• 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 pull

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 the (say) book as a finished object, something concrete that one has compiled or created and can then 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 well meaning aspirations.

It seems appropriate, then, to dedicate this fuzzy set of ideas and aspirations to a fuzzily defined group instead of a concrete list of individuals.

To my friends.

May you be happy!

Look, an Agora!

• a [[project]].
  • [[fully open]] [[transparent]] [[ethical]]
  • In [[Flancia]] they used the [[internet]] to build a global [[Commons]].
    • [[agora]]
      • [[agora doc]]
  • #pull [[agora]]
    • #pull [[agora of flancia]] exists. You're reading this in it :)
    • I dreamt of seeing an Agora of Flancia with a million [[people]].
    • [[1m people]] is approximately 2000 [[bolos]] :)
    • call it [[2048]] to make it even ;)

• 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 pull
• 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 pull
  • 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 pull
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1298708974364024832 pull
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1355193365046898689 pull
  • [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1373677818312278016 pull
• a [[repository]].
  • #pull [[flancia git]]
  • #git https://github.com/flancian/flancia