Loren King

@lorenking
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dad, professor, swimmer, master procrastinator.
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Websitehttps://greatlakestrust.org/
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If it's Mastodon, is it subtooting? And can you subtoot an AI?

Alan Turing on whether machines can surprise us, or be the subject of their own thoughts.

https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

Honestly moving to Mastodon from the bird site feels like I just switched to PBS after years of exclusively watching a reality TV show called, I don't know, EXTREME HATEFEST: ORGY ISLAND or something.

Like, yeah, of course it's going to be a little jarring but trust me it's better this way.

Now available.
There are accounts from the first settlers to Turtle Island that the forests were so abundant with food, and that the #indigenous folks they encountered seemed to eat along their pathways while traveling easily. This wasn't an accident. The forests were cultivated food forests, a great technological advance that was then mostly decimated, chopped down, and made into monocrops of things like wheat and corn. #permaculture and #foodforests are Indigenous innovations. Let's bring them back!

In the northern hemisphere the longest night of the year is this coming Wednesday, December 21st. Along the shores of #OurGreatLakes we'll welcome the sun at 7:49am on December 22. In Oakville, Ontario we'll be at #GLOWbeach (Coronation Park), but join in wherever you are! #EmbraceTheCold #WinterSwimming #UrbanSwimming #GreatLakesOpenWater #SolsticeSwim2022

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🚨 Doug Ford's Bill 23 will take away city's powers to protect tenants from demovictions - this is when a developer mass evicts tenants to demolish affordable housing for condos or luxury rentals.

Hamilton details:
Where: In front of 468 James St N
When: Tuesday December 20th at 1:00 PM

The final two episodes of #LimitlessWithChrisHemsworth are really quite beautiful, and the final sequence has one of the best uses of the #PenguinCafeOrchestra 's "Perpetuum Mobile" that I can think of.

https://youtu.be/NPpRJoYISSQ?t=20

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile

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There's bike infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch bike infrastructure.
#Hovenring, the World's 1st suspended bike path roundabout (although some Norwegians I know dispute that…)
#cities #BikeLanes #urbanism #bikes #Dutch

An epic (10,000-word) account of the history of Alzheimer’s research, written with what seems to me as a layperson like admirable balance and clarity.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/

What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. | Quanta Magazine

After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve.

Quanta Magazine