Tag: 2025
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Don’t Forget Your Number
This is the artificially colorized version of a historical picture of an unemployed American worker during the Great Depression showing his social security number tattooed to his arm. More details about the picture here. The first thing that came to my head when I saw this was Bitcoin, our own modern version of something we…
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Visibilidade e Responsabilidade
Esse tema nunca foi tão atual. Em tempos de trabalho home based, a visibilidade é prejudicada e, com ela, a responsabilidade pela entrega do trabalho. Imagino aqueles que vivem sozinhos sem ter uma viva alma por perto para lhe impor algum tipo de olhar. Nesse contexto, não só a responsabilidade pelo trabalho fica comprometida, mas…
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Who am I? (AI)
I saw this post from Santiago this morning, a topic that I have anticipated in my thinking and essays for at least two years now. If digital intelligence can easily copy our looks and tone of voice, the final step in the process of creating a realistic copy of ourselves that could be expressed in…
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My Brother & Motorcycles
My brother and motorcycles: no more. Motorcycle. Motor cycle. Cycle. I met with him last weekend and he said, “Thank goodness I lost the passion for motorcycles.” “I’m no longer addicted to it.” “Can you imagine being into motorcycling like a teenager at this age I am now?”, he asked me. He is 47. I…
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This Website Allows Comments to Posts Now
It seems like a good idea to have the feature enabled as it works so well. It will work for me only, of course.
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Asimov’s Foundation Reading Lists
Asimov’s monumental work can be read two ways: By publication order – preserves the mystery and plot twists. By chronological order aligned with in-universe timeline
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The Kings of 21st Century’s Big Houses
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), 54. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent), 53. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, 65. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, 62. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, 58. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), 41. Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon,…
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Dog Litter Boxes
I’ve made these two projects for testing adoption by the dog and efficiency in controlling odor. The option with the drain works much better from a maintenance perspective. We just need to add a 50-50 mix of water and vinegar every day or two on top of it and the urine odor vanishes. The underneath…
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Open Letter to the Producers of the Rock Band Rush
I know you must have plans to release a clip featuring Alex, Geddy, and Anika playing together to officially introduce her to Rush fans in great style. With that said, I would like to suggest how this clip could be produced. Use “Natural Science.” Take the intro section and include short takes of Alex and…
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Charles Stross
Today I learned who Charles Stross is. A new door spawns inside my sci-fi readings portal. Markku Lappalainen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons