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Cake day: April 15th, 2024

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  • The technological innovations of the last fifteen years, from advertising enshittifcation to AI cheating, have largely been a disaster. We are sadly at the point where, as Ted Gioia says, “most so-called innovations are now anti-progress by any honest definition.” I dare say that if we could revert all digital technology to where it was in 2009 – before the invention of the retweet – we’d all be better off.

    I’d go back even further (to 2007) before the invention of the iPhone. The smartphone has, arguably, IMO been a bad, or at least premature invention. It created a generation of kids obsessed with their photographies, giving girls eating disorders and creating/spreading unrealistic beauty ideals, etc… Also it has severely disrupted teenagers’ social living, created sleeping disorders, chronic doomscrolling, addiction, and more bad stuff. The iPhone was, IMO, not ready for this world.







  • I disagree. There is no life on Mars today. Proof:

    Life needs continued supply of biochemical energy; And there is simply no source for that on Mars except sunlight.

    So, that leaves photosynthetically active organisms as the only possible form of life. But to be photosynthetically active, you have to be exposed to the sunlight; in other words, you have to grow on the surface, and be visible from outer space. So it is enough to check the surface to find out whether there’s life on Mars or not. And there appears not to be.








  • Animals sometimes have very weird, individual behavior. You can’t just make any general rule what this specific bird was doing to you. Probably it wanted to communicate with you, tell you something. Maybe you should have observed it a bit, maybe it would have had something to show you, like maybe in the bush that it was coming from.