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...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Tesla Takedown - how I think about it

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TeslaTakedown (#TeslaTakedown) events occur nationwide. I put those in the MSP metro region on the nokings.kateva.org calendar. The TeslaT...

No Kings: A calendar of Twin Cities (MSP) events for the resurrection of American democracy

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nokings.kateva.org  lists Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) metro region events supporting American constitutional democracy and governa...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

When the MAGA say "woke" they mean "secular humanist"

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I've long wondered what the MAGA mean by "woke" and why they hate it so much.  A recent essay by the scribe of the technarchy...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

Project 2025 - the Perplexity Summary

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I don't have the patience to dig through Project 2025. I was hoping a journalist I follow would do an opinion-free overview but I haven...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Repairing a broken America - where the Trump oligarchy is vulnerable

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I expect it will be transiently reversed, but the Jan 21, 2025 federal informer program was a historic marker. Nobody will be able to say t...