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I learned from a WP article (see alt text) that Norbert #Wiener was involved in the political discussion of mitigating the effects of the technological revolution which industrial and administrative #automation brought about.

The 2019 edition of #Cybernetics is freely available form MIT press (URL in alt text).

It's related to my work regarding the boundaries of a system A that objectivizes a system B that it intents to control, the problem of #grounding, #semantics and #classes. #ai is old.

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#JosiahRoyce was one of #NorbertWiener's teachers. To me it appears plausible that the Roycean take on #sociology and the #individual had an impact on Wiener's #cybernetics

iep.utm.edu/roycejos/ #philosophy

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Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe | Alexander Hurst

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

> From emissions to road deaths, the trend for ever-bigger SUVs is a disaster. We need regulation to turn the car industry back to smaller vehicles

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I wonder how many eye doctors are getting an uptick in "night vision problems," a thing that is actually because some asshole engineer decided headlights should be blue now.

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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/

coevolving.com/commons/2023-09

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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

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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 theguardian.com/world/2023/sep

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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 with and for Ontario. Learning about the present by sweeping in the past, including the rise and fall of the Second Persian Empire circa 7th century.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

Think the first step in is defining the boundary? If the systems sciences are an open system, then learning involves the sweeping-in process. Excerpt from (1982) _Thought and Wisdom_.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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 coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

An article related to 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

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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).

ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purp

Via @timoreilly
twitter.com/timoreilly/status/

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.

ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purp

Via @timoreilly
twitter.com/timoreilly/status/

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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.

pca.st/episode/98933ce6-07a4-4

cc @BBC_News_Labs @BBCRD @BBCRadio4 @evan

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*Mosquitoes are thousands of times more dangerous to human life than wolves or sharks

*Also, they really like climate change

politico.eu/article/who-chief-

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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.

:(. 💩

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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 news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-

Web video of Ontario session revisiting a 1998 research article, reviewer, discussant, author. Entropy less about physics, more on behavior in social environments.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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