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content/reflection/cristobal.md

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 title = "Cristóbal's Reflection"
-has_shards = ["crisis.md", "thegap.md", "latentimage.md", "custodians.md", "aggregation.md", "protocols.md", "maintenance.md"]
+has_shards = ["crisis.md", "latentimage.md", "protocols.md", "maintenance.md"]
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 1. ![Crisis](shard:crisis.md)
-2. ![The Gap](shard:thegap)
 3. ![Latent Image](shard:latentimage)
-4. ![Custodians](shard:custodians)
-5. ![Aggregation](shard:aggregation)
 6. ![Protocols](shard:protocols)
 7. ![Maintenance](shard:maintenance)

content/reflection/r2.md

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-title = "R 2"
-has_shards = ["s3.md", "s4.md"]
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-
-# About
-
-...

content/reflection/shardslist.md

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 title = "List of shards"
-has_shards = ["aggregation.md", "custodians.md",
-"custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "effectivealtruism.md",
+has_shards = ["custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "effectivealtruism.md",
 "latentimage.md", "longextinction.md", "maintenance.md",
 "neoliberallibrary.md", "processnotplace.md", "protocols.md",
-"senseofimagination.md", "thegap.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md",
+"senseofimagination.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md",
 "tiers.md", "migrationregime.md", "crisis.md"]
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content/shard/aggregation.md

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-title = "Aggregation"
-glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-
-For global action, local relationships must aggregate rhizomatically.

content/shard/custodians.md

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-title = "Custodians"
-glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-
-This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship. A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish "grassroots way-finding" in relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar's threshold.

content/shard/latentimage.md

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 glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-The imaginary is latent inside a library. A library is not a place. It is simply curated information.
+The gap between the tools (the excavator) and the crises (the Evergreen) is an
+imaginary. The construction of an imaginary, a re-writing of history, allows
+one to step into the future. The imaginary is latent inside a library. A
+library is not a place. It is simply curated information.
+
+This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship.
+A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish "grassroots way-finding" in
+relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar's threshold.

content/shard/maintenance.md

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 glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-For protocols to be resilient, they must be maintained. Simple tools can be interrogated. Simple tools can be tweaked. Worse is better.
+For protocols to be resilient, they must be maintained. Simple tools can be
+interrogated. Simple tools can be tweaked. Worse is better.
+
+Software must be executed on a substrate, a computational abstraction on top of
+hardware. If that substrate shifts from under the software, the software stops
+running. It must be "ported" to new hardware via a new abstraction. Longevity
+thus implies constant maintenance.
+
+The easier to port, the more resilient software becomes. Sometimes porting
+becomes impossible, and then software dies. This is what happened to Adobe
+Flash, until it was ported to the internet browser (flash.pm).  Choosing a
+simple abstraction on top of hardware, despite being inefficient is often worth
+it. This is the approach taken by 100 rabbits with Uxn. They write:
+
+"As it stands today, modern software is built with extreme short-sightedness,
+designed to be run on disposable electronics and near impossible to maintain.
+We decided to not participate. Our aim is to create a machine that focuses on
+answering the handful of little tasks we need, which is centered around
+building playful audio/visual experiences.
+
+Uxn was created explicitly to host software on pre-existing platforms, the
+design was advised primarily by relative software complexity, not by how fast
+it could run on new hardware standards. Features were weighted against the
+relative difficulty they would add for programmers implementing their own
+emulators."

content/shard/protocols.md

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 glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-The formal mechanisms of communication protocols are the way of facilitating this aggregation. They are abstractions on social processes which produce global artifacts, with traces back to the local.
+For global action, local relationships must aggregate rhizomatically. The
+formal mechanisms of communication protocols are the way of facilitating this
+aggregation. They are abstractions on social processes which produce global
+artifacts, with traces back to the local.

content/shard/thegap.md

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-title = "The gap"
-glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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-
-The gap between the tools (the excavator) and the crises (the Evergreen) is an imaginary. The construction of an imaginary, a re-writing of history, allows one to step into the future.