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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.

Trigger crossbar front panel board is back from fab.
It looks like I mostly pulled off the 0.5mm pitch BGA, but the Vbat via looks to be insufficiently tented so I might get it failing open there. Should have moved the via slightly further away from the ball to reduce the risk of such a failure.
Good news is, I don't think this will matter for two reasons.
1) The actual Vbat ball is not the one next to the via, it's the one to the right. The outer-ring ball is an un…

This is quite the rube goldberg machine
It would be way simpler to just tax employers $75/employee and use that to make all transit fare free
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1031<…

"With rare bipartisan momentum, the [US] House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support.. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94. Final House approval could come this weekend, when the package would be sent to the Senate."

Ukraine, Israel aid bill on track as House pushes toward votes
The House has pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage. A key procedural vote gained approval Friday to move ahead with the bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson has been making the rounds on conservative media working to salvage the wartime funding, particularly for Ukraine as it faces a critical moment battling Russia. His own job is also under threat as the restless right flank threatens to oust him from office. President Joe B…

I've never been to #Europapark on regular opening days, but I think it already looks very chic at #CloudFest!

Die fast fertig renovierte "HyparSchale" vom DDR Ingenieur Ulrich Müther https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyparschale_(Templin)?wprov=sfti1#Weblinks
Hier war nach der Wende eine Disko drin wo wir die eine oder andere Nacht verbracht haben…

Hyparschale (Templin) – Wikipedia

I’m a sucker for procedural #journalism films (The Post, She Said, and Spotlight, which won the Oscar Best Picture in 2016) so I watched Netflix’s Scoop, which is about the infamous BBC Newsnight interview of Prince Andrew in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. I had the fortune (?) of not having seen this interview so it was interesting seeing how it all came about. The film wasn’t as good …

3-person #Gaslands with a budget.
Me with ram, turreted machine gun, loose grenades (orange car). PJ got a car & motorcycle. Eric with two motorcycles and a turreted dune buggy.
Out of the gate he made a measuring error and killed one of his two motorcycles on the side of my car.
Chain reaction of collisions, explosions, gunfire behind my car, with only one of each of their moto…

Hey friends, sorry for the spam. But I just rediscovered this shot and remembered this uncommon situation where we decided to retreat from a hike as we didn't feel comfortable of crossing the part ahead. One of us was also a little afraid of heights ... a challenging section paired with anxiety - in such situations I don't hesitate a second to cancel.
And NEVER give that person a bad feeling. I hope you agree.

Choosing Safety Over Summit
Choosing a recommended trail, we confronted a precarious section, captured in the poignant photograph. This narrative explores the wisdom of prioritizing safety over summit ambitions, discovering that true adventure lies not just in peaks but in the courage to retreat

Why are you disappointed Minister St-Onge, you're doing exactly the same thing to the CBC!! Just look in the mirror and be disappointed at yourself!
"I am extremely disappointed in Bell Canada's decision for many reasons," said Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge during a press conference.”
#Media