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→ How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings
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“The core idea of emergence inspired me to develop the concept I call the entangled brain: the need to understand the brain as an interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas.”

AeonHow the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon EssaysThe brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
#human#emergence#entangled
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“Several days on, the cause of #Europe’s biggest #blackout in two decades is still being investigated. Spain’s grid operator, #RedEléctrica, says a loss of generation in the country’s south-west led to a sudden cascade of failures.

What tripped off, why, and how this escalated so dramatically is unclear.

But the fact that an entire peninsula could be plunged into #darkness in a matter of seconds has caused alarm around the world, raising urgent questions about the stability of #EnergyUInfrastructure at a time when many countries are switching to low carbon #electricity instead of burning fossil fuels”

“Our power systems were conceived for an era of centralised, predictable generation,” says #XavierDaval, chair of France’s #renewable energy trade association #SOLERSER. “But the emerging electric world is #distributed, #digital, and #adaptive. This is not a glitch to patch — it’s a #paradigm that must be rethought.”

<archive.md/JOyS3> / <ft.com/content/3b807eff-fdaf-4> (paywall)

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Steve Leach

#iden Quick-start verified: Creating and sourcing the #python and #rust virtual environments to compile and install, generating an identity, starting the pad manager, and how to import the library in a #jupyter notebook ready to write and read and poke at the test node.

github.com/stevenaleach/iden/b

GitHubiden/quickstart.md at main · stevenaleach/idenIDEN - decentralized identity and distributable services. - stevenaleach/iden
#linux#distributed#smallweb
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distribits

⏰ The clock is ticking — only 3 weeks left to register and submit talk ideas for #distribits2025 (deadline 01 May): distribits.live/.

We want to hear from YOU about the technologies for #distributed #data_management in your life. We also hope you’ll join us for a collaborative #hackathon to further network with other people who get excited about #rdm and #opendata. 😎

When? 🗓️ 23-25 October, 2025
Where? 📍 Düsseldorf, Germany (and online)
Cost? 💰 Nothing — it’s free!

@datalad #gitAnnex

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George E. (he/him/his)

Did you know that #GNU/ #FSF has its own #darknet application and protocol stack?

What is #GNUnet?

GNUnet is an #alternative #network stack for building #secure, #decentralized and #privacy-preserving #distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure #publication of #files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

Today, the actual use and thus the social requirements for a global network differs widely from those goals of 1970. While the Internet remains suitable for military use, where the network equipment is operated by a command hierarchy and when necessary isolated from the rest of the world, the situation is less tenable for civil society.

Due to fundamental Internet design choices, Internet traffic can be misdirected, intercepted, censored and manipulated by hostile routers on the network. And indeed, the modern Internet has evolved exactly to the point where, as Matthew Green put it, "the network is hostile".

We believe liberal societies need a #network #architecture that uses the #anti-authoritarian #decentralized #peer-to-peer paradigm and #privacy-preserving #cryptographic #protocols. The goal of the GNUnet project is to provide a Free Software realization of this ideal.
https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
www.gnunet.orgGNUnetGNU's framework for secure p2p networking
#privacypreserving#antiauthoritarian#peertopeer
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What is the AT Protocol?

Wikipedia: “The #ATProtocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, pronounced "@ protocol" and commonly shortened to ATProto) is a protocol and #OpenStandard for #distributed #socialNetworking services. It is under development by #BlueskySocial #PBC, a public benefit corporation originally created as an independent research group within #Twitter to investigate the possibility of #decentralizing the service.”

<en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Pro>

en.m.wikipedia.orgAT Protocol - Wikipedia
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Toni Aittoniemi

#Distributed and #decentralised #computing networks aren’t left-wing. They are right-wing technologies which aim to escape from being controlled by a central authority.

They aren’t democratic either. Democracy requires a central authorative force which can apply the collective will even to parties resisting it.

We are being sold a right-wing package wearing hippy left-wing tie-dye. That’s why it’s so conflicting.

One of the best books in years:
upress.umn.edu/9781517918149/c
#amreading #bookstodon

University of Minnesota PressCyberlibertarianismAn urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
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