Thursday, February 05, 2026

Mass Disability: Marta Russell wrote about my pet topic before I did -- from a Marxist/Left perspective

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Since at least 2008, in various settings including this blog and the long forgotten social network known as "app.net", I have expl...
Monday, January 05, 2026

An undergraduate essay on the "anthropology" of 2025 memory-positive ai

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Over the past year or two I have taken 3 classes at the University of Minnesota through their state mandated   Senior Citizen Education Prog...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

A non-technical attempt to explain 2025 LLM-based ai

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This is the first of what may be a few excerpts from a fun personal essay I wrote as part of an undergraduate course . The essay informally ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

AI fear is rational and hate comes from fear

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From a Bluesky thread of mine  (lightly edited); Josh Marshall comments on widespread hostility to ai in polls despite heavy ai use: I thin...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Economic polarization is the economics term for mass disability - causes of the global crisis

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I've been posting about mass disability since at least 2008 . Recently I learned that the formal economics term for a related concept i...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Funding journalism through public micropayment tokens

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Let us assume that the ai project "fails". We do not create superintelligent or sentient machines; current capabilities only impro...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Oldness: how does learn new productive work-study practices?

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I don't know how long the program will survive, but I have enjoyed MN's educational benefit for 62+ . Despite my overall senility I ...
Monday, August 18, 2025

AI Aug 2025: Apocalypse deferred - but Letta/Void is still going to surprise

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If there are humans left in 50 years all of the chaos of this moment may be reduced to a single bullet point about the rise of ai. It's ...

Ending the long back pain saga with ... spinal stenosis surgery (and CrossFit)

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Over the years I've done periodic personal medical and exercise posts. It's mostly a way for me to take stock and think, but I'm...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Geriatric CrossFit Tips - 2025 Update

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It's been over 12 years since I started CrossFit at 53  and three years since I wrote my previous  Geriatric CrossFit tips . Since that ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

MAGA anti-science and public dissatisfaction with science - public surveys as input to funding priorities

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The GOP/MAGA opposition to science is based on theocracy, class resentment, future shock, social and economic despair, and on not understand...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

How to defeat MAGA brutal medicaid access restrictions: fund an AI agent for paperwork completion

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In a solid interview with the esteemed Jonathon Gruber  K proposes a mitigation for the GOP's reduction of medicaid access through burea...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Minnesota's Mesabi Bike Trail - A 2025 Review

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This past weekend, over two days with a night in Virginia, a friend and I road Minnesota's newest old trail - The Mesabi Trail across t...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Prediction: A post-AGI American democracy will be socialist

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I hope AGI is decades away. I fear it is years away. If AGI comes in the near future we will have widespread unrest and turmoil. From that o...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

When and why did the America Republic derail? A citizen perspective

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Historians will debate when America derailed and why. They may be interested in the perspectives of an everyday generic citizen. Well, futur...