Americans are in pain. Literally and emotionally. How that happened isn’t my focus. We are in the middle of a national conversation about the failures of institutional medicine and its relationship to our government. We are treading in deep water and it’s best not to get swept away. There are many communities that have emerged […]
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I don’t like to write too much about developing news especially when it is an emotional topic like murder. The assassination of United Health Care insurance group CEO Brian Thompson last week was horrific. Today’s news that the manhunt found a person of interest Luigi Mangione is exploding into chaotic narratives. The fog that surrounds […]
Cool is as scarce as a resource as our species has ever encountered. We plunder and horde cool like the spice in Dune even though absolutely anyone is capable of becoming cool. I know you probably want to argue but Julie I’ve never been cool or no one I know is cool. Well I’m sorry […]
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Day 1436 and The Voyage Home
Like many fans of Star Trek, I am not at all ashamed of my affection for one of science fictions greatest franchises. I’m proud to love it. When I visit San Francisco I like to rewatch the classic original series movie from 1986 “Star Trek: The Voyage Home” which is affectionately known as the whale […]
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Day 1435 and Tsunami Warning
I was preparing to head out for a lunch meeting when I got a blaring alert on my phone. I’d been putting on cosmetics in the bathroom while my phone charged in the other room. Initially I thought it was an amber alert. My blaring alarm was not for a personal family tragedy but a […]
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Day 1431 and Faking It
I’ve heard this multiple times across enough demographics in the wider “startup” ecosystem that I’m afraid I’ll have to accept it is happening. People are faking being weird. In some cases they are faking being autistic. I find this to be an almost laughably unlikely thing to want to imitate. And yet I’ve heard it […]
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Day 1429 and a Buy Nothing Black Friday
I am usually a very dedicated Black Friday shopper. Once you’ve worked retail it’s hard to shop full price. Black Friday used to offer good value for many categories but now it’s a free for all of inconveniences and debatable deals. I have become a distrustful shopper over the ZIRP years which has eroded my […]
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Day 1427 and Main Character Energy
I feel like I’m in some sort of slapstick comedy with our city pratfalls. I’m in Los Angeles for the holidays which has been somewhat pleasant except for the modest signs of barely contained emergent chaos. Which I frankly don’t expect to see we are staying in a very bougie neighborhood called Marina Del Rey. […]
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Day 1423 and Reading The Riot Act
One of my friends recently fed the entirety of my daily writing experiment into Google’s NotebookLM podcast generator. We both like to tinker with new artificial intelligence features and I have got a large training set with lots of tagging. The synopsis it kicked out of two chatting AI hosts makes it sound like I […]
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Day 1421 and Culture Clashes
I sit in between half a dozen different community nodes thanks to my interests in open source software, decentralization, crypto, and autonomous systems technology. This set of interest covers a lot of ground from ecosystem level collaboration in financial organizations like DAOs and to player versus AI agents coordination to peripheral control of drones and […]