Category: TD/GDMBR 2024

Tl;Dr: Your brain’s representation of sensation looks really funny I’m always fascinated by how we see the world, and how that’s different from how our brains process input. For example – we think we see things like a camera (I see a complete colorful picture of what’s going on around me), but we really only…

https://blipsgrips.com/ Could be hooked up to dyno…

Why is Elon Musk involved in government at all? Oh yeah: to award huge contracts to his companies, so he can profit. An even more reputable news source

Capitalism rests on the assumption that accumulating wealth and human interests are aligned. That may be true at smaller scales, but it sure doesn’t seem all that aligned at the scale of 300m Americans… In part I’m thinking about how our government is suddenly shifting towards oligarchy. You may think this is straight up democracy…

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Taking care of a family estate is a job bigger than you have time for, no matter how much you have. Huge gratitude to great friends & kind strangers in Vienna. M’s Grandfather passed away in early January – over 100 years old. He had 2 flats in a building downtown that his family built.…

Our new president has made a lot of strange executive orders. This technique is called Gish Gallop ‘presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.’ It’s a way of distracting or confusing…

So lovely to visit a place with wonderful friends. It all started with H. meeting us at the airport. We have personal business with him, but he didn’t have to do that. He invited us to Sunday Dinner, and has been incredibly helpful to us in many others ways. Seeing W. & C. was always…