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Fediverse
As an elder millennial I was among the first kids who logged onto a computer to surf the amazing Information Superhighway. First stop: The Future!…and email. My friend Becky had told me about her amazing “email account” and I had to have one. But alas, I signed for a Yahoo! account and Becky had Hotmail.…
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The Cornbread Saga
The history of cornbread is quite a maize…you might even say it is a-maizing. Corn was first cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago and soon spread north to native american tribes in what would one day become the United States. When European settlers arrived they quickly adopted corn as a staple crop and with…
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Plutonian Shores
So Pluto is actually smaller than our moon…actually, it’s smaller than several moons in the solar system (Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa) and several of those moons are arguably more interesting than Pluto (Titan has a dense atmosphere and liquid methane lakes, Europa has a subsurface ocean beneath its ice sheet). Some scientists think Pluto…
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A Poet Wrestles with AI
This is a good poem by Rosebud Ben-Oni You should read it.
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A Glass Darkly
When I was a kid, one of my former elementary school teachers published a book of poems, “Through a Glass Darkly”. We owned a copy and I read through it several times, so fascinated that someone we actually knew had a book published. It was like we knew a celebrity. I loved the title of…
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Extra Value
Bad values: Pleasure Being right (winning!) Popularity Material success Staying positive Bad values are (per the book), …”superstitious, non reality-based, not immediate or controllable.” I am re-reading ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***” by Mark Manson. That and ‘7 Habits…’ are always good to re-certify on every so often, IMHO. I think it’s…
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Dead Internet Theory
Dead Internet Theory in a nutshell (via Wikipedia) The dead Internet theory has two main components: that organic human activity on the web has been displaced by bots and algorithmically curated search results, and that state actors are doing this in a coordinated effort to manipulate the human population.[3][14][15] The first part of this theory, that…
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Regular or Menthol?
If you are of a particular age then this movie (TMNT circa 1990) is burned onto your gray matter hard drive, every scene and line of dialogue forever taking up space and crowding out more vital information. Including this scene (“…regular? Or menthol?“), which I just recently learned is actually a young Sam Rockwell…
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Monster Mash
In 1957 Universal Pictures opened their vault and released their monster movies for TV viewing (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, The Mummy, etc.), introducing them to a whole new generation of viewers. Soon after (1958), the magazine “Famous Monsters of Film Land” helped fuel this renewed interest in classic Hollywood monsters (Fun Fact: the magazine was consumed…
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Silver Surfer & the Marvel Method
**Click here for Silver Surfer action Silver Surfer was one of those super heroes that I knew almost nothing about. I knew of him, I knew that he was “Galactus’s herald” (whatever that meant) and that he acted as a sort of scout for the cosmic villain. He was silver, he rode around on a…