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• AI

  • Continuous Thought Machines
  • “Super” advanced that can invent new algorithms.

  Depressing

  • Is AI coming for your job?

  Animals

  • The Immortal Jellyfish is sorta immortal.
  • Or life forms anyways: this book looks interesting.

  Business

  • I am an old fogey unready for Buy Now Pay Later.

  Psychic Stuff

  • If you like pyramids, leylines, Stonehenge and stuff, you might like this.

• AI, Mac

  • Perplexity on iPhones is making Siri look lame on iPhones.

  Computing

  • The New Control Society

  Internet

  • Blocking internet surveilance traffic with Raspberry Pi.

  AI

  • Copyright chickens coming home to roost (maybe).

  Science

  • Sea Snail Teeth

  Science

  • How neurons rewire themselves as learning takes place

  Blockchain

  • Privacy Labs does NOT LIKE World Coin

  Quakers

  • Marching in solidarity with immigrants.

  Space

  • DARPA studying new techniques for construction in outer space.

  Meditation

  • When Then Zen is meditation “simplified” YMMV

📖 Currently Reading

• The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
• A Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands: A Novel by Sarah Brooks
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
• The Gate of The Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

📚 Recent Book Commentary

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler