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budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
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I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

Ecuadorian people, in a referendum, reject the right wing president's proposal to allow US military bases and to replace the 2008 constitution, the progressive one written by a constituent assembly under the leadership of Alberto Acosta.
Ecuador impide en las urnas que Noboa instale bases de EE UU y cambie la Constitución progresista de 2008

Ecuador impide en las urnas que Noboa instale bases de EE UU y cambie la Constitución progresista de 2008
La población ecuatoriana rechaza todas las preguntas de una consulta que pretendía reinstalar bases de EEUU en el país y acabar con la Constitución de 2008, aprobada bajo la gestión de Correa.

So next year is the 30th anniversary of USB and the 10th anniversary of mass-market adoption of the USB-C connector.
Fun fact, USB4 is based on Thunderbolt and virtualizes USB connections over it, so Thunderbolt kind of won the hardware interface wars in the end. Modern peripheral connection hardware is bonkers.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Elastica:
🎵 Connection
#Elastica
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/wirestica-three-girl-connection-wire-three-girl-rhumba-vs-elastica-connection
https://open.spotify.com/track/53LZqMzQEnjBkFXPqOq0cD

Reminder: You can let Mozilla know what you think about AI and other stupid shit.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/td-p/109922
(Edited to fix li…

Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together
Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build. We’ve heard from many of you who’d prefer not to have AI in your browser at all, and we get it: We will soon provide additional settings for you to control how AI i...

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

Seeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)

«Auso…», würde ein Berner sagen. 😉
Ich habe nun eine Zusammenstellung mit Fazit und Statistiken erstellt. Da hat es auch eine Tabelle mit allen einzelnen Etappen dabei, da das Blog sonst eher unübersichtlich ist.
War entschleunigend, erholsam, dieses 🇨🇦
#CANEast25

Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-told-by-alan-dershowitz-constitutionality-of-third-term-is-unclear-33133eb8?st=6hBXc8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p126#a251217p126