#representation

#Representation in media matters. The more minorities are presented in media, the more they feel seen. For #NeurodiverityCelebrationWeek, I want to recognise #StarWars for having a character with #ADHD in 1977. R5-D4 was bought by Luke’s Uncle, but as the droid rolled to its new owners, it ground to a halt with smoke pouring from its top. Luke examines the droid, saying "This R2 unit has a bad motivator." If there's ever a description of ADHD, it's having a bad motivator! #RepresentationMatters

REPRESENT

#GavinNewsom #CEO #DirectConnect #Fascism #ClassWar #CommonSuffering #Billionaires #Government #Representation

https://www.europesays.com/1925772/ ​ Le Bondy Blog : 20 ans de journalisme dans les quartiers • FRANCE 24 #ActualitéFrançaise #ActualitésFrançaises #ActualitésFrance #biais #cliches #Discrimination #france #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24Français #FranceNews #france24 #FRANCE24Français #FrenchNews #invisibilisation #Journalisme #L'actualitéFrançaise #médias #narration #NewsFrance #Pas2Quartier #quartiers #représentation #SemaineDeLaPresse #stigmatisation

What moves me most in Word of Honor is how Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing gradually change each other.
https://buff.ly/14E1LUB

#LGBTQ #Queer #QueerFilm #China #WordofHonor #Representation

Guest article by Yervant Kulbashian (Engineering Manager, #AI #platform „The green swan“ - Part 1

The focus of our interesting exchange, which we later continued in our "Zoomposium panel", was mainly on the #subject-#object #concept" for #machine #consciousness" and the possibilities of a #symbolic #representation or implementation of #human #language on #machines and the #logical #problems arising in this #context.

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/02/der-gruene-schwan-1/

Guest article by Yervant Kulbashian (Engineering Manager, #AI #platform „The green swan“ - Part 1

The focus of our interesting exchange, which we later continued in our "Zoomposium panel", was mainly on the #subject-#object #concept" for #machine #consciousness" and the possibilities of a #symbolic #representation or implementation of #human #language on #machines and the #logical #problems arising in this #context.

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/02/der-gruene-schwan-1/

One day, one decomposition
A198772: Numbers having exactly one representation by the quadratic form x^2 + xy + y^2 with 0 <= x <= y

3D graph, threejs - webGL https://decompwlj.com/3Dgraph/A198772.html
2D graph, first 500 terms https://decompwlj.com/2Dgraph500terms/A198772.html

#decompwlj #math #mathematics #sequence #OEIS #javascript #php #3D #numbers #representation #quadratic #graph #threejs #webGL

Guest article by Yervant Kulbashian (Engineering Manager, #AI #platform „The green swan“ - Part 1

The focus of our interesting exchange, which we later continued in our "Zoomposium panel", was mainly on the #subject-#object #concept" for #machine #consciousness" and the possibilities of a #symbolic #representation or implementation of #human #language on #machines and the #logical #problems arising in this #context.

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/02/der-gruene-schwan-1/

@VoltHessen #representation #ProportionalRepressentation

I think all kinds of #people all types, catagories, #person|s, layers of #society should be repesented in some way in elected positions, just by regonition and feel of being heared alone.

I also think that the age of when you may vote should be lowered, because those in power thán have to care about more of society, which is good because the more complex democracy is, the more difficult it is to be an autocracy

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/

Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/

❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞

🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/24/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-4-b/

Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio
• https://groups.google.com/g/ontolog-forum/c/Ek_7cCCyFkQ/m/qI0kQv4UAgAJ

JA: What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

PDM: The short answer is — the force behind all distortions is our own unenlightened mind, and all the shortfalls this comes with.

I think that's true, we have to keep reflecting on the state of our personal enlightenments. If we can do that without losing our heads and our systems thinking caps, there will be much we can do to promote the general Enlightenment of the State.

On both personal and general grounds we have a stake in the projects of self‑governing systems — whether it is possible for them to exist and what it takes for them to thrive in given environments. Systems on that order have of course been studied from many points of view and at many levels of organization. Whether we address them under the names of adaptive, cybernetic, error-correcting, intelligent, or optimal control systems they all must be capable to some degree of learning, reasoning, and self‑guidance.

Resources —

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/

Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

For years, I didn’t have the words to describe what I felt. Media didn’t give them to me — so I had to find them myself.
I grew up in a world where trans people were either punchlines or villains — and that shaped my silence for decades.
https://buff.ly/3XdIfk4

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Representation #Identity

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/

Scene 2. Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/

Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error-controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.

That brings us to Question 2 —

• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

Resources ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/

Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology. In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance. Its time come round again, I find myself returning to the scenes of two recurring questions.

Scene 1. Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/14/pragmatic-truth-discussion-18/

We do not live in axiom systems. We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural. There is no reason to think we will ever have exact and exhaustive theories of what's out there, and the truth, as we know, is “out there”. Peirce understood there are more truths in mathematics than are dreamt of in logic — and Gödel’s realism should have put the last nail in the coffin of logicism — but some ways of thinking just never get a clue.

That brings us to Question 1 —

• What are formalisms and all their embodiments in brains and computers good for?

Resources ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-2-b/

In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways. Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what spheres of influence they inhabit, private or public. The only way you get a choice in that governance is if there are paths of feedback permitting you to affect the life of those decision makers and action takers in significant ways. That is what accountability, response-ability, and representative government are all about.

Naturally, some people are against that.

In the United States there has been a concerted campaign for as long as I can remember — but even more concerted since the Reagan Regime — to get the People to abdicate their hold on The Powers That Be and just let some anonymous corporate entity send us the bill after the fact. They keep trying to con the People into thinking they can starve the beast, to limit government, when what they are really doing is feeding the beast of corporate control, weakening their own power over the forces that govern their lives.

That is the road to perdition as far as responsible government goes. There is not much of anything one leader or one administration can do unsupported if the People do not constantly demand a government of, by, and for the People.

Resource ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

January 2025
# 14

DUAS VEZES JOÃO LIBERADA (TWO TIMES JOÃO LIBERADA)
dir Paula Tomás Marques, 2024

Twice told tales.

#Berlinale75 #queercinema #history #representation #history #socialhistory

Had a chuckle while cooking lunch today that I would like to share with y'all.

For context, I'm following a HelloFresh recipe for peanut stew. Watch the hands, and ask yourself: "Is the rice White enough?"

I assume that #HelloFresh uses a stock image for "cook the rice" but I'm also amused that this was the result.

#cooking #accidentalracism #blacklivesmatter #representation #Africancuisine #PeanutStew

Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/

❝Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors?❞

─ Plato • Alcibiades 135 A

Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error‑controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.

The question for our time is —

• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?

Repercussions ─

The Place Where Three Wars Meet
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/

Resource ─

Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention

Certainly feels this way.

#marx #oppression #representation #elections #voting

A quotation from John Adams

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents and trustees for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust is insidiously betray’d, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority, that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys and trustees.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, Boston Gazette

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/74851/

#quote #quotes #quotation #authority #citizenry #election #government #people #politicalpower #power #regime #regimechange #representation #ruler