Open to (or: sticky ends)

DNA fragments may have single-stranded bits at the end, hungry to pair and bond with any complementary strands they encounter.  

These ideas are sticky in that sense, for me - despite my overcommitted state, I would eagerly connect over them, and find some way to align efforts:

* small-d democracy in schools, workplaces, corporations.  I have some models in place...
* accountability mechanisms especially permissionlessly verifiable ones
* earned governance; agency to the beneficiaries of impact or philanthropy to rate it
* children and civilians are people, criminal mafias do not "own" the people around them, and children must always be protected.  international legal efforts to provide teeth to this, and stop recognizing criminals just because they have guns, or excusing the killing of children because 'war' or 'terrorism'.
* if an innocent person is harmed, *someone* should pay for it.  it can't just be a thing that happens
* ways to harness efforts and collaborate that don't rely on anonymous money only, but do recognize effort and choice of who to associate with
* if you have a great idea to help people in general, make sure it *actually* helps *some* people right now in the process of building it

ha several of those may be ways of saying the same thing, and all sound too abstract for most folx.  However, I'll edit later...maybe.  Find me if any of those resonate with you despite the weird abstraction level.  They all can be done in ways that actually help people now.

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stray bits...

agreements (and attention)

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Wanderings along the way...

starting some daily journal entries - these will mainly not show up on the front page, but still saved and findable.  I want to pin and record more things.  Today, Vancouver, taking the long way around to the AAAI conference...glad i did.

Seen and heard on the way
   a woman walking on the rocky shore, i said hello, lovely shells.  She answered yes, and every rock is a painting, art is everywhere.  well put.

a 'people's castle' but the stairway blocked, it seems a fight with city council brews

later, two Bald Eagles and a nest that a local said they come to every year.  last year at eth denver i saw one, flying low over the river there.  



Wandered and walked about 5 miles, took a seabus and a rented bike, then finally the venue.  The views from the Vancouver Convention Centre are breathtaking.  Don't know when i used that word before, but it fits here. The conference itself wasn't bad either...

installed neogpt between sessions, so i could feel legit, and worked on a little wrapper to have it represent a did.  quite simple and hacky but its for a short workshop so, about right.  a good

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A Logical Conclusion...

this piece makes me happy every time i reread it.  it was born out of frustration with fintech bros

A Darwinian Argument

“You must die.” The woman spoke dispassionately, her face blank.

The jowly man chained at the ankle squinted across the room at her. His glasses had broken in the struggle, so were there subtle clues to read he might have missed them anyway. His face betrayed a racing chain of emotions, flickering from fear to contempt to calculation. Which of his enemies sent her?

continued...

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floating snips

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A Language of Meaning and Action

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Untitled post

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artistic gene

Feeling very lucky today to have such strong, creative, independent daughters

Not to mention artistic:

https://www.instagram.com/carmelita_levin/

Expression through art is so valuable, and it reflects a synthesis that is hard to capture in linear form.  

There was a period when I didn't post about my family much, partly because i didn't like how facebook manipulated and monetized connections, and  - this may sound weird, but doing human rights work it made me afraid that if I showed connection to them someday someone would retaliate against my family, like they do in other places.  But I think now, that I never will be that influential, and anyway the information is already out.  So I will start to share, and celebrate my family, just a bit.

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