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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I came to the conclusion a while back, that if we could create some sort of system that removed bad faith actors from decision-making institutions, the way those conveyor belt machines remove bad apples/tomatoes, it would solve the majority of our problems.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Heh, that reminds me of this book. Chapter 2: The Solid Darkness of the Enlightenment.

A photo of a book titled The Geography of Good and Evil.

The first contents page, chapter 2 notably being 'the solid darkness of the enlightenment'

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I think it's part of a broader pattern of schismogenesis. We define ourselves in opposition to the groups we dislike. So they are basically supporting everything we've considered as 'bad'. Structural contrarianism, as it were.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Yes. From his first term.

Trump endorsing GOVA branded food products from the Oval Office in his first term.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It looks like the copy of the second volume I picked up from the library might be a 1945 original. Which is pretty cool, especially for a book written 300km north of me.

photo of the table of contents of volume two of Popper's "The Open Society"

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A swiss cheese model as it were.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The AI, too, was convinced that I wanted a "sneak peek", but after some cajoling it saw the same light as dan and I

an AI generated image of a 'sneak peak', a small mountain peak rather than a content preview

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Great feed, it's really useful to get all that in one easily accessible place! I did notice the top few posts were some new type of spam that was seemingly designed to get into the feed. Few examples below. Interesting adaptation from the spammers heh.

Spam posts in a feed about Hurricane Helene

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I guess reading a lot came in handy here. TBF by the end I got some answers by elimination. It did get hard.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,519!

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

If you see this, quote-post with a beach from your gallery (bonus seal)

A beach with a seal, and the headland in the background.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

This was what prompted it.

Screenshot from twitter of a screenshot from bluesky with high engagement.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

So, a real QOL change here over places like twitter will be the capacity to label accounts that cold outreach with spammy scams rapidly, and then offer a mechanism for people to filter them automatically.

Conversation with an account labeled "new account" that has DM'd me to share a "life changing passive income opportunity".

Clear spam and likely a scam.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

Yeah, our earliest rhododendron appears to have got the same message. Shouldn’t be blooming for a few months yet. Appears everything’s got an early indication it’s spring. Wonder how this will affect plants in actual spring.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

tis beautiful. I love snow, unfortunately we don't get much here. This was the most we got last year.

Snow falling on a three way intersection lined with trees.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

Yeah… We need to figure out a way to address this kinda stuff. This isn't a new problem, just the same pattern in a different context. What I find most difficult is how hard it is to have a conversation around these topics, because it always ends up with this kind of exchange:

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Bluesky doesn’t recognise the language he is speaking and has offered to translate.

An image showing the quoted post with the option to translate it highlighted.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

I lost mine about 18 months ago. Your posts make me feel like it’s time to start considering a successor.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

Appreciated this at Dunedin airport (still not a fan of how images get cropped on here)

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

The LSF uses a multi-capital framework to represent different types of value (social, human, natural and physical/financial capital). Social capital (connections between people) and human capital (knowledge skills & health) tend to represent many types of value that are difficult to measure.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

Value that cannot be measured is crucial to the resilience of modern society. Col illustrates a general problem with governance. Institutions - governments and big corporations tend to ignore any kind of value they cannot easily measure. I'll define the problem and how to think about solving it.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Almost thought you were being tricksy heh.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

how it started vs how it’s going

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

Autumnal blue sky in Dunedin, Aotearoa (NZ)

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 26/04/2023

This one hits me in the feels. Lost mine more than 18 months ago now, and the first few months with "pet friends over the years" got me every time. Never turned it off though, and now it's nice to see her again every now and then.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 14/04/2023

At the moment all we see are individual people, but I want to take a step back and see the whole, or wholes. I want to see the shapes we make as we dance amongst ourselves!

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

I’m not much of a photographer, but managed to be in the right place at the right time to take these First is moonrise behind a bank of thunderstorms, and the second is self explanatory

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 24/03/2023

I spy and appreciate Paulo Freire.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 13/03/2023

At a system level, the aim should be to: 1) give good faith interaction a survival advantage, and 2) give bad faith a survival disadvantage. Swiss cheese model is a good way to think about it. Different initiatives leading to the same goal.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 13/03/2023

If we assume equal power relationships, acting in good faith with someone acting in bad faith is mostly a net negative. At a system level bad faith actors have a game theoretic survival advantage when the majority of people are acting in good faith.

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dwither @dwither.bsky.social · 06/03/2023

Blue sky and ocean on a stunning day in New Zealand.

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