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 […]

I really miss a ridiculously large sound system!

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 https://wiki.konstellationen.org/kamratdata-zinet-2025-1.pdf 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! https://autonomin.fritext.org/ett-friare-och-roligare-satt-att-lyssna-pa-musik/

"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: https://www.arbetaren.se/2025/07/25/replik-v-och-s-bar-ansvar-for-reaktionar-arbetarklass/

These helped me grasp a little more of the current solar boom and its geopolitics: https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/brics-in-2025/ https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-386-how-chinas-powerslide

https://www.quantamagazine.org/metaphysical-experiments-test-hidden-assumptions-about-reality-20240730/ 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

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: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1790555/FULLTEXT01.pdf

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?

Ricardo Nunes "horizontalism vs verticalism" holds for technopolitics too? Feral/perma-computing, artisanal unbloated and prefigurative software, luddist sabotage. Vs tech-keynesian fully automated AI positive stack geopolitics. Both fetishize org. form and are reactive melancholic towards other?

I'm constantly questioning my own judgement which limits my confidence. These stats are a great way to convince us (our enemies don't care about facts anyway) that we are right and they are wrong: https://globalinequality.org/global-income-inequality/

https://tidskriftenmana.se/historiens-vald-utan-undertexter/ Om förträngning, bild, agens och våld

Det här vill jag se mer av - använda AI för att granska och föra statistik över nyhetsbevakningen. Borde göras för att granska politiska beslut också. Inte för att det övertygar motståndare utan för att vi behöver egen säkerhet. 8 palestinier är värd 1 israel tydligen […]

Intuitionism! So much fun to think about math in this way instead of the old Platonism.

Vilka vänster- och progressiva projekt är viktiga att stötta ekonomiskt? Vilka är bortglömda och förtjänar mer stöd?

Intuitionistic math (~constructivist: practice creates math), chaos theory, quantum measurement problem, Landauer information principle and strong emergence goes into this wild and free physics paper: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10670-019-00165-8.pdf

https://kolektiva.social/@AnarchistFederation/114715617170632810 From: @AnarchistFederation https://kolektiva.social/@AnarchistFederation/114715617170632810

Research suggests #llm s are detrimental to learning. I think it is idealistic, moralistic and not really radical to just criticize them on that level. We are facing (a fraudulent but kind of working attempt at) a new technical class composition. #ai is not (just) fraud and soulless, it's a real […]

I remember once in my Physics department where they invited an Israeli ex statistical physicist to talk about social media and graph algorithms. He alluded to using his work for military purposes. Everyone was calm and polite and no one opposed. All questions were about the (mere) mechanics of […]

I was head hunted for a company in the defense industry - creating jamming systems and air defence. It's sad to realize that most of the industry applications of my beautiful interests (physics, math, algorithms) - are horrible and unethical or at best dystopian. One old colleague works with […]

There are a few people in the "pro AI" camp that I think are worth listening to. Anil Bawa-Cavia is one - currently reading his book Logiciel - a theory of AI and computation based on intuitionist/constructivist math foundations, type theory and topology as far as I understand. Still skeptic but […]

@[email protected] I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people. We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who […]

Heard a better, less anthropomorphizing description of "hallucinations" in generative AI: they are the result of not constraining output (which is statistical-inductive) by causal reasoning, history, norms and who knows what else we don't yet understand in human/animal cognition. Source: mattin […]

Some important research into the hard limits of Large language models. Spoiler: they can't lead to AGI nor can they solve general complex problems. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

Really nice scifi of Carpenter's The Thing - but from the perspective of the Thing https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

Highly recommend the FediLab app for Mastodon and PixelFed! So much easier to divide following in groups and get organized

I contributed to this amazing conference with the best of participants. Content: Labour theory of AI, aesthetic theory of modelling, model collapse, living resistance and poetry as counters to algorithmic fascism, device and screen political aesthetics, asylum […] [Original post on assemblag.es]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/change-mind-evidence-arguing-social-relationships "We’re infrastructurally, collectively trapped in the liberal belief that politics is mostly about talking, then sporadically voting. What’s needed by anyone hoping to promote progressive […]

I'm currently on parental leave and finally have a little time to read outside my narrow confines of career. Shocked as it really does feel like coming out from under a stone! Having spent the last ten years under it and now having to relearn radical politics. A lesson for everyone being […]

There is a tech bro inside all of our heads and he must be destroyed

"Playing with fire" used in a positive sense by the Santa Fe Institute of Complex Systems, wow! In the context of managing complex democratic societies with second-cybernetic methods.