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(2017-07-12) Cory Doctorow's Fully Automated Luxury Communist - or even Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. (more)

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What If Ice Cream Is Actually Good for You? Back in 2018, a Harvard doctoral student named Andres Ardisson Korat was presenting his research on the relationship between dairy foods and chronic disease to his thesis committee. One of his studies had led him to an unusual conclusion: Among diabetics, eating half a cup of ice cream a day was associated with a lower risk of heart problems (more)

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Brain Training/Meta Programming book by Robert Anton Wilson ISBN:1561840564 (more)

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Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the head of state and government, known as an autocrat. It includes some forms of monarchy and all forms of dictatorship, while it is contrasted with democracy and feudalism. Various definitions of autocracy exist. They may restrict autocracy to cases where power is held by a single individual, or they may define autocracy in a way that includes a group of rulers who wield absolute power. The autocrat has total control over the exercise of civil liberties within the autocracy, choosing under what circumstances they may be exercised, if at all. Governments may also blend elements of autocracy and democracy, forming an anocracy. The concept of autocracy has been recognized in political philosophy since ancient history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocracy

Enjoyed playing it a lot in High School, except in marching band (which I was drafted into), and also carrying the bloody thing home for over a mile. (more)

a MIDI wind controller http://vindormusic.com I bought an ES2 in 2021 and did nothing with it. (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Bruno Latour (/ləˈtʊər/; French: [latuʁ]; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.[4] He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS).[5] After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017.[6] He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.[7][8] Latour is best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern (1991; English translation, 1993), Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar, 1979) and Science in Action (1987).[9] Although his studies of scientific practice were at one time associated with social constructionist[9] approaches to the philosophy of science, Latour diverged significantly from such approaches. He was best known for withdrawing from the subjective/objective division and re-developing the approach to work in practice.[4] Latour said in 2017 that he is interested in helping to rebuild trust in science (vs Failure Of Science) and that some of the authority of science needs to be regained.[10] Along with Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich, and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actor–network theory (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel, the generative semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas, and (more recently) the sociology of Emile Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour

Matt Ziegler: The Risks Of Switched-Off People. Switched-on people are out there picking up dots and sharing connections for the pure joy of discovery. They're alive in a way that's almost electric. When they're hyped about something - whether it's the perfect ramen recipe or the mathematics of black holes - it's contagious. (LivePlayer) (more)

Seamus Bradley: Do Submarines Swim? There are two specific criticisms I’ve seen that I have in mind here that I want to address. On the basis of examples like those linked to above, people will say that the (LLM) AI app “doesn’t understand” what it’s being asked, or that the AI “can’t think”. I don’t think these criticisms help, because they’re saying that the AI doesn’t have some property (understanding, thinking) that we don’t really know how to define. (consciousness) (more)

Robin Sloan: Is it okay? How do you make a (large) language model? Goes like this: erect a trellis of code, then allow the real program to grow, its development guided by a grueling training process, fueled by reams of text, mostly scraped from the internet. (more)

The Power of Positive People. Are you spending time with the right people for your health and happiness? While many of us focus primarily on diet and exercise to achieve better health, science suggests that our well-being also is influenced by the company we keep. (sociogenic) (more)

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Web Traffic/TrafficAnalysis/TrafficAnalytics service from Google. http://www.google.com/analytics (more)

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