there's : "Deep Adaptation:
A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy" - already 8 years later. Original Pub July 27th 2018. Revised 2nd Edition July 27th 2020. from the paper: "Two years after its first release, this paper has influenced ... in the face of dangerous climate change. ... It is comprised of people who believe that a climate-influenced collapse of societies in most parts of the world in the coming decades is either likely, inevitable or already unfolding. https://jembendell.com/

sorting some old files and re-discovered an old screenshot of an article by Asimov:"A Cult of Ignorance". How timely is this now? https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

The stark reality of our Canadian history and what future we may choose: CBC/Gem: "Myth, truth and national identity. This documentary takes you behind the curtain and into the corridors of power to reveal the true face of a nation." Duration
88 minutes
Production year
2025
Availability date
September 29, 2025
Country
Canada
Director(s)
Leena Minifie, David Paperny - Offered with Closed Captions - Offered with Described Video, https://gem.cbc.ca/the-good-canadian/s01e01

CBC and Gasbuddy sources and comparison of current gas prices (napkin calcs) suggest USA gas average 4.50 per US gallon - at Kingston, Ontario today's price would compare at about 7.10 per US gallon. Why are we not more outraged at the US dominated oilpatch companie's price gouging?

just read Y. Bengio et al papers on 'Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks:
Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path?' and a corresponding treatment (LawZero): "The Scientist AI: Safe by Design, by Not Desiring". While I agree entirely with the need and necessity I have some reservations wrt to the siloed "scientist" concept in these as described. Any one have comments about this work? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15657]

I can't stop thinkin' most businesses used to use the "cost of goods" plus a reasonable profit (a "typical" industry sector standard) margin was good enough for business then and they were still successful. Now it's "whatever the market will bear" prices with multiples of cost expanding markups by x00s % and the quality of goods racing to the bottom. I'm told that that's just the way it is. Profits just keep on getting fatter for industry monopolies.

It appears that controlling a single AI agent is impossible - so Cursor introduces an agent that automatically assigns sub-agents itself - without any controls or transparency to the user (me) - what could go wrong?

Just re-discovered how much of a dinosaur I really am wrt computer hardware. Trying to update my LAN with a limited budget. I bought new to me refurbed kit and just discovered NVMe (been out since 2013). Sheesh, and I'm really in the dark ages trying to understand and manage AI too.