@dougfort

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Interested in augmentation

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 29,1957
Hope you all had fun while I was away for a week. Here's what I was doing. Coming soon: A full tour by my cover band, Scalzi Osbourne.

(photo by Kelly Wright)

The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1979)

https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/the-psychedelic-animated-video-for-kraftwerks-autobahn-1979.html

The Psychedelic Animated Video for Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” (1979)

Ah, yes, 'Autobahn.' From the moment the door slams and the ignition starts, prog rockers and pre-new wavers know a journey is afoot.

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Cognitive offloading: when you shift a discrete task over to a tool like a calculator.
Cognitive surrender: when you relinquish cognitive control and adopts the tool's judgment as your own.

"The shift from railways to peptides-"

This could have been a line in one of Lem's books.

* Newly popular in the blacked-out Russian Federation
Some day, I'm gonna turn in a manuscript and think "I did a great job!" Today is not that day.
Algerian Cave Paintings Suggest Humans Did Magic Mushrooms 9,000 Years Ago

We moderns might wonder what ancient peoples did when not hunting, gathering, and reproducing. The answer is that they did mushrooms, at least according to one interpretation of cave paintings at Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, some of which go back 9,000 years.

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