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Marvels of space!What a week! When Chang'e took off with samples from Luna's far side (congratulations!)... ... and Boeing's Starliner capsule finally...
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Enemies so desperately want a US Civil WarI'll slip in some interesting misc. items below that you won't see elsewhere... but first there's the most obvious potential failure mode for our...
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Another neglected 2022 draft! This one about economics and even Bitcoin! And much more that's still pertinent!Another draft posting that I drafted a couple of years ago, that for some reason never went up... but should have. The points raised here are...
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Updates: science & roboticsAs you know by now, I've been roped into speaking a lot about the Great Big AI crisis of 2024. I'll touch on some aspects here....
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Science Fictional musings, a roundup and some preens!Last month we hosted a memorial and celebration of our dear friend. p rophetic author Vernor Vinge. Here is some video sampled...
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Romanticizing the past is fear of future irrelevanceIn so many ways, we are all in deadly danger due to … romanticism . Especially idealized and flat-out wrong notions about history. Elsewhere,...
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Updates in Science & TechFirst some miscellany. Join a podcast where - with the savvy hosts - I discuss “ Machines of Loving Grace...
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Fakery? So many kinds! ... And possible solutions?Let’s start with one of the most-honest ‘fakers’ around. I love this guy! (And he’s honored me by liking some of my stuff.) A force for wisdom...
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Rent and watch these dark films that warn about our scary time.Gonna talk movies, this time - especially those with dire, chilling warnings about this very moment in time. But first... ...I believe -...
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Accelerationism and the recurring flaw in human civilizationsYoutuber Joe Scott runs a series of entertaining commentaries that mix a bit of gonzo with big picture perspectives on science or...
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Cynics are no help… nor are those pushing the remaking of humanityHeading out for the eclipse... likely to be messed up by thunderstorms! These things never work out. Anyway, here's a little...
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Do the Rich Have Too Much Money? A neglected posting... till now.Want to time travel? I found this on my desktop… a roundup of news that seemed highly indicative… in early 2022! Back in those...
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Vernor Vinge - the Man with Lamps on His BrowsThey said it of Moses - that he had 'lamps on his brows.' That he could peer ahead, through the fog of time. That phrase is applied now to the...
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Only optimism can save us. But plenty of reasons for optimism!Far too many of us seem addicted to downer, ‘we’re all doomed’ gloom-trips. Only dig it, that foul habit doesn't make you sadly-wise....
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More science! - from AI to analog to human natureWe're about to dive into AI (what else?) But first off, a little news from entertainment and philosophy ... and where both venn-overlap...
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The futility of hiding. And then a brief rant!Just back from an important conference (in Panama) about ways to ensure that the looming tsunami of Artificial Intelligences will become and...
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Republican rationalizations are unchanged, even in the face of ... factsDown at the end, I'll offer an excerpt from an essay on my alternate site asking " Does government-funded science play a role in...
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Tucker's Mother of all (softball) Interviews. What a real journalist might have asked about Russia and the kompromat war.Despite his being there to pitch softballs for his master, Tucker Carlson was treated by Putin the same way that Donald Trump...
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Brief midweek post: The time flow of WisdomThis week’s missive by Nathan Gardels in Noema Magazine – about longstanding Eastern philosophical alternatives to Western Modernity -...
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Oh those idiotic "cycles of history,' yet again!A 'rightward shift'? Only if our confidence is destroyed! Which both MAGA and Hollywood seem bent on achieving....
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Yet more Space News! And reasons for us to have some confidence.There are so many reasons why we ought to refuse and reject the propaganda-against-confidence, out there. A better-than-expected economy?...
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Again, my rant demand for wagers over proven facts. Watch as the he-men flee!I remain awed by some Republicans - those quasi-sapient enough to dislike “all-7-deadly-sins” Trump, while claiming to love science and freedom...
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News from SPAAAAACE! Oh, and Fermi Paradox & Comets & Uplift!Some of you are crazy about space colonization now ! I can dig it; it’s always been a dream for me, as well. Still, elsewhere I talk about...
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Are right and left in agreement to demoralize us?First a note for book lovers: Across all of January, the Uplift Storm Trilogy ( Brightness Reef , Infinity's Shore &...
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Advanced tips for rising writers.On this occasion, as we swing into a 2024 that cannot evade its destiny to be 'historic,' let me turn attention to something apolitical......
