New blog post:

Introduction to my first, incomplete draft of a description of the Understanding phase of my Social System Lifecycle. It borders on the technical so I thought I’d summarize it here:

https://ericlawton.org/2023/09/11/understanding-social-systems/

#systems #systemsThinking #socialSystems

An der Hochschule #Coburg ist eine W2-#Professur für #Embedded #Systems mit den Schwerpunkten mit den Schwerpunkten Mikrocomputertechnik und #Echtzeit-#Betriebssystem|e ausgeschrieben! (Gerne teilen...)

https://stellenangebote.hs-coburg.de/jobposting/a9274e37760a73c1e1e33c97a1a50996e3767c330

I've just spent three hours on my workbook, while only writing one small section. The new Obsidian (@/obsidian@mas.to) Properties feature was helpful in re-organising things but meant some work to clean up my previous inconsistencies and figure out a smarter way to do what I want.

#systems #systemsThinking

https://ericlawton.org/preface/

New blog post, a better democracy index.

Because the well-known indices like the EIU index suggest that some countries are almost perfect democracies, and think that the US hasn't become any worse in the last couple of years.

#democracy #systemsThinking #systems

https://ericlawton.org/2023/09/02/a-better-democracy-index/

Systemic Evolutions,
System in Nature and Human Reality
by Chris Handrahan

For General Reading, Non-technical

Currently, 79% off, Amazon UK, Paperback Edition

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1738879224#SalesRank

#ChandrahanMedia #ChandrahanBooks #Books #WritingCommunity #Writing #Nonfiction #Science #Nature #MastodonBooks #Fediart #UK #Creativity #StitchedInkMedia #Reading #Politics #Arts #Environment #SystemicEvolutions #Systems #Philosophy

Decriminalization: How police drug seizure, even without arrest, can create harms.

https://theconversation.com/decriminalization-how-police-drug-seizure-even-without-arrest-can-create-harms-212435

Using police to "solve" this systemic social problem illustrates H.L. Mencken's "there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong"

#socialSystems #systems #AbolishThePolice

#Darksynth / #Cyberpunk Mix - Phantom Protocol // Dark #Synthwave #Dark #Industrial #Electro #Music - https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=-Wd_bVNy2KE #HackerCulture #HackerEthics #CTfMusic #CTF #HackTheSystem #all #the #systems

Mixed feelings about how Ryan Hall presents #weather but he often explains #systems really well, so I can picture what's going on. He explains the #instability that will come out of the current giant pile of heat in #NorthAmerica's #Midwest so that I had a very good grasp of how each system affects the other.
#Hurricane #tornado #thunderstorm #heatDome #jetstream #Franklin
#tropicalWeather
Watch "This Weather Pattern Will Be Bizarre…" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/bNYgR_HEjhI?si=jQ2K1PM2AkerRfmK

KeyPad TouchScreen: nuovo livello di gestione del sistema Ajax
KeyPad TouchScreen, disponibile per la distribuzione, e’ il prodotto per la sicurezza della "casa intelligente" di Ajax Systems, una soluzione che dispone...
https://zpr.io/EqMuaNA2z2xs
#Ajax #Systems #sicurezza

ugh, there are days I wished I specialised in IT, instead of just doing #systems and #network admining. The longer you do it the more management just expects you to know everything and get frustrated when they have to pay specialists to come in.

That said, the work does stay varied

#sysadmin #infosec #netadmin

I don't like to hardline or pick sides on #politics, but lately I've been thinking...

#Democracy and #Anarchy may be the only two truly legitimate #systems of #government: either power comes directly from the will of the people, or there is no power at all.

I feel like there might be room to discuss #technocracy / #meritocracy in there, or #Heinlein-esque rules about who gets to vote, but I just can't see the arguments for #monarchy / #dictatorship / #SingleParty being valid.

Sometimes constraints are externally imposed—meeting a regulatory requirement, making a date because most of your sales happen in one month of the year, budget limitations.

Read the full article: Shaping Patterns
▸ https://lttr.ai/AFa0A

#systems #GreatWork #CollaborativeBehaviorEmerges

Do I know anyone who is currently hiring for a junior IT or cloud role? I know someone who is just starting their journey in this world, having done 2 AWS qualifications so far, and is actively studying towards 2 more. They've already spent over 10 years working in education, and have done IT support for a number of small charities, and are looking to make a sideways leap.  They have some Python knowledge, and currently with minimal Linux experience, but is looking to learn.

If anyone knows of anyone hiring someone like this, who doens't have so much specific sector experience, but is a fast learner, and has other professional experience, please do let me know.

#jobseeker #cloud #it #systems

Finishing my Friday with this excellent read: “Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability”

I deeply appreciate when someone has done the thinking and writing that pulls together a bunch of threads I’m interested in. I’m very excited now to use this as a starting point for engaged #research projects. The big picture framing I’ve been using is “societal transitions for planetary wellbeing”… and I love how this fractal metaphor is helping me connect small, feasible initiatives and actions with much larger purposes and objectives.

#academic #sustainability #socialChange #systemsChange #systems #PoliticalEcology #SocialChange #InterBeing #socialTheory #ActionResearch

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01873-w

@WordyCurator

I started writing to this #QuillsQuest #writing #prompt. I got a bit carried away and realised that unless I opted to many many linked toots it was too big to be #MicroFiction and ended up as a rough 1st draft short story instead. Posted (nay vomited forth ) on my much maligned blog :)

Apologies.

prompt was #Root #Systems

http://alittleofnothing.co.uk/getting-to-the-root-of-the-problem/

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

edited.

> How to pick the right credit card to maximize your reward points and cashback

> Points and cashback are great

Really?

Or do they just increase use of credit cards, paid for by consumers?

Where does the cash we get back come from?

Higher prices for what we buy, so merchants can pay transaction fees? Higher interest for those who can't pay off their balance every month?

Or are the credit card companies taking a hit on their profits? 🤣

#systems #socialSystems

https://www.thestar.com/business/personal-finance/how-to-pick-the-right-credit-card-to-maximize-your-reward-points-and-cashback/article_111f0f96-7462-55fb-b499-eea5d5313f73.html

I'm still amazed by this every time. Watch the transient dynamics (relatively synchronous dampening #oscillations) of autotroph biomass in a 5-patch #metacommunity turn into an oscillatory #Turing pattern with completely asynchronous dynamics. #Emergence in #complex #systems #science
AND I'M DOING ACTUAL RESEARCH WITH THIS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT THIS IS SO COOL

@thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com @pixelfed @thanius@pixelfed.chuggybumba.com @dansup @IPngNetworks@pix.ublog.tech #networking #vpp #food #sysadmin #systems

#DistrictCooling and other #infrastructure and #archtectural changes can help increase the efficiency of #cooling #systems and radically reduce the #energy such systems use even as exponentially more people in more places are finally able to access the lifesaving benefits of artificially and more naturally cooled air.

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange #solutions abound.

https://youtu.be/sKbEOMCsqaI

I feel like every year that I do the #plan9 bootcamp at #SDF I learn a little more about operating system design and #systems #programming than I do #9front itself - this feels like a good year for me to focus on #glenda and see what she really has to offer us in a distributed computing world