My latest attempt to create AI-assisted music is a kind of tongue-in-cheek satirical protest song. The people I’ve sent it to seem to like it better than ‘my’ other recent efforts, though, I guess not surprisingly, most found it ‘dark’. … Continue reading →| how to save the world
Princeton Prof Robert Vanderbei’s famous ‘Purple America’ map, 2024 edition; not much purple left As a result of my recent article on the slow but inevitable collapse of ‘Europe’, a couple of people asked me what I think it ‘takes’ … Continue reading →| how to save the world
image by ‘as above astro’, thanks to Jae Mather for the link You may have noticed that my monthly links, especially the political ones, are getting shorter. It’s not that the atrocities are lessening. Trump and his fellow kleptocrats continue … Continue reading →| how to save the world
Now that the collapse of our political, economic, social and ecological systems is accelerating, the signs of this collapse, including scapegoating, corruption, and social disorder are becoming more obvious. This is the thirteenth of a series of articles on some of … Continue reading →| how to save the world
This is a repost of a poem I wrote eight years ago after my most recent ‘glimpse’ of the absence of my ‘self’. Just for fun, I got Suno to set it to music. So the music and ‘voice’ are … Continue reading →| how to save the world
This is a work of fiction. It does not depict any person, past or present, real or imagined. Really! I When I was young, and foolish, and idealistic, I saw you as a flower child, a child of nature at … Continue reading →| how to save the world
(photo from U. Berkeley, with the caption: “New study reveals the brain mechanism that makes rats feel empathy for other rats, yet refrain from helping rats they deem to be ‘outsiders’. Photo by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal”)| how to save the world
Another of Dave’s annoying radical non-duality posts. You’ve been warned. image by AI; my own prompt The weather forecast says there’s a 30% possibility of rain. Standing by the door of my apartment, I contemplate whether to take my umbrella … Continue reading →| how to save the world
image of K-Pop group by AI; not my prompt I have a love-hate relationship with AI. I use AI Chat tools extensively for research, now almost to the exclusion of the internet’s increasingly useless and enshittified search engines, except to … Continue reading →| how to save the world
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