Michael Garfield Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Garfield

@jim_rutt Just as a comment on the "Palantir" level bad name choice, the Farcaster network in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos [spoiler alert] turned out to be violating user data sovereignty, susceptible to sudden fiat takedown, and key infrastructure for an impressively evil power imbalance.

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3. The 120th Shrine - regarding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, kind of a cowboy ballad since you're riding a horse a lot. 4. Seeing Like A State - re: James C. Scott's book, mathematically guaranteed injustice & the tragedy of being one of the ants out a plane window.

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@Robotheology @Helenreflects @CloserToTruth @ADMValverde_ @livingarchitect @leecronin @Sara_Imari And the social science part is fun to think about and very arguably matters in event of possible future Earth- or space-based contact events. ...Or does it? Again, there's an even crazier deeper agnosticism at work in books like Peter Watts' Blindsight: https://t.co/g1T6HH6jo5

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@C4COMPUTATION @sfiscience @MelMitchell1 My unofficial slogan for years, inspired by Geoffrey West and also in large part by @rushkoff's book #PresentShock - and amplified by the pace & intensity of work life - has been "Michael Garfield does not scale." (True for us all...)

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Next #FutureFossils book club is today! We discuss Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease To Understand The World. Excited to dive into this darkbright mind-bender on science, discovery, mystery, and consequence: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62967826

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@jim_rutt @sama Fair enough! This is the introduction to Jurassic Park, where Michael Crichton explains how science as an open enterprise of the human commons got coopted by capital and as a consequence retreated into seclusion, where lack of oversight led to catastrophic horrors.

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@speakerjohnash I recommend not taking anybody's advice about what meaning is to you, unless that person is Richard Tarnas and you're reading the first chapter of Cosmos and Psyche 😘

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As @rushkoff explained beautifully in his book Present Shock (a major inspiration to #FutureFossils podcast), and as @caleb_scharf also did in his book The Ascent of Information (discussed on #ComplexityPodcast), we're as burdened as we are empowered. https://t.co/plALNAtaIp 15/n

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Getting tons of mileage from very simple psychedelic jellyfish prompts in @midjourney...inspired by the Nataraja Jellyfish in @rudytheelder's amazing scifi novel Mathematicians in Love: https://t.co/ZhDpgzKTNE

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@C4COMPUTATION On the other hand, "grok" suggests a more embodied and complete knowledge than one might cultivate through conceptual abstraction alone. Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk explores how Indigenous peoples know systems in the whole body, not just the (colloquial) head. Love this book: https://t.co/3Nk0BuTv4y

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