Kester Brewin: Countering Political Turmoil with a Real Summer of Love
From a talk given in 2017, all the more pertinent today...
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Future of Coding 76 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing...
His Name Is Buster
This is one my best lifelong friends. We don’t get to talk much since I moved from SoFL and then he moved to PDX. Discovering this brought me great joy...
Ambiguous Sensibilities
From "Foxwizard: Void Hunting"
General-audience AI Presentation
I gave a presentation to my company, which consists of ~20 people with a wide array of technical abilities/knowledge, from struggles-with-their-webcam to knows-more-about-this-tech-than-me...
Everyone Dies Alone
It's absurd
Check Your Paradiastoles
🐙 Love & paradiastoles in the time of shoggoths...
From Inbox Zero to Inbox Hero
Keeping email closed is one of the greatest life hacks in existence
Culture Is What We Collectively Agree upon
It's weird living through 2001 again 14 years later
Prompting Isn't a Strategy
You’re not “working smarter” because you asked Claude to write your email thirty seconds faster. That’s not innovation—it’s intellectual laziness dressed up in a productivity metric.
I Mostly Just Want to Capture This Cool Photo of Milo on the Bike
Last weekend Milo and I rode the Bike the Bluebonnets bike rally in Ferris, TX for the third time....
Degenerated Democracies
My Belarussian Neighbor...
Naming Things Is Hard, but on Rare Occasions the Robot Will Make Me Laugh a Little
I was writing some fiction for fun...
We May Become Smaller, Cravenly Fusing to the Soul-stunting Object of Our Desire
If we go on, without rest, we slowly become whittled down versions of ourselves. Uncreated. It may be that we even, slowly, shirk off our usness, de-creating the very dirt and breath that makes us human. Other things begin to happen, as well, our smiles are cut away as joy is deemed useless by our own cruel inner clicking accountants.
More Learning to Walk in the Dark Highlights
I finished Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark, which I quoted here. All the other passages I highlighted were from chapter 7, The Dark Night of the Soul…...
Escape the Apocalypse
Discovered a couple of older shows now streaming on Netflix and liked both for different reasons, despite their similar premises...
Those Fleeting Moments when the Waitress Asks You if You Want More Coffee
Social community is really important, and there seem to be fewer and fewer ways that we get it these days. Even those fleeting moments when the waitress asks you if you want more coffee...So many of our formerly routine social interactions have moved online or been automated away.
Beautiful Fidelities
You are in service to the world as it presents itself.
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