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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The Oath Keepers are back. And leaked documents suggest the group is trying to rebuild its brand by targeting youth, and in particular the Boy Scouts

Diffcult things that make me ponder

conducting a literature search of 89 different stories told by seven different forager cultures in Thailand, Malaysia, Africa and elsewhere. All of the tales carried lessons about social cooperation, empathy and justice, and many taught sexual equality

Jeffrey Kluger • How Telling Stories Makes Us Human

Storytelling

The tech companies have long argued that training is fair use, similar to printing quotations from books when discussing them or writing a parody that uses a story’s characters and plot.

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When I share a quote it usually ties back to the author. Quote-sharing becomes an act of author evangelicanism, where each share has the potential to gain the author another fan, follower or reader.

Generative AI LLM models steal those original works & passes it off as its own.

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

storytelling may function as a mechanism to disseminate knowledge by broadcasting social norms to coordinate social behaviour and promote cooperation.

The type of knowledge in question is “meta-knowledge” – information about other people’s knowledge. This is, in fact, required for any society to function.

Daniel Smith • Why do we tell stories? Hunter-gatherers shed light on the evolutionary roots of fiction

Storytelling

archetypes provide storytellers with a framework. By understanding these universal themes, writers can craft narratives that resonate across cultures and time, ensuring their stories have a timeless appeal.

Steve Prompt • The Psychology Behind Storytelling: Why We’re Wired for Narratives

Storytelling

Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.

No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special... See more

Diffcult things that make me ponder

Since this an announcement by The Onion about its purchase of InfoWars, it’s hard to know how serious it is. However a parody might be a welcomed breath of fresh air.

worth noting that it is possible to navigate without using landmarks. Many navigation episodes start from a familiar “home” or “base”. In such cases, self-motion cues (e.g., vestibular and proprioceptive signals, motor efference copies, optic flow) can be used to keep track of displacement from the starting point. This strategy, known as path... See more

The cognitive map in humans: Spatial navigation and beyond

The tools we use change the way our brains work

This is the same method implemented in some newer more friction-less UI designs.

What interests me most, however, are David Montgomery’s intricate character studies of the treasure seekers, as well as his insight in connecting their consuming passion to a modern-day lack of faith in mainstream media and politicians. As usual, it is the very human stories of desire, belief, and commitment that provide the most fascinating... See more

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