@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 04:42:43
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.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2024-02-26 19:01:44
Update: I’m apparently not.
See: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111999407825147928
(Not deleting this so we don’t lose the conversation in the comments. Just don’t want new folks getting tripped up by it.)
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Sounds like I’m shadow-banned on mastodon.…
@carloshr@lile.cl2024-04-27 06:57:23
Too late for #LetterboxdFriday? Maybe a little bit... Anyway here are my #LastFourWatched
🔹Huesera (3½★)
🔹Man on the Moon (3½★)
🔹The Menu (3½★)
🔹Strange Way of Life (4★)
🔗
@fogelnet@heads.social2024-04-27 15:14:10
Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Sat, Apr 27, 1985 at Frost Amphitheater on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic
@luca@social.luca.run2024-02-27 08:48:10
X/Twitter finds my activity suspicious. Of multiple accounts. Because I am using VPNs? Because I don't post? Because I am logging in every few months? I haven't even used my delete script on those accounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1-z6LbX5w
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2024-04-27 14:47:44
“Tech isn’t political”
The Nazis in tech are, very vocally. That’s why if you have any sort of following in tech on social media you should vocally call them out and use your voice to denounce these absolute garbage people.
Because if you don’t, you’re quietly let them take away what you love.
ht…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2024-02-27 15:19:36
I’m in ur git tools, crashing them with emoji.
🤭
https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/issues/547
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2024-04-27 14:47:44
“Tech isn’t political”
The Nazis in tech are, very vocally. That’s why if you have any sort of following in tech on social media you should vocally call them out and use your voice to denounce these absolute garbage people.
Because if you don’t, you’re quietly let them take away what you love.
ht…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2024-03-27 16:58:14
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2024-02-26 18:40:30
Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @…’s account?
Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?
(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)
CC @…