Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

This is really interesting to me, because this is how I approach working groups (as opposed to endless nebulous v teams.) All of this is enabled by explicit but disposable structure.

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I have the same attitude about it as I have about CS: GROW UP. Not teaching people isn't rigor. If you achieved status in either of those fields stop swanning around on the altar of how easy it is when everyone has a genius stereotype about your field. Those achievement gaps are *your* problem.

YEEEEESSSSSS FUCK YES!

I’m just, you know, a philosopher, but it seems obvious that intelligence is social and relational and the AI bros are deeply invested in it being private property that can be owned, so they will always always miss the mark.

Honestly obsessed

watching someone experienced work is a very underrated way to level up. "tacit knowledge transfer" is how we learn all the little tips and techniques and shortcuts that make experts so dang fast and effective, and it's really, really hard to learn that stuff in other ways

This is most of the basis of my entire career, for what it’s worth.

Through a series of miscommunications, I ended up taking the child to a 7:30 pm oper(ett)a tonight. He loved it and is now standing in front of the opera house waiting for a cab at 10:30 pm like a true city child.

Bruce Harrell's parks district renewal funds one hundred (100) tree plantings per year.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Only a few minutes into this and it’s already so good.

“we underestimated the power of existing user habits” Tells you everything you need to know about modern tech company product development. I would bet the execs & PMs had experienced HCD people telling them what they were up against, but just weren’t listened to.

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so lower the fuckin' barriers to access, Rob. this city is almost fuckin' *uniquely* hostile to street food in a way that impoverishes our culture and destroys possibilities, Rob. this city seethingly hates visible culture on a policy level, maybe you could aim to fuckin' fix that, Rob.

One of the best lines from the @arnoldventures.bsky.social Housing Master Class: “If you don’t want housing in your backyard, be prepared to see it on your front lawn.” Tent cities and visible homelessness are directly connected to the housing shortages in our communities. #waleg #Seattle

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

After a few days with time spent in a car (unusual for me!), I’m noticing how being in a car makes the rest of the world seem insubstantial, lacking solidity. Everything moves out of the way for you. Nothing is reliably there except you and your companions.

I am reminded of the absolutely savage line from 1959, “Gypsy Rose Lee, who speaks lousy French and reads book reviews like they was books.”

If you are a calling your electeds person, tell them you want this to happen. I don't know whether they *can* do it, but we need to push them into figuring out what they can do and then make them go do it.

AI products do purpose gaslighting just like crypto/blockchain ones do. AI is a more effective grift because there is less expectation for rubber to actually hit the road. It's just vibes. bsky.app/profile/fast...

Paging Tree Action Seattle to the red phone

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Me and the boys getting ready to canvass for Katie Wilson

hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna

These are amazing, I make them almost every year.

In general we have far too much "deregulation brain". Most regulations are codifications of good business practice; if your industry is becoming unviable on that basis it is worth looking at whether there might be another reason for that.

Okay i need to save this for an essay but…short answer: yes.

sharing your ai generated content is a quick way to get me to unfollow or block

HYPOTHESIS: repeat exposure to the LessWrong discussion boards is functionally indistinguishable from mercury poisoning.

The list of actual intents for orgs that put the work in ends up looking a lot like a kind of doctrine or playbook, a working theory about how different kinds of messages work together to accomplish bigger goals

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Maybe this is my MLIS talking, but the argument that LLMs are good at surfacing citations confuses me. Finding stuff to read is the easy part? The hard part is reading it all?

This is something that I treasure so much about being able to move around my community without a car. It goes for interactions with other people, too. You get to know your neighbors. And in times like these, knowing your neighbors is pretty darn important.

Harrell’s late pivot to *checks notes* nationalizing the Lake City Fred Meyer. Huh.

"My doorbell won't work because a website is broken" is not the glorious frictionless future technology promised us, is it?

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

when people defend some general purpose tech "it's a tool, just like a hammer"

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I mean, it wasn’t a vague fear that it would be career limiting. We were explicitly told it would be.

In the meeting, Harrell interrupted and talked over his female opponent, suggested she wasn't making any sense, and belittled her, saying repeatedly, "Do you smell that?" (meaning bullshit), which prompted one staffer to ask him, "Are you having a stroke?"

Hey, my students are trying their hardest to lurk college. (Irony aside, I do feel like that’s one of the things I am needing to explain, that lurking in a 20 person class isn’t really an option. I can see them.)

Not to be all “I’m doing this right and everyone else is wrong,” but the only social media I’ve had for a while is Bluesky and Tumblr (lol sorry.) I don’t use an algorithmic feed on either, and in both cases, I try to only follow people that I have some real connection with.

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

The "normal" framing is so key — @randomwalker.bsky.social gave us all such a useful way of articulating a valuable idea in this discussion. www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-norm...

I think all the time about how much we could knock down community transmission if people just masked where it’s easy, and how much safer that would make places where mitigation is hard, like nursing homes.