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Comment · 11 hours ago
In one of the pictures they show "barley coffee". During the communism, in some countries of Eastern Europe you could only find in the stores this type of coffee, as the real one required hard currency to import.
Comment · 1 day ago
This was the problem of another East European country, right post 1989, who elected what they called "a government of technocrats". Soon thereafter those newly elected learned/already knew how to steal, even better than their communist predecessors, while figuring out that they had to keep an appearance of democracy. It's been almost 40 years, and things are still broken. But "democratic".
Comment · 9 days ago
English version only. Tried a few towns in Europe, and it's missing a lot of what the local language Wikipedia offers, so it's useful, in large part, probably for the anglophone world only.
Comment · 10 days ago
Enshitification at its best. I've used Airbnb almost since inception, but the degradation of offering quality has been so noticeable that I totally quit using this two years ago. Last time the host did not only ask me to do all house chores, and still charge a cleaning fee, but wasn't going to provide bed sheets without an extra fee (W(ho)TF thinks I'm renting and possibly coming with my own sheets), but didn't have the room officially ready until 5pm, and had me out at 10am. F*k this "industry"
Comment · 13 days ago
Comment · 14 days ago
Interesting. In his own paper:
INSIDE EVERY WHITE BOX THERE ARE TWO BLACK BOXES TRYING TO GET OUT’ by Ranulph Glanville Portsmouth Polytechnic, England
The nature of the blackness of a black box (when an observer does not know what is going on inside the black box) and its whiteness (when an observer believes that he knows what is going on inside the black box) is considered and is applied to a description that is built by an observer of that black box. It is shown that while whiteness may be believed to have been reached within a system, such a system, nevertheless, remains black on the outside. This understanding is considered because it sheds light not only on black boxes and knowledge, but also on certain very basic cybernetic and broad psychological concepts.
KEYWORDS:conceptual system, individual, behavior, black box, white box, cybernetics, feedback, input, output, Object, self-reproduction.
the reference is:
Glanville, R. What is memory that it can remember what it is? In R. Trappl, (Ed.), Progress in and systems research (vol. 4). Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere, 1978.(c)
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Also here: https://constructivist.info/radical/papers/glanville/glanvil...
[7] R. Glanville "What is Memory, that it can remember wheat it is?" in R. Trappl (ed.) "Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research Vol 4", Washington DC, Hemisphere, 1978
... very odd ...
Comment · 15 days ago
Funny how age shows up in some cases. For me the first thing that came to mind, when starting to read the article, was Ranulph Glanville's 1978: "What is memory that it can remember what it is?" (Progress in cybernetics and systems research - vol 4)
Comment · 16 days ago
WTF is with all these substack articles? If someone thinks the content is so important to share, then provide a summary of crucial points justifying the title and the few rows available for free.
Or just refrain.
Comment · 19 days ago
This reminded me of the work of Maturana and the concept of autopoiesis
Comment · 21 days ago
Title too long. "Why aren't Americans rising up?" is more appropriate ;-)
Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 22 days ago
There is no coming back from all this, is it?