If you're interested in learning more here is the github for the FinalSpark Neuroplatform: https://finalspark-np.github.io/np-docs/welcome.html

And their core publication on their "Wetware" approach: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1376042/full

And here's a pop-sci summary article with video: https://www.ericjkuhns.com/blog/startup-is-using-human-brain-cells-to-build-ai-yes-really

It seems they didn't take into account the use of brainletts as a meta-level source of nonalgebraic computational processing. We do in fact live in a timeline where we might simulate the universe on a giant swarm of microbrains.

Demand to be elevated to the priesthood, works every time.

Here's a question I dug into have an answer to: if you begin showing subtle but public support for a Kurdish state now, would that make it so they won't send you to the front lines for fear you might resist from within? Could keep you away from the worst of it, if it doesn't get you persecuted.

Direct government support for and Incentivization of worker Co-ops across the supply chain, and specifically for digital infrastructure.

Worker owned and run businesses distribute wealth to the working class directly, and digital infrastructure like datacenters and fiber optic networks which yield strong ongoing revenue in exchange for intensive uo-front work on planning and cinstruction followed by ongoing preventative maintenance are an ideal target for co-oping if a lender would specifically support it. The lender of choice could easily be a government agency, with ag loans, innovation loans, and the SBA in the US all as examples of how this can work.

Similarly alternative energy supply chain can and should be co-op, not just as consumer co-ops like there are in rural power utilities, but worker co-ops as construction and maintenance contractors for the solar and wind fields and power grids, as well as the hardware manufacturing facilities.

Direct revenue-driven worker ownership is the surest way to increase economic equality, as direct share of revenue and worker-member units are resistant to the speculative value manipulation that drives most wealth accumulation at the top in the "public/private" corporation model of neoliberal capitalism.

Yes, but at the time I tried it it had no "server/channel/thread" hierarchy or roles/permissions to go with it, so it's not really a viable Element/Discord replacement. The look is there but "spaces" don't exist in xmpp yet, so the core functionality can't be implemented with XMPP protocol as is. That said, devs from Slidge and Movem are working on it.

First point of criticism, that general zod overlay makes your website effectively unusable on mobile. It appears to have no way to close it. What are you thinking?

cool, thanks

Possible yes, practical no. Effectively you would need to build a new sub-continant to have an appreciable impact on sea level. That said, you don't need to dredge from the low point in the ocean, all that matters is displacing solid material from below sea level to above sea level, so the best option would be to find a shallow sea with an existing archipelago of islands and build up from there making it a deep sea with the islands connected as a continent. Alternately you could go after reefs, despite the collateral damage, with the great barrier reef being the obvious choice, essentially pump up dredged sand from the surrounding ocean bed onto the reef to make new land, the reef has the advantage of being very shallow and stabilized with lots of surface area, so good for making lots of land if you don't mind being the architect of an ecological apocalypse of unprecedented proportions.