[FRIAM] Wtf. Is going on with pnm

2023-01-04 Thread Gillian Densmore
No power all gd. Day and those Slackware. Penis breaths keep fing. With when I get my gd. Lights back. Can we pls fire them.? -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

2023-01-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
A form of longtermism might be like Noah’s Ark where nurturing was not at a population level. From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 6:52 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

2023-01-04 Thread Prof David West
transhumanism is consistent with the manifesto — nurture now, transcend, or perhaps redefine, later as the understanding of CAS provides alternative, directed, evolution. davew On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 5:21 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > What about the goal of transcending these error-prone and

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

2023-01-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
What about the goal of transcending these error-prone and fragile containers? Posthumanism has always been the driver for me. From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:27 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

2023-01-04 Thread Prof David West
Merle, >From the book I am currently finishing: Manifesto Every aspect of human life — how we work, play, live, and love; how we define our relationships with each other and with our environment — have been, and continue to be, shaped by computers and the software that drives them. Those

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-04 Thread Marcus Daniels
Whether it was the native Americans in New Mexico or the Ohlone in California, I've always found it a bit strange how some in assimilated cultures long for their ancestral identity. I've never had this for reason below. Perhaps it would be different if I had a different skin color from my

[FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion

2023-01-04 Thread Merle Lefkoff
From: Lisa Schirch Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:20 PM Subject: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion To: Merle Lefkoff Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to invite you to the *Designing Tech for Social Cohesion Conference on 23-25 February 2023 at San Francisco's Fisherman’s

[FRIAM] Off topic home repair Q

2023-01-04 Thread Gillian Densmore
I think my google-fu skills are failing. I'm looking for track lighting fixtures for bulbs propper. Ie not the track. just what makes light. Alas between home depot, amazon, and lows I can't find many that take lightbulbs. much less for my type of track. Anyone have experience with this? I'm

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-04 Thread glen
Yeah, being adopted gives me yet another advantage over you breeder types. ⛧ I run into many situations where people talk about (dark) intra- and inter-generational patterns in their families. If/when they ask me, I get to bail on the whole conversation ... or participate with no skin in the

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

2023-01-04 Thread David Eric Smith
That number sounds familiar to me too. I don’t know if it is right. There seem to be very many nonagenarian movie stars and politicians in the papers every day, and I wonder if there really are 50x as many octogenarians at any time. OTOH, my understanding is that the Gompertz ramp (linear