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John Mackay
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Author. Secular Ontologist. Founder of Colocracy. Challenging power, rethinking existence and building the future beyond electoral democracy. A mind that won’t sit still.
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7 things nobody tells you about stargazing (that make a huge difference)
https://www.space.com/stargazing/7-things-nobody-tells-you-about-stargazing-that-make-a-huge-difference
https://www.space.com/stargazing/7-things-nobody-tells-you-about-stargazing-that-make-a-huge-difference
What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
Three philosophers. One table. One unresolved question: can you separate 'what a thing is' from 'that a thing is'? Our Aquinas vs. CoD analysis suggests the distinction may be grammatical, not ontological. See the full comparison.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0180-thomas-aquinas.htm
#metaphysics #ontology #philosophy
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0180-thomas-aquinas.htm
#metaphysics #ontology #philosophy
👾 AI ethics is broken. Companies write their own rules. Bias audits become PR theater. Ethics teams get ignored when shipping speed matters. And beneath it all: no shared foundation for what 'ethical' even means.
This article doesn't patch cracks. It rebuilds the floor. Ethics grounded not in clashing human values but in the 'process primitive' of existence itself.
What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
@HolosSocial Is the RSA private key for the App stored in platform secure hardware (Keystore/Keychain) or in the SQLite database? Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but I couldn't find it specified in the FAQ. #Holos
What if your social media server lived on your phone, not in the cloud?
@holos does exactly that—ActivityPub, local keys, relay for uptime only. No IP leak, no surrender of custody.
This one matters.
Theistic Vedanta says: the many are real, but only in the One.
The CoD says: the One is the conference of the many.
One grounds unity as a prior substance.
The other grounds unity as an ongoing process.
Which ontology lets you watch unity happen in real time?
🔗 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0170-theistic-vedanta.htm
#Metaphysics #Philosophy #Vedanta
🌏 Climate governance: repairing broken relationality.
Why we can't manage a co-petitive climate system using competitive governance.
(The problem. The history. The praxis.)
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0720-climate-governance.htm
