There is, of course, going to be a massive move back into reality & our real world as the utility of the internet dies. For 20 years technocrat-billionaires deliberately “addicted & addled us” (more…)
An ode to Jake Lorenzo… and a world of collaboration in business that we lost.
I’m finally catching up, and in this mystifying world, I am further mystified why they would drop a column like yours, as this speaks to what so many of us have experienced in the last 30 years of hospitality, (more…)
Alan Watts’ Trust the Universe, Baudrillard’s Simulacrum, Eckhart Tolle’s Joy Ease & Light, BBC’s Adam Curtis & Hypernormalisation, and stepping back into the really real world
WHAT YOU STARE AT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. It’s part of my decoupling from the manufactured world they want us to live in, vs just staring at beautiful things like water and rolling hills. =) I think that’s (more…)
Owning in lieu of subscription fatigue: physical media is on the rise
AI Slop really is biting Youtube, IG, and Spotify. Even my wife, sis and dad who don’t care and just want a pleasant playlist are caught off guard they’ve heard fake artists and fake albums. But it’s (more…)
A manufactured overlay to make reality seem simpler: Epstein Files vs the BBC documentary Hypernormalisation
The 2023 BBC Adam Curtis’ documentary is getting renewed attention, its day in the sun so to speak, as we have simply just uncovered a global criminal elite wealthy technologist pedophile ring (more…)
Go Fly A Kite.
Apparently, 3 separate lines flown by one person is not a common thing in the Kite community! =) This 4th of July 2025, at Pajaro Dunes for my Dad’s 80th Birthday, I realized that flying a kite is the (more…)
A poem about the terror of death. Wild work by Philip Larkin
I’m thrilled to say after a lifetime of this ceaseless, unyielding panic and fear of mortality and death, that started as soon as I could read, and the words hung over my bed, “Now I lay me down to (more…)
A lost Roger Ebert article from American Film Magazine, March 1981: ” Why movie audiences aren’t safe anymore” about first person perspective horror slasher genre films.
“I’d like to know more on the subject” – my jaw dropped take that America just does not change. [shakes head] Fishybits thoughts first: In interest of academic rigor of film history, neither professions (more…)
1997 MTV’s Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more.
In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, at (more…)
Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race.
Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent (more…)