Iridescence

Wired seems to be the major story-breaker on the Supreme Court’s decision on warrant-less GPS tracking.

The Decision

Many people mis-read what the decision was.  The many misconstrued angles included idea that the major dimension of this case was the ruling itself: without a warrant, you cannot track a person by attaching a GPS to their car.  Far mor important dimensions exist to this case, as ‘the rest of it’ is the real danger to civil liberties.

“The minority,” Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan, think that the government should be able to monitor GPS system data…. regardless of where it comes from.  That’s where they think differently than “the majority,” Scalia, Kennedy, Sotomayor, Thomas and Roberts.

“Warrantless” is still legal

The majority thinks a problem exists warrantless GPS installations.  ProTip: an “installation” means a situation wherein a GPS device is attached to a car….. it doesn’t address when a car.. or any piece of person property… already has a GPS system integrated.

“The majority” think that the following two warrantless GPS monitoring situations are legal:

1. Where a car has a pre-installed GPS
2. by logical extension, any device that has built-in GPS

quote:

The majority said “the present case does not require us to answer” whether police may employ GPS monitoring of a vehicle via an already onboard navigation system “without an accompanying trespass”

Remember, again, that whether you have rights over your vehicle’s position data is based upon  a couple things, including:

• that it is your private property, and
• whether you naturally transmit your data to other parties.

If the latter case applies, the Judges assert that you no longer have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Sotomayor goes on record about cell phones

Here’s what Sotomayor had to say about cell phones:

More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties. E.g., Smith, 442 U. S., at 742; United States v. Miller, 425 U. S. 435, 443 (1976). This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks. People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers. Perhaps, as JUSTICE ALITO notes, some people may find the “tradeoff” of privacy for convenience “worthwhile,” or come to accept this “diminution of privacy” as “inevitable,” post, at 10, and perhaps not. I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the Government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.

The Real Problem Here is Mobile Phones

Phones are personal property and, for purposes of this case, are identical to a car (just a smaller size).

Doubtlessly this is why the judges are mum. They had the balls to go up against the FBI on this one, but mobile-phone tracking is a beast that is yet beyond them.  We can give them the credit that whether personal data is a matter of personal privacy still eludes the public consciousness and US law.  Other countries are quite concerned with personal privacy, so the precedent of outrage is ont based in the US.

GPS data, from devices that are naturally installed or integrated with and individual’s property, transmit data that is not wholly-owned by them. Rights barely exist to protect this data from being sold to corporate 3rd parties, let alone preventing it from reaching government demands.

Considerations

Proper law would define any data that is generated because of a person to be their private property unless otherwise assigned. Such law would need to go hand-in-hand with corporations supporting individual privacy rights by not force-snatching private data in a mafioso monopoly.  Then, the search of a person’s GPS data would constitute a breach of their private property, and therefore their rights.

How is the US President’s mobile data protected?

Is it different cryptographically, or by the network that it runs on?

Why cannot each person have the same rights of data privacy?

Narcolepton, n.
That elementary particle of consciousness, binding suddenly, to tie together the sleepy material world when we decohere from the rhythm of higher consciousness.

Narcolepton decay occurs when a higher vibrational state converts to a lower vibrational state in a process that stabilizes the rhythm in a relationship commonly defined by chemistry.

Ken Davenport is rally doing something phenomenal.

It seems he is the first major producer, or among the first, to produce a Broadway show funded by community investors. With median investments between $20-40, and demographics including priests, teachers, and truck drivers pitching in for Godspell. He is also the utilizing social media in real ways, and has published 4 books on producing.

His streamlining seems to find an audience that establishes a greater attraction to the actual story and not all the special effects. As producer Lauren Bies put it, “This he found to be true, and when shows closed, went on the road with bare bones. Suddenly, they began to make money…and better reviews.”

The stremlining and pre-audience involvement is quite salient, I suspect… And his results demonstrate. People begin to pre-immerse, and then also carry that of the dramaturgy into their daily lives. They tell stories to their friends, try to immerse others in moments that inspire them, and represent some of the facets of the staged-divine in their relational character with friends and coworkers.

Imagine a social ‘flash’ event where all those captivated by a forthcoming production wore a certain accessory that was component to the production. It passes in public, but also is a social hook to talk about Theater, and the event in which they are ‘audience-wise’ involved.

Or changing your Facebook profile image to one of several illustrated character vignettes. These would be provided by the production, and would be familiar based upon the yearly Facebook ‘doppleganger’ event, where people make their profile images at of a famous person they most resemble.

Ken is part of the future of theater I society.

Chris Less, with Ars Technica, recently wrote about a Physical Review Letters publication regarding a curious discovery.  It appears that weakly measuring photon (light) properties amplifies those properties.  The amplification happens even to the quantum domain, where the photon’s effects in all of its possibilities are amplified & detected in the measurement.

So if the photon has some chance of doing A, B, and C, the weakly-measured photon will seem to more strongly do A, B, and C.  Whereas a strongly-measured photo will no-so-evidently do A, B, and C – and, in fact, if the spreads of A|B|C are 74%|10%|16% then the strong measurement may only show the A effects.

Politely, but in the interest of improvement: I found Lee’s summary rife with poorly constructed metaphors. I respect Chris for being a dedicate writer, but the poorly-ordered metaphors made what’s happening here even harder to understand. Here’s the opening (abstract) paragraph from the original journal article:

“We show that weak measurement can be used to ‘‘amplify’’ optical nonlinearities at the single-photon level, such that the effect of one properly postselected photon on a classical beam may be as large as that of many unpostselected photons. We find that ‘‘weak-value amplification’’ offers a marked improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of technical noise with long correlation times. Unlike previous weak-measurement experiments, our proposed scheme has no classical equivalent”

The mechanics of how weak measures grant improved resolution are the next cookie for scientists. If you try to write an article using metaphors to describe the ‘how’ then you better be doing to work of science. Any less confuses the lay readers.  I respect, so much, the work to simply the original article. I’ve read it and it’s non-trivial. But way more was added in this Ars article that is ancillary to the issue here, presumably because that’s was sells in a populist column.

Apart from the metaphorical matter; I think what this represents – about the measurement of physical laws – is that our instruments need revised with an improved understanding of this scale of forces.

Perhaps an apt metaphor is that we’ve used Newtonian approaches to understanding non-Newtonian scales – because we thought it should all be approximately the same. Certainly, in the 19th century and before, no real grasp existed over how these smaller orders operated. All they could do was look with the same mental Filters.

Inadvertently I’ve created an opportunity to mention that I’ve edited a book on this area of the foundations of science, called Filters and Reflections.

Recently NY City Council began to lay brick toward regulation of the theater ticket market.  They feel it’s unfair that every ticket for a significant show sells out immediately at opening, then the majority reappear online for 150% – 400% the face value, or more.

The Council is concerned (and rightly so) that this prevents people and their families from experiencing theater and the arts.  Bravo

The Solution:

1. Tickets have to be sold with valid ID only, and
2. the ID is registered in a database,
3. thus attaching the name / identity of the buyer to the ticket.

To use a ticket,

1. your ID and the receipt of sale is required and recorded, and
2. if the original buyer and the attendee are different, then
3. the IRS charges any resellers for the sale.

Resellers are required to keep sales / tax records in a standard format that is common to CPAs already. Most of the scalpers will disappear, as they don’t claim sales to avoid taxes.

The government can effectively put more money into the arts (by name) while using the biz dev to better enable other non-arts taxation models.

More people can have access to the arts.

The essence of the solution is to monitor ticket sales so that business cannot operate illegally (without taxation), which inadvertently prevents the people that most need arts & culture exposure to find it out of reach.  Other solutions still allows for cronyism, and the Council’s cursory proposal to limit sales to 4 tickets per person per day will limit family purchases and people treating friends for special occasions – while still causing more cronyism.  Detractors will cause it an invasion of privacy – but it’s not because ID is already used for most purchasing, and ultra-wealthy use concierges, and the only reporting is done when resale (business) occurs.

Wouldn’t that be nice if we all worked together to have nice things?

Whitmer looks to define disassociation as a single-person endeavor, within the context of a relationship / interaction. The single-person model constructs disassociation as a defensive activity that limits exposure to developing Mind / mental strategies in the context of an other (e.g. Parent) who presents conflicting, confused, or (otherwise) subtly traumatizing presence of being. Whitmer expresses this as an “active decoupling of a biologically prepared process,” where “prepared” gives an operational understanding to the disorganized mental engagement that one person brings to a relationship, and from which the other seeks to protectively disassociate.

The notion was, for me, quite striking. It resonates with an assortment of ideas regarding the process of rearing. An experience of alienness can be felt toward the continuity of a mental process (including speech, thought, actions) that structure another person’s / thing’s world definition. E.g. “parenting” but also moreover the consideration of needs for a partner and household….. that is to say ‘non-selfish needs,’ such as toiletry inventories, food stores, curatives, etc. One’s interaction withe these resources could be described as ‘intermittent’ but the prevailing idea here is that they represent elements of another person’s (spouse, child, dependent) state / flow of living.

The alienness to continuity more complexly appears in recognitions of others’ tastes and and activity preferences, which could be the result of a nonintegrated (coherent) self conception regarding goals, desires, or other interests. That would be a matter of ‘having too much on my mind’ or ‘needing a plan’.

As Lyon-Ruth puts it, “the parent’s incapacitate to acknowledge various aspects of the child’s existence and experience, in dialogue with the child, is a primary contributor to a child’s ability to recognize and integrate those aspects of experience.” She elucidated disassociation more interpersonally as a limitation effected by the absence of another recognizing our place within our self and our development. She posits that without a facet of ourselves being given recognition by another, we ourselves cannot objectify it as a part of ‘me.’

Lyon-Ruth’s ideas point to the importance of interpersonal recognition, ‘witnessing,’ and other consensual development of self (resonance precursors?). Thus the dissociative is/as a defense against psychic malnutrition through the establishment of a ‘cognitive golem’, demiurge, or simulacra. The simulacra is intended to take the place of an interactive partner with fully functioning mental structure vis a vie a holographic transference from a metaphysical source, such as an archetype, divine character, idealized interaction, or other narrative.

An ‘automaton of divine character’ thus formulates, evocative of mystical concepts like an egregore, and other semi-willed psychic conjurations that perform a higher function hidden by their summoner. Complementarily within the standpoint of science and ethics, if you were mentally ‘underdeveloped,’ would you have an AI raise your children so they received the right developmental cues?

The structure of these notions is reinforced by Lyon-Ruth’s expression of “intersubjective tools for mentalizing” and an “integrated enough…. dialogue.” She later goes on to suggest structure for these intersubjective processes, and through the use of terms like ‘thinkable,’ belies her sense that the limits of cognition – and maximized potentials – are inbuilt with the intersubjective development process.

There was a sight ( of some small bread made in a style)
and a smell ( light but warm and bodied);
and there’s a texture, and taste like flour.
The kinds of fragments of a memory of a food that you never forget.  In my vision: a man. A baker from an old kingdom; to give me tasty morsels, as were served to kings and emperors.

And now I have a memory of this kind of food – a memory that is connected to sight and scent, taste and texture. It is a complete memory, and yet I have never experienced all of these things in one place and one time.

Who is to say they are not a complete memory nonetheless? To have arrived here together to meet and join in one place as old friends who have been long astray.

Each search keyword sets the path toward a target, more or less usefully. The context for sorting Nth-order keywords (popularity, semantic clusters, time period) has everything to do with potential – not just ‘in the search,’ but in the scope of learning. Visual representation of next-in-series (Nth) keywords can radically improve and guide development of search paths.

Advertisements and corporate affiliation, the economic stratum that funds Search, can continue to take a useful position within a visually-improved search structure. Adwords frame search context underneath, reinforcing the bedrock of economy in the presence of service, and/or in a right-margin column. Each of these bottom and side spaces has semantic weight in this new visual scheme, based upon the orientation of visual syntax (described below). Product promotion gains increased value to the search user because of the improved specificity of the information presently searched.

Take for instance a search on the “French revolution” – a wide range of search space exists. A popularity rank of 2nd-order keywords may deal with revolutionary idea un related to France, and queries related to shortcutting grade-school homework. A timeline ordering of keywords would show 2nd-order words along a timeline mostly consisting of dates surrounding the period, its culmination and subsequent fallout. Semantic clustering of 2nd-order keywords may show popular historical events, like the fraternal societies, the bastille, and popular contemporary writings & tourism.

Clustering these search terms in 2D space allows for muted subclustering of 3rd-order keywords off each the major clusters, relative to the 1st-order keyword in the query. Timelines, by their linear nature, could have 3rd-order keywords above and below the line. The visual syntax will doubtlessly evolve with cultural synergies.

Similar Nth-order keyword selection could be based on popular search-relates categories, such as twitter posts, product indices, news, scholarly publications – potentially even images.

Balkunin is very concerned with ethical epistemology. Wherefrom Right was derived and its ownership (by the people) stand as core to his questions.

The only kind of right is a natural break, which is itself a delicate shroud of one’s residence and accordance with natural law. The actions one takes in consonance with natural law verify, and are the only true identification with authority. False laws and false activities have the resolution in human times, whereas the structures of natural law live perpetually like maxims, colloquialisms in the line of common sense that weaves legislation.

Such identification of natural law characterizes an individual’s ability to recognize any ideas present with, and natural to, social systems. The practice of legislation then becomes a process of refining and filtering our sensation and awareness of natural law through the documentation of any ideas. Societies can rise and fall, but the words refined through their governance can live millennia after the people have transformed into new cultures, with new technologies.

Though, the inheritance of refined realization of natural law does not preclude nor rely upon the inheritance of ‘Just’ thinking (by standards of natural law) within specific individuals and their descendants. The capacity for recognition of natural law being itself genetic each individual takes control of their ability to render their own character and it’s ultimate relationship to natural and social order.

No guarantee of an inheritance or right in any social line, or ‘order’, comes from natural – but neither nature preclude it. Moreover, consideration may uplift the notion that Leadership itself can have hereditary qualities regardless of societal position.

I’m very interested with infinity.  Lemniscence and recursion – the way that things reconnect to themselves.  So I’m interested in the notion of visual syntax because I see a need to understand the language of structure as it extends into the semasiographic and the allegorical.

A Wreath of Light

I think this was the original intent of architectonics.  I spend time looking at the surface of things because I think that infinity lays in dormition everywhere.  I look for subdivision, forensically, because I think that there is no limit to how far technology will let us unpack the world that it all around us.  The language of space, and how a thing refolds and nests upon itself, will be the primary language for designers of all fashions… the fashioners of our design.

We can codify this syntax as it is revealed.  We’ve always done this to some degree – that’s history.  Now we can codify this language within contemporary media.