a 'Comms Crafter' agent is specialized in all things content, from blogs to press releases, and is designed to adhere to specific brand guidelines. A 'Decision Director' agent helps teams arrive at effective decisions faster by offering expertise on our specific decision-making framework. In fact, in less than six months, we’ve already created over 500 specialized agents internally.
This does not fully chime with my own perception of (AI) agents. At least the titles don't. The tails of descriptions 'trained to adhere to brand guidelines' and 'expertise in internal decision-making framework' makes more sense. I suppose I also rail against this being the org's agents, and don't seem to be the team's / pro's agents. Vibes of having an automated political officer in your unit. -[ ] explore nature and examples of AI agents better for within individual pro scope #ontwikkelingspelen #netag #30mins #4hr
from 2024/01 by Adam Mastroianni
I've been down there enough times to see the same patterns repeat, and sometimes I can even interrupt them. That's why having goofy names for them matters so much, because it reminds me not to believe the biggest bog lie of all: that I'm stuck in a situation unlike any I, or anyone else, has ever seen before
Giving repeating neg patterns wrt procrastination / not getting into action, a silly name helps in defeating the pattern (rather than beating yourself up over it I suppose).