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Cheap AI & robotics will make many formerly exclusive processes available to all:
Synthesize meds at home, Grow food at scale, Build micro-factories & microgrids, and much more.
A radically decentralized future is coming—but elites already have killer drone swarms to stop you
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XCheck
I thought I was doing well on X with 20K followers. Turns out, I was mostly talking to ghosts and bots that have invaded X but are hard to detect. That's why I built XCheck, a personal X detective that analyzes your network.
Backstory: X/Twitter user since 2007, gradually built a network. Recently noticed odd plummeting engagement. Manual analysis revealed a suspicion: inactive accounts and bots were significantly impacting my reach. Digging into other accounts, I discovered this wasn't isolated - it's a widespread X phenomenon.
Enter XCheck: A little open-source tool that crawls and analyzes your X account (or any other's) and uncovers hidden patterns in your social network.
XCheck's key features:
- Intuitive, interactive web UI for X crawling
- Analyzes followers/following of any public X account
- Auto-assigns quality scores to accounts
- Filtering, search and visualization tools
XCheck is free and open-source: https://github.com/samim23/xcheck
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Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
Rasmus Kyng has written the near-perfect algorithm. It computes the maximum transport flow at minimum cost for any kind of network – be it rail, road or electricity – at a speed that is, mathematically speaking, impossible to beat.
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Empires don't fail, they transform: The Roman empire became a church. The British empire became a bank. The American empire became the internet.
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The "Influence Maximization Problem" (IMP) is considered to be NP-Hard. Yet given a large enough training data set, heuristics perform surprisingly well. "Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win." - Robert A. Heinlein
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Random Internet Conversation from January 1994
"This decentralized network welcomes hackers, phreaks, virii coders, crackers, cyberpunk wannabees, civil liberties groups, cypherpunks, futurists, artists, and anyone anti-commercial."
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The network of global corporate control (2011) 🐙
What do the following corporations have in common? Who is their owner? 🐙
The 🐙 network has it's tentacles in many places
The corporate propaganda media is pretending their oil, car, tech etc. companies are “withdrawing from Russia”. In fact, they are being confiscated, as major parts of the world are breaking away from the control of the western cryptocracy and moving towards nationalizing key industries.
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Towards fungal computer - by Andrew Adamatzky
We propose that fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices: information is represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium network and an interface is realized via fruit bodies. In a series of scoping experiments, we demonstrate that electrical activity recorded on fruits might act as a reliable indicator of the fungi’s response to thermal and chemical stimulation. A stimulation of a fruit is reflected in changes of electrical activity of other fruits of a cluster, i.e. there is distant information transfer between fungal fruit bodies. In an automaton model of a fungal computer, we show how to implement computation with fungi and demonstrate that a structure of logical functions computed is determined by mycelium geometry.
Academics are making 'intelligent buildings' with the help of fungi - The Centre for Unconventional Computing is using fungal colonies in surprising ways.
Wearables Computing made of Mushrooms… Finally - Tasty Sustainable Computing Solutions
#FFHCI #Mushroom #Technology #Networks #Regenerative #Complexity
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Alcoholics_Anonymous (AA) is a fascinating case-study in resilient bottom-up org design
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international fellowship requiring no membership dues or fees dedicated to helping alcoholics peer to peer in sobriety through its spiritually inclined Twelve Steps program.
- AA says it is "not organized in the formal or political sense", and Bill Wilson, borrowing the phrase from anarchist theorist Peter Kropotkin, called it a "benign anarchy".
- The Steps also suggest the healing aid of an unspecified God—"as we understood Him"—but are nonetheless accommodating to agnostic, atheist, and non-theist members.
- In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA "looks like it couldn't survive as there's no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust". Butler explained that "AA's 'inverted pyramid' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.
- The Traditions hold that helping others recover from alcoholism is AA's primary purpose. That it should have no opinions on anything else to avoid public controversy. That members and groups should not use AA to gain wealth, prestige, or property. That dogma and hierarchies are to be avoided. That AA groups are autonomous and self-supporting—declining outside contributions—but are barred from lending the AA name to other entities. And, without threat of retribution or means of enforcement, that members should remain anonymous in public media.
- A member who accepts a service position or an organizing role is a "trusted servant" with terms rotating and limited, typically lasting three months to two years and determined by group vote and the nature of the position. Each group is a self-governing entity with AA World Services acting only in an advisory capacity.
- AA groups are self-supporting, relying on voluntary donations from members to cover expenses.[27] The AA General Service Office (GSO) limits contributions to US$3,000 a year.[31] Above the group level, AA may hire outside professionals for services that require specialized expertise or full-time responsibilities.
- AA's program is an inheritor of Counter-Enlightenment philosophy. AA shares the view that acceptance of one's inherent limitations is critical to finding one's proper place among other humans and God. Such ideas are described as "Counter-Enlightenment" because they are contrary to the Enlightenment's ideal that humans have the capacity to make their lives and societies a heaven on Earth using their own power and reason.
- This commitment is facilitated by a change in the member's worldview. To help members stay sober AA must, they argue, provide an all-encompassing worldview while creating and sustaining an atmosphere of transcendence in the organization. To be all-encompassing AA's ideology emphasizes tolerance rather than a narrow religious worldview that could make the organization unpalatable to potential members and thereby limit its effectiveness.
- US courts have not extended the status of privileged communication, such as that enjoyed by clergy and lawyers, to AA related communications between members.
More on AA's history: https://silkworth.info/ - Frank Buchman Oxford Group Documentary
#P2P #Praxis #Health #Politics #Religion #OpenSource #Networks #Systems
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"Peer-to-Peer Networks Applied to X" - What is your X?
#P2P #CrowdIntelligence #Networks #OpenSource #Infrastructure #Regenerative
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A soil superorganism emerges from a drop of soil, and across an agar surface. It's easy to imagine some kind of biological signal passing down these fibres, comprising mostly bacteria.
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Cargo bike share is happening in a big way in Germany - run by municipalities, and supported by the Federal government. The TINK platform helps other municipalities get started. The TINK support platform for municipalities joins @copenhagenizers in the vast global market for eliminating autonomous four wheeled vehicles from cities
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Energy governance and China’s bid for global grid integration
Energy projects have always been a major part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure mega-plan for Eurasia. The enormity of that plan was on display at the BRI Forum last month, where an official report was released estimating that energy investments in BRI countries would add up to $27 trillion by 2050, with $7 trillion alone going to power grid construction, and over 200 million new jobs created in the process.
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The dark web has a longstanding reputation as a haven for the worst kinds of criminal activity. This reputation is not wholly unjustified, as there are indeed terrible things happening around the world that can be bought and sold on the dark web.
