• I've been wanting to write more about [[adversarial interoperability]] for a while.
• I've now filed it in [[55]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]] (I threw the number to choose).
• In this node I plan to develop a short [[essay]]:

Adversarial Interoperability

Or: [[The Two AIs]] Link: https://anagora/adversarial+interoperability

Adversarial must be qualified and quantified immediately: what we set out to achieve is [[Digital Independence]] and increased public benefit, with [[Right Intention]]. If it seems to contradict (maybe temporarily) the alignment of corporations and be against their interests, so be it, because we need to do what is right for the future of [[humanity]] and our [[friends]].

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• [[doing]]:
  • TODO: write the rest :)
  • Maybe after I write to [[Milei]] and [[Musk]]?
  • Or maybe those letters and this one are entangled, as this concept is part of my [[proposal]] to them.

• a [[concept]].
• #go https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
  • by [[cory doctorow]].
  • "that's when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them."
  • See also: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay.
  • Related: [[flanbook]].

adversarial interoperability

“That’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them,” writes [[Cory Doctorow]], special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

“Think of third-party printer ink, alternative app stores, or independent repair shops that use compatible parts from rival manufacturers to fix your car or your phone or your tractor.”

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

Without adversarial interoperability, users have limited [[agency]] and innovation is stifled.

– Breaking Tech Open: Why Social Platforms Should Work More Like Email - The Re…

The writer Cory Doctorow talks about “adversarial interoperability,” which describes a situation where one service communicates with another without the latter’s permission, or perhaps only with grudging permission secured through legislation.

– [[Internet for the People]]

For most of modern history, this kind of guerrilla interoperability, achieved through reverse engineering, bots, scraping and other permissionless tactics, were the norm. But a growing thicket of “IP” laws creates severe legal jeopardy for these time-honored traditions. Just one of these IP rules — the “anti-circumvention” provision in Section 1201 of 1998’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act — provides for a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for anyone who bypasses “an effective means of access control.” And that’s for a first offense!

– [[Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech]]

• #pull [[murray bookchin]] [[municipalism]]

(A directory).

I always assumed that, when people dedicated their work, they all first finished the thing and then wrote the dedication. That would mean dedicating (say) a book as a finished object; something concrete that one has put together and can be offered with few reservations.

Belatedly I've come to realize I'm not that kind of person, so I find myself dedicating a draft instead. Writing these lines as I write them now means dedicating a set of ideas first, and my clumsy implementation of these ideas second -- the latter amounting currently to little more than my well meaning but lofty aspirations.

It seems appropriate, then, to dedicate this fuzzy unfinished thing to a loosely defined group instead of a concrete list of individuals.

To my friends!

-- Flancian, mostly written 2019-2020 (with only light editing since).

7 -- Open Letter to the Agora

• a [[project]].
  • #go https://flancia.org
  • [[Flancia]] is my top level project as of [[2024]] and since at least [[2019]].
    • It encompasses many levels and tries to describe a large scale vision.
    • It tries to be [[fully open]], [[transparent]], [[ethical]]. [[good]] and [[fair]],
  • [[Flancia]] is also a fiction of sorts that I've been writing.
    • In [[Flancia]] they used the [[internet]] to build a global [[Commons]], and they put it to good use for the benefit of all of [[humanity]] and our [[friends]] :)
  • In Flancia there is an [[Agora]]!
    • #pull As of the time of writing (2024) the [[Agora of Flancia]] exists digitally. You're likely reading this in it :)
    • (If you are reading this elsewhere, try visiting https://anagora.org/Flancia to load this in an Agora context.)
    • I dream of seeing an Agora with a million [[people]].
      • That is approximately 2500 [[bolos]] in the [[Widmer]] scale.
      • Perhaps in the future :)

--

2017-2023

See the writing in https://flancia.org, in eternal wait of being edited into something more legible :) If I don't get there properly before I die, please feed it all into a well-intentioned AI in the commons and make what you can of it, or otherwise feel free to use it in any way you can.

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2024

For all I talk about the [[Agora]] as of late, I sometimes feel I don't talk about Flancia enough; it is, after all, to help "build Flancia" that I built an Agora -- meaning mine and [[your Flancia]] more generally -- to help advance all projects that are alike in some particular way: projects that are [[free, fair, alive]] and well meaning, which are for the [[common good]] or for the [[benefit of all sentient beings]].

But in some sense I talk about Flancia a significant chunk of my time, as a lot of what I do has to do with Flancia directly and indirectly. And that is very well as I find it.

I am writing these words in early August. I am finding time to work on the Agora, being either writing, meeting people or coding, and that pleases me. This also manifests in some way through Social.coop. My personal life goes well. I feel like my style of living working on Flancia on my free time is sustainable and enjoyable. I remain committed to the original plan as drafted (however imperfectly/under-edited) in my diaries at https://flancia.org.

I hope to work on the Flancia and the Agora and dedicate myself to others as I can until at least [[2030]] as originally considered, maybe [[2040]] if I live longer, perhaps even until [[2053]] or later if I'm really lucky :)

While I do so, I strive to maintain a sort of custom [[Bodhisattva]] vow.

• a [[poem]].
  • Flancia,
    • o por el bien de los [[seres sentientes]]!
  • Flancia es una épica: la historia de cómo les humanes vencieron a Moloch.
• a [[book]].
  • You're currently reading it.
    • This section is in [[Agora]] Protocol as it is to be meant within the [[Agora of Flancia]]. Feel free to ignore any symbols or words if they distract you. It is fine not to assign them meaning, in particular at first; words should be enough to understand Flancia.
  • Flancia is a book about a [[place]].
    • In [[Flancia]] there is an [[Agora]]. You've found an Agora, so you've somehow found Flancia.
    • In the [[Agora of Flancia]] maps of [[Flancia]] are [[free]].
    • #pull https://flancia.org
• a [[place]].
  • a [[protopia]]
    • It exists, in a way -- it exists in my [[mind]].
  • Perhaps the world after the [[flancian revolution]] or a similar world changing event.
    • The world of the [[flancians]] could be said to be similar to ours, the result of evolution over a material reality that sometimes allows for things to be made better with the application of effort towards the achievement of an [[incremental improvement]].
    • Flancia is, I believe, a place that exists in our hypothetical shared future.
    • You could say Flancia exists in the [[multiverse]].
• a [[project]].
  • [[go]] https://flancia.org
  • I am a [[Flancian]] and this [[Agora]] contains my [[manifesto]].
  • Flancia existed before the Agora but is, I believe, defined in the limit by how the [[Agora]] is put to use towards maximizing [[thriving]] for all [[conscious beings]] via the incremental unlocking of [[public utility]] and the practice of [[altruism]].
  • [[flancia collective]] runs the [[reference agora]].
• a [[set]].
  • of [[people]] and [[things]].
    • (in it there's an [[Agora]].)
  • [[music]]
  • a [[playlist]] https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4zc89ZUfH9QoPh2vTP9CgeSK92lEXq
    • [[spotify]] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rzXx4oiIVfegouK9DtcdC
    • [[yt]] https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4zc89ZUfH9QoPh2vTP9CgeSK92lEXq&feature=share
  • [[gather]] https://gather.town/app/QIOAg71FojwJ7clE/flancia
  • [[chat]] [[flancia discuss]]
• a [[book]].
  • Just kidding. A [[draft]] really.
  • Some possible titles:
    • Flancia, or [[with a little help from my friends]].
    • Flancia, or [[my favourite things]].
    • Flancia, or [[building bridges]].
    • Flancia, or [[an open letter to an open society]].
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1298701482997538822
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1298708974364024832
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355193365046898689
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1373677818312278016
• a [[repository]].
  • #pull [[flancia git]]
  • #git https://github.com/flancian/flancia