fish sticks July 21, 2011

The American dream is dead.  The American dream is alive.  the desire to wall off communities, ourselves, socioeconomic regions of the world – to surround ourselves with a white picket fence and create a world in that dream for ourselves and those we want to protect.  In doing so we have become greedy, sucking on each other’s treasure in an attempt to survive, seeing quite clearly an exhaustion of resource.  With great homeland responsibility we see grave dangers on foreign shores to the peace and liberty that America and its allies represent.  Likewise they see our mirror on a number of fronts.

Faith is a weapon and a powerful shield.

Some feel tossed and turned, not able to get a foothold during an economic restructuring very costly to the people of the world.  Children wake quickly to realize the harsh realities of the world and laugh at the tears of those that mourn what was lost.  They’re hungry to eat up their share of what hasn’t been theirs yet.  Their faith is now in survival, in their ability to operate within a system and to one day dominate it – for reasons unfathomable in depth of variety.

When you look at the politics of the day, we have champions all over the country and world, in our towns and communities, and grassroots uprisings moving around them.  A 20 minute search of YouTube will show you thousands of highly effective workers and inspirational figures for youth.  Preformed corporations of them ready to leap into action and many who have the ability to cross cultural divide with an ease that their parents might do well to understand.

It’s easy to seek order, it has a firmly shape, or traits one you can identify.  It’s easy to seek chaos in the form of destruction, decay, starvation, exploitation, slavery and on.  Once leverage is established over a populace or demographic it can be wielded as a swathe of black propaganda, wrong action, wrong thought.  It can provide temporary reduction in suffering to those in power, but comes at cost to those who are made limited by such action.

I briefly got to travel across America – 4 days in a minivan fueled by 5 hour energy and corn dogs, with a pair of dogs in the back.  The sights were incredible.  Salt Lake City is phenomenal, white shapes whip in the wind across great dunes of sandy water.  It is easy to imagine the Mormon view of heaven from this place.  On the outskirts of Reno we saw a man spinning like a dog while dancing down the street.  I had thought he was happy – turns out he was high on meth.  Last chance saloon in the desert, and a place to make it big, or face plant.  It’s like the pyramids of Egypt; you can be emperor here or a guy who carries rocks.    Mountains where cars were blown off the road and where you cannot walk from the strength of the wind.  Vast fields of wind farms.  All the towns were the same, and very different.  All trying to carve out the American dream where they were, and where they travel.  Their own version.  It’s become hard to navigate this world.  Tribes of America exist as grassroots movements, corporate conglomerates, brand vision and the hearts and hands of America which continue to strive for their dream despite overwhelming odds.  Unions should defend themselves, as there is very real power in your collective voices as you rally around your reason.

Thus to our politicians, you are our elected heroes – for what that brings.  A whirlwind of bickering only pauses time.  It drains us.  It drains the world.  It’s not about debt ceilings, or gay rights, or the militarization of cyberspace, or a need for education, or the need to progress sciences and medicine at all cost, or the strangling of countries’ economies, peoples, or faiths, nor a beacon of faith in humanity that all belief systems of the world could contribute to.  We’re worrying about bones of people under temples.  But these things can only enflame our darkest selves.

Its many visions of America, of the continent of America.  It’s also about our allies, those who have stood with us to preserve what we represent as an entirety, as a will of the American people.  I lived for a time in Edinburgh, in Scotland.  The place was a student mash from every country bathed in a whole lot of alcohol, book and fire festivals, and probably the best place to be on New Year: p. it was quite common to hear several languages, and people intermingled very effectively it seemed.  There were also many problems.  But it was functional and it got stuff done.  That is what we do in America.  We do what we need to do to get our jobs done.  I was fortunate enough to go to a secondary school which instilled these values in me through numerous lessons.  There were problems.

In the up one might go 40 miles north and encounter an entirely different accent.  The communities are somewhat isolated, even within the small space.  In America its phenomenal.  There are deserts, and plains lands, and enormous forests.  Texas is nothing like Washington State, but it shares many commonalities that distribute grassroots movements geographically.  With the internet it is now ever easier for these groups to assemble and ‘preach’.

You can’t trust the church; they abuse kids and do crazy televangelism stunts to prey on faith energy for cash.  The Vatican must be furious.  This isn’t at all its message.  What about all the charity work they do damn it! The corruption could shake it to its knees at a time when the world’s faiths are crumbling and terrible physical and mental suffering need the clergy and layman who have given their lives over to the protection of others.  Even 10 years ago when I was in the UK I could see the ending.  While worrying about this, while searching for the voice of the megaton, corruption has entered new worlds in the sky.  These lands are bereft of faith, cold and bleak.  In them legends are told, and slaves are made in Asia by shell corporations becoming fat off cruel work.  It goes both ways.  Entire structures exist to mask and shield these entities.  Who’s is it to say what should be and how things should be done?  None when that decision is made by few to persecute the weak?  Perhaps not.  But there is little alternative view in these places, and old lessons are told but are confused in the humdrum of temptations, eye candy (wiener – plus come back).  People lose themselves in delusions to cope with their interpretation of the world, and can become lost.  But such things can be helpful in reduction of suffering, or an aid to isolate a particular one and remove it.

I came looking to America and decided to work for a summer in the Washington national cathedral.   While a wonderful institution some nastiness occurred to me which ended up with me sleeping on the closed church doors to avoid someone.  Bad priests who seek to bend the mind of their petitioners towards some means beyond a path in spirituality.  Needs rooted out entirely.

We have highways that cross our entire nation, that give our people great freedom of movement.  We have technologies which can make physicality for collaboration an irrelevancy.

In new worlds online people exist in the millions.  They spend a lot of time in these places.  Some people prefer to be in these places than in the outside world, and most intermingle now to the point where distinction isn’t really relevant where technology is stuffiest to provide infrastructure.

People meet for a number of social reasons.  Aligning sentiments which form a thread of their beliefs throughout their life.

Great vehicles of self-awareness exist in this world, with different visions of what it is to be pure, to be free, to be clean, to be one system, to escape from it, to not be.  To expand forever, to crush into nothing, to be recycled in kalpaks unending.

As the world becomes more challenging to endure, we must embody our ideals and cut swathe through illusions sent to delude the mind.

We see great beacons of faith in the real world – mecca, the Vatican, the holy lands of Tibet, l ‘arc de triumphed, the Washington monument, Stonehenge.  These are pinnacles truly to our faith in humanities capability to overcome hardship and how to share and enjoy peace, or devastate with war, or whatever.  The simple addition of a well-wrought cross to a shield can fuel the power of a crusade and its manner of inquisition.

While nonsense from religions thousands of years old in matters such as sexual abuse, suppression of free religion by governing belief systems broils one wonders where compassion and altruism exist in these systems.  In a world of demons, it can be hard to find a church with a message that can be trusted.  within Christianity alone there’s more factions than you can keep up with and their bothered about the particulars of heaven, or whether fish is cool on Fridays,  whether we should chop bits off our children’s genitals, to racial purity sought by some governing systems which preach eugenics and biodiversity manipulation.

The things these systems represent have become overcome by corruptions – by association with political party, or political gain.  They have been subject to political persecution.  Various belief systems have been hunted unjustly.  Some have been deliberately splintered geographically in an effort to delineate populace sufficiently to control intermarriage and custom.  Over time these differentiations spread to become isolated systems or conclaves.

we need sporting heroes back and less shit about how they cope to try and reach a superlative which increases every year.

We need our Anthony wieners to smash through the nonsense and continue to do what they believe is right for the American people.

We need the one true superpac of the world to produce the most wicked of black propaganda – so that a mirror can be shown so stark than any caricature of it is simply laughable.  March boldy at the foul city.  For all of the tribes of America.

The election season is going to be exciting – let’s hope we play fair.

circles and Civ 6 alpha July 11, 2011

(my capitalization inconsistency is deliberate, im trying to get you used to the fact that sometimes its easier to not press the shift key more than you really need to – typewriters are painful to game on. and this is not a business scenario or other where such things are suitable requirements of etiquette and trust establishment)

I cannot tell you what is true, nor am i qualified to.  i can tell you experientially what I see and have seen and how i see the world, and believe to be true.  a reason. one reason of very many.

i am interested in the seeding for and selection of fortuitous futures for mankind, and in where this has occurred successfully in the past (science, religion, stories, faiths, belief systems, humanity – source agnostic) – impacts of actions or events that or might reduced suffering.  I want to find where that is occurring in the real and online worlds and most importantly how we can sow more seeds.

not enough attention is being paid to how we move as a society onto the internet.  there’s lots of interested parties – but not a lot of coagulation from old (or new!) guardians we might expect to see.

I am interested in an identification of the forces at work in the online worlds, their feedback into the real world (RMT) etc. – vehicles to joy / understanding / all sorts of candy, training uses, business uses, there’s just so much.  medicinal uses of games.  formalized research – why so secret?  defend your reason.

I am interested in the provision of a space for a group to be able to express its reason in complete anonimity (tickles talks to pickles rather than julian assange who lives exactly right here talks to huffpuff the magistrate).  and where they could assert their reason, have it challenged by others, and attract followers.  we have all the bits except the complete anonimity.  people cannot think along their reason if they are burdened thinking that someone will come to destroy them. Terrorists!   some are foul, some are desperate.  all have a voice.

yes probably they would spread their reason using this but we have been held in fear for far too long by small harms on our historical scale.

I am interested in methods of control over people – how they are weilded and most importantly why.

I am interested very much in gathering a much data as possible and making it available to everyone.

I want to assemble the wasteland / junkyard / samsara survival guide library, and catalogue it. devils, dogs and angels, gotta catch em all.

and now to circles…

Circles doesn’t work imo at gut check because it tries to make static the ephemerality of form a group, a continuum etc. have.  To me they only have a shape of a circle when you take a picture of them or consider them over long time like a circuit, seem more like streams.  merging circles and waves?

personally i like twitter right now – there is so much information to process now that im happy to trust some people to provide micro digests of so i can decide ‘yes, read that link’ / ‘not atm’.  I want to dip my hand in a stream, maybe swim for a bit, then put my other hand in another one.  Or maybe  im trying to merge very different streams.  I’m trying to find out how water flows through me and what I can do to direct that flow so that the outcome I desire occurs.  If I need privacy, I’m certainly not going to cluster myself into a single ID to be smacked.

What if I don’t want to bundle up all the things a man does and call it a man, or cast that to a ‘group’ of man.  A type of man, a sub type – so many adjectives to deal with another human in the context of a single mind.  It makes it more easy to categorize I guess, but it feels like binding (and my primary data loops got busted some years ago).

I got turned right off at the ‘bragging rights’ section.  Ill not go into a world with badges of authority on my chest unless the need arises.  but thats just me.

The dogma, the training becomes our likely truth.  The process of examination leads to conclusions that are more likely to follow paths through the mind that have been used before- at least this is how it personally feels.

We build structures of knowledge, object chains to the infinitesimal.  Then we group them into things that don’t exist so that we can use them.

If I tell you ‘it is raining’ – what is exactly?  The droplets of water, the movement of it, the detection of the movement by the systems of the mind, the stuff getting wet…for each of those elements your mind can easily construct object chains to the infinitesimal including ‘hows that feel’ based on how you organize information within it.  Your chains have different elements than do another persons.

How you organize the information within you mind is likely due in part to what you spend a lot of your time doing.  If you are thinking about particular algorithms in business, a way of drawing that becomes a ‘style’, or you think a lot about how you feel things then the way in which you perceive new information or foreign information may clash with these filters, scurrying spider webs.  The process by which something is learned can make the learning of another thing more difficult to allow.  It is a path of lower resistance for thoughts to flow in expected ways, thus we feel inclined to deny non matching input.  It doesn’t sound right to the very fabric of our being, or sounds like a perversion of OUR truth.  We suffer when we change our minds because of an attachment to me – we keep trying to solo the world.

You may see another problem here.  Typically people are not willing to hold all relevant structures in the mind simultaneously.

I’m hoping social media really lets the general public come out of their skin – to help us see other perspectives.

What the scientist ‘see’s in the drop of rain follows a flow so different than that of spiritualist that rarely do they intersect while so discordant.   However, if both are so insistent in their genuine insight, are there aspects from one, the other or both we’re not letting ourselves see?  Are we erecting structural blockade to our insight, protecting precious jewels scrumbled up in our head?  By denying spiritual insight have we gained so much FAITH in science, by rejecting science on faith have we abandoned the meticulous methods of faith and mind training – a SCIENCE of its own.

CIV 6 alpha:

In this online world we are presented with many wonderful opportunities for the creation of fortuitous futures.

Croudsourcing by governments / people with the money to do it and willingness to do it fairly:

• Would it not be wonderful if they could compete online for funding based on the reason for the thing, or the benefit it will bring?
• Imagine croudsourcing “what we should build as the next world wonder?”, and leaving that data open.
• It doesn’t have to be a world wonder in the form of an object you can visit.  One laptop per child is a world wonder.  The elimination of the scourge of malaria is a world wonder.

• Putting people back to work with civic projects that both stretch our collaborative and economic goals while providing us insight into a whole new world of invention and education IS A WORLD WONDER.
• We need attention on the home front.  We cannot be the America we want to be if we are burdened so heavily that we cannot perform those functions.  We cannot continue to burn our people.  I see politicians in Washington and their faces sometimes visibly twist in to caricatures of their intent, news media folk need to keep making them do this and extol the ones who’re fair and give 2 bits about their constituents.  they seem to really be ratcheting it up and it couldnt be greater.  Its like the world is screaming to be freed.

-          Unlimited corporate funding of elections is wildly insane, and an odd way to introduce chaos.  You are asking for some powerful entities to express reason, but you are not asking the people in a way that allows their reason to compete in any way fairly.  is this so people can fight corporations and governments can ref?  should read the stuff…

-         you could ask the American people – in this time where we really need a boost please, what should we do, right now?  You have 6 months, x billion dollars will be allocated towards implementation of the winning idea and x to the inventors or whatever to inspire.  corporations can receive tax breaks for donating useful R&D.  This process will be repeated every 6 months.  You’d get infantile ideas from people acting that way – but you’d also get a view of the objectification of their desires for their countries growth.   But you would also produce dreams, visions and countless ideas that while might not be chosen would likely spur all kinds of industry.  You’d have fights on where to put ‘it’ – but might decide that ‘it’ might be a joint effort to unite the tribes of america in a shared function.  you’d be doing the will of the people while respecting the individual’s power to be superlative.   im looking for bad things that would come of this but im only seeing ‘china gets our r&d’.  another day.

-          I know there’s millions of experts in numerous fields who feel disillusioned and might be inspired, I know there’s a generation(s) of people who feel unable to contribute and I know there is a great need for improvement in education and in the interconnectivity of our various regions.  i know theres a shit ton of people needing jobs.

-          The process of how it was built, the building of it and its online record then might become a monument to human cooperation – and art for when times change.

another popped July 11, 2011

Obama Town Hall July 10, 2011

the obama townhall thing was a good step but the critical flaw from one perspective was that we were not willing to embrace the mechanics and exposure of the new medium.  its like trying to cover up a weiner.

if people are asking for legal mj (apparently the no.1 question) or whatever else – THIS IS IMPORTANT.  why are they asking this?  why are they self medicating / abusing?  regardless of stance this is an important question that for too long has been able to be avoided due to the limitations of technology.

why not answer the question, and others. tell us why and move on, or you stay quietly trapped in it too.  if your answer changes, this is OK – let us know, let us know why.  if you do not believe ‘conditions’ are right for what you want to implement as our elected leader then you should have a very good reason for that.  its ok not to know, its ok to say ‘this is an idea that i would like to investigate with my administration…” etc.  it is so strange that our highest leaders would like to have a beer with us but would not want to answer the questions that the excited guest might be delighted to have the opportunity to ask.

some people will call you a flip flopper, but over time increaingly more will realize you are a human, not a disembodied monster up in DC / state capital / city hall.   people could be given the opportunity to know (they may not necessarily exercise it) the history and evolution of each candidates views with relation to political matters straight from the horses mouth coupled with voting record breakdown.  It would be great to know tell us how your views evolve – because ours do to, quite often with shifting circumstance and a changing world.  you are one of us right?  by that i mean a person.  how do you navigate through this change or are you stuck?  we’d like to know.  you don’t want your political message clouded by news media – then use these public tools and demand your opponents do.

The savvy townhall viewer could easily see that shown inaccuracy between what washington speaks about and what the real man on the street does and is given a sense of distrust even if there’s no reason for one.

I’m sure there were preconditions to the whole thing, and that’s may be why the question and others were stripped.  but the public don’t care, all they see is a guy who won’t answer a question.  you kind of do this or you don’t in regard to a trend stream of questions the public can number crunch in real time to prove your not dealing with the material deemed by the people to be most relevant.

imagine if we had prime minister question time where obama / political candidates and reps answered the true questions of the people on a regular basis.  the populace may become less distrustful of the government because as their representatives (avatars for the representation of their desires) they should be answering these questions.  if politicians do not then second hand view will be all that’s out there, or he-said she-said do-f-all cable news. loop it back to other media, if twitter isn’t displaying the processed real time trends stream top questions then provide them at a NEWS station.

we need the ability to shine light on and test reason, to test strength of vision – and to be respected enough to have our truly weighted concerns heard and their questions answered by our elected officials.

I saw an angel (demon) last night July 7, 2011

angels are demons of a vision of order. what is your black haired girl? July 4, 2011

what would you tweet? July 4, 2011

if you could control the message for a brief period of time – what would you choose to propagate as truth?

Would you choose something which had in most foreseeable outcomes a positive impact on the world? How would you assess that worth?

what possible futures are you willing to close to preserve the ones you want?

The Money of Soul and Possibility Control July 3, 2011

Best Evar! all 10 bestest(est)! June 20, 2011

Google has introduced a “best ever” rating – for places.  A google account is only allowed 10 “best ever” designations for places in total – thus the user indicates superlatives amongst rated data they have provided.  You can imagine how you might be able to predict already based on time of day what a user might like to eat or where they may wish to visit.  The existing ratings provide this information.

The new tag could allow for these ‘best ever’ places to occlude result sets with representation of the place rating by the user, friends of the user and globally / regionally / blah.  such occlusion could allow for a likeliehood determination of ‘what is the best place / a good place for me to hang out with group x at today?’ – it can be a further abstraction of the existing preference designation that allows for a potential to greatly refine search results when considering a social context.

When the user is not limited in the number of superlative designates it might elect then they may well assign numerous maximum ratings based on general indication of approval, or in a desire to raise averaged rating scores.  The opposite is also true, where users may unfairly rate places lowly based on other bias.

I have no idea what mechanisms google uses to derive truth (or alterior motivation) in recommendation for places, or if its largely unmoderated, or not considered (doubt this highly).

Ratings are unlimited and over time the old ratings accumulate.  Old 1-5 star ratings might be given a lower priority compared to more recent reviews as a compensation mechanism, or might be skewed towards other magic google might be able to determine such as user demographic guesstimate.  Regardless, with an unlimited pool of 1 and 5 star reviews users will pollute data – or to put it better will digitally exist within its space.  They will rate every McDonald’s they pass a 5 star because their BFF works at one, they will rate a tanning salon 1 star because their ex likes to visit the place, businesses change management and not warrent prior rating… and on.  This may make it troublesome to examine as the data set grows.  An accumulation of misinformation.

However, if the user’s Google internet presence, and chunk of the users social media self, is bound with a limited set of tags then the user is forced to be more judicious in their designation of what that user considers superlative.  The assignments will also likely change, and this change can be examined to see ‘what is like’ from and to – the limitation will create trends in the changes of ‘best place’ assignment.  Like twitter trending topics.

The thing that sticks out like a sore thumb here for next ups to me is Google providing better socially tinged results by creating a currency and linking it to a user’s online identity…  I wonder if there might ever be a way for a user to get 11 ratings cap?  to level up with google in exchange for being a good dataset provider?  a sense of progression with the system might further bind the user.

The Eyes of JUIZ May 10, 2011

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the predator tracking application - http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=4822

this app is apparently running object identification in live video more efficiently than even the 150 dollar multi-camera tech MS Kinect in several ways.

I would like to use this tech, which is open source for non-profit use, to develop a system for mobile phones (specifically WP7) that would allow a user to use their cell phone camera to draw around an object in their camera screen that would then be tracked.

the point of the application would be to create a kit with which a user could identify objects in, say, a room.  After processing several objects in the room in this example the user would be able to have an augmented reality view through their camera view of the objects being tracked by the predator algorithms.

the objects could display data about themselves, such as brand name, attempted bar code identification on products etc.  but at its simplest it would allow many users to create identification libraries which could then be uploaded to a cloud hosted database (pref. SQL azure as I need an excuse to work with it), and to attach notes to the identified object.

Objects can be people.  It would be very cool to see a phone app you can give to your building security team or to a on-plane law enforcement officer etc.  such an app could be used to identify known baddies using the predator algorithm and the mobile device camera.

initially the libraries would only be built locally and stored online but the intent would be to have these become searchable by other users.

e.g. looking through camera at a big cylinder of hydrogen gas.  user draws box around the canister.  image search online with google similar images or somesuch can cross reference.  if the object can be identified as something that a library has been created for (e.g. the sign on the canister showing the hazardous warning label) the user could be offered the opportunity to download a library of info about hazardous chems.

I like this because the tracking algorithm is free and apparently good, and because by allowing users to contribute to what is a massive info gathering exercise you can build microscopic areas of knowledge and share them in a way that augments other people’s views.

Call the app – eye spy or some shit.  no that’s terrible…  the eyes of Juiz!  (juiz is portuguese for ‘judge’ – watch this video good example of what I’m talking about, but for user identified data rather than GPS or google places stuff.  more microscopic.  (eden of the east highly recommended).