Wrench In The Gears
By Alison McDowell
Wrench In The GearsSep 30, 2022
Moving Beyond Carbon - How About Peace Corps Recovery Centers? Camelot Corner
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvRicYbX_CU
Courting "Lover Earth" With Cybernetic Community Currencies - Camelot Corner
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffWRhmzoi8
Scientology, Snow White, and SSRIs - Camelot Corner
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLhv02cyNc
Correcting The Record And The Tokenized Commons
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIesGovxSo
Green Pilling CHD With Pro-FreeDOM "Environmentalism" - Camelot Corner
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdt9eP85hJ8
The Once And Future Thing - Camelot Update, Plus More Ants!
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wux_Oy6qw
Selling RFK Jr. on Next Gen Nuclear - A Critical Analysis of Matthew Ehret and Fox Green's "Cheap Energy" Pitch - Part 2
Resource map here: https://embed.kumu.io/3589bbe4947bb9cb288ce89b7bf36200#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1MYThXN0dTeg%3D%3D
Selling RFK Jr. on Next Gen Nuclear - A Critical Analysis of Matthew Ehret and Fox Green's "Cheap Energy" Pitch - Part 1
Link to resource map: https://embed.kumu.io/3589bbe4947bb9cb288ce89b7bf36200#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1MYThXN0dTeg%3D%3D
Pharma-Banking Consultant Andrew Pek Landed in the Executive Suite of Children's Health Defense this February - What happened?
Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8__r9dWCQs
Read Aloud on Radio-Eugenics from Oliver Reiser's 1966 Book "Cosmic Humanism"
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A32Sq0zIhL4
Discussion on Jason's Presentation About Ukraine and Digital Transformation
Listen to Jason's analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlzM-tEvew
Slime Mold and Reflections on Unity in Politics
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQscZ5ERrM
Esoteric Seals, Futures Trading, and Linguistic Ops
Blogged here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/24/esoteric-seals-futures-trading-and-linguistic-ops/
Texas Open Education Resources Part 2 With Lynn Davenport - Origins of OER and Virtual Apprenticeships
Video playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNSjVGWqTO7Ieb_QCLhpyU8tMvMFmsiI
Slides, Part 2 Starts at #30: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing
Texas Open Education Resources Part 3 With Lynn Davenport - Learn Capital Sets Up Shop in Austin
Video playlist of series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNSjVGWqTO7Ieb_QCLhpyU8tMvMFmsiI
Slides, Part 3 Startes at #67: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing
Cliff and Alison Chat About Persuasion Techniques, Social Steering, the Ant Computer, and Celia Farber's Pro RFK Jr. Substack "The Truth Barrier"
More about the Substack kerfluffle here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/18/digital-sandboxes-cognitive-domain-management-and-rfk-jr-s-presidential-run/
One-Hour Critique of RFK Jr.'s Candidacy and the Creation of a Health FreeDOM Leadership Class (This is the last hour of Digital Sandboxes, Cognitive Domain Management.)
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6fba0EEWb8
Digital Sandboxes and Cognitive Domain Management around the Camelot Presidential Run (RFK Jr.) Take 2
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C80xsmfpAuw
Ground Hog Day with Celia Farber - Plus Read Aloud from "This Pervasive Day"
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PtZ-J4c9E
This Pervasive Day - Zero Knowledge Proofs, Ubiquitous Computing and the Philadelphia Mayor's Race
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSo2cdNKqI
Jeremy Pitts "This Pervasive Day" https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/p790#t=aboutBook
How I Think About Things - A Framework for Alison's Investigations and an Invitation
Blogged here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/07/how-ive-been-thinking-about-things-a-framework-for-alisons-investigations-and-an-invitation/
Read Aloud - 2018 Short Story "Overvalued" from Slate
Here's the story: https://archive.ph/ChDkf
Open Education Resources in Texas, Cybernetic Steering for an AI World - With Lynn Davenport
In this episode I'm speaking with Lynn Davenport of Dallas on OERs, education privatization, digital media and learning, and social impact bonds. This is the first of a multi-part series. Slides available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing
Open Education Resources in Texas, Cybernetic Steering for an AI World
In this episode I'm speaking with Lynn Davenport of Dallas on OERs, education privatization, digital media and learning, and social impact bonds. This is the first of a multi-part series. Slides available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1734ywaVc260oLT9nrGonbxUR4-HzZqH1brCopeuIbG4/edit?usp=sharing
What is love?
A short talk (5 minutes) on why love doesn't necessarily demand being "nice."
The Green Button, Central Banks, and Cybernetics
This is the article I read from - CAF interview 2012: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/profit-investment-ecosystem-catherine-austin-fitts-2012-02-13
Unburdening - Getting Some Things Off My Chest
Link to the map with Drucker: https://embed.kumu.io/d48093bc30060b1acd09df6bd11506a1#untitled-map?s=%23peter-drucker-austrian-management-theorist-prophet-of-stakeholder-capitalism
Flow Life Part 5 - Housing, Seniors, Sustainability, and Rehab in Florida with Brandi Hartley
This is part of a series exploring themes related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.
Flow Life Part 4 - Property Technology and Web3 Space Colonies with Cliff Gomes
This is part of a series exploring themes related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.
Flow Life Part 3 - Privatized Education, Affordable Housing, and Faith Institutions in Texas with Lynn Davenport
This is part of a series exploring topics related to Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's new venture, Flow.
Flow Life Part 2 - Smart Housing and Natural Capital with Leo Saraceno
Second in a series on Adam Neumann and Marc Andreessen's venture "Flow."
"Flow Life" Part 1 - Real Estate or Singularity
Part 1 of 6 - Series investigating the new "smart" rental project of Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Marc Andreessen (a16z).
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWx83Zb9oMY
Looking Around the Labyrinth - University City Science Center in Philadelphia, PA - Bibliometry, Digital Sensing, Learned Helplessness, and "Character"
This is the map: https://embed.kumu.io/8fc3c36cc7de713eab0e7d2a09bebdfb#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1ZZ2wyaEN2cQ%3D%3D
Alison and Cliff Gomes Discuss Naomi Wolf's Recent Substack Post on Evil and the Judeo-Christian Covenant
This is the post we are discussing. https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/have-the-ancient-gods-returned
Natural Assets, Sovereign Nature and Interspecies Games With Jason Bosch and Leo Saraceno
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClFIDneMsw
Leo's article here: https://siliconicarus.org/2023/02/11/natural-asset-managers-how-decentralized-ledger-technology-will-drive-the-ecosystem-services-sector/
Halftime Super Bowl Analysis - Collective Intelligence, Stigmergy, and Pheromones
Blog post here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/02/17/halftime-super-bowl-analysis-collective-intelligence-stigmergy-and-pheromones/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQGag36nb8
Selling Us on "Game B" - Transmedia Storytelling, Neurohacking, and Alternative Futures
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEHDHuTcCvA
World Sensorium Read Aloud - Part 3
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Rqg1roy4Y
World Sensorium Read Aloud - Part 2
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5D-MLN7OwY
Overview of the "Handbook of Human Computation" 2013 - 1000+ Pages
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGYE_fm_wmM
Book PDF here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Handbook-of-Human-Computation.pdf
Human Computation Institute - Cornell: https://humancomputation.org/
Oliver Reiser's "World Sensorium" (World Brain) Read-Aloud Part 1
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmSE7uJhrjQ
This is the book: https://www.amazon.com/World-Sensorium-Social-Embryology-Federation/dp/1162738480/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QQRU2O6AAF2J&keywords=world+sensorium&qid=1675912128&sprefix=world+sensorium%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1
"We" Read Aloud Part 3 - Site Visits To Mount Lemmon Outside Tucson, AZ
Part of a series.
Ants in an Age of Artifice: Tucson Labyrinth
This is a presentation I gave in Tucson in Late November. We streamed it in early January with a Q&A following.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUQzija-Z0
Dallas ESports and Bucky Ballers - Jason Bosch, Lynn Davenport, and Alison McDowell About Halfway Through
Jason and Lynn discuss her new article followed by live Q&A: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dallas-esports-bucky-ballers-lynn-davenport/?trackingId=H724pvZQRKyBi46agfC30Q%3D%3D
"We" Read Aloud Part 6 - Final Installment
PDF of book: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm
"We" Read Aloud Part 5 - Yevgeny Zamyatin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZveGkaFuS9Q
Boiling Frogs Read Aloud - Plus, Complex Adaptive Systems, Geronimo's Stand, and Gamified Simulations
This is the blog post I read from: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2019/02/21/boiling-frogs-building-brands-pgs-partnership-with-strive/ Here are the map links: Game B - https://embed.kumu.io/f1084564336eccfa12801c6d9400a205#untitled-map?s=%23game-b-decentralized-self-organizing MetaGame, Geronimo, ASU - https://embed.kumu.io/c54643f79d2a4c6887ac5c56f635869b#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1MWlUxMlFlTA%3D%3D Sandy Pentland - Open Mustard Seed - https://embed.kumu.io/6e4896abe1fa7b37c9944b8fd77a44e9#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS02Um9iaGl5Wg%3D%3D FDIC Mission Driven Bank , Microsoft & Calvert - https://embed.kumu.io/a1587cc1ee61b1cc6e2cfa591c15249e#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1sOHJGY0ZaQQ%3D%3D
Collective Intelligence Experiment - "Freedom" and School "Choice" In Texas, Plus Revisiting Blockchain Futures Map for Institute for the Future
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lQzjWTK2M
"We" Read Aloud Part 4
Yevgeny Zamyatin 1921
"We" Part 2 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Read Aloud at Titan II Missile Silo NHS Green Valley, AZ
PDF of "We" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm
Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" Read Aloud Part 1 - Catalina State Park Tucson, Arizona
About "We" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm
Sky Woman, Julian Huxley and Fitness Landscapes - Looking Around the Labyrinth with Cliff
Readings from "Braiding Sweetgrass" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braiding_Sweetgrass
And "We" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
Part 2: Questioning the Logic of the New Finance Paradigm for "Public Goods" in Web3 with Jason Bosch and Leo Saraceno
Video for this conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7vdFsKpIxk
Part 1: Questioning the Logic of the New Finance Paradigm for "Public Goods" in Web3 with Jason Bosch and Leo Saraceno
Video of this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMPgSeNQEs
Practicing Play In A World of Hammers - Plus, Read Aloud of Jorge Louis Borges "Garden of Forking Paths"
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfsib8cl_NY
M.T. Anderson "Feed" Read Aloud, Part 5 Final Installment
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1Qyi0Zq_w
Favelas as Digital "Oil" Deposits - Brazil, Banco Palmas and the Solidarity Economy
Blog post here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/11/18/favelas-as-digital-oil-deposits/
Map here: https://embed.kumu.io/2660e79a9ff196957d24bac19fee6eb0#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS00akVVaWh6Nw%3D%3D
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leXJ51x7K7M
Social Impact - Gaming the Tokenized Commons
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxJie7xqI6I
Map link here: https://embed.kumu.io/8538bc52dd06d00fe96bf6bbe892c20a#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1LdU9adENQcg%3D%3D
Read Aloud - M T Anderson's "Feed" Part 4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)
Hong Kong Time Bank, Idaho Libertarians and ALICE / United Way Poverty Management - Past Blog Revisit
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFAHSuJx-C0
Leo's article about the Hong Kong Time Bank: https://siliconicarus.org/2022/05/13/blockchain-digital-twins-and-global-brain-economics-part-ii/
These are the articles I read:
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2019/06/19/alice-automated-poverty-management/
Epic Health and Omega Point - From Julian Huxley to Madison, Wisconsin
Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdVrtHt9aY
Map here:
https://embed.kumu.io/b37d9683aa7783c226662a3fc190bef7#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS00RDh6bHlITQ%3D%3D
INET article - The Chicago School of Economics and George Soros: New Theories for an Impoverished World
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2018/06/13/the-chicago-school-of-economics-and-george-soros-new-theories-for-an-impoverished-world/
Back to the Read Alouds - MT Anderson's "Feed" from 2002 Part 3
Book review: https://www.geeksundergrace.com/books/book-review-feed-by-m-t-anderson/
"Feed is a portrait of what it looks like to be conformed to the image of the world. It shows a generation of slaves that have been trained to enjoy their slavery, and refuse to humble themselves to realize that they might not have everything they need, that something precious has been lost in the constant noise of information and the way their lives have been commodified. And it shows how hard it is to resist the Feed, to try to have your mind renewed and become a person that the world no longer has any power over. (And it does not shy away from the cost of that decision.)"
Looking Around The Labyrinth in Philly - Nineteenth Century Social "Reform," Trading Paper, Central Banking, Dream Gardens and the "Open" Metavere
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yL1FULHgw
What Are You Listening To? The Economics of Crystalline Emotion
Second Episode of Looking Around The Labyrinth
Neuroeconomics Map: https://embed.kumu.io/9af366b0c2d7cc37ef1909f0819cd0f9#untitled-map?s=%23neuroecnomics-panel-2007
Update On Our California Trip - Postponed to March
Are you interested in my "Looking Around the Labyrinth" project? This would involve applying the research frame I have been pursing to your own community, profession, or issue of interest; bookmarking some relevant materials on Kumu.io as a map or pin board; and chatting with me in a podcast. I will help you along the way. If so, shoot me an email at timpsila@protonmail.com.
Looking Around the Labyrinth with Cliff Gomes - Who's Watching Who? The "Outside-In Robot," Google, Kasitas, and WGBH Boston
Here's the map if you want to poke around: https://embed.kumu.io/bce7bede76e5303af756f09a08fa684f#untitled-map?s=bm9kZS1SUXdnNDNKYQ%3D%3D
Here's Cliff's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cg3ly/videos
Conversation with Jason Bosch: The SMART Con - Questioning the Ideology behind Tokenization and Web3
This is the Schmidt / Nazarov chat if you want to watch that in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2kOmSh4h84
Social Impact Theory - "Mondragon, Focolare, and Inclusive Capitalism" Read Aloud
Here is the map if you want to poke around: https://embed.kumu.io/5346c606b5c29a38a19386e7cda5bb89#untitled-map
Here is the blog post: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/07/12/mondragon-focolare-and-inclusive-capitalism-synthetic-pretenders-part-15b/
REPLY
Charter Cities, Refugee Labor, and The Learning Economy - Plus More on Swarms and Robot Societies
This is the blog post I read: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/07/11/charter-cities-refugee-labor-and-the-learning-economy-synthetic-pretenders-part-15a/
Flocks, Herds, and Schools - Alternative Currency, Participatory Sensing, Complexity Theory
Intention Setting: Rockefeller Palisades, Climate Campus, & Sacred Outcropping October 11, 2022
Rockefeller Palisades: https://www.njpalisades.org/oftRepeatedAnecdote.html
Columbia's Lamont Doherty Earth Science / Climate Campus: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/celebrating-150-years-birth-thomas-w-lamont
Tent Revivals, War Strategy & Wireless Communication: Intention Setting at the Jersey Shore 10/12/22
Ocean Grove: https://archive.curbed.com/2015/7/15/9941080/jersey-shore-ocean-grove-beach
History of Fort Monmouth: https://www.fortmonmouthnj.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Concise-History-of-Fort-Monmouth.pdf
Marconi Installations Belmar: https://infoage.org/history-ia/marconi/marconis-new-jersey-stations/
Camp Evans, Ku Klux Klan, Operation Paperclip: https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2012/05/camp-evans.html
Impact Economy Site Visits: Haas Estate in Villanova and the B Lab Offices in Berwyn, Main Line PA October 8, 2022
B Lab: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/movement/about-b-lab
Stoneleigh Estate History: https://stoneleighgarden.org/garden/our-story/history/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVOVEaAV9xU
Blog Post Reading: What Stage Are We On? Immersive Storytelling, Hegelian Dialectic, and Crypto-Spectacle
This is the blog post: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/10/09/what-stage-are-we-on-immersive-storytelling-hegelian-dialectic-and-crypto-spectacle/
This is the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDTnL-RqOE
Physics As Metaphor Reading on the Concept of Space, Plus Back-to-School with Predatory Sesame Workshop
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGDOWYL2kyg
Here is a post on the book Physics as Metaphor: http://www.doyletics.com/art/physicsa.shtml
Here is the first post on labor automation and ESAs: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2019/12/06/poverty-wont-be-solved-by-committee-education-for-liberation-less-data-more-freire/
Here is the second post on Sesame Workshop: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2018/01/14/who-is-pulling-the-muppet-strings/
Evolutionary Economics - Vienna, Pavel Luksha, and Cybernetic Improvement Paths
This is the blog post: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2018/06/04/galton-and-gef-glimpsing-a-bleak-future/
This is the infographic: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YhH5y1I2L8lwEnLzs6jWNrH0u64_04PbksgIdcthPuo/edit?usp=sharing
This is the GEF Map link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sdyb_CwAsM7e1FQin70YTDIn3ClR4C3F/view
Pavel Luksha at MIT in 2014: https://oeit.mit.edu/blog/pavel-luksha-re-engineering-future/index.html
MIT Digital Currency Initiative Launched in 2015: https://medium.com/mit-media-lab-digital-currency-initiative/launching-a-digital-currency-initiative-238fc678aba2
Luska's profile in Littlesis: https://web.archive.org/web/20200726031702/https://littlesis.org/person/353890-Pavel_Luksha
Luksha at Transhumanist Conference 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sag7F7yDbJw
Money Will Teach You To Pray - John Templeton Foundation Site Visit, Conshocken, PA
Video with links in comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yres-LF9VE
Pre Ethereum Merge Site Visits to Bell Labs in New Jersey - Signals Intelligence
I made this trip last Wednesday. The merge was very early Thursday morning. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8SmHe92UOU
Site Visit Vanguard Campus (Giant Index Mutual Fund) and Former Burroughs Great Valley Lab Missile Defense and Swift
More on Burroughs Great Valley Lab: https://www.tehistory.org/hqda/html/v44/v44n1+2p074.html
More on Vanguard and John Bogle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFcUBLYR1g0
Artificial Society Part 2 - Explanatory Coherence and "Feed" Reading
What story are you living in? Is it consistent?
"Terrain" As A Possible Artificial Society - Jeffrey Strahl, I Don't Use The Word "Psyop"
Consider supporting our California trip. https://wrenchinthegears.com/california-fundraiser/
You can get a copy of "Swarm Intelligence" for under $15 used. https://www.alibris.com/Swarm-Intelligence-Russell-C-Eberhart/book/29086546?matches=16
Dan Tulis - Noogaradio, Chattanooga 96.9 FM 45 minute segment
Smart Cities, Energy Economies, and Life on the Ledger
Maya, Mind Games, Sugarscape and Artificial Societies
Short reading about Sugarscape social simulations and from the Bhagavad-Gita on Maya and selfless service. Also a discussion of the need to deepen our understanding of blockchain beyond crypto into spatial computing, predictive analytics, and modeling/manifestation of reality in a 3D printing, CAD world.
Wrench In the Gears Re-Treads - Ed-Tech's DoD Origins, the Gita, and Diamond Age Excerpt The Turing Castle (Blockchain)
Here is the original blog post: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2017/01/16/how-did-the-department-of-defense-end-up-in-my-childs-classroom/
Podcast 3 - John Trudell's "Peace" and what it feels like to be called a closed, annotated, archived, file.
This is a link to the longer presentation we did today on paramentric insurance and Web 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI8VpBYQREs
Revisiting My First Blog Post From 2016 - Questions Parents Should Ask About Ed-Tech, Plus Readings from Bhavagad-Gita and MT Anderson's "Feed"
This is the blog post if you'd like to read it: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2016/09/10/digital-curriculum-questions-parents-should-be-asking/
This is a review of "Feed:" https://www.geeksundergrace.com/books/book-review-feed-by-m-t-anderson/
Social Physics, Biophysics, Cycles and Signals (Jammed)
The challenges of navigating friendships in holographic reality where signals get crossed and cycles determine outcomes followed by a reading of my blog post UPenn's Nuclear "Green" Syn-Bio Blockchain Web of Impact, which can be read here: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2022/08/28/upenns-nuclear-green-syn-bio-blockchain-web-of-impact-and-leaving-silicon-icarus/