Irreni World Scale

Hi! Happy Tuesday! Baltimore Angels? That's not right. The baseball team in Baltimore is named the Baltimore Orioles.  What's going on here? Right. Normally when you read 'versus" then the juxtaposition are on the two sides opposite of the word 'versus'.  A versus B would juxtaposition A against B. Right. However, in this case B doesn't exist where The Baltimore Angels don't exist. Mmmm. Well I'm having a bit of fun aren't I. The real juxtaposition is not Irreni Solutions VS The Baltimore Angels because the Angels do not exist. The real juxtaposition or contrast in this case is Baltimore VS Angels, or the violence of Baltimore  versus the peace of  of our better angels. Again, the contrast of the 'versus' is the violence of Baltimore versus the peace of our better angels. This week the peaceful protests in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray by police  were taken over and co-opted by looters and violence doers. What shou

Hi! h A p P y  S a T u R d A y ! Hope you all are feeling well and feeling zappy! Good News! The human race is over, we won! Wooo hooo! The last couple of blog posts I have been introducing two Irreni, big fancy pants ideas: COx and OI.  There are twenty such ideas and today we'll examine two more. The Human Quality Principle.  The human race is over! We won! The information age marks a new era of human objective: quality of life. Real-time Project Pool Pseudo direct democracy where using the Vote Bank folks vote not only on candidates but also public projects continuously. These votes inform the representatives.  Getting It Together Technology ushered in modern religion. The rise of modern religion 5,000 years ago coincides nicely with the burgeoning technology of farming. Farming meant people could stay in one place and also meant people had more free time. Religion, then, is a testament that humans are lousy with managing free time. Millions long for im

Hi! Zappy Friday! Mmm, Irreni VS The Ozzies! Irreni VS The Boston Baked Bean! I could've gone with either one of those for today's topic of introducing the OI! Principle! OI! OI! OI! We all know the Australians, or Ozzies, down under say Oy! AC/DC uses Oy! in a few of their songs. Somehow the punk rock scene in Boston picked up on this. In fact there is a genre of punk rock, Celtic punk, that uses Oy! that I really like. I also like Boston Ska punk such as The Mighty Mighty Bostones. What? So the Irish come to Boston and a few hundred years later pick up punk rock with Ozzie empathic noises! Gotta love life. Mmm. Irreni Solutions Hugs Ya! OI Principle of Human Quality. OI stands for opportunity importance. Everyone has a right to opportunity and all people are equal opportunity important. Now that the age of human quality is upon us then the obligation is to afford everyone opportunity of importance for quality of life. Unlike with religion there are no outside

Hi! Happy Wednesday! I was going to go with "Irreni Solutions VS Zombies". But, "The Talking Dead" allusion to "The Walking Dead" TV series zombies serves and the talking dead is how I would like to introduce an Irreni World Scale big fancy pants idea: COx. COx Principle of Human Quality: Dead humans, space aliens and supernatural creatures have no hold on humans. A person's loyalty is first and foremost to their fellow living humans, all of them. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. ... Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal. -Thomas Jefferson to James Ma

Hi! Happy Tuesday! Today is entitled, "Chuck vs. Until Death Do You Part". In this episode Chuck and Sarah are on a mission in Suburbia. Our two deeply-in-love spies go undercover as a married couple. Will these two love birds having a brush with "Until Death Do You Part" be intimidated from getting married where real death doesn't keep them from their job? Tune in to find out! Ha! Irreni Solutions VS. Until Death Do You Part First of all let me say to all the same sex married couples: congratulations. You've earned it. Coming out, public humility and especially all the shaming and bullying from the religious community represent serious emotional obstacles not easily overcome. Huzzah! Really I mean it! But unfortunately marriage is an already dead institution so I regret to inform you that your victory will be short. However the battle for public acceptance as normal and not perverts has been accomplished. So no matter what the fate of marriage i

Hi! Happy Monday! I loved the TV series Chuck! It is available on Netflix and most of the episodes are entitled like, "Chuck vs. The Microwave." Yesterday I blogged about innovation being the problem and then innovation being the solution. All this yik-yak about left vs. right and religion is just nonsense. So, what would solutions look like if we applied Irreni design to the past? We'll call this Irreni Solutions vs. the Microwave. There was a well publicized study a few years ago that the microwave oven correlated with the demise of the family meal at night. Since the adoption on a large scale of the microwave oven then families on average no longer eat dinner together. Sociologists have linked this missing meal to a furthering of the break down of the family unit. The microwave oven was kinda the the straw that builds, not breaks,  the camel's back. The microwave oven made the cooking time of say things like a baked potato go from 60 minutes to 5 minute

Hi! Happy Sunday! You might think it a bit odd that Irreni World Scale is calling for innovation  not revolution, engineering vs. ideology. But in fact it is not odd at all. It is natural, literally. What is unnatural  is what you get in the news. The news has been feeding everyone nonsense for decades. What is really going on is that journalist know nothing about science and treat everything as politics. There is a false narrative that the journalists have been promulgating for  years. That narrative goes something like the decline of morality in western cultures is due to the liberal western values. The Muslims certainly believe this. The religious right certainly believe this. The media generates billions of dollars in ad revenue propping up this emotional, spleen venting fabrication. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself if scientists have ever looked into claims of liberalism destroying the family? Have you ever asked yourself if the sexual revolution has ever been sh

Hi! Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is doing well! Openly Secular Day is coming up on April 23rd. I would come out as an anti-theist atheist if I could, but then everyone who knows me already knows. CBS just ran a video about the discrimination against atheists in this country: CBS Openly Secular Video If the Supreme Court rules that gay marriage is the law of the land in all fifty states then question for Americans to contemplate with respect to civil rights is who's next? Black lives matter? Atheists? While I applaud efforts by groups like Openly Secular fighting the discrimination against atheists like myself, I'm not sure if it is the right framing for promoting secularism. Why is it that framing atheists as victims of discrimination may not the best  framing? Secularism is inevitable. Look at the UK and the Nordic countries. Gay marriage went from the majority against to the majority in favor just in two short decades. I call that a wave of secularism. Only 17

Hi! Happy Friday! Do you have free will? Stick around and I will answer that question. There are these things that I call emotional spaces. Emotional spaces are just like physical spaces in some ways. You can move in-and-out of them. Some are big, some are small. Each person is like a little planet Earth. Each person has their own landscape of spaces. Some spaces are universal, like hunger. Other spaces only a few people will ever experience. I came up with the notion of emotional spaces to better understand my own life. So much of my life has no vocabulary. The emotional spaces are never discussed or written about. Emotional spaces can also be defined by what they are not: a blank slate. Humans have never been blank slates and unfortunately some ancient Greek philosopher coined the term tabula rasa and humans have been suffering for it ever since. We are not blank slates. Our every existence is defined by a landscape of experiences and emotional spaces those experiences liv

Hi! Happy Thursday! A couple of talking points today:  Scale is going to require all of us to redefine how we think about life. Conservative philosophy no longer applies in an age of scale. I'm going to walk you through both talking points today using the topic of charity. Redefining how we think about charity.  Ever stop and ask yourself why and what we call "charity"? For example, I personally call my taxes charity. Taxes are charity. I give the money away and the money gets used to help people via Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. But there is actually an even better reason to call taxes charity: effectiveness. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/29/the-poorhouse-aunt-winnie_n_802338.html: Aunt Winnie, whose story is preserved in the archives of the Historical Society of Washington, had been sent to an American institution that was by then some 300 years old and went by a variety of names: the county farm, the poor farm, the almshouse

Hi! Happy Monday! With Scale Intuition Fails "Technology has put pressure on us to move beyond the very slow pace of evolving our social systems and to a rapid pace to innovate." -Mybrid Wonderful, Sixy-Three Quad-Zero "Yes I'm recommending a lot of slow, hard, long work with lots of candles and moaning." -Mybrid Wonderful, Slow Speed Ahead  I can't be right on both accounts, can I? How can I recommend both a rapid pace to innovate and slow speed ahead? I must be wrong. If you believe I'm wrong then you would be wrong. That's because your intuition fails you. With scale intuition fails: latency is not throughput. Let us consider scale as it is taught in computer science. Yes, we are going to apply principles of computer science to political science. We are going to learn to scale. I'm teaching you. In computer science when network bandwidth is considered one has to consider the trip time, or latency, of the first packet and the

Hi! Happy Saturday! Sixty-Three Quad-Zero James Bond was 007 because presumably the number of people licensed to kill was limited. What a quaint thought. Here in the USA there are 630,000 police officers licenced to kill with impunity. Sixty-Three Quad-Zero! Today is a teaching moment about scale. Today I'll put news headlines in the context of scale. Here are the news topics at hand: Walter Scott and the Blue Code of Silence.  Why isn't the partner of the Walter Scott murdering cop charged with accessory to murder? Hello, cover up? Why aren't the 630,000 police officers in this country speaking out. Elizabeth Warren. Why is Elizabeth a lone wolf? Why isn't Elizabeth Warren partnering up with Bernie Sanders? Where are Barbra Boxer and Diane Feinstein? Why aren't all Democrats in Washtingto DC standing with Elizabeth Warren? California Drought. I came to California in 1984 and there was a drought. Why hasn't California and the USA overlayed this cou