Radio Paradise is having a party and you are invited:
New Year’s Eve VR Live Stream
https://radioparadise.com/blog/new-years-eve-vr-livestream
I believe none of the stated reasons for revisiting “#Darwin’sDangerousIdea” in this most-read Guardian article of 2022 will have any effect on how “#ModernSynthesis” explains #Evolution.
For example:
1️⃣ “The study of the way organisms alter their environment in order to reduce the normal pressure of natural selection – think of beavers building dams” only shows that #NaturalSelection favors beavers genetically programmed to build better dams.
2️⃣ “The Senegal bichir adapting to land in a single generation” and dung beetles growing larger wings in cold weather only show the co-producing relationship between nature and nurture and the known fact that the same set of genes (genotype) will produce slightly different phenotypes in different environments. It surely does not explain speciation.
and lastly
3️⃣ I really don’t see the difference between passing to the next generation randomly as opposed to artificially induced mutations. Natural selection will “weed out” one and the other the same way.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution
I mostly use the browser version with Opera and couldn't find the option in the settings but I found it in the Tusky app I use on my Android phone. Go figure 🙄
Anyways, this was a nice exercise and I learned quite a few things. Thanks for the help.
I have the feeling that the option does not apply to replies. Just to original toots.
Found it.
Thanks. I think mine was already set to "Public".
Thanks, I didn't know that's an option. So, if I understand correctly, it is up to the (reply) author to decide if they want their comments to be visible to others, right?
I don't want either to read through all the responses in every thread on the local and federated timelines, but would like it if the people who follow me had the opportunity (if they want) to see and if they feel like it, voice their opinion in threads they were not involved in from the beginning.
Where can I change the default settings for my responses to other than "unlisted"?
Just listening on
https://radioparadise.com/home
Beautifully weird
I see there is a "Show replies" in the settings but it doesn't seem to work.
I see only toots that are boosted. Anyone?
I'm less interested in toots people I follow have boosted than I'm interested in some of their replies to other threads that I can find only if I go and check their profiles one by one. Is there a switch for fine tuning what appears in the timeline?
I would say YES because anything can be used either for good or for evil. Here is an interesting article that argues the opposite. Not sure how successfully though:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0162243919900965
"The Many Faces of #Resilience"
by Ted G. Lewis. Very interesting article about #Complexity, Self-Organizing Criticality (#SOC), and preventing #CascadingFailures
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267957-the-many-faces-of-resilience/fulltext
Mobs behave nothing like flocks of birds as this article would like you to believe. Even the author had to admit it at the end of the article.
#Murmuration is the result of birds blindly following a few simple #rules without any #leader, obvious #target, or "higher" #purpose, much like in #JConway's "#GameOfLife".
On the other side, there is nothing "spontaneous" in mobs. You can always identify the lead instigator, the target and it is pretty obvious what they want.
https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/
@skyblond
You can also "see the whole music" (score, record) like you can see films, or you can listen to individual tones or sequences like you would watch a film frame.
What I think you are talking about is the difference between the *rate-independent* #production of their #structure(s) and the rate-dependcy of their #reproduction #process.
Producing a film, music piece or SW prgram can go on for months, be interupted and resumed at will, but its reproduction, to make any sense, must be uninterrupted and at a specific rate.
The world works on #difference and #change, both structural and/or temporal.
"Users flocking to the platform will need to shift their expectations for social media and become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their networks."
https://www.noemamag.com/mastodon-isnt-just-a-replacement-for-twitter/
You have, for example, reporters like this, writing in journals that should know better, about "disruptive" innovation and the "Tesla syndrome" while glorifying Edison's "business acuity" and "hard work":
"Both were keen to promote themselves as singular men of invention, uniquely gifted and fitted for innovation. But where Tesla and his promoters showed him off as a man apart, living inside his own head and obsessed with invention, Edison’s story was of the self-made man, pursuing — and achieving — his inventions through sheer grit and determination (1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, as he famously suggested). Here was the business inventor, grounded in the world of commerce rather than forever dreaming about the stars."🙄
https://www.noemamag.com/the-resurgence-of-tesla-syndrome/
Most people will be scared by unconventional individuals that are venturing into the #exploration of the unknown. They are much more comfortable with people concerned with the #exploitation of known, already established ideas, not understanding that both "disruptive" exploration and exploitation "grit" are necessary for a sane society.
In other words, the #Subject is just another #Object able to #Observe and think about other objects.
In medieval Scholasticism, the term '#subject' was used for that which stood apart, like in the way it is still present today when we say that a patient is a 'subject' of (subjected to) surgery. An '#object' was not a thing but rather correlated to a knowing being as the "intentional object" existing only in their mind's #awareness.
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/374/subject-and-object-a-micro-history
#Constructivism along with 2nd order Cybernetics are trying to "right the wrong" introduced by Kant and return to the original meaning by making the #subject (observer) the #object of inquiry.
"This month alone, one such approach revealed an unexpected link between memory formation and metabolic regulation."
No way ... you are kidding me, get outta here ...
You have to be alive in order to think?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mental-phenomena-dont-map-into-the-brain-as-expected-20210824/
#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") - was the first to state that everything starts with "#atoms", in a "#BottomUp #Causation.
#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') - starts with the bottom-up association and decision of free individuals.
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ