Complex problem-solving. Expert-Generalist. MC.
Outlier. Sentinel/Lookout... Scanner-Persönlichkeit.
Liberty & aesthetics... | Beware of biopower...
Hope without optimism... Lines of Flight...
‘scattered people’, ‘head-bangers’ or simply ‘enemies’
David Wengrow on how a very great many historical humans did not live in empires - or possibly even under much rulership at all.
https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms
@zackwhittaker
Human error describes the proximate cause of an incident, not the root cause.
Human error is a symptom, not the cause, of failure.
Human error is a social judgment, not an objective conclusion.
Human error is the start of the investigation, not the conclusion.
Human error can reveal systemic design flaws in the system that fail to account for human use.
Human error as a conclusion will lead to myopic and insufficient remedies like “user education”.
Human error is a label that shifts responsibility from system designers to system users who will inevitably fail.
𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻.
If you are curious as to why we should be intolerant of the label “human error” when talking about security incidents, please see Behind Human Error by David Woods and friends.
Although Tom Ragsdale’s #oil companies owe New Mexico more than $3.5 million for #pollution and unpaid fees, the state has recovered only about $50,000.
Drillers across the industry have employed similar tactics in what is known as “the playbook.”
#News #Environment #Energy #Business #Regulation #Law #Illustration
This is the first of two posts on ‘regularities and reductionism - the first is a little polemical but sets things up for the second. https://thecynefin.co/regularities-reductionism-1-2/
@steadystatemcr
Here's the image to go with it: you want green growth? then stop filling up and reduce excess activity in the economy to make way for it.
If you want an example of path dependency then look at the puloinment of ‘the word ontology’ by the tech community to understand reality through language. Now LLM are considered ‘intelligent’ by virtue of their manipulation of words.
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@sarahbmyers, @davidthewid & I correct the record👇
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
Good news.
Collapse may not be certain. If drastic unprecedented global-scale changes are made within the next few years (i.e., the end of capitalism), the worst outcomes might still be avoided.
If.
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A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data.
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#History #Economics #Capitalism #Science #Environment #Climate #Degrowth
Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and
The rise of the mechanical psychic...
If you think all the little things we ordinary mortals do are the driver of #ClimateChange, think again - "Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas #emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
A mere 57 #oil, #gas, #coal and #cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s #GreenhouseGas #GHG emissions since the 2016 #Paris climate agreement, a study has shown.
This powerful cohort of state-controlled corporations and shareholder-owned multinationals are the leading drivers of the climate crisis, according to the Carbon Majors Database, which is compiled by world-renowned researchers."
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"During this period, the biggest investor-owned contributor to emissions was #ExxonMobil of the #UnitedStates, which was linked to 3.6 gigatonnes of CO2 over seven years, or 1.4% of the global total. Close behind were #Shell, #BP, #Chevron and #TotalEnergies, each of which was associated with at least 1% of global emissions."
#FossilFuels #FossilFuel #Capitalism #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Carbon #Klima #Klimakrise #US #USPolitics
"200 years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines--they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood--correctly--that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying
Preach it, @pluralistic
#CarbonCredits and #Capitalism - a marriage made in hell - "‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from #credit schemes - "...after a year of controversies, the wider #carbon market is in crisis – with some experts concerned other schemes around the world could be abandoned amid evidence that many projects are producing huge numbers of worthless credits that many believe do not mitigate global heating ... Much of the €100m revenue generated by Kariba has been carved off along the way by the project developers in fees and expenses: €86m went into costs and profits assigned to the broker and technical lead #SouthPole and to the project coordinator #Carbon Green Investments. In the end, only a maximum of €14m went to Kariba’s communities through cash transfers and infrastructure improvements ... South Pole – which was not involved in providing any services on the ground – made €18m (£15m) profit, according to its figures, since deleted from its website – more than was spent on Kariba itself. The #Swiss firm deducted €24m in costs before sending €57m to Wentzel for his 30% share of revenue, project costs and local communities."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/money-carbon-credits-zimbabwe-conservation-aoe
#Carbon #CarbonOffset #CarbonOffsets #Greenwashing #FossilFuels #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #Klimakrise #Africa #Zimbabwe #Switzerland #Theft
A leap year post on the dangers of curation (especially AI) in narrative and the need to narrative as a verb not a noun and the absolute right of people to own the primary interpretation of their own experience. https://thecynefin.co/the-problem-of-curation/
Sightings of black panthers, especially in Africa, are insanely rare, let alone capturing one on camera. Well, English photographer Will Burrard-Lucas pulled it off in an incredible fashion, also confirming the existence of the elusive African black panther in Kenya.
Neoclassical #neoliberal #Economics explained by the devil! 👹
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5dLjq9SHY
