Before getting into this, I want to share with you a “conversation” I had with the Kimi agent. I found the responses entertaining and remarkable, if not apt. How are computer zeros and ones like brain synaptic functions? How does your response relate to generative agentic AI? Zeros and ones vs. synapses — the analogy…

What the heck? How can governments be private? What is governance but organized control of activities of constituents? How many of you work for large private corporations? Pick vegetables and chicken feathers? Wait tables and clean hotels? How are certain aspects of your work and private lives subject to managerial autonomy over you? I thought…

Break is over. Time to pontificate again. The last series was based on my view of existential threats; how dreary. For this iteration I will focus on non-existential threats (as if you did not have enough to worry about). As usual, the focus will be on active compassion as it may arise from the realization…

With every gain a loss is taken. Imagine the codification of oral language into written language. Once written there was no longer the need for oral tradition: passing on communal knowledge through storytelling, chanting, song, and dancing with memorization, mentoring, and social cohesion through such intimacies. Then the printing press, then radio, TV, personal computers,…

Hardly seems worth talking about the obvious, huh? I can remember in the early ’50’s in elementary school having nuclear bomb drills where we got under our desks; did the clueless adults really think that would help? Maybe it made them feel better that they were doing something, anything, to protect us little ones during…

We tend to think of our times as unique as relate to threats, lack of reason as applied to domestic and international affairs, crazed opinions, end times, etc. That is only because we lack the perspective of history. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”– George Santayana in his The Life…

Here’s one way to approach this. Next time you are driving down the road, look out the window at the flotsam and jetsam beside the roadway. Debris that has taken flight out the back of pickups, diapers, cans, cigarette butts. Close to where I live near Hwy 16 in Charlotte, NC, it’s a disgrace and…

First, additional issues from last Immigration post. I want to clear up some misconceptions. Immigrants do not commit more crime than the rest, crime rates have fallen in the face of increased immigration, and immigrant incarceration rates are lower than average. Second, only 8% of ICE-detained and incarceration (in “detention” centers) have a record of…

First, housekeeping: If a word or phrase is underlined, that indicates a hyperlink; click on it for more information. I am sure you all remember this: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift…

Before I get into this morass, I need to address a couple of things left hanging from the last post. First. lest some feel my urge to address solutions at the personal level as being Pollyanna and Kumbaya-ish, let me suggest you try to find a posture conducive to stillness, bring your attention to your…