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Posted on September 17, 2015June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Corps as Polities… and Google’s Migrant Crisis Donation Drive

Today I launched google search and saw a tiny, self-effacing, non-intrusive little grey banner at the top of the search page. It was asking for donations to …

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Posted on January 3, 2015July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…

First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …

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Posted on September 3, 2014August 13, 2019 by: Leona

Holography Schmolography

[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …

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Posted on September 24, 2013July 29, 2019 by: Leona

By extension of the earth plus plastic paradigm…

In a not-quite-recent discussion about macro scale structures (mostly corporations, governments, skewed economies, social / digital media spaces etc) and how they might be screwing …

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Posted on April 3, 2012July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Absurcracy

I’ve learned some fascinating things reading news headlines over the last year or so. This is mostly thanks(?!) to an app on my phone, which …

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Posted on July 24, 2011June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Computations with a big ‘C’, vs little ‘c’ computations

In the computing / computable universe worldview, the universe is akin to a giant computation. This inevitably leads to anthropic questions like, ‘what solution is …

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Posted on March 24, 2011July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Space invaders vs Space Builders : pick your Fermi-antiparadox

Updated 2011-03-24 As I said before, my guess is that sentience is overrated. That was going to be the expanded-upon point of my whole post, …

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Posted on December 9, 2010July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Traffic flow, ‘jamitons’ and trucks

…I like the word jamiton*… this idea of a traffic jam “particle”… a component of a deceleration wave travelling backwards through traffic from something concrete …

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Posted on May 23, 2010June 16, 2019 by: Leona

The zen of complexity

A lot of systems theoretic disciplines have seemed wholly useless because we took them as a set of tools with which we could rule over …

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Posted on February 7, 2010July 29, 2019 by: Leona

On consensing…

[updated 2011, 2019].We live in a much faster-paced world today than our ancestors did, and we have to make decisions very quickly (something that, as …

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