Oberon Ohana
@logicalmap.org
Author of Logical Map
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9575-0642
All software released to the public domain, CC0
📐 https://logicalmap.org
💾 https://floppypng.com
✍️ https://sysadmintools.com
📙 https://orng.org
"Thou didst not see what I saw, Robin"
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9575-0642
All software released to the public domain, CC0
📐 https://logicalmap.org
💾 https://floppypng.com
✍️ https://sysadmintools.com
📙 https://orng.org
"Thou didst not see what I saw, Robin"
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#introduction (A new one is needed after I finished LM). My purpose moving forward is to weave 40 years of IT experience into the background tech reference for Logical Map on systemsa.net. First priority is portable reconstruction: take a handful of PNGs and continue work from anywhere for anybody.
I forget where I saw this, I suspect it was on a talk with #ZakStein: wisdom teachings share the concept of restraint. Restraint is needed to guide towards sustainable consumption of the biosphere vs. self-termination. Don't let horses run back to the barn. Let's do better if we get another chance.
January 26, 2026 at 4:37 PM
I forget where I saw this, I suspect it was on a talk with #ZakStein: wisdom teachings share the concept of restraint. Restraint is needed to guide towards sustainable consumption of the biosphere vs. self-termination. Don't let horses run back to the barn. Let's do better if we get another chance.
Humans act like cellular automata. A culture based in an extractive relationship with nature devours the biosphere. We continued our simulation in comfort. It suited us. We voiced our outrage, as a minority monetized and accelerated under these cultural norms, but we all contributed. #GameOfLife
January 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Humans act like cellular automata. A culture based in an extractive relationship with nature devours the biosphere. We continued our simulation in comfort. It suited us. We voiced our outrage, as a minority monetized and accelerated under these cultural norms, but we all contributed. #GameOfLife
#introduction (A new one is needed after I finished LM). My purpose moving forward is to weave 40 years of IT experience into the background tech reference for Logical Map on systemsa.net. First priority is portable reconstruction: take a handful of PNGs and continue work from anywhere for anybody.
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
#introduction (A new one is needed after I finished LM). My purpose moving forward is to weave 40 years of IT experience into the background tech reference for Logical Map on systemsa.net. First priority is portable reconstruction: take a handful of PNGs and continue work from anywhere for anybody.
It isn't *just* peak complexity. A related idea is opportunists and culture. An example is spam encroaching on Usenet or email. It is the reverse of #WoodyGuthrie 's "This machine kills fascists". The opportunist algo, devoid of cultural tether, kills collaboration, as well as #GameOfLife gliders.
January 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
It isn't *just* peak complexity. A related idea is opportunists and culture. An example is spam encroaching on Usenet or email. It is the reverse of #WoodyGuthrie 's "This machine kills fascists". The opportunist algo, devoid of cultural tether, kills collaboration, as well as #GameOfLife gliders.
![Ada Lovelace wrote this about Charles Babbage’s computer in 1843:
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. For, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formula of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated.”
~Ada Lovelace, Note G, p. 722,Scientific Memoirs, Selections from The Transactions of Foreign Academies and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals, edited by Richard Taylor, F.S.A.,Vol III London: 1843, Article XXIX. Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. By L. F. Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers. [From the Bibliothque Universelle de Gnve, No. 82 October 1842].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uaozeqchedvg5rd36xh3jezr/bafkreifxdxmli3iq2vwkqivlygurng7vy73dsacixlvkp7rgwibwiblbym@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Prior to civilization peak complexity, there is room for curiosity and learning. We tweak the game board and explore. After we hit peak complexity the game board is filled with folks protecting their gliders from interaction: even learning is siloed/cultivated. #JohnConway #GameOfLife #ParticleLife
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Prior to civilization peak complexity, there is room for curiosity and learning. We tweak the game board and explore. After we hit peak complexity the game board is filled with folks protecting their gliders from interaction: even learning is siloed/cultivated. #JohnConway #GameOfLife #ParticleLife
I stubbornly wanted all my code to be #JavaScript, so I only needed one local run-time environment/interpreter. As part of this, I started coding up #Pandoc filters in JavaScript. It is messy, but it works. It made the jump from 3.6 to 3.8 without breaking. Current: floppypng.com#sya-file-src...
Floppy PNG
Repositories of Floppy PNG based sites
floppypng.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I stubbornly wanted all my code to be #JavaScript, so I only needed one local run-time environment/interpreter. As part of this, I started coding up #Pandoc filters in JavaScript. It is messy, but it works. It made the jump from 3.6 to 3.8 without breaking. Current: floppypng.com#sya-file-src...
Listening to #GingerBaker drumming in the '68 #Cream farewell concerts while I'm coding. Just... wow. #NowPlaying #CodingMusic
January 24, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Listening to #GingerBaker drumming in the '68 #Cream farewell concerts while I'm coding. Just... wow. #NowPlaying #CodingMusic
If you have a dynamically generated site, you can still use the w3 validator by:
- Open fully rendered page in Inspector with Dev Tools (I'm using Firefox)
- Right click on the html tag and copy Outer #HTML
- Paste into editor (note VSCodium/VSCode is *fast*)
- Add
- Upload file
- Open fully rendered page in Inspector with Dev Tools (I'm using Firefox)
- Right click on the html tag and copy Outer #HTML
- Paste into editor (note VSCodium/VSCode is *fast*)
- Add
- Upload file
January 24, 2026 at 12:05 AM
If you have a dynamically generated site, you can still use the w3 validator by:
- Open fully rendered page in Inspector with Dev Tools (I'm using Firefox)
- Right click on the html tag and copy Outer #HTML
- Paste into editor (note VSCodium/VSCode is *fast*)
- Add
- Upload file
- Open fully rendered page in Inspector with Dev Tools (I'm using Firefox)
- Right click on the html tag and copy Outer #HTML
- Paste into editor (note VSCodium/VSCode is *fast*)
- Add
- Upload file
The root of my Logical Map stuff, and the promise, goes back to Peirce. I've seen this work in a pragmatic way, not at current complexity, but modern at least, a decade ago. It is a way of understanding, not a technical solution. #CharlesPeirce #SemanticTriples
www.reddit.com/r/philosophy...
www.reddit.com/r/philosophy...
From the philosophy community on Reddit: How to Make Our Ideas Clear - Charles Peirce [pdf]
Posted by He-Hell - 231 votes and 25 comments
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January 23, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The root of my Logical Map stuff, and the promise, goes back to Peirce. I've seen this work in a pragmatic way, not at current complexity, but modern at least, a decade ago. It is a way of understanding, not a technical solution. #CharlesPeirce #SemanticTriples
www.reddit.com/r/philosophy...
www.reddit.com/r/philosophy...
January 23, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Reposted by Oberon Ohana
Understanding the fundamentals of CSS layout
When devs say that CSS is hard, they're usually talking about CSS layout. What often gets omitted is that developers are assumed to understand and effectively use CSS without being taught how it works in the first place.
polypane.app/blog/underst...
When devs say that CSS is hard, they're usually talking about CSS layout. What often gets omitted is that developers are assumed to understand and effectively use CSS without being taught how it works in the first place.
polypane.app/blog/underst...
Understanding the fundamentals of CSS Layout | Polypane
When developers say that CSS is hard, they're usually talking about CSS layout. What often gets omitted though is that developers are assumed to understand and…
polypane.app
January 22, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I got the toolchain working from Markdown to PDF & HTML using #pandoc . I'm OCD about them looking the same. This doc is easy to add as I go along... and my-o-my, there is a lot of detail to lay down.
January 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
I got the toolchain working from Markdown to PDF & HTML using #pandoc . I'm OCD about them looking the same. This doc is easy to add as I go along... and my-o-my, there is a lot of detail to lay down.
#WernerHerzog reminds me how low the dimensions of modern culture and dialog have become, and how much I love his work. The future could explode with many dimensions, but instead, we run our malignancy race to self-termination.
https://designmanifestos.org/werner-herzog-the-minnesota-declaration/
https://designmanifestos.org/werner-herzog-the-minnesota-declaration/
January 22, 2026 at 5:23 PM
#WernerHerzog reminds me how low the dimensions of modern culture and dialog have become, and how much I love his work. The future could explode with many dimensions, but instead, we run our malignancy race to self-termination.
https://designmanifestos.org/werner-herzog-the-minnesota-declaration/
https://designmanifestos.org/werner-herzog-the-minnesota-declaration/
"NATURE BATS LAST" Featuring Dr. Guy McPherson~ AfriZen~WATCH in HD
YouTube video by OrangeRay3
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January 21, 2026 at 8:26 PM
"I want to talk to you. I want to shampoo you." ~ #JoniMitchell, All I want, off Blue
January 21, 2026 at 5:17 PM
"I want to talk to you. I want to shampoo you." ~ #JoniMitchell, All I want, off Blue
Starting the Logical Map technical reference in earnest today. (Link at top of Logical Map on the top of the Key page)
January 21, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Starting the Logical Map technical reference in earnest today. (Link at top of Logical Map on the top of the Key page)
I can't let bots waste my time: Active AI bots or meat proxy, using scraped knowledge that matches responses and is fed by external interests. Increasingly, humans themselves act like blue vs. red scraped knowledge bots. I need to focus on the future, for a less cognitively crippled audience.
January 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I can't let bots waste my time: Active AI bots or meat proxy, using scraped knowledge that matches responses and is fed by external interests. Increasingly, humans themselves act like blue vs. red scraped knowledge bots. I need to focus on the future, for a less cognitively crippled audience.
#Servo will mostly render logical maps. The problem is when I adorn the nodes with #d3 (which has to find the node to modify). I'll keep watching/testing, but the big win is DecompressionStream is implemented, so it reads Floppy PNGs. #ServoBrowser
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
#Servo will mostly render logical maps. The problem is when I adorn the nodes with #d3 (which has to find the node to modify). I'll keep watching/testing, but the big win is DecompressionStream is implemented, so it reads Floppy PNGs. #ServoBrowser
Browsing around the collapse-nerd projects this morning on Mastodon reinforces the idea that a web browser and JavaScript is a PC, with a PNG as a floppy. It is a pragmatic choice. Like #CollapseOS vs. #DuskOS , though, I should probably start converting to #LadyBird and #quickjs for longer term.
January 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Browsing around the collapse-nerd projects this morning on Mastodon reinforces the idea that a web browser and JavaScript is a PC, with a PNG as a floppy. It is a pragmatic choice. Like #CollapseOS vs. #DuskOS , though, I should probably start converting to #LadyBird and #quickjs for longer term.
If I only had the time... I believe that buried in #LauraRidingJackson s book #RationalMeaning is the reason we resist #AI. We all have a Telling. We need to own our #ontology and use it, not simply be content with the possibility of #RAG #LLM injection.
January 20, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If I only had the time... I believe that buried in #LauraRidingJackson s book #RationalMeaning is the reason we resist #AI. We all have a Telling. We need to own our #ontology and use it, not simply be content with the possibility of #RAG #LLM injection.
"The sign for Organization for Recovery and Normalization Generators was stenciled in orange paint on the concrete traffic barrier: O.R.N.G. Wade glanced at the cracked screen on his phone and compared it to the numbers above the abandoned drugstore across the street."
https://orng.org/#art635
https://orng.org/#art635
January 20, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"The sign for Organization for Recovery and Normalization Generators was stenciled in orange paint on the concrete traffic barrier: O.R.N.G. Wade glanced at the cracked screen on his phone and compared it to the numbers above the abandoned drugstore across the street."
https://orng.org/#art635
https://orng.org/#art635
They had it right. The blind spot is how large the existing game board, small program, and ruleset is.
ultramassa.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/t...
#SplinterTest #GenesisPOrridge #GameOfLife #GliderConstructible #ParticleLife #StephenWolfram
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#SplinterTest #GenesisPOrridge #GameOfLife #GliderConstructible #ParticleLife #StephenWolfram
Thee Splinter Test (by Genesis P. Orridge)
It can be said that sampling, looping and re-assembling both found materials, and site- specific sounds selected for precision ov relevance to thee message implications ov a piece ov musics, or a t…
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January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
They had it right. The blind spot is how large the existing game board, small program, and ruleset is.
ultramassa.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/t...
#SplinterTest #GenesisPOrridge #GameOfLife #GliderConstructible #ParticleLife #StephenWolfram
ultramassa.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/t...
#SplinterTest #GenesisPOrridge #GameOfLife #GliderConstructible #ParticleLife #StephenWolfram
There is an idea floating of coherence at the edges. Perhaps isolated islands establish their own cultural web that passes the #SplinterTest but does not tilt the #biosphere at a factor of carrying capacity. Unfortunately, the main board has to play out, as the simple rules consume #gliders.
January 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
There is an idea floating of coherence at the edges. Perhaps isolated islands establish their own cultural web that passes the #SplinterTest but does not tilt the #biosphere at a factor of carrying capacity. Unfortunately, the main board has to play out, as the simple rules consume #gliders.
A feature of current global biosphere-consuming culture, is that it passes the #GenesisPOrridge #SplinterTest. Any splinter of such becomes the same. Outrage at different enemies will not change this, as origin works like #ParticleLife combined with rulesets. #DanielQuinn #Ishmael #collapse
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
A feature of current global biosphere-consuming culture, is that it passes the #GenesisPOrridge #SplinterTest. Any splinter of such becomes the same. Outrage at different enemies will not change this, as origin works like #ParticleLife combined with rulesets. #DanielQuinn #Ishmael #collapse