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!!
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!
A collection of ukiyo-e prints from the series 'The War of Cats and Mice' by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1859. #Caturday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
A Hand-Shaped Machine? https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/a-hand-shaped-machine/
a weblog entry about that #OpenAI short story that Sam Altman tweeted. #AI and all.
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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/kash-patel-fbi-antifa-black-lives-matter-trump
Ann Coulter questions effort to deport foreign students protesting Israel: 'Isn't this a violation of the First Amendment?'
#AnnCoulter #FirstAmendment #ProPalestinian #IsraelPalestineConflict #StudentProtest
'Time to shut down the power,' Canadians react to Trump doubling steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada to 50%
#CanadaReact #OntarioPolitics #TrumpTariffs #CanadaUSTrade #NowToronto
Posted about the latest odd #OpenAI paper.
What are they thinking? https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/what-are-they-thinking/
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.”
Forgotten Things (a very short story) https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/forgotten-things/
The Specious Present https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/the-specious-present/
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
https://flip.it/cSiiLt
#Measles #Texas #NewMexico #Health #Vaccines
One of the many reasons we ride for the Internet Archive 👏
I had the AIs write a little code for me. You can run it! It was interesting.
Where Credit is Due https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/where-credit-is-due/
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.
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
Scientist's 'Ruthlessly Imaginative' 1925 Predictions For the Future
#TechnologyEvolution #ArchibaldMontgomeryLow #CentennialForecasts #PropheciesComeTrue #FuturePredictions
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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