tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103121952024-02-28T10:21:59.096-08:00Linux Society:With Ed Snowden's NSA-leaking, the need for L4 as a modular, transparent operating system becomes even more obvious, and Linux with its monolithic/oligarchic architecture (and culture) becomes increasingly dangerous, and Windows might capitulate to the ultra-quick buck. Link below-right leads to my "crucible" on oddmuse where I do my "status updates."john_van_vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466710762951546364noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-75156570128889092014-10-09T08:30:00.001-07:002014-12-22T18:26:24.620-08:00What about Aaron Schwartz? If you study Snowden, searches invariably lead you to cyber-related Aaron Schwartz
who killed himself after two years of prosecution for attempting to
“liberate” J-Store material and is viewed as a cyber-martyr. Unfortunately from my perspective, Schwartz put himself on the oligarchic side of technology; he worked to help eliminate newlines for the forced paragraph format in word processing by johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-7983821913699467772014-04-12T11:08:00.004-07:002014-04-12T11:08:57.475-07:00johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-88594755727924925672014-04-09T12:32:00.000-07:002014-04-09T12:32:06.227-07:00Windows XP users DEAD in Microsoft's eyes --feck'n info oligarchs
XP will be orphaned next week -- there will be malware support for another year -- but the OS is dead in MS's eyes. I probably should not care because I hate non-free computers and software, and I always felt XP was "rationally reduced" for your average marketing victim, but, stats show, something like 1/3 of computers run XP. Saving XP is a democratic obligation.
FREE THE ORPHANS!!!!
The way johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-20643963701387900542013-10-30T06:55:00.002-07:002013-10-31T07:40:47.119-07:00Rationale for the Pengpod (in relation to ThinMan Model)Given NSA involvement in everything with obvious capitulation to gov't sponsored hacking/cracking by nearly every information corporation (possibly even Microsoft/Windows) PengPod makes huge sense
I have promoted L4 over Linux for a decade now, but L4 needs to roll back a decade. to make it actually free and open as FSU developers have made it purely-proprietary (w/o mentioning..) The johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-43450482752988314402013-09-25T10:43:00.003-07:002019-04-09T13:32:33.207-07:00FB will delete 10s to 100s of millions of users for "over-friending"
Help end FB's "anti-friending" crisis (though I am at a loss as to how):
Facebook has and will delete a sizable percentages of its user-base:
at least 10's of millions, perhaps 100's of millions from a user-base of a billion
I may be in the "next round" of "deletions"
Facebook (FB) is deleting, or disabling, accounts to the tune of 100
million accounts, and is, apparently ramping-up, johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-5967589469358223002013-02-24T05:38:00.001-08:002013-02-24T07:11:55.924-08:00
Simplified Model
Wallet-sized abstraction to access people and situations psychologically on the fly
My empathy model is a clean-room abstraction that specifically looks mutually-beneficial interrelations for organismic success, and is easily accepted by the vast majority of people, that is to say, those who normally interrelate. It is fundamentally based on johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-4022151200550790262013-01-26T12:16:00.003-08:002013-01-26T12:16:46.941-08:00
Saving your contacts from the Verizon / LG Cosmos phone to a micro sd card
Most of us are upgrading (this was a particularly awkward phone). Mass storage showed everything except phone numbers, and Verizon attempted to harvest this by pulling me into their "cloud" --something I would avoid at all costs.
Unfortunately, the phone hacking tool bitpim does not johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-34275609269830094982012-12-15T08:38:00.002-08:002012-12-15T08:38:47.984-08:00
Defective dominance, a phrase I use often (but never wrote about) to describe the ugliness we see in "our" human society is "defective dominance." This is to say that, because it is easy to profit using cruelty, and difficult to prevent cruelty through kindness (or profit from generosity), cruelty, and especially cruelty-causing genes, win out in "our" synthetic world.
In the political johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-82005706344691936822012-09-23T11:17:00.001-07:002012-09-23T11:17:15.294-07:00Metacognition and the current dialectic: A "FaceBook" interviewIntroductionThe following is a conversation that takes a question and answer approach with a woman who "liked" occupy critical inquiry on FaceBook, and who happens to have a high-ranking executive position in a very large (and often hated) consumer goods corporation.John Bessa:Thanks for "liking" occupy critical inquiry -- based on what I learned (and learned for my psych johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-48506356236855028942012-08-13T11:58:00.001-07:002012-08-15T07:41:08.464-07:00Is cognition a metacognition?The key to this puzzle (in the big picture) is understanding parts of the brain--which is where I am headed with this inquiry.
(Note: this is a work in progress -- my real question is "is Putin autistic?" because there is someone similar where I live who is a business leader who is cruel and who rocks in a chair like autistic do. But here it is, a similar discussion, and the other will have to johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-48140364128104748732012-03-20T10:47:00.001-07:002012-03-20T10:47:29.002-07:00Forced upgrades in the historical contextThe point of Internet technology when it became public in the early 90s was to eventually provide all people with free or nearly-free information exchange and possibly telecom-type services. The economic growth of the 90s was such that corporations seemed beneficial (for the first time in history) and there was no reason not to accept good will from the information corporations (such as johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-83626647712999208602011-09-14T08:50:00.000-07:002011-09-14T08:56:26.194-07:00Setting up a dlink wifi router on a hughesnet satellite connectionTo make a long story short, this solution provides wired ethernet, but not wifi, service. Connect the laptop to the router and the router to the hughesnet device, which I will call a satmodem for convenience.Connect to the dlink router web-based interface (server) via ethernet cable, (198.162.0.1) andGo to the LAN settings and change the router's address to 198.162.1.1 to differentiate it (john_van_vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466710762951546364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-50579545534865262532011-05-04T09:41:00.001-07:002011-05-04T09:41:39.541-07:00state / traitThe state-trait anger test, the STAXI-2, provides a description of state and trait in real terms that we can apply (Borteyrou, et al. 2008). I chose anger because it is often a component of personality disorder (Varghese, et al. 2010), especially Borderline PD.Trait anger is measured as temperament and reaction (Varghese, et al. 2010). State anger is measured as angry feelings, verbaljohnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-46794968496365254912011-02-10T06:59:00.001-08:002011-02-10T06:59:26.631-08:00Jung's bent universeJungian personality typesPersonality traits are described in Jung's personality code as letters are biopolar in that they represent opposing traits along a linear measure. They measure the distance along a pole an individual tends to that trait, and away from the opposing trait. Jung described introversion and extraversion as the key polar traits and refered to them as attitudes;johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-10721374652100098542011-02-10T06:07:00.001-08:002019-04-09T13:37:31.699-07:00Was CG Jung a racist?I felt encouraged to absorb more of Jung's ideas when I found a possible relationship between his archetypes and the evolution of language and the "deeper" meanings of words.
I found much about mythology in his writing (in fact I found it overwhelming), but attempted to stay on-topic with respect to his typology. Nonetheless, I found his bipole approach (which was not his alone) to be so johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-57604790227757004572011-02-02T08:17:00.001-08:002011-03-17T10:42:29.657-07:00Empathy model outlineA "clean room" approach to emotional communicationThis introduction:It is difficult to write about psychology because the traditional theories (which are still philosophy-based, using 2500 year old material) still confound observed phenomena, often obviously, such as in the cases of Freud and Watson. I wrote this synopsis of my "clean room" implementation of the empathy model johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-26431350415261296652011-01-07T08:50:00.001-08:002011-01-12T10:07:54.973-08:00Contemporary-versitySingly the most important thing is freedom of speech, and this is what distinguishes the Wikiversity (WV) from the Wikipedia (WP). In the WV it is encased in the concept of original research, or OR. Obviously I am referring to cold fusion (CF), but I am also talking about my research on the WP that has given real insight into the underlying mechanisms of humanity's big problem of johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-34718837901228308392010-11-28T08:55:00.001-08:002010-12-01T10:16:04.962-08:00Latest empathy-evolution-oligarchyFrom the free desktop of John Bessa:I strongly believe in the evolutionary model that shows that apes, monkeys and elephants have the "higher" empathy that most humans have because of special neurons enabling the brain networks. Whales have even higher empathy as they have a set of more advanced neurons possibly to link together parts of their huge brains.Mice have "ancient&johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-44971857089631832992010-11-17T20:36:00.001-08:002010-11-17T20:36:12.740-08:00Recognition, Thirdness, and the Mirror Neuron SystemRelational synapse of the mirror neuron systemJessica Boyatt talks about the mirror neuron system as a "relation synapse" that is part of the relational psychoanalysis (below, 2009). The mirror neurons enable a connection that is in "the physical and experiential space" (p.2) in between people who are communicating, such as a therapist and client. It can also be johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-56055259889393782522010-10-19T11:16:00.001-07:002010-10-19T11:16:34.334-07:00Depression: Non-psychotheraputic therapiesIt is widely agreed that two neurotransmitter systems are implicated in depression: serotonin (5HT) and norepinephrine (NE). While many psychotherapeutic strategies have been adapted for the treatment of depression, the therapy of choice is the medication that makes existing serotonin more available by preventing its re-uptake, or the SSRI (Peterson, 2004). In depression, the brain johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-55426722005722307932010-09-28T08:25:00.001-07:002010-09-28T08:25:25.582-07:00Ethical issues of anxiety disordersMany adolescents (and children) require proactive care for anxiety disorders. In the most optimistic cases, early intervention can stem serious problems later on. But for many suffering from anxiety disorders, proactive care means that their rights are limited, and they may be coerced into therapy and medications that they don't want. There is endless ethical "gray areajohnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-61326410722260824132010-09-26T07:09:00.001-07:002010-09-26T07:12:43.129-07:00Self-esteemKutob reports low self-esteem in elementary and middle school girls in California and Arizona manifested as "low academic performance, social isolation, depression, anxiety, fatigue, headaches, and stomachaches" (Kutob, 2010). The low self-esteem was largely caused by cruel teasing and bullying associated with appearance: body weight. Kutob promotes "zero johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-39357642595178683842010-09-24T09:07:00.001-07:002010-09-24T09:07:04.703-07:00Comparing schizophrenia and bipolar (and also psychosis)A review of recent material about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder confirms that the two diseases are genetically inherited. One article suggests that families with a genetic tendency for one of these diseases also have a tendency for the other (McIntosh, 2009). A search for genetic information about schizophrenia shows that a particular genetically expressed protein, NRG1, and its johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-5447288420834025272010-09-24T09:04:00.001-07:002010-09-24T09:04:41.257-07:00Executive function, working memory control, and ADHDExecutive function (EF) and working memory ADHD is largely defined in terms of executive function impairment (Biederman, 2004), and shares descriptive language. Very recent studies describe executive function as "executive attention" (Kane, 2005) and show a unitary model that links it with working memory in terms of working memory control, or WMC, and higher levels of cognition.&johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10312195.post-58754101823921216192010-08-27T07:12:00.001-07:002010-08-27T10:59:41.443-07:00L4 Criteria: an open letter to David Sugar Hi David,I have been following the L4 operating system's slow growth, and there is now a runtime environment that includes a framebuffer and a windowing service.I am attempting to continue my socially motivated input into computer/network growth by adding suggestions to the L4-developers mailing list that are much the same as my initial suggestions in 1989 when I was one of the very few johnbessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11149707443586865031noreply@blogger.com0