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@johncarlosbaez I don't blame him. I think he's been accelerating whatever trend is going on there, which is not where I want to be heading.

A summary of my current interests: my hashtag column in Mastodon's advanced web interface.
It's missing something about artificial intelligence but I don't know a hashtag that covers what I'm interested in.

Did you know that there were artificially mummified bodies ~2k yrs before the #Ancient #Egypt?

In Northern #Chile, the Chinchorro people started mummifying their weakest: Children, babies, & the elderly.

Occuring after 5000 BCE, corpses were stripped of flesh & filled with fibre & clay.

These are the oldest examples of deliberate mummification.

That they mummified irrespective of social status is wholly unique.

PS: The Chinchorro #diet was 90% #seafood.

#history #ancienthistory #mummy

@iddux I like the idea that programmers use either vim or emacs!

Friend's startup is looking to interview knowledge workers who have some #neurodivergence and use software tools from at least 5 different vendors to do their job. $100 incentive for those who qualify and complete an interview for this user research study. DM me if interested.

For the purposes of this study, neurodivergence includes #ADHD, #autism, #OCD, #PTSD, #longCOVID, #brainFog, #depression, #anxiety, #migraines, and/or #chronicPain.

I just had a bad cold, the worst since the before times. Here's a precise timeline:
- symptoms started 2 days after infection;
- I started to feel better 7 days after infection;
- symptoms are mostly gone 9 days after infection, i.e. they lasted 7 days.

I'm an idealist. This means I have a tendency to fall in love with my models because they work so well for predicting things in a simple and systematic fashion. Then, if I'm not careful, I may end up applying them beyond their domain of applicability with disastrous results. If you too are an idealist, it's good to keep it in mind and do reality checks with independent actors.

For example, don't make a big purchase without checking if others see any obvious problem with it.

This is why I never bought a pinball machine.

I was about to invent generative art that looks different based on time and geographic coordinates, but then I realized that the main point of my art is that it gives full control to the viewer. I want time and space to be irrelevant.

toot toot. This is:

L’impossible salut de l’âme mécanique (The Impossible Salvation of the Mechanical Soul), 2023.

Selling physical artworks makes no sense if you compare it to the software industry or even to real estate investing where most profits come in the form of rent, not ownership transfer. Leasing artworks instead of selling them appears to be the logical solution but it's not very practical yet. I'm looking for ways to standardize this practice. One aspect would be to use a well-known, battle-tested lease contract similar to the well-known free software licenses (GPL, BSD, ...). Any pointers or suggestions? I want to end artist exploitation.

Photo: "City Map", 2023 by Martin Jambon. Acrylic on wood panel.

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