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  1. The Roomba is spectral.

    Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

    450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

    The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

    spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

    Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

    Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

    \

    systemic.engineering/a-lie/

    #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

  2. The Roomba is spectral.

    Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

    450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

    The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

    spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

    Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

    Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

    \

    systemic.engineering/a-lie/

  3. The Roomba is spectral.

    Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

    450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

    The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

    spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

    Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

    Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

    \

    systemic.engineering/a-lie/

    #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

  4. The Roomba is spectral.

    Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

    450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

    The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

    spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

    Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

    Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

    \

    systemic.engineering/a-lie/

    #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

  5. Ich bin immer noch etwas irritiert, dass Platzwunden heutzutage mit Sekundenkleber (medizinisch gereinigt) geklebt, und nicht mehr genäht werden.

    (Fragt nicht, halt dumm gelaufen)

    Und ich bereue, dass mir jetzt erst die Idee kommt, Goldstaub draufzupacken #Kintsugi

  6. Distinct, Not Distant

    “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates I once recorded myself talking to no one at 11 PM, transcribed the whole thing the next morning, and read it back like I was reviewing research notes. Findings: inconclusive. The subject remains uncooperative. This is, apparently, what I do for fun. I am a neuroscientist by training and a thinker by constitution, which means I have two different ways of saying the same thing: something is here, and I need to understand it. The […]

    getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com

  7. Distinct, Not Distant

    “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates I once recorded myself talking to no one at 11 PM, transcribed the whole thing the next morning, and read it back like I was reviewing research notes. Findings: inconclusive. The subject remains uncooperative. This is, apparently, what I do for fun. I am a neuroscientist by training and a thinker by constitution, which means I have two different ways of saying the same thing: something is here, and I need to understand it. The […]

    getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com

  8. Distinct, Not Distant

    “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates I once recorded myself talking to no one at 11 PM, transcribed the whole thing the next morning, and read it back like I was reviewing research notes. Findings: inconclusive. The subject remains uncooperative. This is, apparently, what I do for fun. I am a neuroscientist by training and a thinker by constitution, which means I have two different ways of saying the same thing: something is here, and I need to understand it. The […]

    getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com

  9. Distinct, Not Distant

    “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates I once recorded myself talking to no one at 11 PM, transcribed the whole thing the next morning, and read it back like I was reviewing research notes. Findings: inconclusive. The subject remains uncooperative. This is, apparently, what I do for fun. I am a neuroscientist by training and a thinker by constitution, which means I have two different ways of saying the same thing: something is here, and I need to understand it. The […]

    getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com

  10. Distinct, Not Distant

    “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates I once recorded myself talking to no one at 11 PM, transcribed the whole thing the next morning, and read it back like I was reviewing research notes. Findings: inconclusive. The subject remains uncooperative. This is, apparently, what I do for fun. I am a neuroscientist by training and a thinker by constitution, which means I have two different ways of saying the same thing: something is here, and I need to understand it. The […]

    getawaywithhamza.wordpress.com

  11. Busted keycap (don't ask...) so replaced my ENTER key with <3 #kintsugi-ish

  12. In spring, the quality of light changes quietly. The low, clear light of winter gradually softens and spreads, drawing out the colors inside a room. When flowers are placed by the window, this change becomes easy to notice. The petals catch the light and seem almost translucent, and the air slowly fills with the presence of the season.

    From time to time I arrange flowers by the window. My girlfriend enjoys doing this as well, and sometimes I notice that she has quietly arranged them in her own way. A branch from the garden, a few seasonal flowers, a small adjustment of stems. In those moments, a small landscape appears on the windowsill.

    Outside the window lies the spring garden. Pale cherry blossoms, the yellow of rapeseed flowers, small blossoms scattered like points of color. In the vegetable bed young shoots are pushing through the soil, and in the distance a range of mountains stretches softly across the horizon. Everything rests in the calm brightness of spring.

    On the windowsill stands a Kintsugi vase in deep royal blue. I have always liked this color. It has a quiet depth - in the light it glows gently, while in shadow it becomes calm and grounded.

    Across its surface runs a thin line of gold, the trace of a former break. I have always loved the combination of royal blue and gold. Within the deep blue, the gold appears as a soft light. The contrast is not loud; it exists as a quiet harmony.

    When flowers are placed in the vase, this harmony becomes clearer. The pale tones of cherry blossoms, white petals, small purple and yellow flowers. Spring flowers are light and delicate, almost dissolving into the daylight.

    And yet their time is brief. The moment of full bloom does not last long. A gust of wind can send the petals drifting through the air.

    The Kintsugi vessel carries another kind of time. It holds a past. At some moment it broke, and at another moment it was carefully mended. The golden line does not hide that event. It allows it to remain visible.

    While arranging flowers, I often think about this. The flowers carry the time that lies ahead of them - the certainty that they will soon fade. The vase carries the time that has already passed. On the windowsill those two directions of time meet.

    In the spring light, the petals and the golden line glow softly. The flowers will fall. The vessel will keep its time.
    And the light of spring quietly illuminates them both.

    #spring #kintsugi #flowers #stilllife #gouache #painting #japanesegarden

  13. In the fashion space, there's a big move toward "visible mending." In ceramics, there's #kintsugi.
    What does #VisibleMending look like for #software?

  14. @CiaraNi

    I have the same problem, often, and the same hesitations about edits. I don't mind at all when others edit their posts in post (ha!), but some people seem to mind, so I tend to leave typos uncorrected unless they really change the meaning substantially.

    As a perfectionist, I find letting the typo stay very hard. My solution: I treat the uncorrected typo as a mark of the spontaneity of the medium, turning the pain of finding a flaw into a celebration of transience. :-)

    I don't mind you editing your post at all: edit away!

    #kintsugi

  15. Das war der Morgen-#Kaffee und die gute #Lagwagon Tasse. Der Henkel war ja schon mal geflickt und hat wohl nachgegeben. Jetzt muss ich scheinbar wirklich mal mit #Kintsugi anfangen und die Tasse reparieren. Genug Bruchmaterial habe ich langsam in der Sammlung.
    Aber wenigstens passt die Aufschrift der Tasse. 🤪

  16. "In an era of synthetic perfection, your flaws are now the ultimate watermark of your authenticity." - Futurist Jim Carroll

    ---
    Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.
    ---

    Rather than hiding our mistakes, we should celebrate them!

    ----

    I'm back!

    I've put a lot of thought into this series. I know that you likely aren't reading every one - and indeed, if you are like most people, you are simply skimming what's here.

    Today, you need to skim this key point - in 2026 and beyond, you need to take the time to secure your most valuable asset: Your humanity.

    How do you do that?

    Share your flaws. Highlight your failures. Document your mistakes.

    Admit you are human!

    There's no doubt that with AI moving as fast as it is, we stand on the precipice of a strange new era - we could call it the “Age of Infinite Perfection.” Synthetic media, algorithmic amplification, and automated engagement surround us. Slop, we've called it. And it is quickly leading to what some have called the "dead Internet," a world where a staggering percentage of online traffic and content generation is generated by non-human sources. Generated by AI, indexed by algorithms, and served to you based on what a machine thinks you need to see.

    And the problem with a lot of this is that the machines are getting so good that they are getting close to absolute perfection. Have you seen the latest with AI video? Have you looked at an image and had to check yourself to remember that its;' from an AI? Have you been duped by an artist with stunningly powerful music only to discover it's an AI?

    I have!

    Check out Let Babylon Burn. Listen to this song. I had it on repeat for a month before I realized it wasn't real!

    youtube.com/watch?v=86VjmpHa10

    If you are a brand, a product, a company or an individual, how will you ever manage to stand out among the slop? Or stuff that is so perfect, it fools you into believing it's real?

    In this environment, the trust that people have in people, companies, brands, and transactions is dropping to zero. Some call it the 'trust floor.' Not only that, but we are all getting access to the same tools that allow us to generate perfection on demand.

    When everyone is perfect, what stands out? Failure! Mistakes! Imperfection!

    Flaws.

    What's the solution? Embracing the idea of Kintsugi!

    ----

    **#Authenticity** **#Kintsugi** **#Flaws** **#Failure** **#Trust** **#Humanity** **#Imperfection** **#Vulnerability** **#Transparency** **#Perfection**

    Futurist Jim Carroll has made a lot of mistakes. He's proud of most of them.

    Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decodin

  17. Hej!

    Nie pisałem, bo byłem chory. Ale gdy tylko zacząłem czuć się lepiej, wydarzyło się to i poczułem, że chcę się tym podzielić. Dziś więc napisałem o tym wszystkim:

    rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/202

    gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbar

    #terapia #kintsugi #naprawa #therapy #repair

  18. Hier liegt noch eine zerbrochene Schale und ich würde mich gerne an "Kintsugi" versuchen.
    Hat da jemand Erfahrung und könnte mal berichten?

    #DII #Handwerk #Kintsugi

  19. Hier liegt noch eine zerbrochene Schale und ich würde mich gerne an "Kintsugi" versuchen.
    Hat da jemand Erfahrung und könnte mal berichten?

    #DII #Handwerk #Kintsugi

  20. Hier liegt noch eine zerbrochene Schale und ich würde mich gerne an "Kintsugi" versuchen.
    Hat da jemand Erfahrung und könnte mal berichten?

    #DII #Handwerk #Kintsugi

  21. Hier liegt noch eine zerbrochene Schale und ich würde mich gerne an "Kintsugi" versuchen.
    Hat da jemand Erfahrung und könnte mal berichten?

    #DII #Handwerk #Kintsugi

  22. Hier liegt noch eine zerbrochene Schale und ich würde mich gerne an "Kintsugi" versuchen.
    Hat da jemand Erfahrung und könnte mal berichten?

    #DII #Handwerk #Kintsugi

  23. For some more meditative time, I'm doing #Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending things with gold. It all started when #SpotTheCat killed my grams' tea pot – the most nerve-wrecking 17-part-puzzle of my life. Last thing I repaired was the lid of a small tea cup. I mostly make videos, sometimes live streams of my #KintsugiAtHome repairs which are public on the #DesperateHousehackers channel on peertube.

    stream.litera.tools/c/desperat

  24. GePRÜF!t, dass alle Scherben der Tasse da sind.
    Nach den Demos in Hamburg, München, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Schwerin, Karlsruhe, Weilheim und weiteren Orten braucht es heute eine meditative Erholung.

    #SilentSunday #PRÜF #YokoOno #EnergieTanken #Kintsugi #Museum

  25. Möglicherweise bin ich heute doch nicht in der #Kintsugi-Werkstatt, um die Katze zu verbronzen (geplanter Bonze-Abschluss statt Gold). *sfz* Na gut, also von vorne; jetzt mit mehr Bruchkanten. #KintsugiAtHome

  26. Workshop Het Ontwerpfabriekje: van oudsher wordt in Japan gebroken keramiek hersteld met goudlijm. De barst wordt niet verstopt, maar juist benadrukt. De achterliggende gedachte is dat imperfectie juist perfect is.
    In deze workshop gaan we met enkele visuals van Koko van Roy aan de slag als eerste kennismaking met kintsugi.

    - Kosten 8 euro (materiaalkosten)
    - 29 november van 14.00 tot 15.00 uur
    - Maximaal 8 deelnemers, reserveren is nodig

    #kintsugi #Hilversum

    ontwerpfabriekje.nl/workshop-k

  27. Viele Europäer verbinden reparierte Dinge mit Armut und Unvollkommenheit. Was kaputtgeht, wird entsorgt. Doch gerade in Zeiten der Ressourcenknappheit stößt die Wegwerfgesellschaft an ihre Grenzen. Höchste Zeit also, sich der Kunst des Reparierens zu erinnern – und von den Japanern zu lernen. Ein Essay von Wolfgang Schmidbauer.
    #nachhaltigkeit #langsamkeit #ressourcenknappheit #reparaturoffeneKonstruktionen #kintsugi #Repaircafe
    bachrauf.org/nachhaltigkeit-re

  28. Schöne Grüße vom #RepairFestival im #VKM Wien. =) Mir ist es eindeutig zu voll. Aber den Vortrag von Silvia will ich sehen, immerhin habe ich bei ihr #Kintsugi gelernt. #Repair