bitcoin… Descartes’s gold?

Sociological observations about decentralizing software, including a specific report in now GitHub's opacity (to most people) how Core is being hostile to Knots in their repository practices #scmeetuptopic ?

Xanadu Original 17 Rules

Seed.Hyper.media is reviewing their software with reference to Ted Nelson’s 17 Rules for Xanadu… #scmeetuptopic

Andre the Giant faced no prisoner’s dilemma

“Fundamental Factors Underlying Recent Technological Innovation” by Don Lancaster 2006 begins: “What are the fundamental underlying "secret" forces that are driving recent technological developments? How can you apply these fundamental factors to your own product designs? Or at the very least, allow you to become enough aware that you can avoid getting done in by them?” I haven’t read this just yet, but was reminded of the Nostr community after reading A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul A. Rosenberg, as suggested by @Max - and Lancaster, albeit of a more ‘what I can implement right now’ bent (RE his The Incredible Secret Money Machine book about operating a small tech services business), has a similar outsider vibe https://www.tinaja.com/glib/techinov.pdf

Don Lancaster - Wikipedia

What's the emergent structure from hypertext which might serve as a sort of global billboard, maybe like a activation atlas* for the conversations which arise within a topology of all specific niches Or perhaps more symbolic, wherein the gestalt of the network whole is being addressed by a conversation about how that could (following the voluntarist alignment & discovered best practices for integrating feedback) culminate in something read at a glance, in the same way we can get a gut level impression in the human face(?), or R/Place Either way, there's this "meme first, explain later"** structuring at play * activation atlas example ** Chris Williamson used this in passing (& perhaps he was attributing it to someone else?) - I'd like to credit other where possible (even if it gets cumbersome) - as this is exactly the kind of infrastructure we lack to support the practices I'm advocating being practiced

Sooo... CBDC's are like putting your ego in charge of your immune system

Who brought up Ted Nelson & Jaron Lanier Friday morning at #nostrica , asking #[0] a question at the #[1] Open Source stage? This person gives their name & I believe they say they're from Wailuku, Maui (? or not) - but those are not an npub. Here's their question https://www.youtube.com/live/2NueacYJovA?feature=share&t=4626 which I've transcribed here: “This zaps thing, it really brings me back to when I first started working ,my boss [I had?] worked for Ted Nelson who had started I the 70’s or 80’s hypermedia, trying to create a system pre-world wide web, the idea [being the] linking, linking back, transclusion - and one of the things in it was micropayments for publishers and content creators so they could part of the system… The problem was it was that it was a monolithic model which was more common back then, and it never really took off… And also Jaron Lanier wrote about this as well in “You Are Not a Gadget” about the importance for creators to be rewarded… I was just curious if you were aware the history and of how many had tried to solve this problem and how it’s actually possible now with our situation.” Was there any other mention of #xanadu in conference conversations?

“The worst possibility is that human life may be extinguished. And it is a very real possibility, very real! And that is the worst. But assuming that doesn't happen… I can't bear the thought of many hundreds of millions of people dying in agony, only and soley because the rulers of the world are stupid and wicked! I can't bear it!” Bertrand Russell, 1959 (BBC’s ”Face to Face”)