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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chet Richards 2004 book Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business ISBN:1413453767 (more)

Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author. He was a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince,[1] Billy Joel,[2] and Styx.[3][4] He has published a book on Islam, The Muhammad Code, an autobiography, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties, and three books on human evolution and group behavior: The Genius of the Beast (2010), Global Brain (2000), and The Lucifer Principle (1995). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom (more)

Philosophy created by Alfred Korzybski. His key book was Science And Sanity, which I have but will probably never read in full. (Here's the archive of an online reading group from 1996.) (more)

Central tenet of General Semantics, as defined by Alfred Korzybski. A good reminder against Model Theism. (more)

Danny Ayers is working on an IBIS vocabulary for RDF.