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"Suck" - An example of the lousy state of "A.I" & its killer apps: Surveillance, Censorship & Snitching
Vuja de - Déjà vu occurs when we encounter something new, but it feels as if we’ve seen it before. Vuja de is the reverse. In the words of Adam Grant: “We face something familiar, but we see it with a fresh perspective that enables us to gain new insights into old problems.” (via)
"I was there in the psychological war of 2021 on the front lines furiously posting memes"
“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”: Mr. Himmler today would clearly be for mandatory biometric "health passports" and "vaccinations" - in the name of "cleanliness" & "science"
"Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way Anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness." - Heinrich Himmler, April 1943
The new Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing dog poop all over your house. “But in order to make this possible, the company first had to create a diverse dataset of poop.” (quote source)
Today in "the fall of western civilization": "After US drone strike, a cuddle amid carnage"
Vaccine Passport
Related: The NSDAP's (Nazi Party) "Gesundheitspass" (Health Passport) from the 1940s
Software is eating the automotive world. So are software defects and software integration issues. (As well as software workarounds to try to address other defects.)
Sensory Substitution
“The brain is able to use information coming from the skin as if it were coming from the eyes. We don’t see with the eyes or hear with the ears, these are just the receptors, seeing and hearing in fact goes on in the brain.” - Paul Bach-y-Rita, pioneer of sensory substitution.
Your intuition is a power compass.
"Success in the legacy education system will help you climb to the top of the crumbling 20th century institutions." - @chrismanfrank
The truth is not a destination, but a process
Unintended Consequences: In complex systems, cause & effect are often distant in time & space