Jon Awbrey
@inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social
Pinned
Have decided #BlueSky is pretty much useless for my purposes until they raise the character limit to something reasonable. #Mathstodon allows 1729 characters and that's a mite cramped but workable, #ResearchGate has no limit so far as I've seen.
June 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#TodaysAcronym ☞ #ATOWICTUWITHITFATS
Arrest The One Who Is Creating The Unrest —
Who Is That? He Is The Felon At The Source …
Arrest The One Who Is Creating The Unrest —
Who Is That? He Is The Felon At The Source …
June 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#TodaysAcronym ☞ #ATOWICTUWITHITFATS
Arrest The One Who Is Creating The Unrest —
Who Is That? He Is The Felon At The Source …
Arrest The One Who Is Creating The Unrest —
Who Is That? He Is The Felon At The Source …
C.S. Peirce • Logic of Number (MS 229)
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/09/01/c...
❝All other sciences without exception depend upon the principles of mathematics; and mathematics borrows nothing from them but hints.❞
— C.S. Peirce
#Peirce #Inquiry #Mathematics #Science
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/09/01/c...
❝All other sciences without exception depend upon the principles of mathematics; and mathematics borrows nothing from them but hints.❞
— C.S. Peirce
#Peirce #Inquiry #Mathematics #Science
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
C.S. Peirce • Logic of Number (MS 229)
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/09/01/c...
❝All other sciences without exception depend upon the principles of mathematics; and mathematics borrows nothing from them but hints.❞
— C.S. Peirce
#Peirce #Inquiry #Mathematics #Science
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/09/01/c...
❝All other sciences without exception depend upon the principles of mathematics; and mathematics borrows nothing from them but hints.❞
— C.S. Peirce
#Peirce #Inquiry #Mathematics #Science
If the medium is the message
then the blank slate is the innate idea.
#Medium=Message #TabulaRasa #BlankSlate #InnateIdea
#Peirce #LogicalGraphs #SheetOfAssertion #InterpretiveDuality
#EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs #Empiricism #Rationalism
then the blank slate is the innate idea.
#Medium=Message #TabulaRasa #BlankSlate #InnateIdea
#Peirce #LogicalGraphs #SheetOfAssertion #InterpretiveDuality
#EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs #Empiricism #Rationalism
April 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If the medium is the message
then the blank slate is the innate idea.
#Medium=Message #TabulaRasa #BlankSlate #InnateIdea
#Peirce #LogicalGraphs #SheetOfAssertion #InterpretiveDuality
#EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs #Empiricism #Rationalism
then the blank slate is the innate idea.
#Medium=Message #TabulaRasa #BlankSlate #InnateIdea
#Peirce #LogicalGraphs #SheetOfAssertion #InterpretiveDuality
#EntitativeGraphs #ExistentialGraphs #Empiricism #Rationalism
Have decided #BlueSky is pretty much useless for my purposes until they raise the character limit to something reasonable. #Mathstodon allows 1729 characters and that's a mite cramped but workable, #ResearchGate has no limit so far as I've seen.
March 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Have decided #BlueSky is pretty much useless for my purposes until they raise the character limit to something reasonable. #Mathstodon allows 1729 characters and that's a mite cramped but workable, #ResearchGate has no limit so far as I've seen.
Habitations
Our reach exceeds our rut and yet
We grasp but what we drag into it.
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/03/06/h...
Our reach exceeds our rut and yet
We grasp but what we drag into it.
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/03/06/h...
March 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Habitations
Our reach exceeds our rut and yet
We grasp but what we drag into it.
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/03/06/h...
Our reach exceeds our rut and yet
We grasp but what we drag into it.
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/03/06/h...
A Tale of Two Cities
• www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
• www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
March 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A Tale of Two Cities
• www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
• www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
It's #SaturdayScience once again, where we remind ourselves what we are fighting for.
What sciencey things are you excited about this week? Maybe something you're working on? Or a paper you read / a talk you heard?
What sciencey things are you excited about this week? Maybe something you're working on? Or a paper you read / a talk you heard?
Along with those cats, let’s start a weekly reminder of what we’re fighting for: #SaturdayScience.
What are you celebrating or are excited about this week?
What are you celebrating or are excited about this week?
March 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It's #SaturdayScience once again, where we remind ourselves what we are fighting for.
What sciencey things are you excited about this week? Maybe something you're working on? Or a paper you read / a talk you heard?
What sciencey things are you excited about this week? Maybe something you're working on? Or a paper you read / a talk you heard?
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
"Have you said thank you even once?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Have you said thank you even once?"
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/t...
Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.
#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Representation
#MaxWeber #Cybernetics #Democracy
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/t...
Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.
#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Representation
#MaxWeber #Cybernetics #Democracy
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/t...
Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.
#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Representation
#MaxWeber #Cybernetics #Democracy
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/t...
Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.
#Peirce #Logic #Semiotics #Representation
#MaxWeber #Cybernetics #Democracy
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human): The author proposes an alternative to Homo Sapiens (“wise human” in Latin): Homo Rationcinator, or reckoning human—where reckoning refers to both reasoning and computing. ~ Moshe Y. Vardi. cacm.acm.org/opinion/homo... #Logic #CompSci
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human): The author proposes an alternative to Homo Sapiens (“wise human” in Latin): Homo Rationcinator, or reckoning human—where reckoning refers to both reasoning and computing. ~ Moshe Y. Vardi. cacm.acm.org/opinion/homo... #Logic #CompSci
Ouch❢
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/27/o...
❝A child hears it said that the stove is hot. But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold. But he touches it, and finds the testimony confirmed in a striking way.
#Peirce
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/27/o...
❝A child hears it said that the stove is hot. But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold. But he touches it, and finds the testimony confirmed in a striking way.
#Peirce
February 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ouch❢
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/27/o...
❝A child hears it said that the stove is hot. But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold. But he touches it, and finds the testimony confirmed in a striking way.
#Peirce
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/27/o...
❝A child hears it said that the stove is hot. But it is not, he says; and, indeed, that central body is not touching it, and only what that touches is hot or cold. But he touches it, and finds the testimony confirmed in a striking way.
#Peirce
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 4.5, 1126a12–13:
For evil also destroys itself, and if it pervades one completely, it is unendurable.
τὸ γὰρ κακὸν καὶ ἑαυτὸ ἀπόλλυσι, κἂν ὁλόκληρον ᾖ, ἀφόρητον γίνεται.
#philsky #Aristotle
For evil also destroys itself, and if it pervades one completely, it is unendurable.
τὸ γὰρ κακὸν καὶ ἑαυτὸ ἀπόλλυσι, κἂν ὁλόκληρον ᾖ, ἀφόρητον γίνεται.
#philsky #Aristotle
February 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 4.5, 1126a12–13:
For evil also destroys itself, and if it pervades one completely, it is unendurable.
τὸ γὰρ κακὸν καὶ ἑαυτὸ ἀπόλλυσι, κἂν ὁλόκληρον ᾖ, ἀφόρητον γίνεται.
#philsky #Aristotle
For evil also destroys itself, and if it pervades one completely, it is unendurable.
τὸ γὰρ κακὸν καὶ ἑαυτὸ ἀπόλλυσι, κἂν ὁλόκληρον ᾖ, ἀφόρητον γίνεται.
#philsky #Aristotle
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
February 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
February 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/t...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/20/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
February 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BlueSky
@bsky.app
Official BlueSky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
@bsky.app
Official BlueSky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
February 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
BlueSky
@bsky.app
Official BlueSky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
@bsky.app
Official BlueSky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
FYI … for those who don't know the codes —
The character “X” has the ASCII code “88” —
• www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/HTML%20...
And you can look that up in your Nazi dog whistle dictionary —
• www.adl.org/resources/ha...
#DogWhistle #HateSymbol #Musk #Nazi
The character “X” has the ASCII code “88” —
• www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/HTML%20...
And you can look that up in your Nazi dog whistle dictionary —
• www.adl.org/resources/ha...
#DogWhistle #HateSymbol #Musk #Nazi
88
88 is a white supremacist numerical code for Heil Hitler. Read more about the meaning behind the numbers, as well as how it’s used in non-extremist forms.
www.adl.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
FYI … for those who don't know the codes —
The character “X” has the ASCII code “88” —
• www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/HTML%20...
And you can look that up in your Nazi dog whistle dictionary —
• www.adl.org/resources/ha...
#DogWhistle #HateSymbol #Musk #Nazi
The character “X” has the ASCII code “88” —
• www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/HTML%20...
And you can look that up in your Nazi dog whistle dictionary —
• www.adl.org/resources/ha...
#DogWhistle #HateSymbol #Musk #Nazi
Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
February 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/18/b...
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
The Prime Movers of Disaster Capitalism
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/05/23/t...
☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs)
⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs)
⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS)
⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)
#DisasterCapitalism
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/05/23/t...
☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs)
⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs)
⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS)
⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)
#DisasterCapitalism
February 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Prime Movers of Disaster Capitalism
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/05/23/t...
☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs)
⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs)
⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS)
⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)
#DisasterCapitalism
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/05/23/t...
☠ Obscenely Rich Corporations (ORCs)
⇒ Corporate Owned Governments (COGs)
⇒ Mercantile Engineered Social Starvation (MESS)
⇒ Corporate Owned Biosphere Wasting Earth’s Bounty (COBWEB)
#DisasterCapitalism
Reposted by Jon Awbrey
February 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Now he thinks he's Napoleon …
Time to send in the White Coats …
He who saves his country, violates no law
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_...
#Trump #Felon47
Time to send in the White Coats …
He who saves his country, violates no law
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_...
#Trump #Felon47
He who saves his country, violates no law - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Now he thinks he's Napoleon …
Time to send in the White Coats …
He who saves his country, violates no law
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_...
#Trump #Felon47
Time to send in the White Coats …
He who saves his country, violates no law
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_...
#Trump #Felon47
What's happening here is that American Oligarchs have decided they bear more in common with Russian Oligarchs than they ever had with the American People.
dianeravitch.net/2025/02/15/t...
dianeravitch.net/2025/02/15/t...
Trump Is Destroying Our Country, Putin Benefits
I am posting a large excerpt from Olga Lautman’s Tyranny Tracker. Christine Langhoff shares this link with us. I urge you to subscribe. I have given up trying to keep track of Trump’s d…
dianeravitch.net
February 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What's happening here is that American Oligarchs have decided they bear more in common with Russian Oligarchs than they ever had with the American People.
dianeravitch.net/2025/02/15/t...
dianeravitch.net/2025/02/15/t...