Found “Cherry 2000” here to stream on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Cherry-2000-Melanie-Griffith/dp/B0CP9C742L/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_0
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@@eviemartenson if i forget and i do get to the conference, i want to ask you about the crow (at least it looks like a crow but maybe its a raven?)…does it carry some significance and do tell.
@cmartenson …would you be able to expound a bit on your feeling that the system will break…with or without surveillance tech? Ie more on how you arrived at "you cannot toy with complex systems? ". Id love to hear more as its the most hopeful thing ive heard as we walk into this nightmare…
Putting this as a pin because i know ill forget to ask…
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We know there’s a waterfall ahead, we have no idea where, nor how high it is.
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re:waterfall: when you see the tops of trees ahead, get out off the river (personal experience)
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Still I Rise
BY [MAYA ANGELOU]
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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So, AI “steals” white color jobs ?
Well, no problem, kids. Go into trades. It will be a few decades before AI steals electrician’s, plumber’s, carpenter’s and other skilled trade jobs.
And wake me up when AI starts farming and producing food.
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The trades are sounding really good about now to me also.
I wonder if modular factory built living structures will get more common as a way to let automated machinery do most of the wiring and plumbing tasks?
Maybe a “home module” delivered to a home site with a standard plugin connector?
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Perhaps, but trades also FIX and REPAIR existing homes that have something broken. This can’t happen in a factory.
Also, factory automatization and robotics is not new, but it hasn’t paid off yet for home construction. I don’t see this as a big competition to trades anytime soon.
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Re: AI stealing souls
So, here is my harsh and unempathetic view:
Those people suckered into AI and becoming mentally ill is nature’s way of weeding out stupid and weak genes. Evolution has done this for millions of years. This is nature doing it in the AI era.
People that can’t deal with AI should not reproduce and put their genes into the future. Whoever is not able to foster human relationships, and turns to technology is not fit for reproduction. We’re better off if these people self-select out early.
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Damaging the planet is not a crime , defiance is.
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56" mark - let me suggest a slight editorial change.
“Hey, can you look less like an angry Dick ?”
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Time to bring Marx up to date to a growing new reality: AI is the “opium of the people”.
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And now Steve Kirsch posted this on chlorine dioxide:
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Yes, the idea that a tomorrow problem can be ignored is a persistent theme across many industries.
The number one thing a person can do in any field is to spend time creating value for another human. After that, throwing away the idea that a resume submitted to an online job board is enough to get hired is the second.
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There are a lot of technologies I have decided are dangerous. Used to watch a lot of TV programs, until I realized that it is a poverty window. I still watch too many online videos, but I am very careful with short form videos as I likewise feel in real time, the effects of shorter attention span.
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Yeah. You laugh now. It’s all fun and games until it takes your house and kids.
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Lot of work is fixing problem at someone’s house, installing some solar system, home intrusion system, hauling and installing washing machine and so on. Sure it has huge cultural differences. In west more maintenance, repair, in some cultures they dont even have word for this.
If inflation and more importantly price of raw materials and parts starts skyrocketing, you would guess maintenance becomes more important. Same as with cars, you dont want to throw it away if lights are broken as it costs yearly salary to buy new car.
This is normal house and building. I cant imagine traffic of these craftsmen going in and out to a mansion type big building richer people have. (They never show this part in any promotion or flashy lifestyle videos… but somehow in interviews there is often some tool or lawnmover or other work sound in background)
They mentioned hauling block of bricks to some riot. I wonder how much that costs (eg small stack of garden plates) to truck shipment to your house. Maybe 1000$? So these things rack up fast, not just raw product price.
Asking people questions has always been my kryptonite. I remind myself to ask more questions regularly and then, when I’m actually in a conversation, it just totally slips my mind in the flow. Something I am still consistently working on.
I do think part of it is not lack of curiosity but rather a different approach to curiosity. I like to solve my own puzzles. Just asking a question and getting an answer strikes me as a boring way to resolve a mystery…
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We see exactly this sort of process in nature when some species or other, be it fauna or flora, seems to have a stable and robust population until suddenly it’s gone. What happens is that while there are plenty of adults, juveniles are absent or too few in number or not maturing into adulthood. Reasons include predation, excess harvesting, and environmental pollution. Once a species goes through a small enough genetic bottleneck, or is gone completely, it cannot be brought back to life.
The technical term is lack of recruitment. Or in plainer English, no babies!
I see a similar process at work in our techno-industrial ecosystem, where younger people are not entering or cannot enter into the workforce (poor and misdirected education), or are taken out of it by predators (low-wage competition, financial barriers, robots, AI). Suddenly entire industries will be gone, and there will be no way to restore them to life.
The old certainty that “technology will always save us” is crumbling as we watch.
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Thank you Jaap!
I am definitely a multitasker, who sometimes tunnels so deep the world disappears around me…Yes, I have unmanaged and unmedicated ADHD, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.
Thank you Goat Lady! In 1-2 more weeks it should be fully in…until then it’s kind of scratchy so keeping my hands off my face takes one more level of awareness during the shows.
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