OK, let's assume that we manage to raise the money to produce (hardware + software) an infokiosk that will provide public and free access to scientific knowledge about the All-Crisis and grassroots suggestions on how to respond to it.
What functions should such an infokiosk have, standing, for example, somewhere in a shopping mall or in a railway station waiting room?
Please feel free to brainstorm - we throw in any crazy suggestions you like, other people's we don't judge, but we are inspired by them.
@timorl Maybe convey those problems with a playful models: you set some parameters switch it into very fast forward simulation and see what comes out of it.
Giving tangible exposure to the issues that may have been escaping one's own perspective.
Edit: maybe also expose the limits of our comprehension by how some changes have seemingly unexpected effects. Dispel the anthropological omnipotence and embrace the cradle of emergent harmony :). @8petros
Exactly how the Ukrainians shot down the four-engine A-50 with its top-mounted radar is unclear, but analyst Tom Cooper—who has written many books about Soviet and Russian warplanes—has a theory.
Ukrainian radar and missile crews lured the Russian crews into a trap.
If Cooper’s theory is correct, the Ukrainians set the trap on Saturday, when Ukrainian air force jets—presumably Su-24's —struck Russian air force installations across the Russian-occupied #Crimea
"Today Ukrainians do not speak about 'after the war;' they speak about 'after the victory'—пiсля перемоги (pislya peremohy). 'Peremoha'— Polish theater director Krzysztof Czyżewski suggested—should become part of a new universal vocabulary. The prefix pere indicates a crossing and moha means 'I can.' Peremoha—'victory'—literally expresses a going beyond what one is able to do."
@strypey I'd like to remind that cetralisation is but a model of organizing and in that comes with pros and cons.
It gives ugly results used as a bedrock of social organization. Yet excels in focusing control. That same warring Russia is more apt at ramping up it's mil industry compared to collectively ran EU.
The core nature also makes the system susceptible to attacks since it has a single point of failure.
I recall hearing a great lecture comparing these, but can't find it alas.
@strypey Control implies synchronization. It can be weak in agreeing only upon the goal and leaving operation distributed, occasionally coordinated. I've seen a paper on rice paddy farmers exercising optimal land use in such fashion.
Centralized model here then gain efficiency by elements relinquishing subjectivity to the centre (or hierarchy). Conversely, such models can't fight the 'be like water' or similar organizational structures.
@strypey I had a preamble at first stating that I may jumble some terms but omitted it for brevity.
By synchronization there I meant an organizational means that grant an effecting force to the act of controlling. E.g. that which makes you heed the request, maybe some agreement. That can be a social contract, or oppression.
@strypey Yep, at this point it sounds like authority. Though iirc initially I've been meaning synchronization as the means of enacting the organizational structure. Cooperation would be more fitting terms here, while synchonization being a hyponym.
Though I should better stop short of sowing more confusion, esp when there seem to be some shared understanding :).
@strypey Thank you, coordination it is. Looking it up in a dictionary, mentions 'synchronization' as one of it's definitions, sounding a bit reassuring in that the discussion did remain on topic despite my subversive blunders :).
A tall order, would somebody have hints on how semantics, linguistic or scholars of disciplines beyond computer science are thinking about compositionality in semantic networks.
I'm thinking about subject-predicate-object corpus, where e.g. a subject can be another like corpus, that's close how RDF1.6 does it.
Looking at it from a CS perspective yields some ungainly designs and I'm wondering how other disciplines look at it.
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@dung_eater No, never been there nor in Gaza or West Bank. If you're going to berate me for talking of something I have no first hand experiences, then I would only retort that I haven't been to space either, without it being a stopping me from explicating about stars (just an example, not that I know much about stars). @palestine@argumento@servelan@mapachin
@dung_eater Oh, never did I claim to love the idea of walls and fences. Not one bit.
I see it as the lesser evil (compared to all out war) when people can't reach unanimity with the seething confrontation. This ugly fence is monument to a human failure.
These means cannot bring about peace. I wish more people on both sides of the wall would realize that cohabitation is the only peaceful option.
@dung_eater Again, this one-sided bigotry. These victims had committed a bloodbath couple months back and I don't see the 'cease fire' folks mourning them much.
How about Palestinians go and build a flourishing state rather than lobbing rockets?
I wonder if someone ever analyzed the "mobile cost" (bandwidth, battery usage, ...) of messengers like #WhatsApp/ #Signal/ #Telegram, chat systems like #IRC, and maybe even more "exotic" chat systems like #mail, @delta -chat, #fedi?
@sirjofri@delta I don't have data to backup my intuition, but I suppose that the the broader optimization force of capital is the an important aspect behind most of the technology.
That way the more popular pieces usually get the most attention and polish.
E.g. that used to hold for battery usage of xmpp vs whatever the craze was at the time, largely due to push notifications being pioneered by big tech.
Capital is a efficient optimization machine <- not an endorsement.