Reading Josephine Quinn's "How the world made the west" I found that the written language as well as a lot of bronze casting and other things which were at the time really advanced technology, were mostly used for the advantage of the rich. After the Bronze age collapse, even written language […]
It's interesting that quantitative models can project an aura of complete control while using a totally wrong model with uncontrolled error. Unscientific and I'm not surprised.
One improvement is apparently using hyperbolic spaces? Interesting!
I really miss a ridiculously large sound system!
I have taken the time to read lots of pro AI texts recently and want to highlight this: https://meaning.systems/
Enormous invalidable claims about hard science, sounds like quantum mysticism to me except in the AI guise. However many of the mentioned ideas separately are worth having a look at.
Bratton just reduces everything to computation like Konrad Zeuss - leading to a complete lack of friction.
If you have other good texts on computation I am interested!
When art and "theory" mystifies instead of revealing the process of social production, it is doing the work of reproducing #capitalism. No wonder it's funded! This happens a lot in science art and especially with #AI. Prime example of this mess: the #antikythera project […]
Just a tip: this makes transition from Spotify to 320 kbps (yes that is my politics!) mp3 effortless: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl
Finally took the step to blu-ray, such an awesome format. Durable a couple of hundred years and really cool math behind it!
Bidrar med en text ("Tankar från en socialistisk ingenjör") i ett nytt riktigt bra zine
wiki.konstellationen.org/kamratdata-zinet-2025-1....
från @konstellationen
Not sure if I agree but a nice idea still: "queering is the act of being unaddressable to apparatuses which are defined by the dimensional reduction of life" (by Austin Wade Smith)
Nytt blogginlägg! autonomin.fritext.org/ett-friare-och-roligare-...
"Vi behöver inte förstå varandra [...], inte ge varandra villkorslös kärlek. Vi behöver bara förpliktiga oss till villkorslös omsorg. Det innebär att vi erkänner varandras rätt oavsett om vi känner empati eller inte, en hållning långt svårare än kärlek." […]
Rovelli: relative information ie correlation is a physical and relational definition. Evolution/self-org defines meaningful information and the next step from Shannon info up to human meaning:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1_3
(Put that into Sci-hub!)
Also […]
Så bra om vänstern och strategi för demokratisk socialism som borde vara självklar: www.arbetaren.se/2025/07/25/replik-v-och-...
These helped me grasp a little more of the current solar boom and its geopolitics:
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics-in-2025/
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-386-how-chin...
www.quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments...
Experimental metaphysics, Bell's theorem and the legacy of #Mach - apart from technology, I think such constraints are probably the most important consequence of #quantum physics
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. ... Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."
Progressives waste time pretending our salvation is “messaging.” Our problem is that we have no way to distribute messages that can be heard above the near-ubiquity of MAGA media. 100,000 Substacks and TikToks are not a message delivery system. They’re a message diffusion system.
https://bastard.blog/tekno-utvinningar-norbergfestival/ ❤️ Norberg festival
Of course, modelling (more is different) and not "exact simulation" is the paradigm. However just accurate simulation of neurons or the nematode worm as a complex system, shows the difficulties for those wanting unified/exhaustive models of complexity. Especially cognition (see earlier posts).
It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )
"'[U]nsung heroes' called zooplankton gorge themselves and grow fat in spring before sinking hundreds of metres into the deep ocean in Antarctica where they burn the fat.
"This locks away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars, stopping it from […]
This is why we can't rely on Bluesky and it's your problem even if you don't think you are a "tech person" […]
Capital: extensive infrastructure for funding capital extraction in risky/noisy situations, repression and campaigns. The left anticolonial resistance are stuck w donations, unpaid labor. Ideas for infrastructure:
https://thequestionoffunding.com […]
About #complexity, #modelling and their relationship to "postmodern" and plural perspectives in science. Applies heavily to the simplistic data-driven #AI approach as well as physics mathematization and reductionism: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1790555/...
Nunes however would never rule out these tactics in themselves but rather propose we think about an "ecology of political practices" of technopolitics. Eg. how could Luddite sabotage or perma-computing work side by side with parties and governance building parallell tech stacks?
