mcj
Michael Clayton James

Lawyer by trade. Trader by law.

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2026-05-05 20:48:10 CEST

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Nope. And, I don't even want to believe. Any civilization that can break through the Great Filter (AKA Grabby Aliens) scares me. I'm rooting for stability back at Eden.

2026-05-05 17:57:20 CEST

GM
I am a traitor to Nostr. I ended up switching from secp256k1to Ed25519. They are quite close technically; however Ed25519 is supported natively by current modern browsers (and Deno, etc.). This makes it much easier for low-code log integrity. I did borrow some concepts I've learned on here, mainly what a dead simple stream data structure can look like. You can call me traitor, then, or floppy, or heptapp... whatever. But, really, thanks for all the fish (not leaving... yet).

2026-05-05 17:43:04 CEST

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The stream is immutable by design, but not structurally enforced. UUIDs allow collaboration offline. Unknown is how I enforce ontology vs. instance of ontology in the spec.

2026-05-05 17:33:54 CEST

This illustrates most features of a heptad: a typical semantic quad in h[0,1,2,4]. h[3] is used to collaborate(latest timestamp can be set to win). "Legal" is the value of a label attribute. h[5] is a hex public key, and h[6] is a signature of JSON.stringify(h.slice(0,5)). delete removes the object https://blossom.primal.net/1fd6232f7ef00aaa5a0b6c6959de92c2570e7c44ce57edb1c7ebda7b00bdfca2.png

2026-05-05 17:02:04 CEST

#Introduction
Dmytri Kleiner introduced me to #CounterAntiDisIntermediation. "No servers. No admins." is a key design consideration for my work. The underlying data structure is equally important. Heptads are streaming semantic quads with provenance (Ed25519). I'm building an app for that. You can too.

2026-04-21 21:07:29 CEST

heptad, heptad, heptad, heptad, heptad, heptad, heptad

2026-04-21 21:06:24 CEST

Well, shite, I missed the signature, so I'll have to use heptad not hexad. The signature is of the first five elements serialized as JSON with extra whitespace removed (similar to Nostr Kind 01). I'm using Ed25519, though, since it is a standard web API.

2026-04-21 20:38:08 CEST

Even the simplest spec can get deep in the weeds. I was wondering if the solidus was escaped or not, but it is optional. This seemed odd... anyway... no matter where you go JSON, there is Crockford.
https://image.nostr.build/dacfe575130e9d99a1203d824d3811fc4cebe35b9973448756b3e8adcef4c9a6.jpg

2026-04-21 19:27:44 CEST

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You are so good at nailing the myth of the subculture here. At what point is it parody? Seriously... I imagine the folks on Madison Ave. ask that question sometimes, right?

2026-04-21 19:19:25 CEST

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The ones with bearings that aren't designed to fail, I'd keep, but noshole's gift idea for the rest seems good.

2026-04-21 17:55:31 CEST

I love it that the current Wikipedia entry for UTF-8 has the Rob Pike story about Thompson. (My base ontology has very broad definitions like a predicate of type_of and a object of any length of text in utf-8 encoding.) Probably redundant, because all of it is utf-8...
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

2026-04-21 17:45:12 CEST

I assumed up arrow would work with the Deno REPL, and it does. I'm mainly using it to generate UUIDv4s for my ontology base:
```
divine@l1g3r-srv-01:~$ deno
Deno 2.7.5
exit using ctrl+d, ctrl+c, or close()
REPL is running with all permissions allowed.
To specify permissions, run `deno repl` with allow flags.
> self.crypto.randomUUID()
"211ae3d3-f2b2-4c93-9412-c76f0f74cb83"
>
```
#deno #javascript

2026-04-21 17:12:27 CEST

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nice horizon symmetry there, GM

2026-04-21 17:11:22 CEST

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Yes. Exactly that. There was also something like Garbage Pail Kids as well in 77. I was in 7th grade. We had pop rocks too... I think it first came out then. I didn't even know the origin of Rat Fink until much, much later.

2026-04-21 17:02:57 CEST

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This reminds me a bit of R. Crumb's Keep On Truckin'. The timing is similar, in that everybody started using the meme later, and many associate it that way. I haven't researched it, but my guess is those packs of gum were mostly not licensed by Roth, but I have little to base that on. For that matter, Pepe is like that as well.

2026-04-21 16:35:05 CEST

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Yes. All the same (in my mind), although I personally don't think a small block chevy engine goes in a hot rod, so it is a deuce with a flathead V8. The 1977 is literally the first time I saw stuff like this, and it came with a stick of gum.
https://image.nostr.build/536dda6626827388de4f2c5c90b31871e1eeedb56bd713bec4959794311ccde0.jpg

2026-04-21 16:29:52 CEST

Hexads and the base level ontology should not be more complicated than the concept of a subnet mask and determining your local network and gateway. The entire <waves hands around> can emerge above layer 2 however it will.

2026-04-21 16:25:21 CEST

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GM
I recognize your friend. He came on a card along with some gum in 1977. Sometimes he drove a hot rod with a Ford flathead V8 that was all souped up. (revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night) sheeet... my clever comment now has me singing the song... but that's OK

2026-04-21 16:21:32 CEST

My intuition is that there needs to be a base level of quads that everybody accepts. It has to be simpler than Barry Smith's BFO. hexad[1] is the graph, also called the domain. That fact alone is a form of base level. Say I entered hexad[1]=c4afa2e8-5110-442c-92f5-9b7ca8ff65f8, and another with hexad[2]=c4afa2e8-5110-442c-92f5-9b7ca8ff65f8, hexad[3]=a131174a-6130-4633-a031-82cd9cc61e0f. 131174a-6130-4633-a031-82cd9cc61e0f is defined as "type_of". We could say it is like https://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type or write a simpler description in any other language. This isn't that different than agreeing on the format of a phone book. Unlike RDF, the meaning is *mostly* a mind map, a folksonomy for the particular tactical group, but there will also be a base level. Barry Smith calls this a "top-level ontology". In that sense, I'd have to call this an ontology used to build a custom top-level ontology. I forget the Baseball joke specifics that Barry Smith made in... what... 2004? He got up in front of the entire Gene Ontology conference and said something along the lines of "you just said that all pitchers are popcorn" or something equally silly. MCJ will be a journal instance based in these ideas, but I have to pin the base in something, even if it is just the most basic rules/meaning.

2026-04-21 15:04:57 CEST

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We don't talk enough about how excellent the Black Mirror Common People episode is.

2026-04-21 15:01:00 CEST

For small, human-focused semantic logical data models, it is reasonable to save all contributions, at least until an identity is considered rogue/spam/unreliable. This is why both the timestamp and identity are in the hexad. Collaboration is relatively open. Say Alice has the resources to store the whole feed, regardless. It might grow quite a bit before Bob points out that Chuck has bad timestamps. With an ID (Ed25519 public key) in every entry, Chuck can be ignored. Alice could remove Chuck entries. At human scale this is plausible. Plus, these are semantic logical data models. I could design this with an rfc3161 timestamp server to mitigate that risk, but we then enter online-first land, and I don't want that. Like with Nostr, the pub_id can be whitelisted or blacklisted.
```
const key_pair = await globalThis.crypto.subtle.generateKey(
{ name: 'Ed25519' }, true, ['sign', 'verify'],);
for (const key_type of ['privateKey', 'publicKey']) {
globalThis.crypto.subtle.exportKey(
'jwk',
key_pair[key_type],
).then((export_key) => Deno.writeTextFileSync(key_type, JSON.stringify(export_key, null,2)));
}
```
On a related note, the hexad can be a subject or object as well. If Chuck mends his ways, it is possible to ignore entries up to a certain time, or some of Chuck's entries could be marked as OK and others barf. I imagine that marking your own hexad as barf or OK is valid, but useless by most apps.

2026-04-21 14:16:33 CEST

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You are, number six. (no sats needed... you're welcome)

2026-04-20 16:36:59 CEST

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One advantage to hexads is that they work as a time-series database, with the query returning the current model. Not that this is needed with the speed of Deno/V8/SpiderMonkey and the applications I can imagine; however, extensibility is a consideration.
https://www.tigerdata.com/docs/get-started/choose-your-path/install-timescaledb

2026-04-19 20:59:55 CEST

I spent all morning defining a format similar to semantic triples that works with what I know. This is where I'm at:
```
[
20260301T151947049Z,
c4afa2e8-5110-442c-92f5-9b7ca8ff65f8,
4c396468-2347-4bb6-a11e-dfb261d130c5,
a131174a-6130-4633-a031-82cd9cc61e0f,
7a166a8b-c3a2-4a00-8a40-87e07ea4b285,
Pj1d71yjrjzzex9WDKWRtKxbhVhIavGjCISG7cGc2js
]
```
Or:
```
[
UTC timestamp,
UUIDv4 graph,
UUIDv4 subject,
UUIDv4 predicate,
UUIDv4 object,
x (public key) from a Ed25519 exported JWK
]
```
The problem with the Tim Berners-Lee / W3C version is that it is based on the WWW (naturally). I'm focused on crisis scenarios with much of my past work, and am pivoting to the log format and journal application as a vehicle for the ideas vs. simply just writing about the tech and rapid biosphere changes and socio-economic-environmental stress of current civilization (polycrisis/metacrisis). Regardless, the crisis perspective is important to me as it is an area to focus on that leverages my skills in the context of where I see future value.
I guess these are hexads, then? I like that. If I just add graph, it is much like RDF Quads. One thing I see in collaborative work, is the evolving work is based on timestamps and identity. Perhaps x. I decided *not* to use Nostr npubs, as I want it to work directly with Web APIs and Deno... the JWK format calls the pub x for the exported Ed25519 public key. I guess the hexad x would be x vs npub? OK, so sombody has an x of Pj1d71yjrjzzex9WDKWRtKxbhVhIavGjCISG7cGc2js and enters a triple. When assembling the most recent model, any changes would be reflected until the latest. Changing it back can be done by any other x with a different date. If the model is polluted because an x doesn't know what they are doing, replay all of the hexads for the most recent model.
I'm using UUIDv4, as these are all instances of an ontology. BUT, people pick their own ontology. For that matter, I could cross hexads like this:
```
[
20260301T151947049Z,
c4afa2e8-5110-442c-92f5-9b7ca8ff65f8,
4c396468-2347-4bb6-a11e-dfb261d130c5,
https://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type,
https://w3id.org/dfd#Process,
Pj1d71yjrjzzex9WDKWRtKxbhVhIavGjCISG7cGc2js
]
```
Any kind of rendering of the model wouldn't really care if the ontology was web based or UUIDs that were folksonomies. That is, if the node is a process for a data flow it would render the same whether it was from Christophe Debruyne's formal definition or x said at a certain timestamp that 4c396468-2347-4bb6-a11e-dfb261d130c5 was a process in the ontology for that particular graph (c4afa2e8-5110-442c-92f5-9b7ca8ff65f8).
That's where I'm at today, anyway.
@nprofile…vh7s
npub1lkwmzj49a80rsh56kwme6wxysn5w3z9c58jafmvwnv6mnlh3efesfzct3n

2026-03-13 18:37:24 CET

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Nailed it. It still kind of looks like this to me. Perhaps it is just that a normie with an npub is still a normie. I remember the first week I was on Paul was hitting some fruit with a stick and it exploded in slo mo then he announced he was having a child.

2026-03-10 00:04:47 CET

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I said exactly the same thing in 1983 at a very liberal college in a computer class, to the horror of my classmates and professor. Seriously... same kind of umm... tone, context and reveal.

2026-03-07 17:59:08 CET

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If I was going to solve that problem, I'd use a local relay and translate the event objects in the local store into something Recoll could digest. You'd still have the source event object on hits, so you could navigate back out.
https://www.recoll.org/pages/features.html#doctypes

2026-01-04 13:46:35 CET

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Did you read the link I provided in my original response to your OP? You used different words in your OP (created the state). I'm big on origin. Bitcoiners tend to get origin, as they see relationships to other systems and the negative externalities. I agree that there are some nasty feedback loops here in modern fiat control. I could agree with your refined response in modernity, but that is different than "created the state". Perhaps we could agree that control of fiat currency and profit in colluding with governments that control it contribute to injustice. I'm also aware that usury can be a dog whistle for antisemitism [1] [2]. Fuck that.
Anyway, for proof that I'm not *just* being spectrum or pedantic, I have an entire multimedia presentation that starts with trade and the global supply chain, along with my particular take on knowledge design that fits on a floppy-sized PNG (< 1.44MB) [3].
I also often align with bitcoiners with the understanding of just how unjust and messed up our current system is. We often differ on origin, as I think it is due to our extractive relationship with nature and that our idea of progress is underdeveloped [4].
Origin is important, particularly after collapse events. How do we refactor culture when we realize where it led? *If* we don't run off a cliff so steep that it wipes out tech infrastructure necessary for systems like Bitcoin, I can see it being part of the solution. But, I don't think Fiat is root cause, i.e., it isn't the reason for the metacrisis, just part of the polycrisis [5].
[1] https://humsci.stanford.edu/feature/stanford-historian-explores-how-expulsions-became-widespread-medieval-europe
[2] https://www.jewishhistory.org/the-usury-accusation/
[3] https://areweresilient.com/
[4] https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/
[5] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aVI5vJcHmSidj_jJBfE4tx5g1Q1-cXLh/view

2026-01-02 18:54:18 CET

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If you go to spideroak (com), it has a different focus. There is a link to crossclave (com) for the download of One. Both sites also reference refactoring. Crossclave has working like moving products to on-prem, etc. Is One orphaned? Are the suits selling out to the money machine of the day and sacrificing the original product? I don't know. All of this happened since I used it. While I was trying to figure this out, I found somebody on Reddit who was leaving SpiderOak One and referenced this list:
https://comparisontabl.es/cloud-storage/
It is a familiar story. For some reason companies can't just stick with what they do well. You would think that a Snowden certification on the product would get you a rock solid brand. That was why I originally got it.

2026-01-02 14:48:42 CET

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Our idea of what progress is needs to mature, IMO.
https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/

2026-01-02 13:02:10 CET

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this is the way

2025-12-29 15:12:17 CET

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Don't miss this update, either:
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/brian-castellani-on-the-complexity-sciences

2025-12-19 18:23:13 CET

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My sites are fine...
But, I like how their status page has two things listed: scheduled maintenance followed by network performance issues. Classic.

2025-11-25 15:56:59 CET

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