There is no AI in here
And I truly mean zero. I've done what I can to block AI scraping, build my own graphics, and write every word...often three or three dozen times. 😂 The information architecture is my own (better be, since I consider myself an information architect). I even do my best to avoid AI searches; sometimes they load automatically and I see a highlight that's intriguing, but I never, ever stop there.
The why is complicated, there are multiple posts already that nod to reasons (most in social fractals), and likely to be more. But the short version is: I take responsibility for the information I spread. I won't get it right the first time, every time. But I will always strive. LLM's provide the simplest, easiest way yet devised to abdicate responsibility while pulling the wool over people's eyes. I won't add to that externalized stress, not even to strangers.
There are four major threads on this site: information literacy, social fractals, abstractions, and concepts. Here's the breakdown of what's gone into them.
Information literacy
I was lied to, deeply and consistently, for years. I was told the sky was green, could clearly see it was blue, and when I looked further afield, lo and behold "blue" functioned most robustly. I built the information literacy thread around how I got myself out. It's just a beginning point, but all the tools are named for someone to be able to start building their own practice.
Social fractals
These are the least tested writing on this site. They are pulling multiple threads in order to make patterns that reflect what's happening in our world, and how it circles around information. It's part showing how to use information literacy. It's part building on my abstractions. It's rare for there to not be links off the site – but if you find me once, I assume you can find me again. 😉
Abstractions
These are dripping in my full/smallest-footprint model for information function, which includes information structures, human cognitive patterns around information, and time as the can't-cut-any-deeper baseline. I'm finding that as I see all the empty space, I'm also adding some things in that are more than that most basic of baselines. The baseline model is the product of decades of reading, systems thinking specifically around information, and testing my hypothesis in the wild throughout all my jobs. Nothing got put in the model that I didn't see several times over in the wild. I've worked hard to try to avoid the most constricting of our cognitive biases, but I am human.
Concepts
These are my own logic, based on as fulsome an understanding as I could work out, and aimed at removing as much behavioral and informational bias as I could manage. If there are ever any other people involved, they will be referenced or given writing credit, as pertinent.
