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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. - https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entropy-a-measure-of-just-how-little-we-really-know-20241213/

I finished The Restless Clock by Jessica Riskin today, and added it to my list of books that are contributing to my deprogramming. It was exactly the antidote I needed for this artificial intelligence moment we find ourselves in here in 2024. https://kinlane.com/deprogramming/

My roundup of 2024 post...

Robot, "servitude of forced labor".

"Governance ensures your APIs aren't wild animacules but instead are designed, built and maintained in an orderly machinelet manner." - Kamalpreet Badasha

Two words I learn this weekend while reading The Restless Clock by Jessica Riskin - 1) Machinelets and 2) Animacules -- I just gotta figure out how to work into my API storytelling.

How do you feel your own existence?

Mourning My Saturday Morning Absolute Bagel Upper West Side Ritual - https://kinlane.com/2024/12/14/mourning-my-saturday-morning-absolute-bagel-upper-west-side-ritual/

The funhouse mirror of capitalism that allows you to see a single death (murder of a CEO of healthcare company) as so horrific and tragic, but prevents you from seeing the many horrific and tragic deaths of individuals within the healthcare system who are insured by the CEO’s company.

Theater of Thought, by Werner Herzog - After 50+ years exploring the far corners of the world, Werner Herzog focuses inward — on the human brain, via the cutting-edge field of neuroscience, with its attendant ethical quandaries. https://filmforum.org/film/theater-of-thought

Radical Book Buzz with Library Freedom Project and Library Futures at the Francis Kite Club - https://kinlane.com/2024/12/09/radical-book-buzz-with-library-freedom-project-and-library-futures-at-the-francis-kite-club/

DM's are blowing up over there at the Bluesky folks -- I may be transcending.

I forget what eight was for.

rzlbd's unsittable thrones for dictators explore design's symbolic relationship to authority - https://www.designboom.com/art/rzlbd-unsittable-thrones-dictators-design-symbolic-relationship-authority-12-07-2024/

I have been hunting for a word to describe the people in my timeline telling stories about AI that wasn’t offensive, and I finally found it — I feel that the majority of people telling stories in my timeline about AI right now are being obsequious.

When you get sick of technology don't check out completely, stick around long enough to be a pain in the ass and throw a wrench in the gears.