ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
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5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...
Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.
Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".
Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".
Me, "All Reality" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KH-ZR3A8va_QVaVVP5EWb3SIUUJF2o0g65hOV3pVspA/)
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".
Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?
"Principia Discordia" of course.
Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.
And lots more!!
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An #introduction:
Bachelor's degree in #Philosophy from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.
#Zen #Buddhist #Pantheist #atheist
#Radical (for the US) #politics, in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.
Master's in #compsci from Pace, 1985ish; professional #coder for like 40 years, mostly for #IBM and now for #google (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the #systems side. #cpp and anything else really, they're just languages. :)
Greatly enjoy #writing, and I've done a number of #nanowrimo novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with #gpt3.
I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using #midjourney and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!
Notes upon returning from Istanbul, IV https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/notes-upon-returning-from-istanbul-iv/
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@BlackAzizAnansi To clarify: if you spend that kind of money on a stainless steel, all-singing/all-dancing electric kettle, the damned thing should last AT LEAST 20 years, the way they did in my childhood (waves zimmer frame at passing cloud)
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This is why I won’t celebrate Sinwar’s death, he just wanted to free his people. We may not like his methods but he was a son of Palestine, and loved the land and his people fiercely. October 7th never would have happened if they had not been locked in a concentration camp for 75 years.
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"Unfit and unstable" Trump killed a bipartisan border bill to keep immigration an urgent election issue, notes Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Harris is a "better candidate" and enthusiasm has been "off-the-charts" -- and he predicts AZ will go blue again this year. #Velshi
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Good morning. Fall colors all around. #photography #Fall #Chicago #bloomscrolling #today
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Yet another court has recognized a bedrock principle that we’ll always defend: no one should own the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/courts-agree-no-one-should-have-monopoly-over-law-congress-shouldnt-change
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This story is a great example of why we need journalism, and why small towns in particular need journalism.
How many other stories exactly like this are out there, waiting to be written?
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/khou-11-investigation-coffee-city-police-department/
Part three!
Notes upon returning from Istanbul, III https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/notes-upon-returning-from-istanbul-iii/
Notes upon returning from Istanbul, II https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/notes-upon-returning-from-istanbul-ii/
I went to a far-away place!
Notes upon returning from Istanbul, I https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/notes-upon-returning-from-istanbul-i/
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News That Will Drive You To Drink https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/09/13/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2165/
Posted! About not liking Eric Schmidt, mostly...
Touch grass, Eric https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/touch-grass-eric/
Finally finished Durrell's Justine, and have written words about it.
Justine, finally https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/justine-finally/
O Sybilli, si ergo,
Fortibus es in ero!
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
