Wrench In The Gears
By Alison McDowell
Wrench In The GearsApr 13, 2023
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