Notices by Ruth Malan (ruthmalan@mastodon.social), page 6

When i hear root cause… the image that comes to mind

Image from: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/wageningen-root-archive/

Ohhh!!

“Lines in the Sand - DIGITAL COMIC

A 20-page printed comic that tells the story of Lynn Conway's groundbreaking invention of Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) that enablies today's billion-transistor chips, and the birth of the foundry model that separates chip design and printing.”
https://www.unsungheroes.info/product/lines-in-the-sand-e

Via https://twitter.com/lynnconway/status/1778053340959498373

“In 1968, Conway was fired by IBM after revealing she was undergoing gender transition. Starting from scratch and living in stealth mode under a new name, her career blossomed. Five years later, she was offered a research position at Xerox PARC. it was here, in the late 1970’s, that she invented the microchip design methodology that changed the world.”
— Jim Boulton

https://www.unsungheroes.info/product/lines-in-the-sand-e

US Politics, but with global repercussions…

Red states have been setting a chilling template for a red nation… and we better believe that they intend to take it nationwide…

This election is not only about the president, but congress and senate.

And it’s not just about voting, it’s about supporting get out the vote efforts (and more)

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/greg-abbott-daniel-perry-pardon-rcna152769

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I can’t think of a more appropriate reaction than [holy exclamation!] so I’m going with it.

I think I need mention my workshops (again) now.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112418561429083338

Comic source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZpKSILsDaU/?igsh=emp0YnQ3cGg2ZjV3

“We need experts, we need accurate information, but the object is not to do away with difference but to do away with *muddle*. When for lack of facts you and I are responding to a different situation—you to the situation as you imagine it, I to the situation as I imagine, it—we cannot of course come to agreement. What accurate information does is to clear the ground for genuine difference and therefore make possible, I do not say make sure, agreement”

-- Mary Parker Follett, Creative Experience

'Given the degree of brokenness of the broken world (and the expense of fixing it), we need all maintainers to apply their diverse disciplinary methods and practical skills to the collective project of repair. [..] Fixers, he says, “know and see different things — indeed, different worlds — than the better-known figures of ‘designer’ or ‘user.’” Breakdown has “world-disclosing properties.”'

-- @shannonmattern
https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/

No.

"Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture. "

— Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder, BBoM

http://www.laputan.org/mud/

We called tapping our network to find things out “lazy web”… but… the networking we do where we weave humans and their ideas together, is important work. It’s not just about “plagiarizing” but about those networks. I’ve joked about the “social lives of ideas” and “our thought children leave home and lead lives of their own”... But networking humans is important too. And Ai-gen washes us out.

Has this made it here yet?

“Erm, how did Figure 1 get past a peer reviewer?! https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1339390/full H/T
@aero_anna”

— Dr CJ Houldcroft

The Devil's Dictionary

CONVERSATION, n. [..] each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

DELIBERATION, n. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

REASON, v.i. To weigh probabilities in the scales of desire.

“Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever”
..
“analyze your message history with different contacts to understand your relationship dynamics”

(forbes)

Google. wtf

This ai race in big tech is so … desperate… and reckless … and [redacted]

Joking … because… the whole thing has so many different kinds of scary… climate change acceleration included, but also… (they are so not great at boundaries…)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/

Of course… it could end well. My message history was made for this!

Fitt's List seems like a great starting point for an exercise on assumptions...

“key elections this year, when 4.2 billion people will be eligible to vote in 76 countries, making 2024 the biggest election year in history.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/01/18/japan/world-edge-2024/

So much on the line. Elections are not just about voting (as important as that is, of course), but work! And the work gets funded by dangerous interests, without a lot of grassroots involvement.

Important year for rights, climate, …

“It’s developer’s [..]understanding [..] that gets released in production”

— Alberto Brandolini

Source (2017): https://twitter.com/dechampsgu/status/857924498280124416