Sometimes I struggle to live a post life. By ‘post’ I refer to ideas like postmodernism and poststructuralism, but I prefer to blur these together and just use ‘post’ to refer to what I think of as their ‘central view’ 1 . For me, post is about rejecting totalising and universalising perspectives, i.e. perspectives which present themselves as showing the entirety of a particular thing, and/or…
A few thoughts that I [posted on the Anarchist Library forums](https://shh.anarchyplanet.org/node/56). ---- I was thinking about how we could start reading groups here, or build trails of suggested readings together, but it led me to ask a broader question: how do we as anarchists prefigure our knowledge praxis? I'm also interested in how that question can be inverted: how can we spread anarchist…
Greetings, good friends and family members! I hope your Decembers are going well and you have many good things to look forward to in 2023. 😊 This year I have decided to embrace my inner Boomer and write an annual / round-robin letter, after a friend shared their father's in the pub one evening during our last Christmas spell. In typical John style, I have embraced my virtues of laziness and…
A photograph of a phone box somewhere in Lancashire, UK.
A photograph of some pretty ice which was on my bedroom window one morning.
Often I am out walking and I see a good scene I would like to photograph, but I don’t have my DSLR. I would like an app on my phone which will take a photo, and will use the geotag and datetime information to infer the solar azimuth and zenith angles and provide a calendar of other datetimes when the sun will be in the same or a similar position. This would allow me to schedule a time to go back…
Meaning “the doctrine of more dimensions”, pleodimensionalism is a call to always look beyond the current practice around data, numbers, and statistics, and to ask what additional information may be useful when communicating results. Too often research publications (be they scientific, governmental, or otherwise) rely on single numbers for effect size estimates and trend lines. However, all…
I was on the phone to my partner the other day while he was walking back from church and I realised that the latency on a mobile phone call is quite high – maybe about a second – but we have no problem with accidentally starting to talk over each other. I found this very strange because I’ve been on video calls with what I assume is much lower latency, and it seems quite common for people so start…
Thinking after [property-graphs-vs-reified-graphset-graphs](/property-graphs-vs-reified-graphset-graphs), the reified graphset-graph is not sufficient to represent e.g. an AST, because we want to have two nodes with the same 'identity'.
Domain names are the root of our digital identity Allow associating multiple resources together Email Various web identities can be auto-discovered by metadata Or managed via subdomains Email providers change but owning the domain preserves the address Ability to use catch-all email Numerals have several advantages over letters and words for building identifiers Ubiquitous: vast majority of…