I am so sick of Verizon deciding that it can just install bloatware on my phone whenever it wants.
Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives
I wonder whether we’re at the point where a will or end-of-life directive should contain instructions about whether one wishes to persist as a digital double. I wonder whether such wishes would be legally binding on heirs.
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed
The Secretary of HHS ignorant? What a complete surprise.
“Warm Morning”
Olympus TG-6 @ 4.5mm, f/2.8, 1/640s, ISO 100. On the trail at Mount Pisgah.
Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound of the Big Bang’ hints at possible solution to Hubble tension
Obviously the extraterrestrials have quarantined us due to the prevalence of idiocy on Earth.
Prime “Day” is now 4 days long. Half of my RSS feed has been hijacked by “best Prime Day deal” affiliate links.
I’m so happy I walked away from a decades-long Amazon relationship this year.
Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park
Yeah, because who walks through a PARK without automatic weapons? I’m glad I don’t live in LA any more.
Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
War criminals gotta stick together, I guess.
Finished: These Restless Heads, by Branch Cabell 📚. Not a part of the Biography of Manuel (and therefore using the other variant of his name), this is a collection of Cabell’s essays on life and writing, together with one short story (or is it a parable of an aging poet?). I enjoyed it as I enjoy all of his writings, which pack in more style and vocabulary than any modern writer I know of.
“Hiding”
Olympus TG-6 @ 18mm, f/4.9, 1/100s, ISO 500. On the trail at Mount Pisgah.
