With the release of General Systems Yearbook 2023, a full-text, read-only version of "Appreciating Systems Changes via Multiparadigm Inquiry", SRBS v40 n5 is available for colleagues of the author on Article Share
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/YEVWGPGURZ5IVE7AWQRM?target=10.1002/sres.2973
https://coevolving.com/commons/2023-09-appreciating-systems-changes-via-multiparadigm-inquiry-srbs
Lesson #3: Proportional representation weakens democracy by making it harder to middle common ground within parties and creating opportunities for niche parties to become extremist in a bid to earn profile. Thank God #Canada does not have proportional representation
Lesson #2: the lifestory of the leader does not guarantee commitment to democratic principles. Yes, the VVD leader is a former refugee with a Turkish name, but she shunned immigrants and turned her back on principles of inclusion and pluralism that define 21st century democracy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/23/dilan-yesilgoz-zegerius-former-refugee-wants-cut-immigration-first-female-dutch-pm
Lesson #1 from the Dutch election: When a centre-right party signals openness to the far-right party, voters choose the far-right party instead. The ruling VVD lost power after signalling their openness to coalition with the notorious racist Geert Wilders. The Dutch have shown that racist voters want racist leaders, not big-tent centrists.
Web video on #HistoricalSynthesis with #DrMichaelBonner and #ZaidKhan for #SystemsThinking Ontario. Learning about the present by sweeping in the past, including the rise and fall of the Second Persian Empire circa 7th century.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/historical-synthesis/
Think the first step in #SystemsThinking is defining the boundary? If the systems sciences are an open system, then learning involves the sweeping-in process. Excerpt from #CWestChurchman (1982) _Thought and Wisdom_.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-sweep-in-process-of-systems-science-churchman/
For the @RSDSymposium in October, an "Explaining Systems Changes Learning: Methods & Translations", an in-person workshop was conducted in Toronto. Interested in joining in our rhythm of triweekly meetings?
Slides at https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/explaining-systems-changes-learning-rsd12/
#SystemsThinking #SystemsChange
Web video of #JudithRosen on Anticipatory Systems, Evolution, and Extinction Cascades, extending mathematical biologist #RobertRosen at #SystemsThinking Ontario
An article related to #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences 2022 plenary on Systems Changes has been published on earlyview.
Appreciating systems changes via multiparadigm inquiry: Architectural design, ecological anthropology, Classical Chinese Medicine and systems rhythms
Algorithms enable online platforms to shape the world we see.
> The fairness or unfairness of the algorithmic systems by which platforms allocate user attention affect not only users but an entire ecosystem of third-party suppliers
O’Reilly, T., Strauss, I. and Mazzucato, M. (2023). Algorithmic Attention Rents: A theory of digital platform market power. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2023-10).
Via @timoreilly
https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1720129200622023153
Do we know the value of our user-generated content?
> Big Tech firms operate multi-sided platforms in which the ‘free’ user side is largely exempt from disclosures, since the user side is often ‘monetized’ only indirectly through advertising.
O'Reilly, T., Strauss, I. and Mazzucato, M (2023). Regulating Big Tech through digital disclosures. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief No.26.
Via @timoreilly
https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/1669359724192727044
Heard just now on the BBC Newscast podcast:
“I'll challenge you at the BBC, why don't you guys make a news app like Twitter where all your reporters just post? I would sign up for that in a minute, and I would pay $5 a month for it.”
Yes BBC, why don't you get your reporters on your existing social.bbc domain? It's right there and more badly needed than ever. Be the leaders you know you can be.
https://pca.st/episode/98933ce6-07a4-4a98-b639-32631aae3e19?t=748
*Mosquitoes are thousands of times more dangerous to human life than wolves or sharks
*Also, they really like climate change
https://www.politico.eu/article/who-chief-scientist-warns-of-endemic-dengue-in-europe-us/
Ads now in a Amazon Prime Video? is this #enshitification ?
Started watching Meercat Manor (narated soap opera with meercats), and a couple of times in 20 minutes up come ads you can not fast forward through.
:(. 💩
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned https://news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-aesthetics-2380960
Web video of #SystemsThinking Ontario session revisiting a 1998 research article, #MuhammadBadrah reviewer, #KellyOkamura discussant, #DavidHawk author. Entropy less about physics, more on behavior in social environments.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sustainable-technology-entropy-argument/
In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.
#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open
Problem 2️⃣ : Car bloat worsens climate change
Heavier cars require more energy to move, which makes them guzzle gas.
When electrified, their huge batteries are so inefficient that the biggest models generate more pollution that some gas-powered sedans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90854942/the-blatant-greenwashing-of-suvs
Reporting on research-in-progress on Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking tracing history of #pragmatism of #EricTrist + #FredEEmery & #WestChurchman + #RussellAckoff.
Web video with #GarySMetcalf after #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences meeting
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sciencing-philosophizing-st-on-2023-07-10/
Philosophical criticism of RfPs by #CWestChurchman (one of the luminaries of #SystemsThinking).
> All planning begins with a problem; however, it should not be confined to the problem statement. Also, the beginning should not be a clear problem formulation, but rather should be an utterance of moral outrage. John Dewey once said that problems arise from felt needs; however, that is much too mild a statement. One very sad aspect of a great deal of planning research is that the roots of the Request-for-Proposals are cut off at the very start; no wonder the plant withers and dies as proposals, interim, and final reports are written.
Churchman, C. West. 1984. “Thought and Wisdom.” In _Rethinking the Process of Operational Research & Systems Analysis_, edited by Rolfe Tomlinson and Istvan Kiss, 67–77. Frontiers of Operational FORS. Amsterdam: Pergamon. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-030830-2.50010-6.
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.