May 2022

Connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is constituted of the sets of connections between entities, such that a change in one entity may result in a change in the other entity, and that learning is the growth, development, modification or strengthening of those connections. This paper presents an overview of connectivism, offering a connectivist account of learning and a detailed analysis of how learning occurs in networks. It then offers readers an interpretation of connectivism, that is, a set of mechanisms for talking about and implementing connectivism in learning networks, and finally, pedagogy.

Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it

Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.

Abusus (literally abuse), the right to alienate the thing possessed, either by consuming or destroying it (e.g., for profit), or by transferring it to someone else (e.g., sale, exchange, gift).

Someone enjoying all three rights has full ownership.

“Cooperatives are seen, broadly, as something extremely positive, bringing a voice to people who don’t always have a voice in the workplace. The question was how to bring that model to the internet,” said Trebor Scholz, founding director of the New School’s Platform Cooperativism Consortium, which supports research and entrepreneurship for technology-driven cooperatives.

This is one of those experiments in what works
This got some response

we are talking

• short
• focussed
• practical
• process orientated

“Intellectual historians have never really abandoned the Great Man theory of history. They often write as if all important ideas in a given age can be traced back to one or other extraordinary individual – whether Plato, Confucius, Adam Smith or Karl Marx – rather than seeing such authors’ writings as particularly brilliant interventions in debates that were already going on in taverns or dinner parties or public gardens (or, for that matter, lecture rooms), but which otherwise might never have been written down.

Daryl Davis breaks down his strategy for communicating with, and de-radicalizing, active KKK members. He has collected hundreds of Klansman robes over the past decade or two, as tokens of his deprogramming efforts.

I see such a lot of cynicism there is no hope without hope. How can I support an encourage hope

Creating Decentralized Social Media Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
Distributed networks and star topologies

We can’t trust big tech or the government to weed out fake news, but a public-led approach just might work

1:29 memes as globs of snot going p2p
1:00 emotions as weak point – sadness to anger
1:34 washing your hands
1:45 propagation, mutation and selection
2:45 the evolution of anger
2:48 how come we argue about wokers but never WITH wokers
4:05 they aren’t competing they are symbiotic
4:21 more allies mean more enemies
5:11 seriously how come we argue about wokers but never WITH wokers
5:59 emotive reasoning and general hygiene
I put the wokers bit in

but
I think it fits, like a glove

The idea for me is that p2p is motivated by virtue, that virtue can be objectively measured