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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" (docs.google.com/document/d/1KH)

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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Bachelor's degree in from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.

(for the US) , in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.

Master's in from Pace, 1985ish; professional for like 40 years, mostly for and now for (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the side. and anything else really, they're just languages. :)

Greatly enjoy , and I've done a number of novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with .

I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!

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A Hand-Shaped Machine? ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/19

a weblog entry about that short story that Sam Altman tweeted. and all.

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Whether you thought it could happen in America, or not. It is!

“…from inside the FBI, an anonymous agent has publicly warned that the domestic counterterrorism strategy could switch from inquiries against the hyper violent far-right, to leftwing protest movements.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

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Capital One Shuts Down 300+ Trump Organization Accounts in Move Seen Against Money Laundering

Accounts affiliated with the Trump Org held millions of dollars belonging to them and affiliated entities.

The Trump Org complaint accused the bank of “egregious conduct”

A spokesperson responded, saying, “Capital One has not and does not close customer accounts for political reasons.”

#Trump #TrumpOrg #TrumpOrganization #MoneyLaundering

dailyboulder.com/capital-one-s

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Dear Elon Musk, protesting is not a crime. Organizing online to protest isn't a crime either, even if you don't like the protesters' goals. We oppose any efforts to mislabel peaceful protesting as illegal—protests are foundational to our democracy.

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A measles outbreak in West Texas has grown to 58 cases and has spread to at least eight people in neighboring New Mexico, officals say. Read more from @AssociatedPress
flip.it/cSiiLt
#Measles #Texas #NewMexico #Health #Vaccines

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I had the AIs write a little code for me. You can run it! It was interesting.

Where Credit is Due ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/02/08

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Public service announcement (many people know this, but many don't):

Mexico used to be about twice as big and took up a HUGE portion of what is now the American south-west, including all of California, Arizona, and Texas. Many many many Mexican people never "immigrated" to the US. The land changed underneath them. Mexican culture has been a central part of the US since the 1820s.

Now you know.

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The Gävle Goat has made it to 2025! It's now after midnight in Gävle. Lots of fireworks going off, so fingers crossed it makes it through until dawn without catching a spark!
#GavleGoat #gavlebocken #Goatwatch2024

youtube.com/live/vDFPpkp9krY

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One thing that might help cis people (and many trans people as well, tbh) is just to understand that there is a LOT of variety among trans people and their experiences. A GUT of gender would have to account for all of them. (I am not personally in possession of such a theory.)

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The legacy of journalism in 2024 is that the public went into a fateful presidential election grossly, systematically ill-informed. It is so telling that not a single journalist even *mentioned* that basic fact.

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