Greg Cassel

After over a decade of related work, I hope to help people understand why this small set of scalable self-organizing tools seems increasingly clear and critical to me.

Vote for at least some semblance of honesty, integrity, freedom and stability in a world with plenty of opportunities to develop scalably inclusive systems, if only we reject tyranny.

Someone needs to say that Wildwood, although a brilliant achievement in technique and craft, is very violent, stereotypical and derivative. (Unlike Coraline.) Just because something's handmade doesn't make it an artistic or poetic milestone. I felt misled by the marketing and reviews.

We call it hallucination when AI does it, but it's almost the same thing that humans do when they collapse probability fields to generate declarative statements.

I don't always reify imaginary psychological constructs, but when I do, I like to keep them simple.

Most tools for scalable organization & governance have nothing to do with digital tech, and almost nobody seems to care about them if they have-- or acquire-- much privilege or power over others. But this isn't the essential nature of life or of humanity; rather, it's a curable cultural disease.

www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa... One of the most important things I've read this year; thanks @noupside.bsky.social

If we got past our situationally convenient bullshit excuses for vengeful and punitive behaviors, we could effectively discuss the reasonable boundaries of protective use of force.

Bullyin' Logic= construction of falsely binary and formally logical propositions to supposedly destroy opponents' beliefs or pressure them to support yours

God's illiterate.

Anytime someone holds concentrated wealth and power, they're constantly motivated to justify holding it instead of sharing it or giving it away. This motivation works steadily and perniciously.

Right-sized relationships: in most aspects of life we need far greater tolerance of diverse perspectives and self-determination, BUT society is unsustainably hurtling toward potential doom because we complicitly feed deeply destructive forces, and that must change asap.

Android's new Clock icon keeps making me think I have a speck of dirt on my screen protector. Good work people.

As people explore the notion that Woke 1 was crazy, consider or reconsider this. Updated today.

Perhaps the secret to life is to wish for the best weather but try to enjoy everything.

It seems likely that whenever a new form or way of life becomes feasible, it fails many times before succeeding.

This world, which we've built together, constantly urges me to think and be like a machine.

The problem with this world is that the vast majority of clearly preventable harm occurs through deeply normalized behaviors (actions and inactions) which can't be easily vilified. We can only marginalize such behaviors by growing deeply prosocial partnerships and communities.

Surprisingly well-detailed perspective, although pessimistic in some areas where I see uncertainty-- plus, doesn't show awareness of the core problem with "democracy" (i.e. electing representatives who use factionalized majoritarian decision-making, instead of prioritizing consent and partnership.)

The most secure and sustainable foundation for policy is to place a clear and sincere emphasis on positive interactions and desired behaviors.

We're each bound to many communities, but one key feature of healthy prosocial culture (and community) is to repeatedly generate optionality in most relationships and interactions. This doesn't mean that there's no role for commitment, but we should often rethink why and when.

In creating or describing optional assignable roles, we should start by describing the expectations (i.e. purpose or function) and then define any permissions or benefits which aren't clearly present within that description.

We are invariably unqualified to judge human beings, but we must often evaluate their actions.

Social protocols come before technical protocols for communication and collaboration, always.

Computing is not a synonym for thinking.

It's amazing how many powerful people, in the US and elsewhere, intentionally endure the POTUS publicly and explicitly threatening war crimes. I know that he and his cronies have been "flooding the zone" but could we just hold a thought long enough to hold him accountable for that?