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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 08:41:11 JST BiggusDiccus @bronze
From Wikipedia:
The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer,[1] who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."[2] The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.
Origins of the term
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Stafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. In his address to the University of Valladolid, Spain, in October 2001, he said:[1]
According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:04:40 JST BiggusDiccus @hj
Many questions. Not curious enough about any of them to hit play. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 09:09:50 JST BiggusDiccus @BowsacNoodle
Iwant to know where he lives that it's such a wonderland of skinny bitches. Not enough to devote my autism to finding out, but if he was exposed to the sheer mountain of stank jello flesh that I have to deal with every day I suspect he'd change his fetish. Especially if he has a sense of smell.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 08:25:57 JST BiggusDiccus @tyler
This is the ONLY reason I have @elftummy blocked. @RealRaul is in timeout for this as well as his penchant to promote moobmentz. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 08:25:56 JST BiggusDiccus @tyler
I see those everyday IRL. Don't need more.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 18:58:02 JST BiggusDiccus @Hoss
Haven't seen much of Gleason in forever. What went down?
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 18:57:57 JST BiggusDiccus @Tony
This has been a very informative thread.
Alex is obsessed with NOSTR rn.
Fedi is broken because mastodon.
ActivityPub is communist (never been done right)
Siloing is an accidental feature that works along natural human tendencies.
NOSTR will inevitably be flooded with CP which will break it.
There might be a market for prepackaged mini PC's running low user instances of soapbox.
Did I miss anything?
@caekislove @Hoss
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:31:50 JST BiggusDiccus @aliss
From everything I've seen here in fedi, Linux is very very good at its ability to be configured to do a single thing excellently and reliably. It's when you try to make a general purpose Linux PC that shit falls apart.
It's the autistic OS. Play to its strengths. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 13:23:26 JST BiggusDiccus @eriner
Yo want @charliebrownau or @ChristiJunior depending on if you hate news or niggers more. Nigger hate typically comes with generous amounts of anime girl ass.
@istvan @p @mutualaid @amerika @dcc @Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @fluffy @0 @SockPuppet @viber @dj @FourOh-LLC @doonxib @Hoss -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 15:24:09 JST BiggusDiccus @threat
So what would you consider to be an ideal pipeline for breaking away from windows/apple? Assuming the person in question is a nontard autist.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 15:24:06 JST BiggusDiccus @ins0mniak
@p
@laurel @gentoobro @graf @threat
Thank you frens. I'll be picking up a laptop that maybe is or is not broken sometime this week. If all is good I think I will start at the Slack until I have a good idea of what I want out of a distro. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 06:47:09 JST BiggusDiccus @LukeAlmighty
The filter isn't exact enough. My standards are much more strict than this. Can't even filter by virginity.
Got 1.86%. No screens because Firefox incognito.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:46:41 JST BiggusDiccus @lain
No. The only justice is flat justice. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:25:57 JST BiggusDiccus @lain
Really curious what human endeavors you think we've done to piss off the fucking sun. It could literally eat the entire inner solar system and nothing about its function would change aside from its mass, which would increase by an infinitesimal amount. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 16:12:36 JST BiggusDiccus @justnormalkorean
How was futabot such a large portion of your feed that it became a problem in the first place? I didn't even know there WAS one until now.
@Doll @Huntress @Owl @Xenophon @Normans_are_not_french @littlebun @snow_huwhite -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 02:42:48 JST BiggusDiccus @allison
Sorry was using the general term. *politely* What specific type of child toucher does your flag represent?
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 02:31:49 JST BiggusDiccus @meowski
I think the map flag cats in the name gave it away first though.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 02:09:59 JST BiggusDiccus @SAKURARadiochan
Oh. You're a tranny. Now it makes sense.
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 00:41:55 JST BiggusDiccus @graf
Big oof rn in the crypto. Resisting the urge to double down because then it's just gambling. -
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BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 08:29:20 JST BiggusDiccus @DEERBLOOD
Where the fuck is she from that MLK Blvd. Is an OK place to be!?