HALO Effect
HALO Effect Originally shared by Noah Friedman This is how automation is probably going to kill us all: tell a computer to optimize for something and it will. (This observation is just a variation on the nanotech grey goo problem.)
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Precursor
Precursor Michael Lang: "Miami Pop was my first Festival and made a profound impression on me about the power of music to bring people together. Ric O'Barry and I came up with the Idea sitting around my Kitchen table in Coconut Grove. It was a 2 day affair and the first day was Magic. The second day was rained out. (Jimi Hendrex wrote a song about it - RAINY DAY, DREAM AWAY : "Well I can see a bunch of wet creatures / Look at 'em, on the run / The carnival traffic noise, it sings / The tune splashing up / Even the ducks can groove ...") The Festival was produced by Ric and I, Barry Taran, James McBarren, and Marshall Brevitz. I guess you can say a seed for Woodstock was planted there, just as one was planted when Artie Kornfeld embraced music as his path in life. These seeds bore fruit during the fall of 1968. After weeks of talks between Artie and I and Artie's wife Linda we had one of those "eureka" moments and Woodstock began to take shape. The r...
The Service Economy
The Service Economy I've also been there, done that, only with much less fear for my life. via Meep https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21?ec_carp
Breaking The Party Line
Breaking The Party Line "Hotline, you make new friends The hotline, we want you to stay We have found a way to meet that no one has ever thought of But they say stop, we cannot be left trying to throw us out Oh, Alexander Graham Bell, we thank you for every minute!" Reading this reminded me of Thomas McMahon's novel, "Loving Little Egypt": https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/thomas-mcmahon-2/loving-little-egypt/ https://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2009/11/loving-little-egypt.html McMahon admitted his novel was inspired by this article about phone phreaking in Esquire, in 1971: http://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf Originally shared by Irina T. 2018-12-28 https://medium.com/s/love-hate/how-a-phone-glitch-sparked-a-teenage-riot-eb785c39bd01
Originally shared by Mattias Adolfsson
Originally shared by Mattias Adolfsson http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-jigsaw-from-heye-regatta.html
Going To Pot
Going To Pot Or not. But what do I know? I live in a place where all the liquor stores are owned and operated by the State. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-marijuana-year-anniversary-review-20181227-story.html
