P2P Foundation on Fully Automated Green Communism. Aaron Bastani has written a fantastic, concise analysis of the current political economy vis a vis environmental realities. While I agree that we need attractive visions of the future (see our recent Commons Transition Primer for ours) and that, yes, States and unions are key components for any realist, short-term change, I found the article’s undertones to be too growth-oriented and vanguardist – the Commons or community-led change are sadly absent. Furthermore, populism assumes a dumbed down electorate, rather than an enabled, politicised one. (more)

David Hogg to exit Democratic National Committee after months of turmoil. David Hogg, the young vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee whose vow to unseat “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats roiled his party, said on Wednesday that he would step away from the high-ranking role in a move that ends months of internal infighting. (more)

My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Progress/Evolution by increasing Freedom and Opportunity and Agency (Enlightenment, Becoming a Reality Hacker) for many people via the D And D of Thinking Tools (software, Games To Play, Fractally Generative Pattern Language) that increase the Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (Product Team, SmallWorld, Network Enlightenment). (more)

I like it as a battle cry, equivalent to Hack The Planet. (more)

statement of philosophy behind a group, Movement, product, business, individual, etc. (more)

Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and entrepreneur.[6] He is best known as a pioneer in the field of pen computing and tablet computers.[7] He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC.[8][9] Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay.[5] He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award[10] and author of the best-selling book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Kaplan

Dead PIM product. 1994 article says Victor Cruz, spokesman for Lotus Development Corp., says Lotus stopped developing Agenda after selling only 100,000 copies. They thought Agenda was too difficult to learn, so they bought a no-brainer program called the Threads Organizer (I guess this was Lotus Organizer) from a company in the United Kingdom. Threads looks like a notebook and a day calendar, so it is obvious what it does. Agenda is more subtle. Lotus has sold 450,000 copies of Threads. (more)

Cedric Chin: Every Great Business Person Has The Same Mental Model of Business. It’s nearly always more fruitful to mine the literature for already-extracted mental models of expertise. A few weeks ago, I learnt of Lia DiBello, an NDM researcher who specialises in the extraction of tacit mental models of business expertise. (more)

In 1998, Laura Militello and Robert Hutton published a landmark paper titled Applied Cognitive Task Analysis (ACTA): A Practitioner’s Toolkit for Understanding Cognitive Task Demands (more)

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization,[1] fascism[2] and capitalism.[3] In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography.[4][5] She has been the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice since it was launched in 2021.[6] Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified her standing as a prominent activist on the international stage and was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom. Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein (more)

Cable News Network, founded by Ted Turner, now owned by AOL/Time Warner (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #132 Part 1: Improved AI Detection. *One result of going on vacation was that I wasn’t able to spin events off into focused posts this week, so I’m going to fall back on splitting the weekly instead, plus some reserving a few subtopics for later posts, including AI craziness (the Tim Hua post on this is excellent), some new OpenAI largely policy-related shenanigans, and the continuing craziness of some people who should very much know better confidently saying that we are not going to hit AGI any time soon, plus some odds and ends including dead internet theory. (more)

Individualist Anarchist. (more)

The process whereby a trial jury can find someone innocent of a crime on the basis of the law being wrong (e.g. the behavior shouldn't be defined as a crime) (more)

aka Naturalistic Decision Making

Zeynep Tufekci: The C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid-19 Out on Your Own. While Omicron’s mutations make it exceptionally good at causing breakthrough cases even in people who have been vaccinated or previously infected, they also render it less able to effectively infect the lower lungs... it’s just luck that this highly transmissible variant appears to be less dangerous than other variants to those with prior immunity. If it had been more deadly — as Delta has been — the U.S. government’s haphazard and disorganized response would have put the whole country much more at risk. (more)

UI originally designed for the OLPC (more)

Flash fiction is a brief fictional narrative[1] that still offers character and plot development. Identified varieties, many of them defined by word count, include the six-word story;[2] the 280-character story (also known as "twitterature");[3] the "dribble" (also known as the "minisaga", 50 words);[2] the "drabble" (also known as "microfiction", 100 words);[2] "sudden fiction" (up to 750 words);[4] "flash fiction" (up to 1,000 words); and "microstory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction (more)

Back in 2005, the AP noted that many people in Japan were reading books (Thin Book) on their Mobile-s. It takes some getting used to. Only a few lines pop up at a time because the phone screen is about half the size of a business card... In the latest versions, cell-phone novels are downloaded in short installments and run on handsets as Java-based applications... A recent marketing study by Bandai found that more than half the readers are female, and many are reading cell-phone books in their homes... A writer who goes by the single name Yoshi wrote Deep Love, a series of stories about a Tokyo teenage prostitute. He began by posting them on an obscure cell-phone site he started and made reader payment voluntary... It went on to become a movie, TV show and Manga, or Japanese-style Comic Book. It's even been turned into a real Printed Book, with some 2.6 million copies sold. (more)

Self Improvement via Stress Reduction? (more)