Squirrel

@squirrel

Lifelong creative, insatiably curious & compulsive puzzle solver. My passion = open source intelligence (OSINT). Fascinated with mysteries of the brain & the intersection of technology.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines… - J Winterson

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dds are, you’ve never heard the story of the wild pig and the seacow — but if you’d heard it, you’d be unlikely to forget it. The wild pig and seacow were best friends who enjoyed racing each other for sport. One day, however, the seacow hurt his legs and could run no more. So the wild pig carried him down to the sea, where they could race forever,... See more

Jeffrey Kluger • How Telling Stories Makes Us Human

Storytelling

An advanced model capable of holding in focus all that information would have a profound familiarity with all the words and ideas that have shaped my personal mindset. Certainly its ability to provide accurate and properly-cited answers to questions about my worldview (or my intellectual worldview, at least) would exceed that of any other human.

Future Potentials and Diffcult things that make me ponder

They point to a future where states could use multiple forms of observation—feedback from citizens’ lived experience; data from sensors or satellites; citizen-generated data; and ‘sousveillance’, or surveillance from the bottom up rather than the top down—and then organise the data received as a commons, open to anyone. That vision would require a

Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

Panopticon

Wildlife scientists aboard Australia's icebreaker believe a deadly strain of bird flu has reached the sub-Antarctic Heard Island after they witnessed unusual levels of mortality in elephant seals.

Diffcult things that make me ponder

Being in limbo is all about learning to cope with the “in-between times.” As a result of a trigger, we’ve ended one period of stability or even one phase of life, and looking forward we don’t yet see another one beginning.

Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

Liminal Space

Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity that emerges in the middle of a fundamental transition. Liminality is the “in-between”, where the space and the participants no longer hold their past status, but have not yet fully transformed to their post-transition self.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Liminal Creativity

Liminal Space

Richard Dawkins Asks ChatGPT If It's Conscious - Slashdot

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Diffcult things that make me ponder

Almost every major economy in the world today has a housing crisis, driven by the inflating value of land. In truth, although we call it a 'housing crisis' it might be better thought of as an 'everything' crisis, in that our dysfunctional relationship with land and property – and the broken incentives it creates – sit at the root of almost every... See more

Home Design

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Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

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Diffcult things that make me ponder