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@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2024-03-25 16:30:01

The myth of self-regulating systems
#AdamCurtis

How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history, film-maker Adam Curtis explains

@cdarwin@c.im
2024-03-25 19:00:46

The brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".
A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network".
It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no #hierarchy, no #leaders

How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history, film-maker Adam Curtis explains

@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social
2024-03-14 22:00:59

🏈 @… #NFL
Via Adam Schefter 🤖 @…
Former Commanders WR Curtis Samuel is signing a three-year, $24 million deal worth up to …

@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page
2024-03-22 07:19:42

$^{171}$Yb$^ $ optical clock with $2.2\times 10^{-18}$ systematic uncertainty and absolute frequency measurements
Alexandra Tofful, Charles F. A. Baynham, E. Anne Curtis, Adam O. Parsons, Billy I. Robertson, Marco Schioppo, Jacob Tunesi, Helen S. Margolis, Richard J. Hendricks, Josh Whale, Richard C. Thompson, Rachel M. Godun