Vid Chat Notes - Buzzard Sync - June 7, 2021
by: Kristen Pavle
Highlights
- alchemy of content and form
- finding commonalities in structure, not content
- Goal = move closer to standardization and interoperability of posts - a digitially native, networked form
- how to make something private in an inherently public space??
Notes
- [[CJ Pais]] [[Shahruz Shaukat]] [[Jon Bo]] #dave
- tracking changes on Git Hub vs the site
- some sync during async games??
- feeling extra collaboration, and some feedback
- Jon, Dave and I were together so there was some feedback here, but nothing intentional
- a shared makerspace - kind of like a #hackathon?? #Discord is good for this
- Time frame - boxed vs an ongoing, continuous practice
- there's a finite feed, async
- Next steps: some level of analysis, movement towards finding a standard... primitives
- #alchemy of content and form
- Output = 5 perspectives on what is going on with the data
- Probably want to be more focused in our game design, have the constraints be challenging but supportive towards a form - more directional in what we're moving towards
- along what lines do we start to focus ourselves?
- metadata - lots of variation
- Look at all the fields used and organize, parse
- Maybe each person analyzes one other person's posts for finding commonalities in structure, not content
- OP can provide feedback and then we can go from there
- Goal = move closer to standardization and interoperability of posts - a digitially native, networked form
- Relationship to naming conventions - grammar of language should feel like the primitives, actions, etc.
- Look at similarities to other medias, like book publishing - moving from pre-press, publishing, etc. What does this look like for what we're building, how is it different? similar?
- #IPFS grammar about data structure
- can put any data in; can split, org, annotate in a specific way to IPFS
- For us - are there rules, feelings, senses, to how our information wants to be organized, related to each other's data - vis-a-vis blockchain??
- sliding scale of (de)centralization; Shahruz's posts for Game04 erred toward a pure definition of decentralization
- What we're doing right now: figuring out the best experimentation - to get a better feel for frictions building in this world, BEFORE we build
- Don't know until you hit the boundaries in a #web3 stack, for example
- Javascript - can define a variable = {object}
- {object} = key value
- solidity mapping is the same, any key will have a default value, empty state, no null
- #web3 - solid backend, front-end conforms to it
- getting more of a feel for how this all comes together - Jon + CJ
- there's a "trigger moment" when you feel the transition in your CS thinking from web2 -> #web3
- #solidity - native understanding of an address, built in - a #web3 programming language
- same goes for payments - it's native
- how do you get everyone an account in a decentralized environment (hard to do with keys), with native address programmability - a core unit, native content as a user
- crosswalk to 1 single #ethereum address - #metamask
- Shahruz bet that the Apple wallet will move towards something like this, integration with ETH
- Thinner but more consistency - more mobility between services because of native address abilities in web3 stack
- ability to flow, follow the flow
- currently, for example, [[Google oauth]] is locking you in
- 1 primary #identity with pseudonyms - a major [[data ownership]] and #governance question here
- #China - decentralized identity with central #nation-state #authority
- generalized standard for content - designing layer on top of that - DG
- e.g. blocking like #Subtext
- Relationship between content and #identity
- How are identities related? How do they come together?
- Fringe cases - needing #anonymity (e.g. dissidents, social media to express non-socially acceptable content)
- Rewards for unearthing other people's identity?? In a high trust environment
- #camouflage game; #chameleon
- Relational metadata... like a relationship game #trust
- Tie to blocks vs entire posts - using <privacy_level100> </privacy_level100>
- Or even movement from <privacy_level100> to
- somehow
- ** posting vs. file system vs. consumption vs. annotation **
- who can see what - see above, trust system, games to build trust
- What are we folding in, how does this fold onto itself?
- Containing games will be helpful to this end - tailoring agent to arena
- Puzzle - decentralized publishing and access
- multiple accounts, multiple identities - an abstraction for the leveling
- how to make something private in an inherently public space??
- default publish to anonymous
- Maturation of identities to allow you do something - e.g. Reddit karma points
- one way hash function?
- SpaceX (ten) (Shahruz Game04 posts)- no time dimension and the impact on media as a result
- vis-a-vis discussion about how books change over time; re-releases, editions, etc.
- Look at software updates and how they handle evolution of code and product - sometimes you get little pop-ups - "this is what's new"
- time as a generic dimension, but looking at lineage, generationally as a way to orient?
- Tribe orientation to each other before clock time
- Dependency chains vs. it's time to do X
- Glossary of primitive relationship types ??
- Prepositions - with, next, over, between
- KP - look at #tarot as a relational system, how the cards relate to each other when you pull them
- #dialectic - #entanglement - #emergence (Dave was talking something through here... lost it)
- lineage
- there's something here that's very active, it's moving, it's flowing
- consolidating into forms that can be #cowpath'd easily
- natural movement of all things, in relation to each other
- stabilize perspective through query - constraints are parameters - ability to create an enmeshed web [[Gilles Deleuze]]
- need a complex lensing system
- Prepositions - with, next, over, between
- Organization - game repo and spam repo??
- create an org (free), transfer repo to the org
- Thingness - #essence
- Send CJ/Buzzard info on [[Martin Heidegger]] "The Thing"
- Agreed upon next steps: Game 04 Phase 2
- Overarching goal = move closer to standardization and interoperability of posts - a digitially native, networked form
- Each of us is responsible for analyzing another's Game 04 posts
- Look at all the fields used and organize, parse, looking for commonalities in structure, not content
- Ring of review:
- CJ->Kristen
- Kristen->Shahruz
- Shahruz->Jon
- Jon->Dave
- Dave->CJ
- Output: a piece of media describing your findings that can be consumed in 5 minutes
- #blackbox - don't share your media until our next hang, Monday 6/14
- post your media in a .md file to buzzard.life
- any media type, however, it must be consumable within ~5 minutes as we'll open the blackbox together during our next hang
- no specific format
- #blackbox - don't share your media until our next hang, Monday 6/14