Everything is possible now. (even no title)

I wonder why people can not see that.

Datamining is a very old practice. Before people had computers to compute
databases with, they read their tea. Or better the leaves left in the cup after
they had drunk their tea. Hmm!

“I first became interested in tea leaf reading when I was about 19. My mother knew a woman who wished me to perform a spell to help her. She was not a witch and did not practice magic, but she asked that I aid her with something supernatural. Like most honest witches, I did not expect or ask for any payment in return. She was so thrilled with my work, however, that she presented me with a gift: an antique teacup made especially for tea leaf readings. The cup shape is plain, but the outside and inside of the cup is covered in small symbols and pictures carefully hand-painted in black. There were no instructions for readingthe symbols or how to use the teacup, so I looked around in books and on the internet to see what I could find about reading the leaves.” (http://www.witch-crafted.com/tea.html was the source once)

See what you can learn on the internet?

Best go learn reading tealeaves.

You might get some sense of your past.

What the technology can actually do for us on a more human scale

What the technology can actually do for us on a more human scale and imagine what could happen in terms of applications and sme business if in a very simple move the notion of enduser in the security projects could be opened up to citizens who would internet 3.0 style go crazy with all the potentials in these data! ( for climate change, social cohesion, solidarities on neighbourhood level, health clouds, real time personal threat alerts (that would alert you more to slipping in the bath or simply walking. Hey, watch that bike!

Welcome to graduation. Through Fork:

I’m not quite sure if I understand it but is this our own distributed Cloud?

Goodmorning!

We take that road and we open up all data, override the tech dashboards and we say thank you for all your good and not so good looking after us.

We are grown up now. I walk steady.

And besides, with all your dashboards and datamining you can’t even ‘protect’ a VIP entrance.

Strong winds gathering.

We are no longer crying why why why? That is up to you for a change.

We come and we go,

How good it feels to walk light,

no longer sleeping in the midday sun,

rising, rising like lions after slumber

in….

Inner disarmament

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Ethics and Enlightened Leadership via MIT World: Recent Updates am 23.11.09

His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new
institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about promoting ethics in a secular society with a stream of lively banter.

He recalled that he had visited a homeless shelter in San Francisco the other day and told a man he met that he, too, had suffered the same fate after he went into exile in 1959. “I said, ‘me too. Homeless’.”

Turning to global issues, he framed the two largest issues facing the world as the economy and ecology. These must be solved with compassion toward those we don’t agree with, and by acknowledging their root causes. He rejects the notion that the economic meltdown was caused by “market forces” and instead names the causes as human behaviors–greed and hypocrisy.

He called upon the community to not think in terms of “we and them” and encouraged all of humanity to come forward to solve the world’s problems. The only condition that should allow for a “we and them” mindset, he declares, would be if aliens from another planet were to visit the earth. “Inner disarmament can be achieved, external disarmament is difficult.”

“Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge”

Here the resultant “Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge” of the First Internacional Forum on Free culture and access to knowledge (Oct 29 to Nov 1 2009). A large coalition of organizations and individuals met at Barcelona and wrote the Charter.

A broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… has come together to campaign and organise for respect and the fullfilling of the rights of citizens and artists in the digital era.

See the Charter at:

Download the Charter at:

Signature of consciousness captured in brain scans

“A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes.

It turns out that there is a similar pattern of neural activity each time we become conscious of the same picture, but not if we process information from the image unconsciously. These contrasting patterns of activity can now be detected via brain scans, and could one day help determine if patients with brain damage are conscious. They might even be used to probe consciousness in animals.”

from Rui Guerra (V2)

Call for participation: unCraftivism

unCraftivism is an open event where you can present your own work and organise your own event. unCraftivism is uncurated: your work will not be judged, or restricted by a theme, neither it has to be finalised. unCraftivism is self-organised: you organise and promote your own event, whether a performance, a talk, a workshop, a meal, a song, a party or other as-yet-undefined events.

How to participate in 3 steps:
1. Add your event to the programme (http://www.craftivism.net/wiki/Programme
2. Subscribe to the mailinglist and stay tuned to the latest news.
3. Invite your friends and show up in person or avatar from 12th to
13th of December.

Saturday 12th + Sunday 13th of December
Arnolfini (contemporary arts centre)
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
UK

http://www.craftivism.net

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

Starhawk on Climate Change

” October 24, is a global day of action around climate change, organized by the folks at 350.org. Why 350? That’s the parts per million of carbon that scientists think is the safe level that will keep the planet at least somewhat recognizable as the one we’ve grown to know and depend on for our lives. What are we at currently? Something like 390, and climbing! So time is short. With a new round of global negotiations scheduled for Copenhagen in early December, tomorrow’s actions will help build popular pressure on all those politicians to do something real.

We still have a chance to turn the looming disaster into a chance for transformation and balance. We can still build a world that offers abundance, hope, lives of beauty and health and freedom for those who come after us.

But not for much longer. The window is closing. So, wiggle those fingers, press those keys and go to 350.org to find an action near you. Then get out of your armchairs, off the internet, and into the streets!

Climate change is often framed as your personal problem you should drive less, consume less, change your lightbulbs. Yeah, you should, all those things are important. But nothing we do individually will solve the problem. We need to work together, to influence policy, not just perfect our own personal eco-karma.

When we take action, we need to know what we want, not just what we don’t want. Confronting climate change can drive people into into despair and apathy. Never just say no without also saying yes because solutions are out there. We have the means we need to solve the problems, and heal other major wounds in the process. We just need to do it.”

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Listening to Buffalo Ballet in version of Walkabouts. How brilliant!

“Sleeping in the midday sun.

We all joined in
We all joined hands
We all joined in
to help run this land

then the soldiers came
long long ago
rode through the town
and ran down those
sleeping in the midday sun.”

That was then, this is now
if soldiers come
it will be in a different iteration
and we will catch them
catch them cold
sleeping in the midday sun.

John Hopkins on IDC list saying

“What else is history than the cumulative distortions of flows that Life has imposed on the localized system we call Terra? In that sense, Life is trans-historical, and each individual, as an temporalized expression of that ongoing phenomena IS trans-historical at the same time as they are contributing to the accumulative of distortions (or if you want a more neutral framing, accumulation of difference).”

jh
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listening to Lord I feel like going Home by the Walkabouts, still imagining some repository of place where I’d be moving my current iteration into feeling (going home), then I realize that the key is ‘ going’,
man I feel like going home
all the time
at the end of the bar longing to go home!

hmm getting wiser

Thinktank for the Internet of Things: Council: launches

Council, a thinktank for the Internet of Things

is launching in Brussel on december 4, 2009, Imal.

The Internet of Things (IOT) is a vision. Yet it is being build today. The stakeholders are known, the debate has yet to start. The European Commission published its action plan for IOT in june of this year. In hundreds of years our real needs have not changed. We want to be loved feel safe, have fun, be relevant in work and friendship, be able to support our families and somehow play a role – however small – in the larger scheme of things.

So what will really happen when things, homes and cities become smart? The result will probably be an avalange of what at first looks like very small steps, small changes.

Currently IOT applications, demos and infrastructure are rolled out from negative arguments only. For logistics, it is anti-theft. For ehealth it is the lack of human personnel that requires the building of smart houses. From a policy view it is the ensuring of safety, control and surveillance at item level and in public space. For retail it is shelf space management.

Council thinktank aims to grow into a positively critical counterpart to these negativities in focusing on the quality of interaction and potentialities of IOT for social, communicative and economic (personal fabrication, participatory budgetting, alternative currencies) connectivity between humans and other humans, human and things and humans and their surroundings.

The wrestling with ambient technologies – the noise – is rapidly going out of corporate memory. A new young generation growing up at ease with ‘total’ connectivity, will enter IOT territory as simply another layer, another iteration of something they are comfortable in.

Therefore the launch of Council will highlight a personal history of locative media & hybrid spaces, by professionals of the i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) days, as well as the latest tools and applications, workshops on key issues short keynotes and time for debate and discussion.

Where: Imal, Brussels
When: December 4 2009 0930:2200 (public evening from 20:00)
Workshop 185 (including lunch and dinner)
Register