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“To hell with the future. It's a man eating idol.” Ivan Illich

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I spend a lot of time explaining what I mean by #complexity informed. I enjoy it, but I wished there was a video (more invitation than explainer) to help me do the job. After hunting for something that didn't really exist, I decided to just make it. Maybe it'll help you too: youtu.be/o-gOyaXZLqo?...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I've fallen into lurker mode with this site lately but I'm still here... and this week I wrote this thing that seemed to resonate with a bunch of folks, maybe if you're into #SystemsThinking or #Complexity you'll dig it too:

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Hi. I wrote a thing about learning and apprenticeship that intersects a bit with #edusky and #complexity and would love to hear from you if it resonates...

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

submitted 145 days ago • 118 comments

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

submitted 146 days ago • 45 comments

me, increasingly, in response to literally everything youtu.be/lFIYKmos3-s?...

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 160 days ago • 504 comments

Do these folks not realize that something being "allowed" or "not allowed" on social media platforms is, uh, not quite the same as something being completely and socially acceptable? Also... xkcd.com/1357

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

This guy gets it. www.instagram.com/p/DE24GKTNRA...

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Last year, my health insurance company refused to negotiate a reasonable 2025 contract rate with my doctor's org, so in November I got the dreaded "we're no longer in network with your insurance, starting 1/1/25" letter. My options are now to pay out of pocket (not feasible) or find a new doctor.

submitted 173 days ago • 1 comment

What is a man? A reasonable little pile of facts, sorted reasonably. qwantz.com/index.php?co...

submitted 189 days ago • 5 comments

highly recommend this whole thread. I’ll take a stab at what I think public health is doing wrong: we assume people are being “duped.” That’s not it. Something more complex is going on: people are making meaning out of difficult situations where authoritative messages come with no actual support

submitted 192 days ago • 3 comments

“Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” ― Simone Weil

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

the perfect rating doesn't exi...... 📽️

submitted 197 days ago • 53 comments

“Contemplative Lemmy With Lens Flare” (2024)

submitted 198 days ago • 1 comment

Oh how I wish more folks understood how important this nuance is: “Disinformation can work by introducing false evidence, such as a forgery or a hoax event. But it can also work by shaping the frames through which people interpret the evidence they see.”

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Bubble Bobble was the first NES game I ever beat. A truly special game for me. When I met the guy I’d eventually marry I learned it was the first game he ever beat as a kid too. We later got matching Bub & Bob tattoos in place of wedding rings. You either get it or you don’t.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

Conscientization =/= radicalization.

submitted 201 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps because she’s a friend and not just a random internet “thought leader,” it’s literally never occurred to me until recently that others in my network would likely appreciate Abby’s takes. I bet some of you will. Especially now:

submitted 201 days ago • 1 comment

Live your life such that only a relatively small number of people celebrate your death

submitted 206 days ago • 3 comments

Here's a little something I wrote about the c-word.

submitted 206 days ago • 0 comments

jpeg is the working class image format. png is for coastal elites. tif belongs to the ivory tower intelligentsia. gif is libertarian borderline sovcit and webp is the DNC

submitted 208 days ago • 61 comments

"Every new scientific investigation must trace this same path. You must first estrange yourself from the old ways of thinking, and then you must fall in love with new ways of thinking, and you must do both of these things before they are reasonable."

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Went to my high school class reunion last night, was chatting with a friend about yearbooks, found mine, and had a chuckle rediscovering this section that was written as a "20 years later" prediction back in 1999. Oddly accurate in a way I feel slightly unnerved by.

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

I've been enjoying a small little booklet by Darby Hudson titled YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK (BECAUSE YOU'RE FUCKED NO MATTER WHAT), and this gem is one I can't help but share:

submitted 212 days ago • 1 comment

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Refinnëj, the step ladder that somehow adds the height you need but at an increased horizontal distance making it just as hard to reach the thing.

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If you want to hear some masterful podcast hosting, check out this episode of BraveUX where Brendan --somehow-- weaved all my abstract tangents and messy metaphors about #Design #UX #SystemsThinking and #Complexity into a coherent interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e257...

submitted 216 days ago • 0 comments

Back when I joined Twitter, I had toes dipped in lots of not-very-overlapping follower groups: systems thinking, scicomm, UX, rhetoric, quantum physics, semiotics, education, public policy… A cool thing to see now, as I rebuild my feed here, is that so much of those worlds have since collided.

submitted 217 days ago • 2 comments

don't pass up useful information because it's in something with low production quality tons of good advice from experience gets ignored by most people because it lacks big budget, entertaining writer/speaker. pan for gold others won't know because they passed it up since it'd take unpleasant effort

submitted 218 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a name for the special kind of writer's block that results not from a commonly assumed lack of ideas, but from all the ideas doing this?

submitted 219 days ago • 0 comments

The design, systems, and complexity communities love a garden metaphor these days (and for good reason - I use it a lot too) but I’ve started to feel increasing itchy about it. This piece does a great job exploring why: www.noemamag.com/the-entangle...

submitted 219 days ago • 1 comment