monika hardy

a nother way

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'how society is organized.'

need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to..

organize around legit needs

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

For the economy — especially in the Western world, it is defined by back-office work and bureaucracy, or what @davidgraeber called, ‘Bullshit jobs’.

Clark interprets @davidgraeber 's argument in a rather techno-optimistic way. He suggests that AI will not destroy meaningful work but will instead eliminate bureaucratic waste and "bullshit jobs."
But @davidgraeber never wrote, that Bullshit job are a technical problem waiting to be automated. It is a political choice about how society is organized.

AI may well create new forms of bullshit jobs rather than eliminate them.

For example:

AI supervisors;
AI managers;
AI auditors;
AI compliance officers;
coordinators responsible for interactions between humans and AI systems;
specialists whose job is to fill out forms and reports required to monitor AI.
and so on...

https://t.co/EErlXriONL

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

For an act of resistance to the tyranny and vanity of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human for 20 years this year: https://t.co/8ApDA5YPF6

[monika hardy @monk51295]

legit 1st principles..
ie: listen to itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us

tech as nonjudgmental exponential labeling to facil the seeming chaos of that global detox leap

not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices (meadows)

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

At Antikythera we are launching a new research unit, Agentworld, that will explore agentic AI and hybrid agency from first principles:
--The Demographic Crossover Point within Centaur Societies
--Paradigms of Agency: Individuation and Decomposition
--The Mirror Talks Back: Parasocial Shadows
-- Open World Ecologies: Agent Lifeworlds
--Real-to-Sim-to-Real Relays
--Human-Agent Interaction Design
--Agent Institutions
--Agent Phenomenology and Theory of Minds
--Xenosociality: Beyond Humanity-of-the-Gaps
-- AHI (Artificial Hybrid Intelligence)

We are accepting submissions for new research to be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed Antikythera Journal (MIT Press)

The Call for Papers/ Whitepaper may be downloaded at https://t.co/aqJynGZyIt

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'most important realities are often hardest to see, precisely because they are everywhere'

why we need to let go of thinking we can know/predict/define/grammarize anything that matters for legit 'change'

why we need 1st/most: tech w/o judgment.. to hear the things we can't see

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

* Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Three Civilizational Attractors and the Metacrisis

Benjamin Life:

"Daniel Schmachtenberger has mapped the basins available to us better than most. His analysis provides a clear enough map of the current end state of the system to empower us to develop the right islands of coherence, the necessary nudges powerful enough to tip the system into the best possible next equilibrium. His starting observation is that exponential technology amplifies our destructive and our creative powers together, and that this twin amplification pushes our civilization toward one of two failure attractors.

The first he calls catastrophe: a cascading, decentralized breakdown, in which any one of a dozen runaway dynamics: ecological, financial, military, technological, is enough to crack the system, and the cracks spread. The second is dystopia: the centralized, total surveillance and control that arises precisely as the attempt to prevent catastrophe, binding every possible threat by binding everyone. The genuinely unsettling part of his analysis is that the obvious cure for each failure drives you toward the other. Flee the chaos and you build the cage. Flee the cage and you invite the chaos. The two failure valleys feed each other.

Which is why there must be a third attractor, a fundamentally different basin, neither collapse nor control. Schmachtenberger describes it as an antifragile, participatory civilization: one that grows stronger from its stresses, that distributes capacity and wisdom rather than concentrating them, that learns to metabolize its own risks instead of its own critiques. I believe Schmachtenberger’s third attractor is the valley Charles Eisenstein calls the more beautiful world our hearts know as possible. But it has another name, too. The ancient future.

But naming the basin is not the same as living there. What would it actually take to create the more beautiful world? Not a change of policy, and not even a change of values alone. It would mean a change in the grammar itself, a change in how change happens."

(https://t.co/FtXxv2FV7h)

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'Humanity is still deeply ensnared in egoic delusions, on individual/mass scale'

this is why we need that detox leap
what world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people.. so humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity of everyone in sync.. the dance

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'spiritual enlightenment'
aka: what's already on each heart; itch-in-the-soul

'large-scale control mechs in the same way'
ie: need means (nonjudg expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening to hear what’s already on each heart as global detox so we can org around legit needs

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

This is the deeper motivation that inspires Caitlin's work:

< " It is possible for the human organism to liberate itself from its habituated creation of the ego through the process commonly referred to as spiritual enlightenment. It is also possible for humanity as a species to liberate itself from its large-scale control mechanisms in the same way. That’s what a healthy humanity will look like. We will be free from all internal impulses to control, manipulate, exploit and dominate, and our systems for organizing society will no longer feature states which oppress their populations and try to rule the world. We are still very, very far from achieving this potential as a species. Humanity is still deeply ensnared in its egoic delusions, on an individual level and at mass scale. But we’re waking up. Strangely, awkwardly, stumbling forward like a toddler, we are moving to become a conscious species. " >

[monika hardy @monk51295]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudg exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of that global detox leap

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

otherwise yeah.. we’ll keep perpetuating same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world..

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'a new libidinal economy'

oikos (econ our souls crave): 'the house allows one to dream in peace’ gb

need tech/means with detox embed (ie: nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of that global detox/libidinal leap

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

Fabio Vighi of which we shared his article analyzing the collapse of the present value form, has an interesting comment on our reaction in Substack:

"Michel, thank you for this, your wiki page is an extraordinary archive of experiments in mutual coordination, and I'm going to have a good look at it. But I want to ask you a question. Does the planned economy you describe move us beyond capital as economic value tied to labour? Or does it simply redistribute that value more fairly, more ecologically, more democratically, etc.? My worry, as you will know from my piece, is that the value-form itself is a deep structure that no amount of mutual coordination can dissolve, only reform. And beneath that, there is something perhaps even more fundamental level: the "mode of enjoyment" that subjects derive from their activity under capitalism, i.e. the unconscious attachment to competition, to accumulation, to the very forms that exploit us. A new plan that does not generate a new way of relating to what we do at the level of desires/drives might not "stick" - do you agree? I do not have the answer but I suspect that the transition you are working toward requires not just new institutions but also a new libidinal economy. This might well arise out of necessity, but was wondering if you have thought about this. I would be grateful for your reflections."

https://t.co/i30n1Z12kr

[monika hardy @monk51295]

not yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices
‘in undisturbed ecosystem ..individual left to own devices serves whole’ dm

need to try whatever for a year.. a sabbatical ish transition.. for that dance to dance..to not become another myth of tragedy/lord

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Universal Basic Income is a policy we need to be discussing. Whether you are for it, against it, not sure about it.......at the very least, we need to be discussing it.

[monika hardy @monk51295]

the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices

‘in an undisturbed ecosystem..individual left to own devices serves whole’ dm

ie: whatever for a year.. a sabbatical ish transition
[legit needs met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring]

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

We should not see imagination as something only for kids.

Adults too need a bit of imagination, and maybe we could imagine alternatives to our current economic system.

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'when you understand interconnectedness it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying' – Robert Thurman

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

Everything is related to each other and can be better integrated, says the integralist ?

https://t.co/fulZbKjumr

[monika hardy @monk51295]

safety addiction ness

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.

It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.

You do them every day.
And you call them normal.

6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼

1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.

[monika hardy @monk51295]

huge..
if we couldn't only see/try/trust that/us
there is a nother way

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'but care.. which is something we don't often recognize.. is closely related to the notion of freedom..you take care of a child so the child can go and play.. that's what children actually do when you take care of them..' dg

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Honestly, if our economic system doesn't take care of the elderly, the disabled, and others in need while those in care work (like nurses) live in poverty and have no free time, then what is even the point of having an economy?

[monika hardy @monk51295]

'so need to think..ways we can care that make each other more free..who are people providing that care..how can they be *compensated with greater freedom' dg

[*compensate bleeds into measure ness]
rather: need conditions for us all to be legit free
ie: sans any form of m\a\p