I started becoming aware of popular music in the late 70s and was a big disco
and Village People fan.
Well, I’m turning off the news now, mostly, but I did hear that the Village
People were performing at the inauguration. That pretty much says it all: Trump
managed to adopt a famous gay anthem
On 1/20/25 3:11 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Who of you has recommended "Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold
Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John
Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell" in the last years? If I recall
correctly it was Eric. I like the book. Since then I am loo
To my American friends,
As your friendly South African observer, I've been watching the American
political scene with great interest (and a bit of amusement). I couldn't
help but notice how some describe Trump. Here in South Africa, we've had
our share of colorful political figures, but I must say
The exercise your colleague conducted with her students really highlights
some fascinating insights into contemporary perceptions of the future. It's
clear that today's college students, like many others, are significantly
influenced by their peers and the media narratives they consume. The
prevail
I was at a meeting a couple of months ago, and a colleague I know, whom I have
often found thoughtful and interesting, related an exercise she did with one or
more classes of her students.
She tells them: You have a time machine, and you can go to any time and place.
Where will you go?
And sh
Glen,
I saw Carlos Getshenson posted this in Complexity Digest today.
https://anticipation.philcomp.org/
If FRIAM raised the dollars from its members, can we send you as its envoy
to present and report back?
3/4 serious. 1/4 just a funny idea that we would have an envoy and imagine
sending you
I first read this as a solicitation for candidates from FriAM as a
"Rosennian philosophical sparring partner" and of course thought of Glen
right away (I suppose I could have just "read carefully" instead?).
If someone sets up a voting/contributing poll, possibly where the number
of votes is p
DaveW -
morbid, a bit.
But, just think what 6 billion or so new trees over the next 100 years
would do for climate change.
davew
pequininos! ala OSC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead
Maybe I'll fill the pockets of my burial garments with a variety of
likely tree seeds f
You are right, I must admit that the formulation "natural ecosystems do not
consume more than they give back" was not very lucky. What I meant is that
natural ecosystems - left to their own devices - are much more sustainable than
our capitalistic, extractive economy. Extractive economy here mea
Large deposits of hydrocarbons: Yeah, it kinda looks like a waste to hoard all
that stuff. But if you think of it like a battery (or a stock in stocks and
flows), some tasks do seem to require a large battery, maybe to get over some
hump with a steep energy curve. The question is who uses it an
Glen -
I've not registered my work-life balance on the 5/7 day workweek for
decades (2008?) but fully respect that others do. In fact, when I was
in my LANL day-job, the bulk of my speculative energies were shifted
*to* the weekends, not away from them. As a self-employed person with
a con
It seems obvious that y'all don't "unplug" on the weekends. Do I have an antiquated conception of a
healthy work-life balance? Anyway, the idea that natural subsystems don't consume more than they give back is
just wrong ... maybe so ill-formed it's not even wrong. There's some hint of the natur
Chatting here is the opposite of work.
From: Friam on behalf of glen
Date: Monday, January 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fredkin/Toffoli, Reversibility and Adiabatic Computing.
It seems obvious that y'all don't "unplug" on the weekends. Do I have an
antiqua
IDK. It's like your complaint about video games. Why do work if you're not
being paid for it? FriAM is analogous to video games. Some of the posts are
Bosses and some are redshirts to hack through on your way to the Boss. But
learning to play games designed by other people is, or can be, a good
Glen sed:
Large deposits of hydrocarbons: Yeah, it kinda looks like a waste to
hoard all that stuff. But if you think of it like a battery (or a
stock in stocks and flows), some tasks do seem to require a large
battery, maybe to get over some hump with a steep energy curve. The
question is who
On 1/20/25 12:30 PM, Prof David West wrote:
No weights, no wrapping. You might never decompose — give back — if
you sink to the bottom.
Whalefall (in the small)!
.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ...
--- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..
FRIAM Ap
Re preemptive pardons:
It is unclear if one must accept a pardon for it to be valid (Supreme Court
decision on a commuted sentence); but it is clear (earlier Supreme Court
decision) that **accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.**
A number of 1-6 convicts plan to refuse pardons and fight t
Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. Judith once called me "poisonous" ... or maybe it was "toxic". I'll have
to check my email archives. So I doubt my contribution would be well-received. She later back-tracked and lowered her estimation
of me to something like "ignorant" or "contrarian" or somesu
the (media) talk of Biden's pre-emptive pardons this morning seemed to
(almost?) suggest that they must be accepted (before he leaves office?)
and we've heard that Gen Milley publicly accepted his (informally) while
others (Kinzinger?) pre-emptively declined such? I think the issuance
of the
On 1/20/25 8:04 AM, glen wrote:
Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. Judith once called me "poisonous"
... or maybe it was "toxic". I'll have to check my email archives. So
I doubt my contribution would be well-received. She later back-tracked
and lowered her estimation of me to something like "i
It’s interesting. The words are simple but the concepts are not simple.
In more mechanistic terms, I might write “accepting a pardon is an
acknowledgment that an accusatory verdict is what one will have to deal with”.
The complex notion of admission of guilt all turns on the question of
legiti
Marcus wrote:
This reminds me of the simple procedure for storing carbon. Bury the
dead trees.
I suppose I should modify my sky-burial platform and my
conventional-home-burial and DaveW's "compost" and the Capsula Mundi
business and simply arrange my latest HugelKultur bed expansion to
f
I don't think so. The inherent part of Rosen's idea (after having NOT thought
about it for years) is the ambiguity that falls out of the modeling relation.
(If it's a faithful model, then it all boils down to ambiguity - multiple
meanings. If it's a noisy or unfaithful model, then not merely am
Who of you has recommended "Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed
Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph
Campbell" in the last years? If I recall correctly it was Eric. I like the
book. Since then I am looking for good books which are similar. Curre
Steve Smith: Judith is a keynote speaker.
https://anticipation.philcomp.org/speakers/
Carlos, will you be attending given your UNAM connection? Or on proposal
review committee?
Stephen
CEO Founder, Simtable.com
stephen.gue...@simtable.com
Harvard Vis
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