garden/dej.md

Dej

• pull armengolaltayo
• pull flancian
• pull jonathan-the-utopian
• pull armengol-lorand
• patterning glossary

2021-06-19

• check in
  • army of love
    • 4h today, 4h tomorrow
  • armengol
    • working on documentation for pointless
    • doing lots of video editing, learning as we go
    • in the style of youtube videos / clickbait aesthetic
  • color encodings
    • jab
    • hccb
    • josh rowell
  • summarizing the intro of a pattern language
• agora
  • agora polls
  • python vs javascript

2021-06-05

• how to translate between conventions
• agora protocol
  • agora trees

2021-05-22

• operands
  • nested systems
  • category theory for engineers
    • https://applied-compositional-thinking.engineering/
    • https://vimeo.com/551804154
• intentions -- things we wanted to do but haven't done yet
  • lorand wanted to write more notes on notes on synthesis of form
    • with the intention of sharing in github space
    • and practicing merging algorithms
  • we could also do this for a pattern language and this week's "homework":
    • introductory material at the front of the book
    • then each person chooses a pattern to share
  • decision
    • let's do this first for a pattern language
    • but also keep on trying with notes
• other topics
  • recap of conversation on 2021-05-08: notes in armengol.
    • context

2021-04-24

• jonathan busy, lots to read for the masters
  • now in the gallery scene ;)
• armengol also busy, probably need a break
  • workaholic mode
  • sometimes feels like he's "lost the ability to have fun"
  • 2h30m away from barcelona
  • when he goes he ends up meetings lots of people in a cluster/sequence
  • (reminded me of my visits to buenos aires)
  • when you're working too much, it's easy to become less efficience/diverge
  • exploratory mode?
• topics
  • jonathan is there a simple way to get a git repository of markdown notes?
    • flancian kaleido is looking nice!
    • reading alexander repository could be an experiment
      • two modes at least:
        • conversation mode
        • do
          • shared document mode
            • priority
      • nice thing about etherpad in an activity yesterday is that it can be ephemeral; it can be unstructured; it can have structure
  • ui / ux experiments
  • roadmap
    • goals plus timeframes
    • see notebook
  • push do
    • incorporate reading alexander into the agora
  • armengol how did you manage taking notes for reading alexander?
    • jonathan mostly on paper; tried transferring later but couldn't make the time

2021-04-03

• Vacaciones vs trabajo en modo freelance
• push pointless
  • two weeks ago
  • video on twitch
  • edited version is coming
• bitcoin -> altcoins -> ethereum -> icos
  • nfts
    • armengol gran potencial económico para muchos artistas
• walter benjamin
  • the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
• hannah arendt
• how to store context to recover mind states in the relatively distant future?
• how do you handle todos/projects?
  • jonathan-the-utopian
    • todoist
    • journaling in obsidian
• encoding information in dna
• recording app
  • Why Would A Recording App Win “Best App of the Year”?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtfdWl10lN4
• now: https://sive.rs/nowff
• agora
• jekyll
• jonathan-the-utopian thesis update
  • formats for groups processes
  • have been participating in workshops
  • doing reading
    • roland barthes
    • hannah arendt
    • christopher alexander
    • non violent communication
    • victor papanek
  • structuralism and vulnerability
    • structure, understanding, interface?

2021-03-06

• https://anagora.org/go/meet
  • virtual spaces, meeting points, schelling point
  • recuerda a discord y sus salas de voz
  • what clubhouse is trying to exploit
• meeting points
  • zurich flea market in helvetiaplatz
  • ritual, going to a bar every second friday -- associated bar
• big blue button
  • meet.coop
    • social.coop gets this at some tier
• beeper
  • could be a coop?
  • jailbroken iphones: a joke?
• ghost publishing, some of the profits
  • write freely
• foam
  • governance
  • c.f. athens
• ctzn is broken
  • ctznry.com
• agora governance
  • users control it by coding nodes however they can
  • users control it by proposing changes to its contract
  • users control it by forking and merging agoras
    • it should be one command essentially
  • jonathan
    • difference in skill between users means difference in power
    • power is held by people who host?
      • yes, I agree. reducing this power, making it easy to host, is a priority.
  • two threads:
    • what is stimulating from this vision
    • reflecting on the dangers
• how did the presentation for the masters go?!
  • a lot of the discussion that happened with the jury, in particular a philosopher, was centered around
  • "this project seems like it's situated in social design and it's important to read works in this space, concerning in particular to risks"
  • western / colonial gestures / white saviour complex
• armengol the problem of getting things into shareable state
  • flancian defaults to sharing all :)
    • armengol tries to understand why he wants to say something, what's behind it; to process, filter, etc.
  • example problem: where should we meet after this? been thinking about coordination problems; how we relate to digital information.
  • thought about rules and principles
    • aside contract, devine-lu-linvega's a cheatsheet on discourse
    • identity principle -- in a digital context you are your information as shared in the digital ecosystem
    • fashion
      • barthes
  • if we are planning on sharing a space, imposing rules can be a form of violence; you are limiting and bending other people's identities
    • rules for the self converges to free will
  • principles are a common understanding of something. they can be used in subsets with a purpose.
    • principles could be in contract
    • when people interact, they try to follow all contracts
  • a cheatsheet on discourse
    • three gates
      • is it true
        • relevant principles:
          • there is no absolute truth
          • reality can be described from many valid subjective perspectives
• push armengol principles based on our relationship with information in a digital context
  • identity
    • you are your information as manifested
  • individuality
    • each individual has different needs
  • linkage (connectivity?)
    • we are a network
  • contract (spatiality?) (commonality?)
    • communication is only possible when you share common spaces
      • (discussion about definitions of space and communication here)
      • do discuss communication theory
  • origin (synchronicity?)
    • every piece of information has been created at a moment in time
  • accumulation (historicity?)
    • you can not change the past -- append only
  • meaning (diachronicity?)
    • you can only connect the dots looking backwards
• push armengol rules
  • we are used to working with markdown. it functions as a common space; it is not just the file, but the associated systems to deal with the files and link them.
  • what if we have a place where we can work together on these files.
    • stoa?
  • if we override the words of others, this is invasive. but if we don't agree on a shared context, communication cannot happen.
  • aside m prime