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From OODA (US Airforce) and Theory of change (Aspen/CIA) to Cynefin (IBM/DARPA) and Sensemaking - many of the popular knowledge-management/decision-making frameworks emerged in western military/war contexts. Due to this heritage, they all suffer from similar, very serious conceptual & practical illnesses: fetishizing control, design, objectives, knowledge, performance and power. (Just have a look at the kind of books OODA creator John Boyd was into: cuckoo cybernetics + pop science + esoteric woo woo + TED-style motivation BS + WAR). In many ways, ancient approaches are still far more advanced and enjoyable.
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Spitfirelist by Dave Emory: http://spitfirelist.com/
Tarpley.net by Webster Griffin Tarpley: http://tarpley.net
And some random high weirdness.
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Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/11/beggars-and-toilet-paper.html
Welcome to China. You Probably Can't Buy Anything, Though: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/20191110751/welcome-to-china-you-probably-cant-buy-anything-though #China #Economics #Crypto
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Daoist Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_art
Daoist Robe, 17th Century: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53609
"This dazzling garment would have been worn by Daoist priests during ceremonies. The back of the robe, which is displayed here, depicts five dragons hovering above a primordial landscape of stylized mountains rising from a frothy sea."
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You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog:
https://us.aibo.com/feature/food.html
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Online Knowledge Management Thoughts & Links
#Comment: That feeling when one finally closes a browser tab, after weeks of keeping it open in search of a moment to read it (which never arrived). Repeats 3 times: The web is a river, don't try to hold on. Browser Tabs don't age well: When a site is added to the "will read later" tabs, it seems vitally important. Yet only days later, the site starts to feel irrelevant & eventually the tab is closed. (Spatio-temporal) Context is key for knowledge management - Browser are horrible at it. When one thinks about knowledge management long enough, one starts to understand that management is the wrong method and knowledge the wrong question: My essential needs for such tools are around personal knowledge praxis (highly action oriented & context depended), not so much knowledge management (archiving/data hoarding oriented).
- Open tabs are cognitive spaces: https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/
- How Your Travels Around the Internet Expose the Way You Think: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/clive-thompson-5/
- A Spacial Model for Lossless Web Navigation: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/lossless-web-navigation-spatial-model-37f83438201d/
- Browser.html is a speculative browser for nightly builds of Servo based on trails: http://patrykadas.com/browser.html
- Manufactured Recollection: https://reallifemag.com/manufactured-recollection/
- Context & Annotation - links by Maxim Leyzerovich: https://www.are.na/maxim-leyzerovich/context-annotation #KM #Design #Ideas
- Open tabs are cognitive spaces: https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/
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NationStates is a nation simulation game: https://www.nationstates.net/
Create a nation according to your political ideals and care for its people. Or deliberately oppress them. #Games #Politics
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What pleases the prince has the force of law.” —Roman law
“As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally.” —Gestapo officer, Werner Best
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Wie Monsanto seine Risiken auf Bayer abwälzte - investigation by Gaby Weber.
Ein Geschenk des Himmels - wie Daimler-Benz Nazigold waschen durfte
Krater für den Frieden
Money or Cyber Money - The new Tyrannosaurus Rex
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Brain Art - Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030143220 #BCI #Art #NeuroScience
"The first book that surveys how brain activity can be monitored and manipulated for artistic purposes, with contributions by interactive media artists, brain-computer interface researchers, and neuroscientists"
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Human Settlements in a Digital Universe: The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Project: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/2019/09/no-mans-sky/ #Generative #Games
A public university has an official archeology program for the content of a game which generates all its content with procedural algorithms. Sisyphus and all other disillusion masochists would be very proud of these "scientists".
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Ghost Ships, Crop Circles, and Soft Gold: A GPS Mystery in Shanghai: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/ #Military #Infrastructure #China
"A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?" GPS is a system entirely owned by the US Air Force / Gov. Why invoke a Chinese state actor attack first?
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The landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover might be home to fossilized life: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614715/the-landing-site-for-nasas-mars-2020-rover-might-be-home-to-fossilized-life/ #Space
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Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation: https://www.nature.com/news/tardigrade-protein-helps-human-dna-withstand-radiation-1.20648 - https://www.livescience.com/tardigrade-dna-humans-to-survive-mars.html
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Did scientists get climate change wrong? - Interview by Sabine Hossenfelder with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford.
Great Interview! Taking into consideration other recent "big picture healthy skepticism's" by Sabine Hossenfelder (such as "The crisis in physics is not only about physics" or "Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math"), i wonder what Sabine's general confidence level is in the current climate models. An extra level of complexity not touched on in this interview, is the inherit highly political nature of climate models, that makes them prime targets for corruption, manipulation and weaponisation. Such "social uncertainties" should likely be factored into the models themselves to make them more robust and realistic - especially given these models are (almost by definition) highly "closed source" and exclusive, due to required specialized personnel, computational resources etc.
