will steddenphilosophy
Why a different shade of solarpunk — Solarpunk is in my opinion the movement for a better future. It embraces and amplifies the best parts of humanity: innovation, compassion resilience, freedom, and justice, and focuses our imagination into making those qualities the ...
Solarpunk 2050 — A challenge to imagine ecosocialism in the year 2050
How Market Socialism Could Work — Keep the good part of capitalism but make it better.
Carbon Fragility — White fragility for climate change.
What is involution — tldr; when competition makes everyone's life worse
A mixture of identifields — What are two totally different sides of your personality that kind of came together to form who you are today? I've always had a love of nature that kind of gave me a sense of ...
Three parts to changing the world — Where we are. Where we want to be. And how to get there.s
More equal rights, more equal power — What does it mean to be left in the United States
An introduction to directional radicalism — Why we need a leftwardism
On the emergence of post-speculative fiction — I just ran a work of speculative fiction through a piece of artificial intelligence software that once would have been called speculative. I'm realizing that we very well might be reaching a new era of ...
One month into the Co-op Trail — touring the US to map and interview cooperative businesses
Augmented Democracy - Intentional Capitalism | A continuum analysis of collective decision making — tldr; democracy is our ideal. money is a convenient voting system but it has a glitch that breaks it irreversibly when too much is held by too few. therefore, we need wealth redistribution. I've been ...
analyzing a.ttent.io/n — Why do written works of fiction ever have to be finished? What if the story's growth was part of the story itself? My first real work of fiction is finished. But I wonder if my ...
Imagining a new economy on the Co-op Trail — I'm honestly grossed out by how our economy works. I never really had the privilege to understand it until now, but now that I'm seeing what it's like for a well-off person, I can't help ...
Renaissance of the Renaissance Person: We should restructure society so anyone can try lots of things. — Inspired by the Break 'Em Up! discussion from People's Action today, I've been trying to imagine what I think fairness and justice would look like in the world. It's a lofty thought, but one that ...
The Ongoing Process of a.ttent.io/n — I feel like my short story a.ttent.io/n will never be finished. But rather than fight that, I'm thinking perhaps I should embrace it as part of the core novelty of the medium I'm building. If ...
The Lisens: a license to simulate the sense of self — For the past year, my viewfoil project has led me to expand my use of identity publication (aka social media) and consolidate my public technological identity footprint into one portal online. My long-term goal with ...
Prof Bonkerfield Joins the Ampled Co-op — This summer I started getting very interested in co-ops and the solidarity economy. A big place where I started to learn was during the Zebras United Season of the Dazzle, which led to learning about ...
How about worker-owned automation? — Epistemic status: I've been ruminating on Fully Automated Luxury Communism and how to make it happen. Can't tell if it'll succeed, but it's something worth working toward. Recent events have reawoken an idea that I've ...
Identifield: information in the material universe — Epistemic status: It should go without saying that I don't have any certainty about the fundamental nature of the universe. This is just a bit of conjecture that gets me through my day. As I ...
A Spacetime Visual Explanation — Spacetime Explained It can be tricky to think about where something is in not only space, but time too. Physicists picture the location of objects in space and time using a concept called spacetime. They ...
Redefining Identity: A continuum approach — Epistemic status: This is an attempt to define personal identity for myself. I believe that it is a more developed description than most, but I always welcome new insights. There are two hurdles that I've ...
Philosophical Grind: why assume that your actions matter — Epistemic status: It should go without saying that I don't have any certainty about the fundamental nature of the universe. This is just a bit of conjecture that gets me through my day. What causes ...
Intuition as Unobserved Probabilistic Function Exploration — Epistemic status: It should go without saying that I don't have any certainty about the fundamental nature of the universe. This is just a bit of conjecture that gets me through my day. In my ...
The Swale: Weaving between Garden and Stream — Epistemic status: Minimally researched musings from someone who has blogged (poorly) for a few years and has an idea for a thing he wants to make. In the digital circles where I find myself roaming ...
Why building an AI chatbot that passed as human convinced me to put my whole life on the internet — In my free time, I like to build stuff and put it on the internet. Two months ago, I built an AI comment generating chatbot and deployed it on reddit. The chatbot was designed to ...
Thoughts on the #hivemind after trying social media for the first time — I was born in 1988, but I somehow resisted any serious engagement with social media until January of 2020. I want to explain what changed my mind, and why I’m going to stick around. Can ...
Viewfoil: Experimenting with Radical Transparency — I've been contemplating privacy and anonymity, and speculating on what those ideas will mean in the future of our society. During conversations with my friends and family, I've started questioning whether maintaining strengthened privacy is ...
Visualizing the Identifield — Edit: I've revised the term for the concept described below to be identifield. I was originally calling it a bonkerfield but realized that is too confusing. For the past few weeks, I've been trying to ...
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