www.propublica.org/article/p…

Founded in 2006 to save rainforests and combat climate change, Health In Harmony may have stumbled upon a way to help prevent the next pandemic.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-7…

Speaking of Trump’s presidency, Tucker (Carlson) wrote: “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

Why is weather a determining factor on Sundays only?

Pleasantly subtle sky this AM.

So, what, are you selling?

Walk This Way

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-6…

This is a good, if disturbing read. I had been enjoying not having to focus on this too much but with the 2024 campaign heating up I am reminded that we are still in a dangerous moment. The storm clouds are building again. 😒

Mackerel sky…

Sky/Light

A theory of the whole derived from a cup of tea.

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…📷🚶🏻‍♂️

Shadow across side of building.

Discarded cabinets at side of building.

Concrete barrier with “closed” written on it.

Utility pole access cover plate taped in place.

Key Food grocery store.

Flowers in a shop window with reflection of cars, trees, buildings.

Bubble wrap on the ground.

some more thoughts on AI

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.

www.propublica.org/article/a…

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.

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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.

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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…