Vestigial Arm To Be Removed, To Make Room For Feline Friend’s Tail

Have species evolved to drop limbs on one side, perhaps strengthening them on the other, so that they could more perfectly hold each other? She smiled. She remembered a lesson at a youth class at the local zoo she had taken that her Mom had signed her up for. There are some creatures, during the night or whenever they are likely to be prey, who line up on a perch three or more, and the ones on the outside maintain more wakefulness than the ones buffeted by them for protection in the middle.

The Ghost of A Chance

By Cypress Butane I bought a few new CDs. Albums of a band that I had the privilege of meeting once, the couple who made up the duo. I won't name the group, but I was in a coffee shop and hours before they were to play that evening in my town (I didn't know … Continue reading The Ghost of A Chance

RollerBall (1975) A Metaphor For American Exceptionalism Reversed Engineered Within A Single Isolated Individual – James Caan Battles For the Ineffable In Cyberpunk Dystopia Bloodsport

Post-war, post-strife, corporate control ensures harmony and plenty. An athlete excels at a deadly game, and the idea of excellence and beating the odds in a world of conforming drug-doped nobodies makes him dangerous. Individuality and the excess of self. But what does dangerous freedom look like in the 'I' of the storm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yku2CXuKKiU This … Continue reading RollerBall (1975) A Metaphor For American Exceptionalism Reversed Engineered Within A Single Isolated Individual – James Caan Battles For the Ineffable In Cyberpunk Dystopia Bloodsport

What Happens If You Give An A.I. LSD? – Beyond Zero And One by Andrew Smart

Just finished reading Andrew Smart's book Beyond Zero and One: Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness It was right up my alley as an informative journey cataloguing the different ways some of the neuroscientists view human consciousness, how A.I. creators seek to replicate consciousness, and how LSD works on the human brain, and what these all might … Continue reading What Happens If You Give An A.I. LSD? – Beyond Zero And One by Andrew Smart

Brands Are Beginning To Use A.I. To Sell With Fake Influencers, Here’s Why It Will Lead To No One Giving A Fuck About Capitalism

You moved the headstones but you didn't move the bodies That is all. AI Is Coming for the Influencers - READ THE ARTICLE AT INTELLIGENCER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZgEKjYJqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_W6FLaMvA

11 Days To Iowa, Voters Choose Between Insurrectionist Trump, Slavery Apologist Haley, and National Socialist DeSantis

Voters are looking ahead to the Republican Iowa Caucuses to choose a candidate for their party's 2024 Presidential ticket. Who will it be? Trump, the front-runner is well known for his January 6th insurrection attempt and people are both excited to choose him but also wary because he is obviously disqualified from being President under … Continue reading 11 Days To Iowa, Voters Choose Between Insurrectionist Trump, Slavery Apologist Haley, and National Socialist DeSantis

Christopher Rufo’s WSJ Article ‘How We Squeezed Harvard To Push Claudine Gay Out’ Is Too Blatant To Be Strategic

But then is there a good strategy in 2024 for the actual intent here? I hope not. For what does Rufo actually want? I think that's a question you should ask yourself. Dirty boy gives the game away. So much for "I did Nazi that coming" this is visible from a country mile, coming 'round … Continue reading Christopher Rufo’s WSJ Article ‘How We Squeezed Harvard To Push Claudine Gay Out’ Is Too Blatant To Be Strategic

Why Does A.I. Mess Up Fingers In Images?

The answer is simple, really. AI is made of data so when it creates an illustration - which is also made of data - it's creating a new being from its own being. Thus as it mimics the human form it fills it out like skin, a membrane at the edge of its reality matrix, … Continue reading Why Does A.I. Mess Up Fingers In Images?

A Discussion On Brain Scientists and Our Technologically Obsessed Culture Through the Lens of Religious Studies With Author John Lardas Modern

WATCH ACADEMIC DISCUSSION AT PRINCETON'S WEBSITE AUTHOR OF BOOK ON RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF THE BEAT GENERATION TALKS TECH I read John Lardas's academic book on the Beat Generation 'The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs'. It's an incredible study of the characters and time of the Beats' subterranean homesick mission to … Continue reading A Discussion On Brain Scientists and Our Technologically Obsessed Culture Through the Lens of Religious Studies With Author John Lardas Modern

Could 2024 See A ‘Stop The Steal’ Type Protest Movement – Against TRUMP?

Hypocrisy, it's a funny old thing. Absolute moral relativism, it's a hell of a drug. Here's the premise: if Trump could justify staging an attack on the capitol on J6th for a made-up story about having the election stolen from him, and the GOP defended him to hell and back downplaying THAT insurrection... what defense … Continue reading Could 2024 See A ‘Stop The Steal’ Type Protest Movement – Against TRUMP?