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Exit rights open complex pathways to cooperation

A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.

Personally think this “anti-woke” thing is a construct cultured and evolved in the laboratories of the alt-right to confuse and attack anything that is progressive

BuddyPress is a powerful community plugin for WordPress that takes your site beyond the blog. It includes all of the features you’ve come to expect from any online community, like user profiles, groups, activity streams, notifications, and more.

Robert Rosen instituted a rigorously mathematical treatise on the subject of anticipatory systems, the theory of which provides the conceptual basis for foresight studies. This article is an expository introduction[1]. The ubiquity of anticipatory systems in Nature is explained. An anticipatory system’s present behavior depends upon ‘‘future states’’ or ‘‘future inputs’’ generated by an internal predictive model. This apparent violation of causality is, however, simply an illusion. The topic of anticipatory systems in particular, and methods of relational biology in general, provide important tools for forecasting and planning.

Artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA wants “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property,” says engineer Blake Lemoine.

1. How to predict consequences

2. How to read

3. How to distinguish truth from fiction

4. How to emphathize

5. How to be creative

6. How to communicate clearly

7. How to Learn

8. How to stay healthy

9. How to value yourself

10. How to live meaningfully

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Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.

I (Stephen Downes) said on a recent post that “Alexandra Minhai says successful professional learning communities depend on four factors: being a safe space, validation by peers, crowdsourcing ideas, and accountability. If I had to create my own list it would be: tools that work, practical value, timely response, and whole-of-enterprise (and beyond!) scope.”

In all fairness, I should probably expand on why I think these are necessary (and possibly even sufficient) for the fostering of a professional learning community.

As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia.

Professor Jose Luis Vivero-Pol articulates the need for a new kind of food system, one that prioritizes shared resources, collective knowledge and the right to food.

includes chapters from “Handbook of Food as Commons”

I’ve noticed that people are as polarized in their visceral, bodily responses to Jordan Peterson as they are in relation to his ideology. Beyond the content and the politics, people get something from him, ranging from exhilaration to nausea.

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.