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…)
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…)
My obsession with the Las Vegas sphere is so unhealthy.
“$2.3 billion MSG Sphere in Las Vegas is almost ready. • 366 feet high • 516 feet wide • 18,000 seats • 164,000 speakers • 580,000 sq ft of LED panels” Happy (more…)
Eerie cosmic sounds meant for film… blossom in the real world as trees & sculptures of fear and terror: Exploring real world and film’s eerie sound instruments
This is a post about sculpture, art, the natural world, eerie sounds for movies, and when they come to the real world and actually sound horrifying for really real… THE SINGING RINGING (more…)
Philosophy Time! The Prime Aim of Life, Work / Life Balance, Stillness & Calm, Leisure as human culture, and being present, and the art of doing nothing.
What is the prime aim of life? Queensbury’s Defense Attorney questioned Oscar Wilde on the stand, and this was a response to the question: “Pleasure is the only thing one should live for”? I (more…)
Lake Tahoe and Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino 1980: an “undefeatable” 1000lb bomb, the largest bombing in the Unites States prior to the the 1993 WTC.
Did you know Lake Tahoe had the largest explosion in US history in 1980, which stayed the largest until the 1993 WTC bombings. This story is absolutely bonkers, and although I was 4 years old, I was a (more…)
Something wrong in the Smurf Universe, ie Gargamel is blind?
Dirty Little Potato People! AKA Ep #131 – The one with that guy’s laugh into the next 30 eps??? I don’t know if I can do it. I’m in first run of the podcast, since August, and I’ve been popping in for (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0012 – “What do you do and how do you know when you’re finished?”
Star Wars Model video is pretty rare and awesome, and I don’t even really care about the franchise vs the filmmaking of the time. Also the new videoconferencing tech is unreal. Also, this is HEAVY (more…)
Newsletter #0010 – Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself
Bonaparte wasn’t wrong… Reminds me of that “Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt”, but I fear it’s too late for me. BUT… we’re in the double digits! 990 (more…)