No matter how you hang your ears, there’s a background hum to the world right now that’s hard to ignore.
To Boldly Grow
Continental Drift
It’s the Year of the Toad, of Gentle Repose: 2020. The date has a beautiful symmetry, but like 1919, it’s a little buggy. A century ago Nature ran H1N1 in multiple iterations, codenamed Spanish; this year we see the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 #Wuhan.
Acolyte of App’andro’goog
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Firewatch
Source: Private email correspondence.
A Smokey Bear T-shirt meme upset a friend of mine: “Only you can prevent forest fires! Seriously. We’ve been defunded. It’s just you now.” She’d recently been in the Shoshone National Forest, working through personal issues, and the memories of that special place, still fresh in her mind, felt threatened. The friends she had made there were threatened. Even if they weren’t real.
Traffico
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In Italy, a tick rode a doe across a camber very early, before most commuters were up; before people knew there were deer in the city. It was safe: I was driving; I could stop; the road was clear. The doe walked like a jay in that it disregarded zebras and islands and green lights, favouring its own system, seeing the road as a plane, perhaps, or just seeing the road. And what do we see when we cross? Packets of information being ridden by a tag, you’re likely thinking.
n00b to sudoer, an introduction
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Let’s assume the following: that strong AI exists, that it’s a cyborg, networked intelligence comprised of both digital and organic nodes, and that it’s live in the wild. Terrifying(ly interesting)! Another form of intelligent life on Earth, created by and utilising us. Leaving aside the imminent threat of destruction presaged by Gates, Musk, Hawking, Bostrom et. al., how do we say hello?
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