You’d think we were in Texas…
All hail the great mother mouth in the sky! 📷💋
My wife bakes bread for a local food pantry. We have a dog with long legs and long tongue, a defensive wall is needed.
From today’s walk…📷🚶🏻♂️
I believe that AI is part of an evolutionary step in the development of intelligence on the planet and there are evolutionary processes behind its emergence that are not comprehensible to us because we are enmeshed in them, subsumed by them.
www.motherjones.com/environme…
The Global Seed Vault in the Norwegian Arctic, which opened in 2008, is closed to the public and shrouded in mystery, the subject of numerous internet doomsday conspiracy theories. Now, to celebrate the vault’s 15th anniversary, everyone is invited on a virtual tour to see inside the vast collection of tubers, rice, grains, and other seeds buried deep in the mountain behind five sets of metal doors.
But a year later, the commission quietly reversed that position. It deleted language from the state website promising equal protections for transgender and gay Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints. Only employment-related complaints would now be accepted, and investigators dropped any non-employment LGBTQ civil rights cases they had been working on.
Haven’t done one of these in a while… I call them video stills.
Vernacular engineering…
Just watched Empire of Light. Another lovely quiet movie. That genre is my favorite. And it quoted Being There. Another quiet movie fave.
Self with checkerboard tile pattern.
Most transhumanists are outspoken atheists, eager to maintain the notion that their philosophy is rooted in modern rationalism and not in fact what it is: an outgrowth of Christian eschatology.
All the eternal questions have become engineering problems.
Turns out there is lots of tile where I live. A representative sampling taken on this morning’s walk:
My zip photograph didn’t make it into the timeline yet… www.notesonattentionpaid.com/2023/03/0…
Finished Reading: Which as You Know Means Violence by Philippa Snow 📚 A history of self harm as art and entertainment, some of which is art, some of which is cultural zeitgeist and some of which is just sad. An ode to the rubbernecking effect of other people’s suffering.
From this morning’s walk…
Zip is all around
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-3…
The Democrats provided extensive evidence to suggest that Patel was egging on the witnesses to help push Trump’s fight against the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Biden administration. Now, they said, it appears that he and his allies are trying to use the subcommittee in this same effort.
My wife has a nasty cold. We haven’t been sick since the start of the pandemic. How do I not catch it?
From today’s walk…
Solitude… waiting for Her to return.
Letters from an American, March 2, 2023
I find this deeply disturbing…
The attempt to take over schools and reject the equality that lies at the foundation of liberal democracy is now moving toward the more general tenets of authoritarianism. This week, one Republican state senator proposed a bill that would require bloggers who write about DeSantis, his Cabinet officers, or members of the Florida legislature, to register with the state; another proposed outlawing the Democratic Party.
Artist Iris Compiet commented on the My Girl with a Pearl Instagram post that she found the amount of AI images entered an “incredible insult,” and others agreed. Some artists have heavily condemned the platform and other similar tools like Stable Diffusion for scraping potentially copyrighted works to create datasets, allegedly without seeking artists’ permission.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident — It is as common as life… Every blade in the field — every leaf in the forest — lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. –Henry David Thoreau