Young men die in battle They die alone Old men die on the stage Even more alone Last Thursday on CNN debate stage Joe was struck a fatal blow Bleeding, wounded, shocked But he didn’t succumb He valiantly stood his post He stood up to a fetid barrage of lies and hate To the end …
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Putin
Nov 29 2022: Putin Bury your face Turn those sly Slavic eyes downward into the dirt As we see behind them the predator and narcissist Which rise yet again from the graves Russian lore Shirtless on a horse while corruption, mortality rates and GDP plummet Almost dismissed on the world scene – even in sports …
Lessons learned from bad driving
I know a guy, quite close Who is smart, thoughtful, gentle, forgiving But to our incredulous shock The moment he gets behind the wheel of a car He goes from Jeckyll to Hyde A sudden Neanderthal Enraged and shaking his fist at every small encounter. Everyone at fault for something While he himself flawlessly tailgates, …
Covid passports are coming and thats just the beginning thanks to ToIP
Trust over IP is is huge, sufficiently mature and the first ToIP apps will be arriving this fall. Wow. First out the door will be covid passports, AND largely without government participation or endorsement – (its just moving too fast for gov to possibly be in a position to contribute). Like GPS or Android this infrastructure …
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Re: train graffiti
I now have hundreds to thousands of high resolution photos of RR graffiti taken all over US and Canada. As a rough guess I would say that 90% of the stuff you see on the cars is unartistic junk or even plane out vandalism. Most RR graffiti is tagging of some sort. Like a signature …
Delightful Example of Touring Complete
The Game of Life is Touring complete (I did not know that).. and you can actually see it here .. towards the end of this elegant video on the inherent weaknesses of mathematics … the GoL running itself.
ThoughtDeJour II
How many of us are who we want to be? Is who you want to be even possible, or is it an ideal How many of us can even juggle Between who we are, And who we believe we are, And who we wish we were, Or want to be. How many of us are …
Thought de Jour – 15/3/20
Regarding my thoughts on the matters at hand.. got an hour? 🙂 Briefly it’s this: Covid is a most suitable start to the 2020’s – the torrid twenties. This will be a decade of maturing exponential events racing to contain humanity. This pandemic is just the first exponential to get out of the bag. It …
The Art of Graffiti
10 best books I’ve read over the past two years:
Possible Minds: 25 ways of looking at AI – John Brockman The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray American War: A Novel – Omar El Akkad The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff Doughnut Economics – Kate Raworth 1861: The Civil War Awakening – Adam Goodheart Dreamland: The true Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic …
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