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I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

My #LastFourWatched in this new #LetterboxdFriday
🔹Love Lies Bleeding (3★)
🔹Love, Divided (2★)
🔹eXistenZ (3★)
🔹Carol (5★)
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immersive sonic magick with a flowing 1-hour #improv set by setting on last night's frow show, like an appalachian version of the necks (as someone else put it), plus many other strains of wonderment, via the @… archive.

Filing: Swiggy, which has a ~45.8% share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential $1.25B IPO, slated for later this year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/india-swigg…

Swiggy, the Indian food delivery giant, seeks $1.25 billion in IPO after receiving shareholder approval | TechCrunch
Swiggy plans to raise $1.25 billion in an initial public offering and has secured approval from its shareholders, the Indian food delivery and instant Swiggy plans to raise $1.25 billion in an initial public offering and has secured approval from its shareholders, the Indian food delivery and instant commerce startup said.

Over on the trading forums I ply daily, I get tweaked over smartasses who pooh-pooh Edwin Lefèvre's 101-year-old masterpiece, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" because the real protagonist, Jesse Livermore, ultimately failed. So, I wrote this to one such party pooper now:
#trading

Tomorrow Cats!
I searched all invented AI profiles for "Tomorrow Cats" and -- the future appears to be GIANT KITTEHS!
You've been warned!
#AI #AIart #Midjourney

Guardian covid erasure (again)
This morning, the Guardian gives us a whole article about the increasing rate of strokes in the UK - somehow failing to mention the word "covid" at all.
Instead of a link to their denialtastic article, here's some actual research on covid, strokes etc:
"People who survived the first 30 d of COVID-19 exhibited increased risk of stroke (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.52 (1.43, 1.62)"
#stroke #CovidErasure #Guardian

#Bicycle handlebars as a risk of injury
#TUG

Finally watched the movie Bottoms. Its funny, dark, and absurd, with a real Strangers With Candy vibe.
This review gets it right👇
#comedy #DarkHumor #movies

"Bottoms" is a slew of contradictions creating a weird but wonderful masterpiece - The Cypress
Coming-of-age films have historically been divided into two categories: the ultra feminine, sparkle-covered archetypal “sleepover movie,” and the edgy, rebel-without-a-cause-esque boyhood film about sports and dead dogs. “Bottoms” mixes the qualities of both like it’s a simmering stew, creating the most awful film I’ve watched all summer and also the greatest. Released on Aug. 25...

AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/eric

Exclusive: Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M
Augment, a startup developing an AI-powered platform similar to GitHub's Copilot, has launched out of stealth valued at nearly $1 billion.