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   Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 21:18:58 JST Adam Greenfield

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   • Phantasus :antifa: 🏳️ 🏳️‍🌈

   @phantasus Well, yes.

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     Phantasus :antifa: 🏳️ 🏳️‍🌈 (phantasus@23.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 21:19:00 JST Phantasus :antifa: 🏳️ 🏳️‍🌈

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     @adamgreenfield Oh I like Stafford Beer too, sadly the Cybersyn project is only a sidenote of history.

     When I look at what certain associations do as a system: creating unsolidarity among its members, creating frustration, misusing resources, etc. then the cybernetic conception of it gives some funny results.

     Example: the purpose of a hackerspace is to create disillusioned, disgruntled members.

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 21:19:01 JST Adam Greenfield

     Not that he was perfect, or anything of the sort, but I cannot express the joy it gives me to see Stafford Beer’s watchword “the purpose of a system is what it does” at long last pass into common usage, especially among folks with no obvious reason to know who Stafford Beer was. It’s been a vital analytical tool for me this past quarter-century, in all kinds of circumstances. #POSIWID