Johannes Castner
collectiwise.bsky.social
Johannes Castner
@collectiwise.bsky.social
We bridge human and machine intelligence to pursue human goals. Guided by the Capability Approach, we design cooperative AI solutions, empowering organizations and individuals. Intelligence is a shared journey.
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Demo: AI Data Team in Slack—answers KPIs & cleans schemas.
London follow-on to LangChain Interrupt SF.
Watch (20 m) → youtu.be/pD1PM7Tj4_Q?...
Code → github.com/johannescast...
DM for early access. #LangGraph #OpenSource #AI #DataOps
An AI Data team that talks to your Human team in Slack
YouTube video by Towards People
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June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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June 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Just published “The Behavioral Science Path to Political Nihilism”—on Freud, Bernays, self-actualizers, and why democracy feels more like a consumer app than real civic life.

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#Politics #Psychoanalysis #AI #SocialMedia
The Behavioral Science Path to Political Nihilism - Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence, Leadership Development
“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge—and with good reason.” — Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Preface, §1 Introduction: The Unconscious as Commodity In the soot-slicked cafe houses...
towardspeople.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Are echo chambers truly human nature—or are we just programmed to conform? I dig into the psychology, history, and the tech fueling our biases.

Check out my new post to discover how ManyFold.net re-engineers for open-minded debate instead of tribal outrage:
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Is It Really Human Nature—or Are We Programmed to Conform? - Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence, Leadership Development
Introduction Is our attraction to echo chambers simply “human nature,” or can technology channel more expansive instincts? Pundits often treat homophily—the pull toward like-minded peers—as an unavoid...
towardspeople.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Is the UK’s AI Playbook for 2025 just about big compute, or can it address deeper concerns about equity and sustainability? My new post weighs in:

towardspeople.co.uk/the-uk-gover...

#EthicalAI #Sustainability #AIforGood #Innovation #PublicPolicy
The UK Government’s AI Playbook: Progress, Power, and Purpose - Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence, Leadership Development
The UK Government’s AI Playbook for 2025 (UK Government, 2025) aspires to make Britain a global leader in artificial intelligence. Although it commendably emphasizes innovation, expanded compute capac...
towardspeople.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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From Carbon Footprints to Sensitive Data—How Diversity in Large Language Models Elevates Ethics and Performance through Collective Intelligence towardspeople.co.uk/from-carbon-...
From Carbon Footprints to Sensitive Data—How Diversity in Large Language Models Elevates Ethics and Performance through Collective Intelligence - Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence, Leadership Dev...
Humanity has long grappled with the question of how best to combine many minds into one coherent whole—whether through bustling marketplaces or grand assemblies of knowledge. Today, we find ourselves ...
towardspeople.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We’re now moving on from the stage where they fascinated the fools to the stage where they try to muzzle the intelligent; all predictable.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Listening to a new tune from my favorite current band, Atomik Kangaroo:

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Atomik:Kangaroo
Home page of Atomik:Kangaroo, an experimental group from Van Nuys. Elastic-Cutting-Edgey-Alive-Electrik-Pazz-Junk-Space-Funk
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January 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just wrote a blogpost about what I’m currently working on; more is coming soon:

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Toward a Habermas Machine: Philosophical Grounding and Technical Architecture – Human Purpose, Collective Intelligence, Leadership Development
towardspeople.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Leonard Peltier was finally freed; Biden did what no other president would; he did the right thing!

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“It’s Finally Over – I’m Going Home” ~Leonard Peltier
YouTube video by NDN Collective
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January 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
what a fantastic picture!
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister: Carlos Cuerpo calls on G20 leaders to act and says election results show citizens want redistribution of wealthSpain’s economy minister has urged the world’s richest countries to “be brave” and redouble effort...
Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister
Be brave and impose minimum tax on world’s billionaires, urges Spanish minister: Carlos Cuerpo calls on G20 leaders to act and says election results show citizens want redistribution of wealthSpain’s economy minister has urged the world’s richest countries to “be brave” and redouble effort...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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California’s renewables development is undeniably driving down emissions.

Chart below from CAISO data showing 2021-2024 emissions.

The increasingly deep drops in the spring and early summer is solar carrying the (often vast) majority of California’s grid.

It’s almost like renewables stuff works.
November 17, 2024 at 4:52 PM
November 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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cartoon of the day
November 15, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Fantastic, I look forward to the new InfoWars!
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM