What will come of large language models when they mirror unsettled psyches defined by religious hero complexes into the cloud? We do ourselves and future generations a profound disservice when we choose not to make time to comprehend and interrogate how emerging technologies and narrative flows are being deployed to steer psychological states individually and […]

This is a video I posted yesterday. And a follow up to clarify certain points. Sorry, I guess the youtube AI choose the “hands up” screenshot for the preview image. I do talk a lot with my hands. Here is a link to Joseph Gonzalez’s blog post on emergent information communication systems. Here are two […]

We don’t always get to choose what happens during the course of our lives, but we DO get to choose how we incorporate the unexpected into our stories. Here’s to seeing the value of complementary energies that keep this “reality” going even during times when the mixture makes us queasy. May we learn to navigate […]

This movie outing was a post-Thanksgiving indulgence for a gal who rarely goes out. After seeing it, I empathize with principled, strong Elphaba and can’t help but picture her waif counterpart, queen bee Galinda (Glinda), as having a bright post-Shiz University career as a savvy but manipulative social impact investor. This particular episode will work […]

With the lens I have been using (harnessed consciousness through Web3 token engineering, perhaps for the purposes of individual and group consensus divination) the ideas I am talking about in this video and the beginning of the previous one are actually quite important. If you want to write me off as simply being angry, you’ve […]

Today’s “Black Friday” video is shared below. To skip forward to my analysis of the Solari Report’s recent short on “Bitcoin Billionaires” go to timestamp 25 minutes. But the first part is kind of fun if you want to take some time to think about how we think, alone and together, and what it might […]

Because I need to head out to dig the last of my garden beds before frost sets in, I am making a rather fragmented placeholder post to hold links I recently shared with online colleagues. I’m going to use this as a reference for my future self, but perhaps others will also find it to […]

Was LBJ’s Great Society “social safety net” a spiderweb from its initial conception? Elizabeth Hinton’s book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” offers insights into the history of government welfare in the United States and an assessment that it provided the foundation for an expansive police state used to surveil and […]

There’s a gentle rain coming down tonight, and I’m enjoying the soothing sounds of it in my cozy sunroom. I feel like I’m stealing time here. This space is enclosed by rickety old metal windows, and with the drafts and lack of insulation, I expect it will be off-limits in a few weeks for the […]

Below is a summary of my most recent post from Hot Springs, Arkansas. It just goes to show how fragile our perceived “reality” is in a world increasingly governed by the physics of information. It truly is a fascinating time to be alive. With digital media working overtime to keep everyone in their assigned “reality […]