“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

— The Second Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791.

This month's post is about the hypothetical. Counterfactuals help us understand the world we live in by highlighting what could have gone differently and why. They also allow us to explore potential futures. For example, by examining a past catastrophe, we can ask: "What would have made this worse?" This allows us to better prepare for future challenges. https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/counterfactual-catastrophes

@smallcircles Please add “input” to this Do Not Use list. When we do work, and we seek to include other people‘s #values and #ideas and #opinions and #creativity and #foresight and #intuition, let’s not call that response “adding input” to a system process. I don’t want your “input” on my ideas in this post. I seek to #understand your #thoughts and #feelings and #experiences and history and #aspirations and #expressions of #beingness. For #dialogue, let’s allow a #GhostInTheMachine. #animism

#Foresight mit #Resilienz verbinden!
Im Video erläutert Armin Grunwald Hintergründe unserer vorausschauenden Analysen mit Fokus auf #Kritis für den #Bundestag und lädt dazu ein, sich zu informieren, mitzureden und an einer guten #Zukunftsgestaltung mitzuarbeiten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqzRI5W1uq8
@ITAS_KIT @izt

A new #introduction on a new instance. I’m a researcher at the University of Turku working on responsible AI and other topics related to how we live with emerging technologies (e.g. #privacy). My background is in #sociology and European thought (social #philosophy) and most recently in #foresight and futures studies.

Apart from research, I’m preoccupied with parenting three kids and reviving my enthusiasm for playing and listening to music.

My #introduction:

I'm from a science/systems background and perspective, but focused on challenges in the human/social domain.

#Transparency #Diversity #Decentralization
#Metaethics #Cooperation #CollectiveIntelligence
#Foresight #HorizonScanning #FuturesStudies
#MusicTheory #Musicology #Piano
#FunctionalProgramming #Haskell #Python
#Complexity #Fractal #Emergence #EvoDevo
#DecisionMaking #ProblemSolving #Uncertainty
#DigitalRadio #NVIS #Preparedness
#KnowledgeManagement #Visualization

An overdue #introduction (thanks for the prompt when I switched instances @aussocialadmin )

My name is Scott and I live in Sydney (on Wangal Country in the Inner West). My pronouns are he / him.

I was born and raised in Canada (Alberta, even), and have lived in some great places around the world (Montreal, NYC, Vermont, rural Kenya). Being a Canadian man of a certain age, yes, I play hockey. Even in Australia.

I've been very (not extremely) online since the 90s. First it was rec.music.phish, then fark.com, then the Big Tech Socials.

I strive to behave with compassion and to be more kind than nice. But I also shitpost from time to time because internet.

I'm interested in lots of things and barely maintain a blurred boundary between personal and professional. See hashtags below or on my profile for a more specific list, but I think it's generally encompassed by the concept of #interbeing which I understand as being coined by Thich Nhat Hanh and drawn from Vietnamese and older Buddhist concepts.

Hashtags ftw: #anthropology #anarchism #buddhism #collaboration #collectiveImprovisation #complexity #complexSystems #conviviality #culture #decolonisation #design #designResearch #engagedAnthropology #engagedBuddhism #engagedDesign #ethnography #foresight #futures #hockey #improvisation #JustTransition #music #pluriverse #politicalEcology #protopia #serviceDesign #strategicDesign #systemsTheory #systemsThinking #speculativeEverything