David Ing @daviding@qoto.org
- Coevolving Innovations
- https://coevolving.com/blogs/
- Distractions, Reflections
- https://daviding.com/blog/
- David Ing. In brief
- https://ingbrief.wordpress.com
- Systems Community of Inquiry
- http://stream.syscoi.com
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.
Joined Oct 2018
Any country concerned about population decline could learn from Finland on policies encouraging infertile mothers, balancing personal and societal concerns.
> In Finland – where women first gained suffrage, where a woman is now Prime Minister – it is illegal to pay egg donors more than a basic €250 compensation for temporary discomfort (plus the basic daily allowance and kilometre allowance for transportation).
> Women in Finland donate for various reasons, but a scramble to pay bills is not one of them. Recipients do not pick their donor but are matched by doctors on basic biological criteria (donor height and her skin, eye and hair colour). At an average private clinic in Finland, one round of egg donation IVF treatment costs around €7,000, excluding medication.
> ... I became pregnant with a donor egg from a Finnish clinic. I have since left Finland to resume my university position in the United States
#HeidiMorrison | "I finally got pregnant in Finland - a country that hasn’t commodified infertility" | Dec. 12, 2022 | Globe & Mail (paywall) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-i-finally-got-pregnant-in-finland-a-country-that-hasnt-commodified/
"An Extended Stay" | September 27, 2022 | UW Lacrosse at https://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/an-extended-stay/
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Climate change likely to reduce the amount of sleep that people get per year.
Investigators now report that increasing ambient temperatures negatively impact human sleep around the globe.
#climate #climatechange
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220520132837.htm
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@SFuntowicz reminds me of TFH Allen et al's paper
Dragnet Ecology—“Just the Facts, Ma'am”: The Privilege of Science in a Postmodern World
https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0475:DEJTFM]2.0.CO;2
where they quote Cronon
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RT @EcologySociety1@twitter.com
NEW PAPER: Using the Panarchy framework, three propositions were identified to improve our understanding of how inequalities influence the reorganization of social-ecological systems after disasters.
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art10/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EcologySociety1/status/1589700536366149632
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In wanting to bring more content over here, I thought I might as well share a recent post on slides:
"Stop asking for slides in advance"
https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2022/10/31/stop-asking-for-slides-in-advance/
It seems as though this struck a chord with lots of folks. What are your thoughts? (reposting with article title, thanks @danbri)
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Taking the historical perspective, here's the gas price relative to wages, which is higher than 2014-2020, but not in a longer-term view 2/
While institutions are incorporated to live beyond the lifetime of a single human being, perhaps fulfilling its mission can lead to a conclusion that the best course is to wind itself down. Courage at the #IveyFoundation , led by #BruceLourie
> One of Canada’s largest and oldest philanthropic organizations has decided to wind down and distribute its entire endowment – $100-million – to expedite efforts to align the economy with net-zero emission targets.
> The Ivey Foundation has determined that the need to transform industrial policies to meet climate goals is too acute to keep funding projects at its current rate, said Bruce Lourie, the foundation’s chief executive officer. The money will be dispersed to its slate of economic and environmental partner organizations over the next five years.
> Dr. Lourie said slashing carbon emissions by 40 per cent to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and getting to net zero by 2050, as per Ottawa’s international commitments, are only getting tougher to achieve. [....]
> From the foundation’s perspective, the two biggest risks facing the country are failing to adequately deal with climate change and missing related economic opportunities, such as electric vehicle and battery manufacturing and transforming the power grid, as other countries establish dominance in those areas. “So, in our philanthropic work, we’re really trying to integrate those two things – Canada’s competitiveness and prosperousness, together with the need to address our emissions,” Dr. Lourie said.
"Ivey Foundation will distribute $100-million endowment to causes aimed at accelerating progress on climate change" | Jeffrey Jones | Globe & Mail | 2021-11-29 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ivey-foundation-endowment-climate-change/
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🆕 blog! “A small bug in Canada's eTA emails”
There's no way that I could find to report this to the Canadian Government - and I didn't fancy trying to raise a bug report with the first Mountie I met - so here's a blog post. As part of Canada's Electronic Travel Authorisation system, prospective visitors to the country get sent emails. The email […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/a-small-bug-in-canadas-eta-emails/
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#canada #NaBloPoMo #security
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@daviding referred me to check out Mastodon. He did the same thing in 2009 with Twitter and other social media channels. Usually takes some time to learn, to connect and figure out potential benefits - Now it's time to test this one.
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Her genes were a mixture from four egg and sperm cells instead of the normal two. Her genetics derive from two separately fertilized eggs that fused early when her mother was pregnant with her.
whoaaa
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RT @molly0xFFF@twitter.com
SUCH a cool experiment out of @HarvardLIL@twitter.com: https://archive.social/
Allows you to capture a thread from Twitter and archive it in sealed PDFs to attest to legitimacy.
Could be enormously useful to journalists, archivists, etc, particularly with Twitter facing a perilous future. https://t.co/hKTwaMJWBI
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1594810327631274007
Reassured that qoto.org is on the Wayback Machine @internetarchive .
Researching #Contextualism, online archive of "#RootMetaphor: The Live Thought of #StephenCPepper" from Paunch 1980 magazine is helpful. Philosopher of aesthetics a follower of #JohnDewey, contemporary of #KurtLewin, senior to #ThomasKuhn, #EricTrist
https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/root-metaphor-the-live-thought-of-stephen-c-pepper-1980/ #SystemsThinking
#Autopoiesis, as coined by #HumbertoMaturana, is in the #Contextualist #RootMetaphor of #StephenCPepper, rather than the organismic root metaphor, say #HowardMancing and #JenniferMarstonWilliam #PurdueLibArts
As much as #JudithRosen channels the work of her father, #RobertRosen, the long conversations on #AnticipatorySystems she used to have with him have led to #SystemsThinking ideas that are probably officially unpublished by him, and should be credited to Judith herself.
> I have come to view the consciously aware mind, as experienced by human beings, as a second Anticipatory System which has evolved within and emerged from the living physiology of the human soma. The reason I see the mind as a second Anticipatory System is because there is overwhelming evidence that the human mind has an encoded model for “Self” and for “Health (of Self)” which are independent of the somatic values, as well as its own optimality scale for evaluating sensory information.
> The models for “Self” carried by the mind and the body are independent of one another. This means that they may not match and when they do not, then dysfunction ensues. I consider Gender Dysphoria to be an example of exactly this situation.
"Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems Theory: The Science of Life and Mind" | 2022 at https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/22/4172
A fork of Mastodon is Fedibird, with features more like Twitter. https://github.com/fedibird/mastodon
The lead developer is @noellabo .
The Fedibird site looks to prefer Japanese writers. https://fedibird.com/explore
If anyone knows of English language Fedibird instances, perhaps we could help others to find them.
> Where retweets carry the veneer of an endorsement, a quote tweet can do so much more—particularly given that Twitter, in its infinite generosity, engineered the format so that the quoted tweet doesn’t count toward the character limit. The result is that you can go long above whatever you don’t like. But it’s often the short tweets that contribute the least.
... wrote #ClaireMcNear
https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/2/17311616/twitter-retweet-quote-endorsement-function-trolls
Refugees from birdsite missing QT Quote Tweet might reflect on conscious design decisions made in Mastodon core, that could be modified in a specific instance. This means that if a poster REALLY wants QT, he or she has the option to move to an instance where that is supported.
Original 2018 Design Decision at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/#design-decisions
Pointer from discussion thread from 2000 on Quote Toots https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12753
Just because birdsite declares a unitary design approach doesn't mean that Mastodon developers haven't thought about a feature.
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I _think_ I've set it up so that @ sacha @ sachachua.com (all together) finds me here. Useful: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html and https://willnorris.com/2014/07/webfinger-with-static-files-nginx/ (thanks, @maartenballiauw !)
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My latest post - The Phenomenology of Informationally Closed Beings
#Heidegger #Cybernetics
https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/the-phenomenology-of-informationally-closed-beings/
- Coevolving Innovations
- https://coevolving.com/blogs/
- Distractions, Reflections
- https://daviding.com/blog/
- David Ing. In brief
- https://ingbrief.wordpress.com
- Systems Community of Inquiry
- http://stream.syscoi.com
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.
Joined Oct 2018
