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The Illegibility Crisis

Diagnostic protocols and field kits for CTOs, VPs, and technical leaders governing AI-heavy systems. Crown jewel mapping, decision tracing, real instruments.

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Contemplate this now

Folks who do #systemsanalysis have a great belief in ‘leverage points.’ These are places within a complex system… where #asmallshift in one thing can produce #bigchanges in everything.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jimstewartson/p/how-to-mount-a-cognitive-insurgency-36e?r=1elr0&utm_medium=ios

How to Mount a Cognitive Insurgency: Know. Name. DISRUPT. — Part III

sabotage — deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

I have seen this quote in many places. I understand the sentiment, but it doesn't match my personal observations.

“When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them—and that is of course because they accept the system and identify themselves with it." - Thomas Merton

https://r.flora.ca/p/i-dont-hate-white-people

#SystemsTheory #SystemsAnalysis #CriticalTheory #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT

#Racism #Sexism #Anthropocentrism #Canada #USA #WhiteNationalism

I don’t hate "White People" (British/English, French, etc)

I have seen this quote in many places.

Russell's Lifelong Learning

I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.

I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.

As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."

"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.

https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/

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Fiction About Nobody

Nebula

I have to disagree entirely about personifying the automated house in There Will Come Soft Rains (fantastic name), but otherwise yes. This is exactly my understanding.

https://nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-fiction-about-nobody/

It's also a good description of why I feel so confused by others.
People tend to feel more secure (than I do) in their identities as individuals, group members, and (neurotypical / neurodefault / neurorigid) humans.

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Fiction About Nobody

Nebula

"Asked by the Club of Rome to show how major global problems — poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, resource depletion, urban deterioration, unemployment — are related and how they might be solved,

[Jay] Forrester made a computer model and came out with a clear leverage point: Growth."

#DonellaMeadows,

https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system

(1/3)

#SystemsAnalysis #JayForrester #ClubOfRome #growth #DeGrowth

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

The Academy for Systems Change

This time around, on Further Tales from the Third Lobe:

How Do You Know When Ol’ Great-Auntie Effie Is Dead?

A necromancer's expert view of that fuzzy border between life and death and the esoteric flows of … cold hard cash?

https://thofk.substack.com/p/how-do-you-know

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How Do You Know When Ol’ Great-Auntie Effie Is Dead?

A necromancer's expert view of that fuzzy border between life and death and the esoteric flows of … cold hard cash?

The House of Forbidden Knowledge

Computer programmers, eh?

They decide that the best time to process a batch job is at 02:00, and so the poor people of #Swanage get to learn about something happening at 08:00 only if they are insomniacs.

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