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Wow, the Rosenham work might have been fake...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03268-y





 

Time for "Managing within the Law" Bingo.

I hear that the course is better these days. Hope I can remove my M&Ms square.





 

 

Ostrom

Hey fellow commoners. Ostrom in meme form has arrived.

If you start thinking of many of our ecosystems as commons you can also consider using these principles as a diagnostic tool. There's also our own workplace commons too....

 

 

@groby this @supermicro_SMCI mini-tower is one of the best investments I've ever made. ~35W idle power draw, 4 hot swap bays, 8 Xeon-D cores. Add a NAS distro like UNRAID or OpenMediaVault and you're GTG

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm

 

Algedonic Meters? Real time citizen feedback? For Chilean people? Looks like Cyberfolk 2019!

https://twitter.com/cesifoti/status/1188143056878538753

 

@mulegirl I also sent a copy over to the Cybernetics Library in NYC. (@cyberneticslib) Check them out at https://cybernetics.social/

aside: ... thanks for all the superb @muledesign work for Six Apart back when..

 

@mulegirl if anyone wants to buy this book you can get it direct from the author

http://wavestonepress.co.uk/contact-us-news.html

Let's start the Cybernetic Renaissance -- anyone up for organizing a 2020 Macy Conference?

 

Title: Quantum Supremacy, An Outsider's Perspective

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MGmTiCSBKDF0l-UxSwaxVctex5SaRkz/view

This was a good overview of the recent quantum news.





 

Do other people get random job seekers emailing them CVs and cover letters?





 

procedure Hello is

A few days late but Happy Ada Lovelace Day to one and all.

 

 

@bentarnoff The Team Human podcast (@teamhumanshow) by @Rushkoff is left oriented and covers varied topics including platform coops, media, climate and how technology affects society.

https://teamhuman.fm/ourepisodes/

 

@n_srnck @bentarnoff also check out the @giunitpod episode with Logic contributor Wendy Liu (@dellsystem)

http://generalintellectunit.net/e/030-organising-tech-with-wendy-liu-jason-prado/

 

DiRT IRL

Wow, multi-day outage for temp badges.

I came in. Said I needed a badge. Wrote my username on a post-it and was given an E badge. I now have to tailgate (!) or ask people to badge me in.

 

Technology and Defense (Minnesota Edition)

This is an amazing history of technology in Minnesota. The rise and decline can be traced directly to military expenditures.

It also goes into the fascinating connection between the declining streetcar industry and how those engineers created the first disk drives using electric motors and spinning wheels.

Also tune-in for the coverage of Oregon Trail and of course Internet Gopher....

https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/

 

Technology and Defense (Silicon Valley version)

An interesting read on the rise of SV and the role that the military-industrial-complex played in that.

Who can deny that today’s commercial Internet has largely fulfilled this cyberpunk nightmare? Someone should ask Gore what he thinks.

https://www.thenation.com/article/silicon-valley-history-book-review/

 

Platforms made of Quicksand

2 months notice for the death of Yahoo Groups. Google Group folks take notice, this is not acceptable for preserving the history of the internet.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.html

 

Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.

https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/

via @tpt

 

New comment by lindner in "Solid State: Minnesota's High-Tech History"

This is a lot of history crammed into an hour. Goes from the early code-breaking work and the development of Drum Memory at Engineering Research Associates.

ERA merged with Sperry/Univac/Remington and then begat Control Data, Cray, Unisys and many others.

Also tune in for some history of the Oregon Trail by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and how that ties into the rise of Internet Gopher.

Oh and disclaimer: former Gopher Dude here.

 

Day 1 Home DiRT IRL

A few hiccups but finally have something that's stable..

Power Sources:
- Battery: B Class with 36kWh battery and 400W Inverter
- Sun: Solar with up to 1500W
- UPS: 1500W, 900Wh APC

Devices
- Refrigerator ~100-150W while running 250W peak
- Internet: 15W ONT+Router
- Electric Blanket 60W
- LED Lamps ~15W
- Laptop w/85W or 45W charger
- cords, lots of cords

I charge the car battery @1000W during the day with other loads. Using Inverter at night.

The APC UPS was supposed to provide stability, but it kind of sucks:
- slow trickle charge
- Can't charge off the inverter most of the time.
- Has a bad odor.

For now I just use it for the fridge when I have to run errands

 

Apple: Introducing Dark Mode for iOS 13
Android: Try our new Dark Theme in Android Q
PG&E

 

Expect outages of my @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.

My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....

https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Electric_Generator

 

So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.

Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow





 

This is wild...

Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269338907_The_Information_Theory_of_Individuality





 

YSL

Does our ads matching algorithm do substring matching? Or does YSL have an eau-de-napalm? (As in smells like freedom...)

 

120 Cell

Some extreme geometry to start your day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120-cell

 

 

In case you missed it...

"In case you missed it..."

(Seen in discover feed today)

 

Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!

I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?

I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.





 

10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html





 

10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html

@sundarpichai

 

Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson





 

Whoa... Cheap q-bits would be a huge game changer...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02781-4





 

This is the good stuff

Many AI ethics talking points aren’t specific to AI. They’re about technology in general and they’re nothing new.

https://medium.com/@kozyrkov/forget-the-robots-heres-how-ai-will-get-you-b674c28d6a34





 

Full Circle Leadership

I hate Myers-Brigg, Colors, all that nonsense. However this framework speaks to my inner Optimizer without going full-on Holocracy.

https://www.alanna.space/fullcircle

 

Cheap Fakes #2

There's an episode of Columbo where the villain uses a photo of a face and a speed camera to establish an alibi.

Columbo enlarges the photos and finds that the shadows are inconsistent. He is able to do this because the photos are ordered by time on a single a roll.

Parallels to blockchains are pretty obvious. Each photo is directly linked to the previous/next photo and there are timestamps involved...

Images from http://columboscreenshots.blogspot.com/2014/03/columbo-58-columbo-and-murder-of-rock.html

 

Cheap Fakes

Unintended consequences of Google Image Search.

THE VCE exam body has been left red faced after a doctored artwork depicting a huge robot helping socialist revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution was accidentally included in this year’s year 12 history exam taken by 5700 students.

https://www.theage.com.au/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html

You heard about Young Karl Marx, but have you heard of VI Lenin Evangelion ?

 

 

Android Q disabled the http://Last.fm m App on upgrade until I launched it and confirmed permissions.

Lost a couple days scrobbling :(

BRB gotta finish rebinging the Plasmatics back catalog...





 

Attending Category Theory Bootcamp today.

Live stream is available. Live blog





 

All Tech is Human

""All Tech Is Human: San Francisco is an all-day ethical tech summit with 175 technologists, academics, advocates, students, org leaders, artists, designers, policymakers, and YOU. Join us for an impactful mix of lightning talks, topical panels, strategy sessions, tech/humanity art performance, and meeting others in the thoughtful tech movement!"

https://alltechishumansanfrancisco.splashthat.com/

 

mv plindner /google/teams/trustandsafety/johnhenry/

I joined the http://go/johnhenry team a few weeks ago. Finally getting a chance to post about it after an exciting https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/societalcontextsummit2019.

Excited to be team building again and really excited about the possibility of bringing systems thinking at scale into Google. Looking forward to how our first partner http://go/delavega uses our Societal Topography and Societal Context Repository to bring ML Fairness to display ads.

So much to learn and many challenges ahead.

 

@textfiles when I lived there 20 years ago the cool folks hung out at L'Usine

http://usine.ch

 

6p

Bootloops? Bad Batteries? September 3rd deadline approaches..

https://www.nexus6psettlement.com

 

Gus and Ellie

Great Pyrenees and Maremma chilling at Flour and Water Pizzeria.

Gus is a but you'll have to see him in SF on Valencia Ave on Saturdays. Too big to sneak onto BART :)

 

Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.

@ruha9 @davidgraeber

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/

 

Societal Context Summit

*** This is Happening Now ***

There will be two great talks tomorrow on the intersection of technology, society, and justice. I highly recommend catching these talks if you are able! Details below:

Livestream link:

http://go/scs-keynote-livestream

Talks:

Ruha Benjamin (9:45 - 10:30am)
Anna Lauren Hoffmann (9:45 - 10:30am)

Speaker bios:

https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/ is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of https://www.thejustdatalab.com/ and the author of two books, https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/peoples-science and https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology. Ruha teaches and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice and at Princeton her main focus is on the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.

https://www.annaeveryday.com/about is an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington working at the intersections of data, technology, culture and ethics. Anna has written many https://www.annaeveryday.com/publications on issues in information, data and ethics, while especially to the ways discourse, design and uses of information technology work to promote or hinder the pursuit of important human values like respect and justice.

Rooms for livestream:

DUB-1GC-1-Dracula (8)

DUB-1GC-3-Golden Grove (7)

LON-123-1-New Forest (12)

SVL-MOT1-5-Triskelion (8)

NYC-9TH-14-F-324-Uptown Training (16)

 

Chromium

Only 50ish versions behind on this public terminal at the vet...