In Common

On Friday 13th June friends gathered at Hermitage Community Mooring to celebrate the London launch of The Rise of Network Commons by Armin Medosch. This book was drafted over a decade ago and serialised on Armin’s blog The Next Layer but didn’t get published as planned before his untimely death in 2017.

Only now after the efforts of Adam Burns and Volker Ralf Grassmuck with support of Geert Lovink – Institute for Network Cultures, is it presented for print on demand at £10.00. PDF

“The book in your hands is a message in a bottle that washed ashore ten years...

Оконные функции: использование RANGE и GROUPS mode

Ранее в этом блоге мы познакомились с оконными функциями в PostgreSQL. Возможности оконных функций рассматривались на примере ROWS mode, как наиболее простом для понимания. Однако бывают задачи, где ROWS mode не очень-то помогает, и приходится прибегать к RANGE mode или GROUPS mode. Рассмотрим использование данных режимов на простых примерах. Пусть имеется таблица с временными рядами: [...]

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman—as well as people I’ve known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a bewildering maze of passageways, meeting-rooms, sleeping quarters, gardens, and vines off Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, which has recently emerged as the nerd Shangri-La, or Galt’s Gulch, or Shire, or whatever. I did two events at this year’s LessOnline: a conversation with Nate Soares...

Recently

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A little late on this one, but I got around to it!

I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century by Ross Barkan, whose newsletter is my primary news source for local political intrigue. It’s great so far.

As the culture of the Who Cares Era grinds towards the lowest common denominator, support those that are making real things. Listen to something with your full attention. Watch something with your...

Устройство Времени в проекциях и раздвоениях

( Июнь 2025, idb@kiwiarxiv )

Очередной эпизод сериала «Время научного гностицизма» .
Ранее: часть 1 ; часть 2

Если кто вдруг успел позабыть или пока ещё просто не в курсе, то развиваемый здесь путь познания мира под названием Научный Гностицизм — это такая ересь с любой стороны. То есть осознанно иной образ мыслей. Иной как для воззрений традиционной религии, так и для официальной науки (давно пытающейся превратить себя в ещё одну, посюстороннюю религию).

Также можно говорить, что развитие идей научного гностицизма — это путь к Истине через удаление из науки многочисленных табу. Сильно напоминающих табу религиозные и препятствующих полноценному освоению знаний во всём их...

Summary of changes for May 2025

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.

Oquonie was released on the Playdate Catalog this month! We'd like to thank everyone who sent us photos of their progress in the game, it has been nice to follow along. The game is kind of our first official release on a modern handheld platform, and we're happy to...

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares are publishing a mass-market book, the rather self-explanatorily-titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. (Yes, the “it” means “sufficiently powerful AI.”) The book is now available for preorder from Amazon:

(If you plan to buy the book at all, Eliezer and Nate ask that you do preorder it, as this will apparently increase the chance of it making the bestseller lists and becoming part of The Discourse.)

I was graciously offered a chance to read a draft and offer, not a “review,” but some preliminary thoughts. So here they are:

For decades, Eliezer has been warning...

Двойной слепой и Парапсихология

( Май 2025, idb@kiwiarxiv )

Строго научные методы исследований давно освоены в работе с чудесами экстрасенсов. Но открыто признавать это не принято. Ибо — неловко как-то. Да и страшно…

Подготовка большого цикла материалов с общей темой «Время научного гностицизма» естественным образом вывела расследование на одну любопытнейшую книгу. В переводе на русский полное название этой работы звучит примерно так: «Окончательная машина времени: Восприятие времени дистанционным наблюдателем и предсказания для нового тысячелетия.» [o1]

Автором книги является уже не раз появлявшийся в текстах киви-архива Джо Макмонигл, в прошлом офицер и экстрасенс военной разведки США [i1][i2]. Более известный по рассекреченным разведывательным отчётам как Remote Viewer 001 (дистанционный...

Part and parcel of engagemen in Pendle – 15 years of collaboration with In-Situ and Building Bridges

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– Paul Hartley, In-Situ

The People Speak have been collaborating with In-Situ and Building Bridges for 15 years, helping the residents and stakeholders of Pendle Borough envisage a better and more connected borough of the future. As part of this ongoing project we have done a number of residencies, trained new Talkaoke hosts and produced events in the areas overlooked by the famous Pendle Hill: from Walkaoke – Talkaoke on the move, to Pendle Under The Hammer – a series of creative consultations with the residents of Colne, Nelson, Barnoldswick and Brierfield to...

Making a custom porteur bag

I just finished my first fully custom sewing project: a porteur bag for bike trips. This is a bag designed to fit on a front rack, in my case a rack called Jack The Bike Rack. On multi-day trips, I want to bring a change of clothes, and need somewhere to put them that’s reasonably waterproof and lightweight.

I previously constructed a frame bag that fits in the main triangle of the bike, but I want more storage for longer trips like the C&O + GAP. Making the frame bag was more straightforward because there are lots of guides online for how to do it, and I had the assistance...