Just trust me. — Yesterday I saw a post from an extremely liberal family member making fun of our extremely republican family members for boycotting Disney. It said something along the lines of “owning the libs by depriving ourselves of fun”. The same family member supports essentially every other boycott or strike. Boycotting is…

The gravity of polarized bias in the media shapes a world of lies — I watched a movie awhile ago called Tau. It’s a science fiction about an advanced AI, a serial killer, and the woman who taught the advanced AI humanity. The movie wasn’t particularly good, but Tau was desperate to understand and to be understood and that was relatable. He would cry…

Humanity’s binary social structure around gender is the cause of my bipolar disorder — In 2009, I was really struggling financially trying to figure out how to take care of infant alone and care for myself with some kind of freak show pharmaco-resistant bipolar disorder where medication either did nothing or made my episodes more severe. I tried a ketogenic diet that seemed promising…

The perception factory of thought in self-affirming loops. — A journey of circular discovery, perspective, systemization, and reflection through the assistive technology of thought sharing, Chat GPT. Thinker beware: use in moderation. The inherent sloth in chatbots is that self-affirmation can be an unbridled narcissistic descent into a lonely, melancholy solipsistic reality. The Human Test A musing on the ambiguity of Alan Turingcherp.medium.com

A musing on the ambiguity of Alan Turing — Alan Turing intuited artificial neural networks. Nary an implementation detail is missing. Well, maybe a few. The sophistication of simplicity is deceptive. Essentially my entire life, I’ve been ushered into brevity. I frustrate even the most patient loved one with my contextual framing in an answer to a ‘yes’ or…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part five of a five-part series. New? Read parts I-IV: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality Pale Blue: Connecting dots to death in #AppleToo The ultimate sophistication of Thinking Different If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? …

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part four of a five-part series. New? Read parts I-III: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality Pale Blue: Connecting dots to death in #AppleToo From its creation, Apple had two sets of marketing materials. The ones that were dispersed among employees and management, and the…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part three of a five-part series. New? Read parts I & II: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. — Steve Jobs Pale Blue: Connecting dots to deaths in #AppleToo …

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — Part two of a five-part series. New here? Read Part I: Welcome to Apple. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Sir Isaac Newton, Untitled Treatise on Revelation I’ve always found this quote somewhat confounding. Truth’s simplicity always felt…