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"Empires don't fail, they transform: The Roman empire became a church. The British empire became a bank. The American empire became the internet (or a data-center)". - Samim
While itt's fashionable these days to proclaim "US has more data centers than the rest of the world combined…" that statistic is wildly misleading. We’ve been in a post-national era for a while — where ownership, infrastructure, and control are opaque, distributed, and largely offshore. “US” is just a convenient fiction.
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Vast, interconnected networks of galactic plasma filaments are among the largest structures in the universe - and we are only beginning to understand them.
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Shoki, the Demon Queller, 1896 - by Zeshin (1807 - 1891) - Japanese Woodblock Print
Terrific image of Shoki, the Demon Queller, a Chinese deity that originally protected the emperor from evil demons. During the Edo era, it became popular to hang images of Shoki during the Boys' Day Festival to ward off malevolent spirits. Here, Shoki glares at a red horned demon running from him in fright, the wind blowing Shoki's beard and hair. He wears a gray robe and a black cap, holding the end of a weapon in his hand. A bold image with the circular inset set off by a dramatic red orange background. A great lively design. A posthumous printing.
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Daylight Saving hits again - The empire’s clocks demand obedience. It was never about sunlight, just wars, and spreadsheets pretending to be order. The sun couldn’t care less. Daylight Saving hits again - mass delusion kept alive by dead bureaucrats and immortal spreadsheets. Down with chronofascism!
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The brain doesn’t “store data”; it maintains resonant attractors that compress meaning into dynamics. Each oscillatory pattern is a lossy, context-dependent summary of prior experience that can be expanded (decoded) when needed. In other words: The brain’s oscillations are not just rhythms, they are compressive, generative codecs of reality.
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After a major project last year, I’ve continued working with more large psychiatric clinics on their AI transformation initiatives. It’s a fascinating domain with incredibly complex challenges. I’m learning a lot, mostly about humans.
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The Diamond Sutra on the wisdom of impermanence
"All conditioned phenomenon exist like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, like drops of dew and flashes of lighting. In this way all things should be contemplated." - Diamond Sutra
"All created things are like drops of dew that evaporate soon after they are formed" - Diamond Sutra
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If you're unseriously trying not to understand life, death, existence and infinities's core concept you should familiarize yourself with: nothing
