Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard

@Gosleepriya 12h

@riley_ngg Thanks! Wonder why the concept doesn't spread.

Procedural programs are usually edited in files as streams of code definitions. These programs have the intrinsic structure of books: Chapters (files) with Sections of Units (definitions). The ideal structure for handling the text in a browser. I developed HolonS conventionally with streams until it could create its own code as a struct. The joy started - I had two deciding features: Clarity: Browse and study the project like a book, and look up unit definitions by clicking on the name in the structure or in the book's text anywhere (hypertext). Immediacy: Change the definition of units and reload and substitute their code in the running program. HolonS handles the source code in a database as a CMS.

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HolonS is the current version of Holon programming. It started in 1990 with HolonForth in DOS. Like this: youtube.com/watch?v=ykNYse…

A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty. A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid. A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home. - Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way. Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is. Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything. Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still. Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light. - So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.

A week or so ago I posted about a phenomenon I called Colonizer Homelessness, my theory, or explanation as to why colonizers are always afraid and violent (because they are never home). I want to expand and explore that concept a little further, and talk about identity, or more precisely, native identity vs colonizer identity. This may help explicate something quite deep in our culture, but it may also allow us to see the current geopolitical moment as a colonizer identity crisis. (If you're not following me, follow and then continue reading). - For purposes of this post, I will use America as an example, due to its being arguably the vastest colonial project we know, but also because I know a little bit about its history and culture. What I say holds very much true for Israel as well, but I am sure it can be corroborated by the experiences of many other places. - Have you ever noticed how large American founding papers loom not only in American politics and political consciousness but also in American culture in general? Have you ever seen a country where the national flag is so worshiped and widely displayed as part of everything, and where the national anthem is part of everyday life? Why is that? why do the American Constitution, the Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Mayflower Compact, or Thomas Paine's Common Sense, matter so much? And, just as importantly, why does no native community on this planet have a similar set of founding papers? Why don't they have founding fathers? Why do all those savages not have an appreciation for the beauty of an engineered myth? Well, they actually don't. Because native communities and native people never had to fabricate a collective identity. For natives, it is very simple and natural to know who they are. Their sense of collective self is absorbed from family and community, language and landscape. It flows and forms completely naturally. Natives don't need to be formally and repeatedly explained to who they are, but colonizers always do. To use familiar philosophical language, I'd say that native identity is posteriori in nature, whereas colonizer identity is a priori. Natives know who they are based on common, shared, commutative experience, expressed more in dress, music, food, and art than in dialectic arguments. Colonizers know who they are, if they ever do (and they don't. they can't), because they have been told such and such values represent them. See the difference? - But this is only the beginning. Because if you organize a community around intellectual fabrications it may sound nice in founding papers, but in reality, your people will feel hollow. Engineered identity to identity is a picture of lunch to actual burger and fries. You will need emotional content to fill the void. But where will you get it from? Oh, miraculously, providence provided your vacant lands with some natives you can hate for being the (again, serendipitously) the exact opposite of your fabricated sense of identity. Mission accomplished. You will never see a community of people more possessed of demonic hate as colonizers feel towards the people they colonized, and you will never see a culture as premised on the negation of other people as a colonizer culture. That's because colonizer culture have no positive meaning of their own. - But this, too, is not enough. Because the very existence of a native community, with its natural, non-intellectual, but psychologically nourishing sense of collective self, becomes a threat. This community mirrors back to you your own instance contradictions, and just how unnatural and forced they are. So you have to kill all of it. You have to make native, indigenous identities extinct. This is why America, which really is, at its core, little more than the marketing of marketing as essence, fight and hates native communities so much, all around the world. This is why it was friends with Aparthid, and immediate ally to Australia and Canada, and why it destoyes Hawaii's indigenous identity. This is also a ,major part of why it supports Israel so much. If your identity, your mission in life, is to replace native, indigenous identity with an intellectualized marketing simulation of it, this job cannot be partial, or its absurdity will be exposed. If you are America, if you are a colonizer super power, you have to irradicate authenticity completely and forever. - It is a whole different subject of its own, but those also beautifully explain the corporatization of the economy, and the deliberate, meticulous destruction of small, mom-and-pop stores and businesses: everything that has real identity must be destroyed for colonialism to fulfill its mission. - America's renewed international aggression can be seen, per my theory, as a reflexive reaction to a perceived threat. A double one: first because Americans themselves have begun to tire and question their fabricated self, and second because native identities, the global south, which should have been gone by now, looks more energized than ever. And this scares made-up America to death.

Art Deco skyscrapers were the ultimate expression of American optimism. These are the best: 🧵 1. The American Radiator Building, NYC (1924)

Here's an edited version of the space hosted by @DavidSacks with @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @JDVance1 @SenMikeLee and others regarding the $100 billion Ukraine bill. This version boosts audio quality and cuts time by 35%. Thank you @DavidCarbutt_ for the work!

NEW: David Sacks and Senator Mike Lee discuss Ukrainian corruption and the Senate refusing to audit the more than $100 billion that has already been sent to Ukraine. @DavidSacks: "Does this bill address the issue of corruption in Ukraine?" @BasedMikeLee: "There is not, to my knowledge, anything in this bill that adequately deals with the issue of corruption." @DavidSacks: "I would point everyone to the Time Magazine article on Zelensky... One Ukrainian official turned off the tape recorder and whispered to the Times reporter, people are stealing like there's no tomorrow." @BasedMikeLee: "The truth is this thing still has about $8 billion going directly to the government of Ukraine. These are not choir boys or Boy Scouts. These are people who have really set world records for corruption. It's an art form over there." @DavidSacks: "We've also just recently learned that there were a couple dozen officials in the Ukrainian Defense Department who are now being prosecuted for absconding defense funds to their personal accounts. There's also been a case of billions of dollars of weapons coming from the United States that can't be accounted for, presumably sold on the black market." @BasedMikeLee: "This turns a blind eye to that."

We’re all holons. Holons are wholes that are simultaneously parts. As a human, I am a member of my home, family, community, nation-state, globe, and universe. At those layers, there are emergent behaviors, and everything beneath me is also a holon.

A thread on a few commons myths about reforestation:

Yishan @yishan

4 years ago

Myth 1: Trees are too slow A forest does take 10-20 years to reach maturity, but this timeline is unfairly compared against other engineered carbon capture solutions that will take as long (or much longer) to scale, whereas trees are ready to scale TODAY.

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Stream versus Struct #stream - Dr. Ting's #eForthOverview .pdf has a table of contents with a list of the pages in chapters and sections. The word definitions (Forth units) are included with their sections. #struct - #HolonEForth presents the overview in a book structure with the units as separate lists. The unit names in the text are #hypertext links to their definitions. A control click lists the words that use this unit. #HolonEForth works in Windows, macOS, and (some) Linux. github.com/wejgaard/Holon… May it ease the way to Dr. Ting's inspiring explanations of Forth details.

"Israeli leadership must realise that there is no military solution to its security concerns." — King Abdullah of Jordan in Cairo One minute into his speech at the Cairo Summit, King Abdullah switched from Arabic "for our friends in Europe and around the world, my message is for them." Full video of his remarks and transcript below: Peace, God’s mercy and blessings be upon you. This is how Muslims and Arabs greet others: with a wish for the other to be blessed with peace and the mercy of God. Our religion came with a message of peace. The Pact of Omar, issued at the gates of Jerusalem almost 15 centuries ago, more than a thousand years before the Geneva Conventions, ordered Muslim soldiers not to kill a child, a woman or an old person, not to destroy a tree, not to harm a priest, not to destroy a church. Those are the rules of engagement that Muslims must accept and abide by, as should all those who believe in our common humanity. All civilian lives matter! I am outraged and grieved by those acts of violence waged against innocent civilians in Gaza, in the West Bank, and Israel. The relentless bombing campaign underway in Gaza as we speak is cruel and unconscionable—on every level. It is collective punishment of a besieged and helpless people. It is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. It is a war crime. Yet, the deeper the crisis cuts of cruelty, the less the world seems to care. Anywhere else, attacking civilian infrastructure and deliberately starving an entire population of food, water, electricity, and basic necessities would be condemned. Accountability would be enforced, immediately, unequivocally. And it has been done before—recently, in another conflict. But not in Gaza. It’s been two weeks since Israel put in place the complete siege of the Gaza Strip. And still, for the most part, global silence. Yet the message the Arab world is hearing is loud and clear: Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli ones. Our lives matter less than other lives. The application of international law is optional. And human rights have boundaries—they stop at borders, they stop at races, and they stop at religions. That is a very, very dangerous message, as the consequences of continued international apathy and inaction will be catastrophic—on us all. We cannot let raw emotions dictate the moment; our priorities today are clear and urgent: First: An immediate end to the war on Gaza, the protection of civilians, and the adoption of a unified position that indiscriminately condemns the targeting of all civilians, in line with our shared values and international law, which loses all value if it is implemented selectively. Second: The sustained and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid, fuel, food, and medicines to the Gaza Strip. Third: The unequivocal rejection of the forced displacement or internal displacement of the Palestinians. This is a war crime according to international law, and a red line for all of us. This conflict, my friends, did not start two weeks ago, and it will not stop if we continue down this blood-soaked path. We know all too well that it will only lead to more of the same—a zero-sum game of death and destruction, of hatred and hopelessness played on repeat. Today, Israel is literally starving civilians in Gaza, but for decades, Palestinians have been starved of hope, of freedom, and a future. Because when the bombs stop falling, Israel is never held accountable, the injustices of occupation continue and the world walks away, until the next round of violence. The bloodshed we are witnessing today is the price of that, of failing to make tangible progress towards a political horizon that brings peace for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Israeli leadership must realise that there is no military solution to its security concerns, that it cannot continue to sideline the five million Palestinians living under its occupation, denied of their legitimate rights, and that Palestinians lives are no less valuable than Israeli lives. The Israeli leadership must realise, once and for all, that a state can never thrive if it is built on the foundations of injustice. Over the past 15 years, we have seen how the dreams of a two-state solution and the hopes of an entire generation have turned into despair. This has been the policy of hardline Israeli leadership—to focus solely on security over peace and create new illegal realities on the ground that render an autonomous Palestinian state unviable. In the process, it has empowered extremists on both sides. But we must not—we cannot—write off this conflict as too far gone, for the sake of both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Our collective and unified message to the Israeli people should be: We want a future of peace and security for you and for the Palestinians, where your children and Palestinian children should no longer live in fear. It is our duty as the international community to do whatever it takes to restart a meaningful political process that can take us to a just and sustainable peace on the basis of the two-state solution. The only path to a safe and secure future for the people of the Middle East and the entire world—for the Jewish people, for Christians, for Muslims alike—starts with the belief that every human life is of equal value and it ends with two states, Palestine and Israel, sharing land and peace from the river to the sea. The time to act is now.