Stafford Beer

Stafford Beer applied CYBERNETICS to management, defined as "the science of effective organization".
It is also a template for revolutionary societal change.

[Stafford Beer @StaffordBeer2]

#Cybernetics has a toxic image amongst today's Mises-ites, who take refuge in faux Soviet shoe surplus analogies.
Beer is my focal point for re-examining a world where Big Data in the hands of exploiters is acceptable, but its use in societal evolution is not.
#DesigningFreedom

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[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

Never forget the other 9/11.
September 11th 1973. Mass murderer Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile and then murdered thousands of his political opponents. Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair allowed him to escape justice.

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This photo captured by photographer Berenice Abbott possibly in 1940s-1950s shows an engineer wiring an IBM 405 Alphabetic Accounting Machine [read more in a very useful inquiry about the photo by Ken Shirriff: https://t.co/GSeue4I4M7]

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Designing systems to support an ecologically sustainable, humanitarian Post Scarcity Society is not difficult; implementing them within a capitalist framework is not possible.

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In order to plan, direct and optimise work, we must first define it

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Rot in Hell

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Back to basics.

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Within a lifetime.

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[Marina Amaral @marinamaral2]

#OnThisDay in 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride.

“(...) When Marie continued her analysis of the bismuth fractions, she found that every time she managed to take away an amount of bismuth, a residue with greater activity was left.

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@CyberneticSere1 @AuthorRichardL Yes

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@AuthorRichardL @CyberneticSere1 It was indeed too strong a beer for the apparatchik mentality, it was an existential threat, a revolution too far.

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recursive spelled with an Ow

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@AuthorRichardL @CyberneticSere1 @asaltyleftist Third time lucky

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@elangelou you can tell by the rings

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@minivanninja @Schmed827 @romanjwatson @BeenLucky7 @colbyhall but it makes him a libertarian

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Chilean folk singer, Angel Parra, performs his song, “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born” composed to celebrate Project Cybersyn.
#cybernetics

https://t.co/WD7R9tfDqo via @YouTube

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Blessing a nuclear reactor, 1957.

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A Ferranti Pegasus, installed by Beer in Cybor House in 1956, for use in management cybernetics.
It weighed 1.2 tons, its input was via 5-hole paper tape and the following year set a world record for the calculation of π to 7480 digits.
It cost the 2021 equivalent of £1m.

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Team syntegrity and democratic group decision making.

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