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Sunday 5th May, 2019 #

  • Shuudan Koudou Is the Japanese Art of Synchronized Precision Walking - Humans are pretty amazing, we can do so much already, imagine what things are going to be possible when we start using AI to enhance our intelligence, how will we integrate the coming cambrian explosion of our minds into our societies? Will our societies be open, or hiden in a privacy dungeon? Will we have freedom?
  • There's a Max Keiser piece on RT at the minute where he interviews a Bitcoin guy that is wearing a surgical mask, it's quite a segment (I can't find it so I'm linking to another video I found) - Max's approach is interesting, a bit like the music I just linked to, I don't understand all the concepts he talks about but he's essentially a software developer, like a Noam Chomsky of money, the way he handles higher level concepts is clearly done with a lot of experience and skill, but anyway the piece got me thinking about anonymity and how healthy it is in society in the long term, when the people organizing things are essentially virtual, will they still have our best interests at heart? If there is ever a longterm cyberwar lasting longer than a generation it would be very problematic to return to normality, how would we even teach our children what had happened?
  • I've been hearing a lot of this type of music lately, for the longest time I only heard the cow bell and fake drums (not literally - I could hear the other sounds but my dislike of some of the sounds was drowning out the other interesting parts, so I effectively wasn’t able to hear all the sounds), but now it's all about the synths and noodley guitars, I have no idea what the words are about, but I like the music
  • I walked past some interesting tomb stones today so this article struck a chord with me - Farage warns of the 'final betrayal' over Brexit
  • Moon footage sped up - I liked the caption from swissmiss that accompanied the video - "This moon footage speed up is currently my favorite thing on the internet"
  • Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud - I haven’t had time to fully read this article yet but the topic is interesting