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2025-10-16 14:37:42 UTC

This has been scrubbed from the interwebs. I can't even find it on adbusters. If you find the authoritative link, please comment.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/384/339/963/628/236/original/bea77d655099e700.jpg

2025-09-14 17:37:47 UTC

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https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/a-stray-sumerian-tablet-unravelling-the-story-behind-cambridge-university-librarys-oldest-written

2025-09-14 17:00:46 UTC

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Buried deep in all those references and others is the fact that written language was invented for trade: marks in clay to signify the number of jars of pig fat and such. It also tracks with accelerating biosphere destruction (although the last 150 is most of it). This is part of the Bateson paper, as well as the core allegories and myth. Some in this general domain of discussion in this thread propose we avoid written language altogether in the future:
https://weeklyhubris.com/a-letter-to-the-future/

2025-09-14 15:47:45 UTC

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If we don't read, if we don't use maps of some kind, then all we have left is shared cultural cognition and our corporate-controlled feeds. At peak complexity, this is what many of us resort to. It is very human. (I know you say you won't read this, but I can't help it... gotta back up my statement.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250803235619/https://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/Cambridge/Tomasello_Understanding_BehBrainSci_2005_1555292.pdf

2025-09-14 15:30:16 UTC

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This is a wonderful thread. I am interested in your thoughts after you read Quinn's Ishmael and dig into Murphy a bit, including his Ishmael series.
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It specifically addresses your concerns. There is another map I'd like to share along the lines of "evil men". It seems to me that many have worked related problems in good faith, not evil. Look at this map on a desktop PC. You'll see Brin, Jobs, etc., plus Margaret Mead. Click start then all. https://cybergraph.dubberly.com/

2025-09-14 14:00:52 UTC

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My personal take - and, I read Murphy in the same way, and see it echoed in #DonellaMeadows ... well, I see it everywhere now - is that the root cause is Modernity. It is civilization. It is struggling with peak complexity. It is our war with nature. It is culture, ideology and paradigms around this. It is technology, going back to the written word. This comes out in Bateson with his Eden allegory. Quinn uses this in Ishmael. The root cause is all of us, not evil men.

2025-09-13 19:56:34 UTC

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I've been on a mostly futile mission to use Tom Murphy's term Modernity rather than any particular dominant political economy. I know that you follow him. I just think it will serve our species better to focus on something broader (and useful). We are circling down in collapse. Can we actually learn about root cause in our relative luxury at this point in the curve? This is my hope. Most of the rhetoric, even academic, is not useful.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/metastatic-modernity-video-series/

2025-08-28 15:15:15 UTC

@npub1h7a…m2up , you are the best person I know to ask about this. Is it true that the 1963 Rambler Technical Reference manual got the intake and exhaust valves wrong? Was it just my edition? Did they even have different editions? I always figure it could well have been me. I wrote this up 20 years ago, and have been meaning to ask you. I no longer have a 196 or a Rambler, nor any docs no parts. All gone in a move to my current smaller place... I did search the web...
https://orng.org/#xm4

2025-08-27 00:13:15 UTC

@npub1h7a…m2up , I think I'm too noisy for you, but I unfollowed you on Bluesky in preference for here, so you don't have to bridge. You have always been one of my heroes, but I think my obsession with material and data flow on small scale doesn't fit well. Anyhoo... I've lurked around WPS, later and rambler pages for over 20 years. I'm pretty crazy and erratic, never really comfortable in this world. Perhaps I'll get around to some pics working on my 67 econoline w/ a beautiful 240 CI. Perhaps.