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RE: #StreetMedics. I've been writing a lot about my own trauma, so it kind of fits with the theme of my current work.
I'd love to read stuff from street medics writing about their trauma, either in the form of fiction or non-fiction, just to start to wrap my head around what such a game could look like.
Also... folks should generally just have an idea of how fucked up shit can get and why street medics are often super traumatized and we should be making that as visible as possible.

The whole crisis around Iran and Hormuz will be a blessing in disguise for renewable energy and electrification. It was already clear but now even more that from an economic perspective it is simply smart to go for renewable energy and ditch fossil fuels as much as possible. But now there is an additional incentive because of high prices and the wish to be less dependent. Without even mentioning the environmental benefits.

Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/standard-intelligence-rides-neola…

Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model
Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new: a Toyota Rav4 driving around with a laptop propped on the dashboard.The laptop was running a new breed of AI model, known as a “ ...

A lot of the recent hype around agentic coding comes with a statement of the effect that code no longer matters, as it can be produced factory-style by LLMs. I saw this most recently as part of the "o16g Manifesto", which sees code solely as a vehicle to deliver functionality. While there's a grain of truth in that - much of the code of this world is in some way disposable - it misses the fundamental social aspects of what code can be. 🧵

“AGI is just around the corner”

Memory chipmakers around the world shed close to $100bn in market value last week, after new research suggested AI systems may require far less hardware than previously expected.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/memory-chip-stocks-slide-af…

Memory chip stocks slide as AI efficiency breakthrough rattles investors
Memory chipmakers around the world shed close to $100bn in market value last week, after new research suggested AI systems may require far less hardware ...

Jetzt beginnt die Vorstellung der von Reiche zurückgehaltenen Studie "Stärkung der regionalen Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien"
mit dem Studienautor Dr. Steven Salecki, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator am Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW).
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What a lovely writeup on the #OS wars in the 80ies, their legacy and corporate politics background:
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/aftermath-of-the-kernel-wars/

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.