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My country: 🍁🦅🏳️‍⚧️. eLain. Boosts aren't endorsements, they're reading interests. High brow, low brow, but not in the middle. Bibliophile, humanist, simplifier, footnotes, #accessibility, #vegan, #memes, #montreal, #deleuze, #metaphysics, #categorytheory, #semiotics, #distributed, #formalmethods, #propertytesting. (codes in #rstats, #rust, #tla)

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impactology, (edited ) to random
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Is there concept for describing how certain types of values, dispositions, worldviews, beliefs, interests, habits of thinking, sociocultural norms, desires, motivations impede imagination?

Or a term to describe a way of framing inquiries that impedes imagination?

Think of Susan Leigh Star's Boundary Object but very specifically attuned to identify inhibition of imagination (or foreclosure to conceive of futures for design studies folks here) in discourse

Complete opposite of left image 👇🏾

SmallOther,
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@impactology

Language is fascist, but this book was really fun.

https://amandamontell.com/cultish/

SmallOther,
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@impactology

Barthes became a post-structuralist around 1967 with Death of the Author. Barthes wrote in 1978 that language is neither reactionary nor progressive it is quite simply fascist. Fascism does not prevent speech it compels speech. This is a trap that establish false linguistic unity. It traps subjectivity into an infinite recurrence of referral and deferral preventing engagement with experience.

I take this to a construvistic semiotics stance, where each and every interpreter of a message constructs new knowledge by engaging with the noisy signal. Language linearizes the experience of what we're trying to communicate from a web of signifiers to a single transmission of a message.

SmallOther, to random
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Adam Smith wrote the original manga.

grimalkina, to random
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Having a normal one

SmallOther,
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@grimalkina

Is the title a reference to Weizenbaum? That's the name of the first chapter of Computer Power and Human Reason.

impactology, to random
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There should be a pathological term for an institution that creates such people in DSM — "Hierarchism"

For folks who can't ever for even a millisecond get out of this mindset of competition over who is more or less superior

Folks who are just in the end more interested in establishing some kind of exclusivity for understanding of a concept so that they can be at the top and someone at the bottom

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112251071493092544

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112251129603389534

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111427436672174299

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112251096005650832

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SmallOther,
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@impactology

Marcuse's 1-dimensional thinking as a critique of logical empiricism/strong scientism comes to mind. Multidimensional values and relational thinking are beyond the scientismists.

SmallOther, to random
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Michel Foucault wrote in the preface to and Guatarri's Anti-Oedipus

"This art of living counter to all forms of fascism, whether already present or impending, carries with it a certain number of essential principles which I would summarize as follows if I were to make this great book into a manual or guide to everyday life:

  • Free political action from all unitary and totalizing paranoia.
  • Develop action, thought, and desires by proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction, and not by subdivision and pyramidal hierarchization.
  • Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic."

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SmallOther,
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"- Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that
possesses revolutionary force.

  • Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.
  • Do not demand of politics that it restore the "rights" of the individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the product of power. What is needed is to "de-individualize" by means of multiplication and displacement, diverse combinations. The group must not be the organic bond uniting hierarchized individuals, but a constant generator of de-individualization.
  • Do not become enamored of power."

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SmallOther,
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@jimfl

It's the French definition of militant, so it's more popular than you think, but whatever you wouldn't get it. Still on my todo list is migrating "the mass psychology of fascism" to new BONES. (Big joke 😘) The book is by far the most pretentious of the trilogy though. It's full of outdated references. The third book, "What is Philosophy" is much clearer, but his monographs are also clear.

SmallOther, to random
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I might republish Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph . I found the copy right holder and have a plan.

It is just as relevant today as it ever was. It's been out of print for 51 years and the inside cover has a quote from Chomsky saying that the book will continue to be read in 50 years.

SmallOther,
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I'm considering Blurb as the publisher. I've typeset journal articles before in LaTeX but I've never published a book before. If anyone has tips or suggestions please.

https://www.blurb.com/

raiderrobert, to random
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I've heard many times that "billionaires should not exist."

I've never heard of a viable idea to actually make this actionable policy. Every country I'm aware of with a wealth tax in Europe has repealed it.

But suppose you just declare, "100% tax above $100M USD on wealth" anyhow.

The ultra wealthy people can just leave and go elsewhere. If they can't just leave, it implies the freedom in their country is a sham like Russia or China.

Anyone willing to thoughtfully weigh in?

SmallOther,
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@raiderrobert

I'm not an expert but I've read about this.

Capture it on death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States

In historical terms, we're living in a period of time where there's an outsized generation of wealthy passing on massive inheritance to their children because the estate tax rate is low and beyond that the recapture of wealth on death is low.

The neoliberal conservatives at Financialtimes even agree and want to go further with a wealth tax.

"A wealth tax in the US might be ruled unconstitutional, but the government probably could adjust people’s income taxes depending on their wealth. Otherwise, the US could raise estate taxes, tax vast unrealised capital gains and close tax loopholes designed for rich people. It’s doable. States haven’t done it partly because billionaires have captured many political systems. That’s another reason to reduce their wealth."

https://archive.is/20240209000755/https://www.ft.com/content/f0eee3a9-52b1-4edb-bc1c-b0155735ece5

SmallOther, to random
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This would upset Elon.

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

astrid, to random
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if i wrote a compiler i would simply have it not allow your program to have errors

SmallOther,
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@astrid

"No" says the bottom type.

SmallOther, to random
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Remember what they took from you.

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rml, (edited ) to Magic
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A little over a year ago, originally due to an interest in the deeper history of , I started diving deep into the , studying , , and doing etc in what has become my deepest engagement with the rabbinic corpus yet -- the Talmud isn't a compiler but rather an extensible interpreter, compiled by compilers over the course of many centuries (build times have gotten significantly faster, my G-d), with novel extensions in the form of rabbinic commentary, glossia and the like being added nearly every century by publishers competing to compile the most elegant editions (Vilna Shaws being paradigmatic). And through studying Talmud and the greater body of rabbinic literature I've found myself encountering /sorcery occasionally, and I just gotta say -- the metaphor of programming as pure magic, with the as a sorcerer, goes insanely deep when you start to dig into it.

SmallOther,
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@rml

https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/apophantic-vs-apophatic

I'm going to put this next to the part of my brain that gets bothered by transcendent and transcendental not meaning the same thing.

SmallOther,
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@rml

I really love that definition of transcendental! I've been struggling relating Kant's transcendental to a differential ontology and that's hecking helpful because this is in my 😎 category 😎.

SmallOther, to random
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Sharing old memes.

This meme is an extended remix of a traditional infographic showing reality, equality, equity, and justice where 3 dark-skinned young adults (YA) are standing outside the fence at a ball game. This is the alt-text, it requires multiple posts.

Reality - one gets more than is needed, while the other gets less than is needed. Thus, a huge disparity is created. (Image: The tallest of three YAs gets the most crates to stand on, the shortest is in the ground.)

Equality - The assumption is that everyone benefits from the same supports. This is considered to be equal. (Image: The tallest of three YAs gets the same 1 crate to stand on as the shortest. Only the middle and the tallest YA can see over the fence.)

Equity - Everyone gets the support they need, which produces equity. (Image: The tallest of three YAs gets the 0 crate to stand on. The middle gets 1 crate and the shortest gets two. Everyone can see and the shortest is cheering.)

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SmallOther,
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Justice - All 3 can see because the cause(s) of the inequity was addressed. The systematic barrier has been removed. (Image: All 3 YAs are cheering and there is no fence.)

Liberation - There is no game; no one plays, no one spectates. In the perfect equality of no-self the arrows of hate turn the flowers of peace. (Image: red and orange flowers bloom in front of a yellow and black butterfly in front of a brilliant blue sky)

Transcendence - Attachment even to non-attachment is surrendered. All the burning fires of desire are quenched. (Image: blank)

(Three periods, appearing like ellipses.) - <beautiful silences punctuate each wave's receding back into the open sea>(Image: orange sunsetting on a beach)

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SmallOther,
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mcc, to random
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quietly under breath but in text i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity i hate unity

SmallOther,
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@mark @mcc

My brain shorts out at non-determinism. I write tests until I have some kind of determinism or I move onto another framework/team/job. I don't get how people work with those tools or make any progress. It bothers me like I'm sleeping on sand.

grimalkina, to random
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Contest cultures ("constantly prove you belong! Prove you're smart! Everything here is a dog eat dog competition!") tear people down under the guise of "toughness" and "identifying brilliance." In psych, we know this is destructive to long term sustainable work and mastery. We know it's systematically leveled at marginalized folks more.

These beliefs are at the heart of it all. This cannot be what we continue to let define who belongs in technical work and cultures.

https://mastodon.world/

SmallOther,
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@grimalkina

It's such a professional way to indict stack ranking and similar 1-dimensional thinking motivated by scientism. Reading a leveled take on it is therapeutic.

jonny, to random
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My latest bad idea thats actually good: what if instead of a schema generating a python module, what if the schema was a python module by hooking into the import machinery

SmallOther,
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@jonny

I might be misunderstanding what you're looking for, but this sounds a lot like something you could accomplish with metaclasses.

hazelweakly, to random
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I swear, so much complexity of my life right now comes from me wanting to be able to graphically draw out an interconnected hypergraph but also have a convenient textual representation of said hypergraph

I'm sure this makes zero sense to people. But ugh. It's so frustrating to have the ideas in your brain and just not be able to really tease them out in a useful way for others

Signed,
trying to figure out how to map "do the platform engineering thing more better" into strategy and architecture

SmallOther,
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@hazelweakly

I really love this subject on several levels.

Sometimes I just want to visually ontologize GADT type signatures, TLA+, nCat, or traits/interfaces/header files. Bonus if it spits out graphviz.

Sometimes I just want a hierarchical state machine or dag that hides detail.

Sometimes I dream about building a graph editor in the browser, based on a very particular set of solutions ( for p2p, for editor, for data, and for deterministic physics based layout). Layout is the really tricky part for building a graph editor I've found.

aeva, to random
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I think it's amazing when people post ai generated images without any alt text, like, buddy, you already described the image with text, come on

SmallOther,
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@aeva

On a positive note, I read this recently and it gave me a smidgen of hope.
https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/

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