Threads doesn't initially support ActivityPub open standard, and is not open source. Adding ActivityPub support doesn't preclude withdrawal later.
> Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol?
> There are comparisons to be made between Meta adopting ActivityPub for its new social media platform and Meta adopting XMPP for its Messenger service a decade ago. There was a time when users of Facebook and users of Google Talk were able to chat with each other and with people from self-hosted XMPP servers, before each platform was locked down into the silos we know today. What would stop that from repeating? Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
The I Ching (Yi Jing) based in Chinese philosophy might be a more systemic approach, in contrast to the more systematic approach based in Western rationalism, says #CWestChurchman via #DeboraHammond.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/c-west-churchman-on-the-i-ching/
July 10: Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking
Extending a presentation from the 67th Annual Meeting of the #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences, #GarySMetcalf and @daviding are jointly exploring how #systemschange may be approached differently via the philosophical history of American #pragmatism, and post-colonial (contextural-dyadic) thinking.
See the full abstract and presentation at https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-07-10
Preregister at https://sciencing-philosophizing.eventbrite.ca
Web video recording on #SystemsThinking Selected Readings (1969) edited by #FredEEmery, with personal history of science by #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-1969-hawk-pourdehnad/
Book excerpts at https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/systems-thinking-1969/view/systems-thinking-selected-readings-penguin-1969
Systems Thinking Ontario https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
What have we learned or forgotten since #SystemsThinking (1969) Penguin reader 18 chapters, edited by #FredEEmery?
Join #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad online on June 12 6:30pm ET for reflection and discussions.
https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
https://st1969.eventbrite.ca
https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc
Web video on "The Sustainable Development Goals: Origins, Context, and Perspectives" with Ned #NenadRava from @UN @JointSDGFund in discussion with #SystemsThinking Ontario.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sdgs-origins-context-perspectives-st-on-2023-05-08/
> Leading #TVO Today’s Asian Heritage Month lineup for May 2023, TVO Original Big Fight in Little Chinatown premieres on TVO, TVO Today, YouTube and smart TV services on Tuesday, May 9 at 9 pm ET.
Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor #FredEEmery that I hadn't previously appreciated.
The "doable dozen" is a phrase that #BjornLomborg picked up from #JordanPeterson on the April 3 interview. The list is now more complete at Halftime for the Sustainable Development Goals microsite at https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/halftime
> The 12 best policies to scale up, that our experts have identified, cover a wide range of areas: tuberculosis, education, maternal and newborn health, agricultural research and development, malaria, e-procurement, nutrition, land tenure security, chronic diseases, trade, child immunization and skilled migration.
> The benefit of these 12 best policies can really only be described as momentous. It will save 4.2 million lives each year and generate $1.1 trillion in additional economic benefits each and every year for the developing world.
A series of articles by #BjornLomborg with leading media outlets has been lined up. This article in Forbes sets a direction.
> But in 2015, when the world replaced the #MDGs [#MillenniumDevelopmentGoals], things went wrong. World leaders could again have chosen to focus on a few, crucial targets. They could even have kept the same targets, since they are so important to the world’s most vulnerable people. We could have focused on pinpointing where the needs are deepest and the opportunities are greatest.
> Instead, the #UnitedNations and world leaders came up with a hodge-podge, absurdly long list of 169 targets for the world to achieve from 2015-2030: the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals.
A new book by #BjornLomborg is coming out, #BestThingsFirst. I listened to the 2-hour interview by #JordanPeterson released on April 3 (as usual, while on my bike and driving). The timing seems related to the upcoming #UnitedNations meeting in October, where we are at the midpoint of the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #SDGs, and failing.
Here's a text summary of the interview. The list of 12 proposed initiatives isn't given as straightforward, but the idea that we might succeed on some things rather than failing on everything is likely to be appealing to many.
Dave Snowden and Mike Jackson http://dlvr.it/SlQdKQ
Greater appreciation of #SystemsThinking contextual-dyadic thinking of #KeekokLee, with
anatomy as structure / physiology as function (and process);
process ontology / thing ontology;
qi ju as qi-in-concentrating mode / qi san as qi-in-dissipating mode
https://daviding.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/2021-06-17-keekok-lee-philosophy-of-chinese-medicine-2/
On individual versus collective advancement, via @timoreilly :
> I remember once I was working on our property in Sebastopol where I used to live, and I had this landscape architect who came in to help us.
> And she said, “Everybody always wants to put their nice new thing where it’s already beautiful.” She said, “No, you want to put your nice new thing in the worst part of your property, so you will make it better.” And I thought that was really good advice.
"Building a Better Future: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly" | May 5, 2021 at https://codeforamerica.org/news/building-a-better-future-a-conversation-with-tim-oreilly/
Greater depth into the #SystemsChanges Learning foundations may be gained from the work on the philosophy of science underlying #ClassicalChineseMedicine, by #KeekokLee. Highlights from this 2021 lecture are digested for easier indexing. For those not immersed in pinyin (Romanized Chinese spelling), the text may or may not be less confusing than the verbal presentation.
https://daviding.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/2021-06-16-keekok-lee-philosophy-of-chinese-medicine-1/
Web video of open access book launch #Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the #SDGs #KaitlinKish #StephenQuilley #SophiaSanniti @KatyGwiazdon
#SystemsThinking Ontario, #Sustainability #Development Goals
Instead of #SustainableDevelopmentGoals, #KaitlinKish #StephenQulley say #EcologicalLivelihoodGoals.
"informal processes of exchange, familial care, place-bound community, mutual aid, and reciprocation –which we designate as _Livelihood_"
Open access book for March 13 https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-03-13
From the debate between Michael Quinn Patton and Michael C. Jackson OBE on "Systems Concepts in Evaluation" on 2023-02-27, I've digested into text the few minutes with the largest contention.
Peer-reviewed article on #SystemsChanges Learning 2019-2022 published in special issue of J. #Systemics #Cybernetics & #Informatics, on "#Sustainable, Smart and #SystemicDesign #PostAnthropocene" edited by #MarieDavidova #SusuNousala #ThomasJMarlowe
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-changes-learning-recasting-reifying-jsci/
Truthiness was coined by Stephen Colbert in 2005, and became legitimated as an entry in a dictionary by 2010.
> ... _truth_ just wasn’t “dumb enough.” “I wanted a silly word that would feel wrong in your mouth,” he said.
> What he was driving at wasn’t _truth_ anyway, but a mere approximation of it — something _truthish_ or _truthy_, unburdened by the factual. And so, in a flash of inspiration, _truthiness_, was born. [....]
> Five years later, _truthiness_ has proved to be no _bushlips_. It has even entered the latest edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary, published earlier this year, with Colbert explicitly credited in the etymology.
"Truthiness" | Ben Zimmer | The New York Times Magazine | October 13, 2010, cached at https://archive.is/lkEMX , original at https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17FOB-onlanguage-t.html
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.