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Huh Apache getting into the ontology business Home - Apache …

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:03:35 GMT

Huh Apache getting into the ontology business Home - Apache Ossie (incubating) (an apache ontology tool) It's a standard so I should make Alzabo work with it, if that makes sense.

Huh Apache getting into the ontology business Home - Apache …

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:27:16 GMT

Huh Apache getting into the ontology business Home - Apache Ossie (incubating) (an apache ontology tool) It's a standard so I should make Alzabo work with it, if that makes sense.

Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is a lot …

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:45:07 GMT

Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is a lot more AI-forward than MIT! That's weird. Or maybe not, since MIT has a lot more experience with what happens when you get people immersed in technology.

Alright added Blygger publishing to goddinpotty, let's see i…

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:49:25 GMT

Alright added Blygger publishing to goddinpotty, let's see if it works

From eigenvirtues Apparently I just made this term up but I'…

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:49:25 GMT

From eigenvirtues

Apparently I just made this term up but I'm astonished if I'm the first. I'm not entirely happy with it but it was a big hit when I mentioned it in my Jubilee and Forgiveness talk at Protocols/Symposium 2026. I mean something like, basic virtues. Atomic virtues, but that sounds like a business self-help book. Root virtues but that sounds fake-Buddhist. Generative virtues maybe.

From Maintenance of Everything The presence of Elon Musk as …

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:49:25 GMT

From Maintenance of Everything

A discordant political note

The presence of Elon Musk as some kind of hero of maintenance is a turd in the punchbowl for me.

Whatever else Musk may be, he is also a fascist lunatic racist eugenecist. This sounds like invective but it is also 100% factual. He is personally responsible for an all-out assault on the institutions of American government – important parts of the machinery of civilization. Whatever he represents, it's the opposite of maintenance – he is a destroyer of infrastructure.

Yeah he also builds some, and at least some of his innovations are useful and important. There are some reasons to admire Musk for his technical and organizational accomplishments. And perhaps his purported goal of being of service to making are sincere and Brand sees a fellow big-thinking-world-savior. They probably hang out at the same high-end conferences. That's more salient to Brand than the fascism, fraud, and lunacy that he spews on Twitter.

BUT – we have to look at the full record, and Musk has destroyed more systems than he's built (hm is that true, would have to quantify it). The DOGE effort that he led was a deliberate and sytematic attempt to destroy or corrupt the machinery of government, the sort of thing Brand is encouraging us to take care of.

US federal agencies targeted by DOGE - Wikipedia

Brand has a history of wanting things both ways (the Wendell Berry blowup, which also involved an enthusiasm for space colonization now that I think about it), eventually the contradictions catch up. TODO explanation needed

The lack of female representation as noted in Unsung review. Less obviously egregious than Musk, but probably a bigger omission. Actually, one other instance of female besides Statue of Liberty – the book is dedicated to Brand's partner "who maintains him". Yeah no shit, maybe one future chapter should be dedicated to the largely unsung work of basic human biomaintanence, mostly women's work which is a big part of the problem.

This is a huge blind spot – not just with Brand, it didn't occur to me either until it was pointed out. Oh well he has 6 more volumes to write so maybe he will address this vast unsung enterprise, that which really keeps the thing going.