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Manna : a very prescient short story from 2003. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 | MarshallBrain.com

This is why I hate visiting moon, it ALWAYS ends up like this
Feeling a bit heavy. Midlife crisis? Settled down, raised a family ( still a few years to go before that task is 'complete' ), reached waterproof nerd status in terms of employment. Gained weight during covid, trying to get back into shape. All normal life stuff. But it's all getting in the way of playing boardgames : E
My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.
Were classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress Magazine

Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.

Is it so inconveivable that at any point a company start making big profit, it needs to be sanity checked in terms of potential exploitation issues. Consider a village : if the shopkeeper becomes the richest villager despite essentially being a 'fixer' for the various goods transactions, is there not a long term problem in the baking?
@jk what i would like: side-by-side, but diff is used internally to find largest regions of change (until we only have 3, 4 regions); then in the side-by-side view, those regions get a rectangle around them; so i know where to look.
the origin shift maze generator. it's a tree graph edge shuffler with brownian motion. https://youtu.be/zbXKcDVV4G0
New Maze Generating Algorithm (Origin Shift)

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Trying out Mistral. It didn't seem to be aware of it's own Terms of Service regarding data retention on first ask. Otherwise seems ok, no surprises so far