So Dougald and I are going to be running a one-week residential workshop at Schumacher college on Collapsonomics April 30 – May 4, 2012. I thought I should write something about why people should take this course. The bottom line is that learning a new perspective on life is difficult. It took the best part [...]
Read more →The new-new thing at EdgeRyders is that map. We’re building a map of what’s going on, where the sites and stories are which show the new peeking through the cracks in the old, where the action is. You can sign up to edit the map. That’s actually pretty bold – we’re crowdsourcing a map of [...]
Read more →Click here if your browser doesn’t support HTML5 video I’ve had a really good time the last two weekends attending The Event Leila Johnston’s talk series on absolutely catastrophic risks (think cosmic rays, supervolcanos and worse.) I did a talk called complexity kills on understanding risk and Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps. Download the talk, slides [...]
Read more →If you want the summary: build the courts first, and build them now, if you want to protect the Electronic Frontier, and, indeed, the People. (You may well want to read the two previous blog posts which go along with this one to understand the whole mindset behind this piece, but that’s about 6K words [...]
Read more →Utopia. No-place. We can and must do better than this. Because the Media are owned by Corporations who we wish to Police using the power of the State which they have Suborned using the gutter press and requiring political advertising in elections. Because the Internet Service Providers are Tightly Aligned with Copyright Holders who are [...]
Read more →I have a knack for crypto. Actually, to be honest, I have a knack for Lego. My mind maps the things you can do with a simple set of tools/rules and then generates simple, easy ways of doing impressive things. Good examples of this: the hexayurt or the Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps system. Applied to [...]
Read more →Five verses on the gap You can see and feel the gap in the quiet desperation of those well-intentioned as they age into their 30s and wonder “is this it?” It hit me late: I have no child, I am yet free One life is not enough to achieve it. The cosmic infinite inside says [...]
Read more →I think only somebody like me could decide to have a mid-life crisis. I’m good at crisis. I decided to have one of my own. My life is, by any standards, a fucking mess. I finally found an image which really does it justice: I’m a chisel. A very hard, very flat chunk of grey [...]
Read more →I’ve lost respect for western models of feminism after one stupid argument too many. I have not lost respect for women, any more than losing respect for Marxism means you no longer respect Russians. The issues women face are real. However, political mistakes made in the early stages of women’s struggle in the West are [...]
Read more →People have no fucking clue what Hinduism is. The monotheisms – the paths which admit a single truth – are four major and many minor. The four major are Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Buddhism is not often discussed as a monotheism, and in many variations it is not, but the notion of a single [...]
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