Orange baby evidently just “announced” an initiative for building AI infrastructure. It’s big talk, mentioning half a trillion dollars (eventually, honest) and touting all sorts of “dominance” of AI research and development; an area that is not a good fit for the dumb thuggery underlying the whole idea of “dominance.” I find the hunger for… Continue reading

Remenber the “crypto bubble” of a few years ago, when “blockchain technology” was going to be incorporated into practically everything, and everything was going to be different? And most importantly, lots of guys (all guys) made millions in stock valuations. Sam Bankman-Fried got caught as a scammer, but plenty got away with it. Look at… Continue reading

A set of connected connections. “What, the internet requires less attention? Yes, because it demands so little of us intellectually and appeals so powerfully to our feelings.” “Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights.”… Continue reading

It’s not documents (books, articles, stories, notes, posts) that are important, even when they encapsulate fantastically important, incisive ideas. It’s the connections among and between documents that are the most important. Browsing the web is valuable because of hypertext. Ted Nelson coined that word back in 1965, when there were only a handful of real-world… Continue reading