damned if you do, damned if you don't (more)

Identified patient (IP) (or designated patient) is a clinical term often used in family therapy discussion. It describes one family member in a dysfunctional family who is used as an expression of the family's authentic inner conflicts. As a family system is dynamic, the overt symptoms of an identified patient draw attention away from the "elephants in the living room" no one can talk about which need to be discussed. If covert abuse occurs between family members, the overt symptoms can draw attention away from the perpetrators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identified_patient (more)

Microsolidarity is a community-building practice. We're weaving the social fabric that underpins shared infrastructure. The first objective of microsolidarity is to create structures for belonging. We are stitching new kinship networks to shift us out of isolated individualism into a more connected way of being. Why? Because belonging is a superpower: we’re more courageous & creative when we "find our people". The second objective is to support people into meaningful work. This is very broadly defined: you decide what is meaningful to you. It could be about your job, your family, or community volunteering. Generally, life is more meaningful when we are being of benefit to others, when we know how to contribute, when we can match our talents to the needs in the world. https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

Richard Bartlett: The original Microsolidarity Proposal. Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity. Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene (more)

Ross Mayfield's model for considering networks of different scales - the (more)

Getting To Trust: Better Swift Than Deep. Venessa Miemis is trying to get a group of ‘change agents’ to collaborate, and is finding it hard going. ()(2012-01-08) Miemis How Will We Collaborate If We Can't Trust Each Other) (more)

Kevin Carson: Deep Trust, Shallow Trust, and Phyles. A recent exchange between Venessa Miemis inspired me to add a section to the chapter on phyles and other networked economic platforms, in my Desktop Regulatory State manuscript: The Value of the Phyle as Opposed to Other Models of Collaboration. (more)

Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books, without regard to copyright,[3] by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways.[3][4][5] Sci-Hub was founded in Kazakhstan by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls (see Serials crisis). The site is extensively used worldwide.[3][4] In September 2019, the site's owners said that it served approximately 400,000 requests per day.[6] Sci-Hub has been estimated to contain 95% of all scholarly publications with issued DOI numbers.[3] Sci-Hub reported on July 15, 2022, that its collection comprises 88,343,822 files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub (more)

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and a common topic in science fiction and future studies. Artificial general intelligence is also referred to as "strong AI",[1] "full AI"[2] or as the ability of a machine to perform "general intelligent action".[3] Academic sources reserve "strong AI" to refer to machines capable of experiencing consciousness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence (more)

METR (an acronym for Model Evaluation and Threat Research, pronounced "meter"), is a nonprofit research institute, based in Berkeley, California,[1] that evaluates frontier AI models' capabilities to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks that some researchers argue could pose catastrophic risks to society.[2][3] They have worked with leading AI companies to conduct pre-deployment model evaluations and contribute to system cards, including OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o and GPT-4.5, and Anthropic's Claude models.[3][4][5][6][7] METR's CEO and founder is Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at OpenAI who left in 2022 to form ARC Evals, the evaluation division of Paul Christiano's Alignment Research Center. In December 2023, ARC Evals was then spun off into an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit and renamed METR.[8][9][10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METR

Steve Yegge open source project to give a task-graph to-do list for AI agents to use coordinate with. (more)

Git for Data... *Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository. (more)

Taskwarrior is an open-source, cross platform time and task management tool, used to keep track of and handle tasks. It uses a command-line interface, although since its inception, graphical user interface wrappers have also been created... According to its author, Taskwarrior was created "to address layout and feature issues"[4] in the Todo.txt applications popularized by Gina Trapani. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskwarrior (single-user to-do list) (more)

Simon Willison: I think “agent” may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now. (coding agent) (more)

Joe Procopio: Why Ageism Is Accepted In Tech. With all the talk about recent ugly issues in the modern workplace, you’d think there’d be a huge uptick in the ageism discussion category (more)

discrimination against "older" people, esp in hiring

This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.) (more)

Patrick Bruce Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ məth-EE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.[1] He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion.[2] He has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards,[3][4] and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Metheny

Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes: Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0. Until the last few years, it made sense to talk in terms of a red tribe and a blue tribe when describing political affiliation. (Red Vs Blue) However, this dichotomy no longer provides a sufficient map of the political territory we find ourselves in. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars. the United States is in the middle of the worst culture wars I’ve seen in my life, either in my 20 years in the US, or in the previous 20 years in India (which in the 90s saw equally ferocious, but less digitally mediated, culture wars). And for once, you can’t blame Donald Trump. He’s more consequence than cause. (more)