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Synthetic Intelligence
Already, the children of Earth were the most terrifying creatures in the galaxy. They became the stuff of horror stories, nightly warnings told to children; huge, hulking, brutish things, that hacked...
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Text And Context
This image is a reference to the four-square Drake template – originally Drake holding up a hand and turning away from something disapprovingly in the top half, while pointing favorably to something...
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Connections
“A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself...
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@pamela : I will never, ever tire of seamlessly transitioning from the end of Mean Girls to the beginning of Hackers with the same song, this was a damn *gift* given to us by the movie industry @mhoye...
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With articles about this super classified military AI called “Sentient” coming out the same week this Area 51 nonsense is hitting its crescendo – click that link, if you want to see an Air Force...
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Occasionally Useful
A bit of self-promotion: the UsesThis site asked me their four questions a little while ago; it went up today. A colleague once described me as “occasionally useful, in the same way that an occasional...
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Defined By Prosodic And Morphological Properties
I am fully invested in these critical advances in memetic linguistics research: […] In this paper, we go beyond the aforementioned prosodic restrictions on novel morphology, and discuss gradient...
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[ https://www.youtube.com/embed/JEpsKnWZrJ8 ] I riffed on this a bit over at twitter some time ago; this has been sitting in the drafts folder for too long, and it’s incomplete, but I might as well...
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The Last Days Of 20A0
Science International – What Will They Think Of Next At first blush this is a statement on the crude reproductive character of mass culture. But it also serves as a warning about the psychohistorical...
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Nerd-Cred Level-Up
In 2007 I was an extra in an indie zombie movie called “Sunday Morning” that featured Ron Tarrant. Tarrant starred with Mark Slacke in a 2010 short called “The Painting In The House”, who in turn...
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Mechanized Capital
Elon Musk recently made the claim that humans “must merge with machines to remain relevant in an AI age”, and you can be forgiven if that doesn’t make a ton of sense to you. To fully buy into that...
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The Scope Of The Possible
This is a rough draft; I haven’t given it much in the way of polish, and it kind of just trails off. But a friend of mine asked me what I think web browsers look like in 2025 and I promised I’d let...
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Pageant Knight
On September 17th, DC “celebrated” what they called “Batman Day”. I do not deploy scare quotes lightly, so let me get this out of the way: Batman is boring. Batman qua Batman as a hero, as a story and...
View ArticleBrought To You By The Letter U
Being a global organization, Mozilla employees periodically send out all-hands emails notifying people of upcoming regional holidays. With Labour Day coming up in Canada, this was my contribution to...
View ArticleDevelopers Are The New Mainframes
This is another one of those rambling braindump posts. I may come back for some fierce editing later, but in the meantime, here’s some light weekend lunacy. Good luck getting through it. I believe in...
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Barbiephonic (redux)
I have a funny story about the recent Hello Barbie networked-device security failure. This is doubly a repost – it started its current incarnation as a twitter rant, and longtime readers may remember...
View ArticleThe Thousand Year Roadmap
I made this presentation at Seneca’s FSOSS a few weeks ago; some of these ideas have been rattling around in my brain for a while, but it was the first time I’d even run through it. I was thoroughly...
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