Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.
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A review of decentralized social media ecosystems published by Twitter's bluesky team on the 21st January 2021
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve got a real thing about portable social networks. And I’m not the only one. At a recent meetup in San Francisco a bunch of the Web’s finest minds got together to tackle this issue. You can track the progress (and contribute) on the microformats wiki.
The Web is about distribution, not centralisation.
Even if this proposal goes through, XSLT could still be used server-side. You could use libraries that support XSLT versions more recent than 1.0, even! Thus, XML could still be turned into HTML, just not in the client via native support, though JS or WASM polyfills, or even add-on extensions, would still be an option. Is that good or bad? Like everything else in our field, the answer is “it depends”.
PDF | Purpose – To present sociocybernetic models of observers in interaction with the aim of encouraging reflection on what is good practice in human... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Tool 14 - Download here Aim of the tool Create a structural analysis of the causes and effects of an issue or problem. When to use it? Problem tree analysis is very useful in planning processes. It fits well in the Shared Language stage of MSPs. What is a Problem Tree? Problem tree analysis (also called…
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In a complex world facing many challenges, multipolar traps emerge when self-interests conflict with collective well-being, leading to detrimental outcomes. To break free, we need to prioritize collaboration, long-term thinking, and shared goals, working across sectors and nations.
When the messenger becomes part of the message, we owe it to ourselves to understand the full picture.
A Bounded Context or a team that works in it is free if changes in other Bounded Contexts do not influence its success or failure. There is, therefore, no organizational or technical link of any kind between these teams.
tl;dr: Online workshops rarely work well, and we keep on doing them because they would be too expensive/infeasible to do in-person. This is the
A free and instant virtual whiteboarding with online collaboration. No signup required. Works on all devices: mobile, tablets, and desktop.
Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106
Authenticated Transfer (AT) is a collection of protocol components
that together provide a generic framework for interoperable social
web applications, using global aggregations of interlinked, self-
certifying data records.
s a set of values or principles, a product mindset is often described as putting user-centricity at the forefront of work, with decisions and agile development being driven by an understanding of users’ needs, behaviours, and pain points. However, in reality, it’s still all too common for teams to use user-centred approaches, but without truly thinking and acting in ways that question the effect decisions have beyond their immediate delivery focus
“The absolute epitome of AI slop,” then “change AI to Research,” from Gemini Nano Banana.
A major innovation of the languages was to use RDF and XML for a basis, and to use RDF namespaces to organize and assist with the integration of arbitrarily many different and incompatible ontologies.
Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106
Chapter
7
is about feedback, circular causality, and system dynamics modeling. Circular causality due to positive or negative feedback is a major cause of complexity. When the causality between variables is not linear but...
In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the trade-offs between the cost and utility of new tools in small-scale societies.
Context: By proposing to regard objects as “tokens for eigenbehavior,” von Foerster’s seminal paper opposes the intuitive subject-object dualism of traditional philosophy, which considers objects to be instances of an external world Problem: We argue that this proposal has two implications, one for epistemology and one for the demarcation between the natural sciences and the humanities. Method: Our arguments are based on insights gained in computational models and from reviewing the contribution...
Top-down hierarchies are typically characterised by command-and-control systems of authority that often create harmful stress and internal competition for advancement within organisations. The perv...
My thesis is essentially that people lose resolution as the pool of resources under their control increases: as the pile gets bigger, they just round off at bigger orders of magnitude. When individuals are in control of vast quantities of resources, even the smartest, most well-meaning person will make what are effectively targeting errors.
Why? Because in nature, causes and effects often form circuits, not one-way streets
Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can minimize it.
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
Many coordination failures stem from misaligned problem definitions. Before debate, define what “good” looks like and who holds which pieces of information.
Historically, U.S. corporate law has not been structured or tailored to address the situation of for-profit companies that wish to pursue a social or environmental mission.[29] While corporations generally have the ability to pursue a broad range of activities, corporate decision-making is usually justified in terms of creating long-term shareholder value.
The idea that a corporation has as its purpose to maximize financial gain for its shareholders was first articulated in Dodge v. Ford Motor ...
Looking at Overleaf through the lens of the Viable System Model, as part of our regular retrospective programme for continuous improvement.
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2510.19894: The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research
Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
Each issue and key assumption is subjected to further analysis to adduce the data and warrants
Anthropology’s critical examination of its own founding conception of the human—as a being that, by its own nature, transcends nature—inevitably entailed a
Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.
Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of an overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.
Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.
Mintzberg's 5 Ps for Strategy
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
Hardly any other management concept sounds as hackneyed as strategy, and at the same time hardly any other concept in organizational science is as vaguely defined. As a means of escaping the conceptual tangle, this article suggests a systems theory-based definition which allows us to sort out the various threads of the strategy discussion. Strategy, according to this interpretation, entails programs that search for the means to achieve previously defined goals. This makes it possible to systemat...
Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
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“We have witnessed transformation too often to dismiss its possibility, and we have an obligation to that possibility.”
Context: The importance of brands has increased and structured management methods have been established. However, new proposals go beyond conventional brand management, including stakeholders other than customers, treating brand identity as a variable, and taking the development of the concept of brand activism over the past twenty years into account. Problem: The new proposals for brand management are not addressed within the conventional theory of brand management and require a more comprehens...
Interactive visualization of technological history
Context: I aim to show how the act of naming, in our activity as interpretants/observers is formally and fundamentally related to both our being, and to the Gödelian structure of understanding of …
How generative AI systems capture a core function of language Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning i...