[FRIAM] bougie

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bougie Right "Libertarians" Are Just Fascists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmT7nLDinhY ‘Don’ of a new era: the rise of Peter Thiel as a US rightwing power player https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/30/peter-thiel-republican-midterms

Re: [FRIAM] Peirce, Buddhism, Monism, Behaviorism, oh my!

Reminds me of a hallmark of cults. NXIVM, Scientology, Rand v Branden, Martin Luther, ... There's an endless list of "inner circle" people who "get it" vs heretics who don't. On this list, we talk a lot about if and when the properties of individuals obtain for the collective. You know, "emergen

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

> On May 27, 2022, at 1:51 PM, glen mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > ...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet. > > https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ <https://web3isgoinggreat

[FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ -- Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

on’t find an effective response to it. Eric On May 20, 2022, at 11:02 PM, glen mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yeah, I get that. But there's an inertia to consider. If we manage to put the Right back into place tenuously, without convincing enough of the other side to re

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

On 5/20/22 08:37, Jon Zingale wrote: Roe vs. Wade? Why not sink into Buck vs. Bell? Because Roe is currently being discussed. If there's anything we know about people, it's that their attention span is limited. I'm surprised Ukraine is still as much of a topic as it is. On 5/20/22 08:26, Ma

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

iels wrote: I think people need to see what the right has in mind. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Friday, May 20, 2022 7:25 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] oversight But what's the best way to a democratic majority that's *represented* in th

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

evaricators who can't be trusted to debate in a reasonable way. Polling indicates the preference is on the side of the left.This consensus needs to be converted, in the fullness of time, into a usable democratic majority. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Frida

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

cize ourselves. (1) is the practical path. On 5/19/22 12:14, Marcus Daniels wrote: This why I won’t be “pretending” to consider the other side of this issue. It could cause harm for the sake of stupid people. On May 19, 2022, at 11:47 AM, glen wrote: I agree. But I don't think that's

Re: [FRIAM] oversight

I agree. But I don't think that's obvious to many people. I also think the foundations of math are political (... or perhaps ideological). And the understandable tendency to reduce sociology to psychology to biology to chemistry to physics is also political (or ideological). But there are plent

[FRIAM] oversight

Psychedelic medicine group investigating a board member accused of financial elder abuse https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/18/maps-psychedelics-group-investigating-board-member-accused-of-financial-elder-abuse/ Continuing the tangent on criticism, while it always feels (to the criticized) like a

Re: [FRIAM] the good news is, it will be over soon

https://smmry.com/https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent#&SM_LENGTH=2 The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. Gato is trained on a large number of datasets comprising agent experience in both simulated and

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

Of course not. But my point was largely that disagreement takes *many* forms, not all of which are cantankerous assholery. 8^D When divvying up tasks, disagreement might come in the form of, say, a passive aggressive act of simply not writing that word down on the list ... or making a frowny fa

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

Heh, in the middle of a conversation trying to suss out *how* to object if one has an objection, you make an objection without an attempt to suss out the objection. Well done! 8^D But, to be clear, "critique" is not identical to "criticism". Sneering, shaming, satire, etc. are criticism. But n

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

perhaps it would be if it were augmented in some way? With what? My answer is "training data", "training time", and the accretion structure that results from training. You can't *program* an intelligent thing. But you can *grow* an intelligent thing. On 5/17/22 13:10, David E

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

Dave’s view is that it allows the person making a claim to not be subject to scrutiny, Because, well, they feel that way so it must be true. That there is some point at which precision impedes accuracy. It is a recipe for the proliferation of cult leaders. On May 17, 2022, at 7:55 AM, gl

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

kin to arguing about the meanings of words. In the spirit of "not even wrong", it's not even sophistry. On 5/16/22 14:41, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < Of course, we *could* be working our way into a fictitious corner. (E.g. the just-so story of the wet monkey thing <

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

I share Dave's and SteveS' skepticism that actual "things" have a "largest model", i.e. can be completely represented with a description in a particular language. What Marcus has been doing, however, is trotting out many many different models of computation (MoCs) that have demonstrably solved e

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

which risks a nihilistic shunt. Paraconsistent logics facilitate reasoning through apparent contradiction and allow for the more effective focus on completeness. So I guess slander away. 8^D I've been called worse. On May 13, 2022 8:31:20 PM PDT, Steve Smith wrote: > >glen sed: >&g

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

e right-brain apprehension of "reality" is the totality of the experience of sitting in the spa and feeling the bubbles and jets caress your body. The latter is not expressible in equations. davew On Fri, May 13, 2022, at 1:47 PM, glen wrote: On 5/12/22 10:32, Steve Smith wro

[FRIAM] rule of law

“There are no legal grounds to start a criminal case if a soldier refuses to fight while on Russian territory.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/they-were-furious-the-russian-soldiers-refusing-to-fight-in-ukraine This is fascinating to me given the recent draft brief SCOTUS leak. Tw

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

On 5/12/22 10:32, Steve Smith wrote: I personally don't think "Turbulent Flow" is an oxymoron. Exactly! That's the point. By denouncing negation, I'm ultimately denouncing contradiction in all it's horrifying forms. It's judo, not karate. On 5/12/22 13:56, Jon Zingale wrote: An interesting pr

Re: [FRIAM] quotes and questions

I've always wondered why we obsessively dichotomize. I've tried to express my confusion in the context of the law of noncontradiction and excluded middle since my 1st (authentic) analysis course in college. I'd caught a whiff of intuitionism by that time and asked my prof about it. He wisely fe

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Hey now, if it's rooted in the history, it must be the right thing to do: https://youtu.be/djMjYgqFrrQ On 5/9/22 08:10, Barry MacKichan wrote: Wasn’t that the guy who touted curing bubonic plague wtih bleach and bright lights? --Barry On 9 May 2022, at 10:38, glen wrote: Draft Overtu

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale On 5/8/22 20:58, Alexander Rasmus wrote: Nich, The test of "is this law rooted in the traditions of our nation" means that

Re: [FRIAM] Psychedelics

al (and often very invasive) approaches to trying to recover his "self" after a traumatic brain injury.   He was searching for help/support in the use of psilocybin as a possible alternative relief/remedy when he finally threw in the towel.   This was not long before Michael Pollan

Re: [FRIAM] model, metaphor, and things

filtering down rather than building up would >be occurring to separate patterns. [2] > >[1] >https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=A%20theory%20of%20cerebellar%20cortex&journal=J.%20Physiol.&volume=202&pages=437-470&publication_year=1969&author=Marr%2CD >[2] https:/

Re: [FRIAM] model, metaphor, and things

While I technically agree, I can't help but ask: What if it's not true? How would we go about demonstrating that it's not true? What if animals actually "relax into" their envinronments in a computationally universal way? I.e. although it seems like we learn by analogy, maybe we're actually uni

Re: [FRIAM] Psychedelics

Heh, I don't even know what I'll be doing next week, much less a year from now. But it's on the calendar! On 4/26/22 12:26, Prof David West wrote: I am planning to attend and have a condo/house for the week. Hope others might be interested. https://psychedelicscience.org Davew -- Mɥǝu ǝlǝ

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

... that the Freak-Out >represents  adding heat in the annealing sense to break out of a local minima, >and/or "tunneling" for the same reason...   ignoring my manners/politeness >within a limited space-time context to solve a problem that the >full-dimensional trajectories simpl

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

ng self-driving automobiles in these extremes? On 4/28/22 3:43 PM, glen wrote: Well, I purposefully chose to use sociopathy in this example to indicate the complete competency spectrum. A flood-prone sociopath *needs* to get good at suppressing their freak-outs. A psychopath doesn't ne

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

t for letting their nervous system bounce around. But it is not my job to facilitate that experience, in general, in the wild. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 3:12 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assi

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

e can one estimate how cool or agitated they are and modulate the situations to avoid unproductive conflict. Some people I have found can't recognize their own degree of agitation. The flooding is going outside the abilities of the control system. -Original Message- From:

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

e define a state-of-mind as the freak out, or the observed behavior of the freak out. The former could happen, and no one would know. And I think you are confusing sociopathy with psychopathy in this example. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

rden for adapting to lazy people? Just because I can? If we go around making special accommodations for people that don't try to keep it together, one can expect a lot more of it. -Original Message----- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 1:49 PM To: friam@r

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

s freak out, it was basically a criminal act as far as I was concerned. There are situations which a rant is truly righteous, but I have found mostly no one cares about that. Usually this discovery comes at some personal or professional cost. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen

Re: [FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

"This is your last free article." [ba] Now what am I gonna read this weekend!?!? Damn you! [stomp][stomp][stomp] Of course, I disagree completely with the point being made, there. The freak-out improves relationships and rationality, smooths over difficulties in the real world, and

Re: [FRIAM] those annoying vegetarians

What about lab grown eggs, though? Egg yolk is a critical component of any good hangover cure. And as much the fitness bros and their boiled chicken diets disgust me, I probably won't quit binge drinking any time soon. >8^D I'm just not convinced that the mung bean has the same benefits. p.s.

Re: [FRIAM] those annoying vegetarians

t. My sister’s company is a supplier to Jenny-O Davew On Thu, Apr 28, 2022, at 10:29 AM, glen wrote: US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa

[FRIAM] those annoying vegetarians

US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa If that's not an argument to stop eating chicken and eggs, I don't know what is. Jesus. -- Mɥǝu

Re: [FRIAM] Devils Dictionary

omorrow CyberPunkEsque story with lots of thinly disguised references to his own life and work as well as to classic SciFi tropes. I'm not sure I would recommend this book to most of the crue here, but definitely DaveW and maybe Marcus and Glen and Jon.  It focuses heavily on intuitive/empat

Re: [FRIAM] Lancet article on how well countries appear to have protected and appear to have reported

Vitamin D's been pretty well treated here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-hoffman-on-vitamin-d-dosing?s=r On 4/26/22 05:15, Frank Wimberly wrote: Note the mention of racial differences in Vitamin D deficiency. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670

[FRIAM] twitter is a dumpster fire - Musk is welcome to it

Meanwhile, on saner parts of the internet (via Astral Codex Ten): Data from amitheasshole.reddit.com https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWs2PnvYsjXMnQ9GSECx1LkZObTk3T-99rwsQ_Jab_k/edit re: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/ Also note this wonderful analysis of assholery: Assholes: A The

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

verything) (once) then in moderation if it suits you) not sure of parentheses, been a long time since Algebra I davew On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, at 8:05 AM, glen wrote: I certainly hope I'm not winning you over, accidentally or otherwise. Your use of the word "fetish" is spot-on, in that s

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

I certainly hope I'm not winning you over, accidentally or otherwise. Your use of the word "fetish" is spot-on, in that such paraphilia is, ultimately, unhealthy ... I guess barring the "everything in moderation" principle [⛧]. In fact, to be

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

Apologies for the violent reduction of your question. But I'm not smart enough to think with so many words. So I have to reduce it in order to think about it. 8^D Here's my reduction: 1a Will bots represent their insides? 2a Would the (social) coordination of bots be linguistic? Has anyo

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

sumably his new gadget gives him extra features that are not activated until this testing procedure is complete.After activation he is Joe(postActivation) > Joe(priorSurgery). So, in that sense I agree that "d" may increase because Joe discovers novel uses for the implant. -Orig

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

implant, some might have fixed function. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 9:59 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics Yeah, I agree with almost everything, here, except the &quo

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

t it would be the Matrix battery scenario (whether heat or spiritual energy), more like we'll all be walking around acquiring information for the collective anastomotic data mining system. That system would be interesting itself, but the "goal" in my mind would be to cont

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

y post-human singularians are more like metastatic cells than "the future of humanity".   Maybe that is NOT a dead-end, but my mortality-chauvanistic "self" rebels.   Maybe if I live long enough I'll come around... or maybe there will be a CAS mediated edit to fix that pessi

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

us Daniels wrote: That meat-like intelligence could live forever with the right maintenance protocol. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:11 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics H

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

om: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 3:47 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics Exactly. Both of these (low turnover wisdom propagation & "flat" infoscape) fail in my conception because they lack

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

olutions. I personally suffer from the lack of cross-cultural, cross-class experience of frequenting a neighborhood "watering hole" (pub/tavern/saloon) in the way Glen seems to enjoy (cultivate). My oldest regular drinking-philosophy buddy would be over 110 today (he died over 20 years ag

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

for cognitive death, and thus death?    If we change the processor rate to be 100 times faster than a human, should those gizmos or organisms expire more quickly? -Original Message- From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, April 12,

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

eful about human animals as an adaptive vehicle? [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:50 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

some cross-trophic relation). On 4/12/22 11:39, Marcus Daniels wrote: Or to put it another way, what good is cultural evolution? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:36 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural proc

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

ep and informative, or is the key thing to stay away from attractors? If there are truly billions of individuals, then short trips can explore a large space -- if there is communication between individuals and across generations. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: T

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

What always seems to be missing in these discussions is the (my?) always present ability to [re]parse the world at will. Yes, there are gravity wells or attractors where if you start insisting on a security detail everywhere you go, you'll end up like Trump, Romney, or Sanders, surrounded by a

Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

ose of how one learns and builds/manages one's world-view(s), one's ontology(ies).   I think this relates to a tangent I won't indulge inline of code-switching vs mode-switching. Following Galen Strawson's thesis <http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf&g

Re: [FRIAM] **TODAY April 7 4p Second Street Brewery ** Re: tomorrow at 2nd St

cheap speaker box and Ray-Bans, but left something like $50 in cash in the glove box. *8^| On 4/7/22 12:59, glen wrote: Cheers! On 4/7/22 12:38, Stephen Guerin wrote: Merle, We're going to 2nd Street Brewery original location which is shutting down that location on Saturday <https

Re: [FRIAM] self and next*

#x27;s account reinstated), I've come back to doubting our conception of "fair" (and egalitarianism as a whole) is at all coherent. On 4/4/22 11:20, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < I think there's some kind of "plucking" going on with democracy. By "

Re: [FRIAM] self and next*

back regressively sometimes, is the larger ephemeris progressive? Or is it actually just chaotically exploring the whole space of possibilities? You don't know. Nobody knows! (That's when they get all worried that I'm unstable and try to change the conversation to food or football

Re: [FRIAM] self and next*

ntry. I would say some Idahoans are barely recognizable as Westerners.I'd probably recognize the values of a Kyiv resident as more like mine. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 9:19 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] self and

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

Marcus Daniels wrote: Is that natural language that is more contextualized? When I look at, say, Open AI Codex, I start see the beginnings of systematic mappings between vague languages and precise ones. https://youtu.be/Zm9B-DvwOgw -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

object.   It is a question of what kind of problem one wants to solve. In contrast, I have met several very good computational people that hate abstraction and indirection.  They want code to be greppable even if it that means it is baroque and good for nothing else. -Original M

Re: [FRIAM] Wilson and Snower on Economics

Sorry for my incompetence. What "linked page"? I see a few non-DoI links inside the document: https://thisviewoflife.com/greek-democracy-as-a-major-evolutionary-transition-a-conversation-with-josiah-ober/ https://humanenergy.io/projects/science-of-the-noosphere/ https://www.strategy-business.com

Re: [FRIAM] Ordinary logic

Well, Nick needs to hang out with different philosophers [⛧]. A) Logic need not be related to probability. And B) When one reads sentences, like with most other serialized media, what has come before at least *biases* what comes later, even if what's come before is not taken as a *given*. E.g.

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

nd indirection.  They want code to be greppable even if it that means it is baroque and good for nothing else. -Original Message- From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 8:40 AM To: friam@redfish.com <mailt

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

ting and freezing of abstractions could find them once and for all. Glen wrote: < Hm. I'd have thought your motivation to be execute and compare against the reference implementation, not to adopt it. To me, it's a validation of your solver that, in the lower DoF condition, you got t

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

On 3/30/22 11:24, Roger Critchlow wrote: Thermodynamic state functions as derivatives with respect to entropy are all over JW Gibb's On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances. It is the point. PW Bridgman's Dimensional Analysis essentially summarizes all of physics up to 1922 as a probl

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

ct. It is a question of what kind of problem one wants to solve. In contrast, I have met several very good computational people that hate abstraction and indirection. They want code to be greppable even if it that means it is baroque and good for nothing else. -Original Message- From: F

[FRIAM] self and next*

On the heels of Marcus' challenge re: next* and EricS' discussion of iterative inter-subjectivity, Scott's tolerance to Thorfinnsson's insane comment triggered me: Who Gets Self-Determination? https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/who-gets-self-determination?s=r "A people" is Yet Another conve

Re: [FRIAM] To repeat is rational, but to wander is transcendent

es of entropy w.r.t. extensive properties is formalized somewhere? If so, I'd be grateful for pointers. I'm used to the idea that the intensives divide out the extensives. But I haven't seen them formulated as higher order derivations from entropy. Thanks. -glen On 3/29/22 14:37

Re: [FRIAM] Birds do it, monads and their algebras do it...

normity of our problems. > >https://complexityzoo.net/Complexity_Zoo >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine -- glen ⛧ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listser

Re: [FRIAM] rhizo narratology

>to register a bank -- a source for USD exchange -- then the high order rules >related to detection of money laundering impinge on that investment.I'm so >crippled by particulars. > >-Original Message- >From: Friam On Behalf Of ? glen >Sent: Thursday, Marc

[FRIAM] rhizo narratology

on their lower order constituents. -- glen ⛧ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://fria

Re: [FRIAM] Analytic Idealism

te from >one moment to the next.) > >davew > > >On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, at 10:21 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Obviously, there can be flaws in observing a system from within the >> system.If a hardware platform is in some weird state, the software >> running

Re: [FRIAM] Analytic Idealism

ity. Just stay stoned and enjoy, no? -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:30 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Analytic Idealism I think EricS' digestion puts too much gloss on the (lack of) crispness between the qualities.

Re: [FRIAM] Analytic Idealism

I think EricS' digestion puts too much gloss on the (lack of) crispness between the qualities. There's a (possibly preemptive) registration of the ontology where (e.g.) mass, length, and time are disjoint, albeit I can infer that might not be the case if we can replace (ground, foundationally)

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-captured-krasukha-4/ https://www.armyrecognition.com/russia_russian_military_field_equipment/krasukha-4_1rl257_broadband_multifunctional_jamming_station_electronic_warfare_system_technical_data_sheet_pictures_video_10610156.html On 3/23/22 07:32,

[FRIAM] redfish?

I've always wondered what "redfish" meant. What does it mean? https://www.thedailybeast.com/grassroots-media-startup-redfish-is-supported-by-the-kremlin https://redfish.media/ -- Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - .

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

The stories I've seen, it's similar to here, younger people trying to de-program their TV-watching elders. It's eerily similar to an argument I had with my dad like ... 40 years ago. I was trying to argue that Russians were just like us. He popped a gasket and spewed hatred all over the living

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

to express themselves. -----Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 2:06 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date Bullshit, Gil. It may be common to shitpost on whatever

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

Bullshit, Gil. It may be common to shitpost on whatever fora you normally attend. But please don't do it, here. ... Or, fine. Do it, here. But know what you're doing. On 3/21/22 13:43, Gillian Densmore wrote: https://tenor.com/view/muppets-statler-and-waldorf-who-cares-boring-bored-gif-2176872

[FRIAM] speculative marketing

Gold Rush to Usk https://www.rangemedia.co/usk-wa-bitmain-ponderay-newsprint-mill-gonzaga-allrise/ Allrise, a private equity firm that invests in real estate and specialty markets in the U.S. and Ukraine -- ˙sɹǝɟɟns ssɐɹƃ ǝɥʇ 'ʇɥƃıɟ sʇuɐɥdǝןǝ uǝɥM .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. /

Re: [FRIAM] and don’t miss this

ng to smuggle in weapons. It's another thing to have people there who know how to operate those weapons. On 3/16/22 12:16, Marcus Daniels wrote: Glen writes: < NATO rejects the no-fly zone. But my guess is it's not because of some Utilitarian sense of suffering. It's because war

Re: [FRIAM] and don’t miss this

The western [oligarchy] is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s [oligarchy] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/russia-rich-wealthy-western-elites-thomas-piketty Starlink and compensating posturing notwithstanding, I'd challenge Musk to support this sort of ac

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

Yep. I've long wanted to get one of those panel adapters that allows me to power the house with my gas powered generator. I just never found the motivation. Making something like this standard seems like progress. Renee' wants to put solar panels on the house. So I'm wondering how universal suc

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

Exactly. I'd endorse not only a no-fly zone, but also active counter attacks on their deployed forces like that convoy. If Sarbajit is right that the highly skilled forces will be largely deployed in the South and the conscripts in the North are mostly a sacrificable feint, then I'd even suppor

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: International firm to invest $254M in ABQ hydrogen factory -- ABQ Journal

+1 Even though I have a pickup that I don't use as intended, my experiments with the motorcycle and bicycle for everyday commuting have failed for the most part. But I'd push for a compromise within a spectrum of non-car solutions, a manifold approach like: 1) ban all cars from downtown areas,

[FRIAM] sanctions, woohoo

Russian Pushing New State-run TLS Certificate Authority to Deal With Sanctions https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/russian-pushing-its-new-state-run-tls.html Just a reminder to check the default CAs you rely on: .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applie

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone We deplore Russia’s aggression. However, it strains credulity to think that a US war with Russia would make the American people safer or more prosperous https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/11/we-call-on-biden-to-reject-r

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

I was thinking something more like GoFundMe. Or maybe AssassinationCoin (00AC), the number one murder blockchain. 00AC has been built in accordance with Ethereum’s ERC-20 Token Standard, allowing it to integrate with decentralized apps across the network! Stake your tokens and increase your acc

[FRIAM] Release: Roskomnadzor (820 GB)

https://ddosecrets.substack.com/p/release-roskomnadzor-820-gb?s=r Users are advised to be extra careful as some directories, like ПОЧТА Приемная, appear to contain large numbers of email attachments. Email attachments are often a vector of malware and phishing attempts, so use caution and too

[FRIAM] open samsung!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-confirms-hackers-stole-galaxy-devices-source-code/ The cache leaked from Samsung is much larger and allegedly includes details about the company’s Trusted Applet in Samsung’s TrustZone environment responsible for sensitive tasks such as h

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

Sheesh. We have so many neo-nazis in our US forces the Azov regiment looks like kids playing cowboys and indians (no offense intended). We've even had to commission well-funded efforts not only to root them out, but also to sideline the radicalization of new recruits. Combine that with the III%

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

Yes. There's a lot of them in the US here in WA, in spite of our overwhelmingly blue election results. So my guess is that the accusations of Svaboda's links to neo-nazis is at least somewhat true. Svoboda's results are pretty small ... nothing like Trump's share in our elections. But non-zero

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

, Boebert, Cruz, etc. -- the validators of the invalid. It should hurt to be that stupid, but they make it feel good. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of glen Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 8:42 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires I continue to t

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

I continue to think more about how to transform Russia from the inside than directly about their military assault. Although the Putin:Trump analogy is terrible, there's a lot of meat there. E.g. https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-if-trump-were-still-president https://theconversation.com/meet-russ

Re: [FRIAM] Patriotic Millionaires

ng all Russians of supporting the war or accusing Uber of supporting predatory drivers, etc. There can be valid criticisms of synthesis (from individual to org) and analysis (from org to individual). But there's a fallacy for that, too: Composition/Division. On 3/7/22 13:10, Eric Charles wrote

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