The Sega Genesis implies the existence of a Sega Revelations:
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a blue hedgehog; and golden rings were given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, the beast that came out was red: and power was given to him to take peace from the earth: and there was given unto him great knuckles.
J. L. Borges: Hey if you have a library full of books containing all possible combinations of letters and words you effectively have nothing because anything insightful will be lost in an infinitely huge ocean of meaningless drivel, and it's intent and purpose and the ability to find texts that gives words power
Google: 20% of all videos on youtube are already ai generated crap, isn't that great?
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart,” that you have to turn off your humanity and accept your judicial life is to be one gear among many, demonstrating via absurdity that the operation of the machine is both senseless and inevitable. Your job is to teach people that they *can’t* “make it stop,” *can’t* cause “the machine [to] be prevented from working at all!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio#%22Bodies_Upon_the_Gears%22_speech
Newsmast has a really good and intriguing post out today describing where they see the Open Social Web going in the next 12-18 months.
"Connected community spaces" -- I so very much agree that's the right direction. IMHO the "global townsquare" was always somewhere between a bad idea and a logical impossibility, whether it was said by the would-be commercial platform overlords or the decentralizers. Time to move forward to better and more valuable scenarios.
Read it: https://www.blog-pat.ch/connected-community-spaces/
This week the Newsmast team is heading to Amsterdam for Public Spaces, where the theme is Technology for Democracy. Here are three talking points - and one call to action - for the conference, the Open Social Awards, and all the conversations in between. We're stuck. Let's change the rules
Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂
If you have the Facebook app on your phone, Mark Zuckerberg would like to monitor your entire life by uploading every photo you take to a secret Facebook database and have AI identify every place you have been, every person you have met, every activity you have participated in, etc.
I do not know how Facebook lures people into turning this on, but I recommend everyone check their settings, and I have made these four pictures which show how you turn it off.
Please reply if yours was on.
Defeatism is a form of surrender. Cynicism is surrender. Despair is surrender. Nihilism is surrender.
Our job is to •care• and to •keep caring• and to •keep doing and keep building• and to •endure• longer than them.
My latest post exploring AI in terms of economics: actual use cases, business models, the bubble, impacts on labor.
https://aiandacademia.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-ai-in-spring-2026
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