Mark Upton

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me on social.coop - https://social.coop/@marku

Regarding #ToolsForThought, I'm particularly interested in discussing & co-creating tools, platforms and protocols that are informed by 4E Cognition and/or Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

...perhaps leading to #ToolsForActionLearning 🤔

Given that framing, currently working on the #WayFinderPlatform -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwM2bd0lumM

Current Focushttps://wayfinders.network
co-directorhttp://myfastestmile.com
Mark UptonFeb 6, 2023

Digital Campfires & Story Networks

A look at how access permissions work in #StoryKeeper - elegant simplicity or complicated mess!? 🤔

https://wayfinders.network/blog/campfires-story-networks/

#WayFinderPlatform #Sensemaking #Multiplayer #ToolsForThought

Digital Campfires & Story Networks

Stackbit Components Library

Mark UptonFeb 2, 2023
Eli PariserJan 31, 2023
This deck on AI Snake Oil from @randomwalker is a few years old but remains *excellent.* One of my takeaways, which I find generally hopeful: People and social situations are just way less predictable than we might think! https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf
Mark UptonJan 28, 2023
Daniel BinghamJan 27, 2023

The Peer Review beta is now live. Peer Review is an open access, open source academic publishing platform. It allows for crowdsourced reviews of academic papers using a Github/Google docs like interface and a StackExchange like reputation system.

Check it out!

https://peer-review.io

Peer Review (beta) - A Universal PrePrint+ Platform

Peer Review is an experimental scholarly publishing platform. It enables crowdsourced peer review and public dissemination of scientific and academic papers. It is open source and diamond open access.

Mark UptonJan 21, 2023
Matt WebbJan 13, 2023

I'm looking for new projects and potentially even something long-term for 2023

Background/interests/etc all in this new blog post. Please do share with friends if you read something that would resonate with them. Thanks!

https://interconnected.org/home/2023/01/12/next

Looking for new projects or even a long-term something for 2023

Posted on Thursday 12 Jan 2023. 524 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
Mark UptonJan 20, 2023

Stuck in a socio-cultural state of "frenzied stasis"...

https://areomagazine.com/2023/01/18/the-great-reboot-in-memoriam-mark-fisher/

#FrenziedStasis

The Great Reboot: In Memoriam Mark Fisher - Areo

“We remain trapped in the twentieth century,” claimed theorist Mark Fisher. “The future has disappeared.” It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since Fisher’s suicide, at the age of…View Post

Areo
Mark UptonJan 19, 2023

Exploring the types of content you might find on a WayFinder Canvas...

https://wayfinders.network/blog/exploring-wayfinder-canvas/

The distinctive content icons and easy filtering can assist in surfacing group/community dynamics such as:
- lots of talk, but little action and experimentation
- lack of safety to share authentic personal stories (which are important for growing relational quality)

#WayFindersNetwork #WayFinderPlatform #StoryKeeper #ToolsForThought #Sensemaking #Multiplayer #SpatialCanvas

Exploring a WayFinder Canvas

Stackbit Components Library

Show threadMark UptonJan 15, 2023

"Networked technology that mediates so much of our lives is social engineering — which is to say that deciding how it works is politics. If we want any hope for these politics to result in a world worth wanting, we need to build our Internet according to sound institutional principles."

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Show threadMark UptonJan 15, 2023
"we need transnational topic-specific governance systems that interact with one another wherever they connect and overlap but that do not control one another, and that exercise subsidiarity to one another as well as to more local institutions. Yes, it will be a glorious mess — a Cambrian mess — but we will be collectively smarter for it."
Show threadMark UptonJan 15, 2023
"If complex systems are inherently unpredictable and if the right institutions for a planetary civilisation aren’t governable from the top, how can we build governance for the ungovernable? It takes a blend of understanding the principles we aim for, of having a decent intuition for where we want to go, and of concrete action on specific issues in specific arenas addressed to match these principles and intuition."
Show threadMark UptonJan 15, 2023
"Polycentric governance involves similarly overlapping and intersecting institutions that act independently from one another, typically with local knowledge (essentially “using the world as its own model,” which contrasts with bureaucratic legibility), and interact in ways that are typically more robust and (empirically) more effective."