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“like a long lost friend”, “been a long and lonely winter”…. We suppress unwanted memories, until they resurface. Then we dismiss them as unimportant or not-applicable, we “park” them as cold cases, to look at them with new lenses; without the original and emotional attachment. Our culture urges us to re-invent ourselves, to get with…
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“It says here….” ” perhaps you might like this too”….”the machine doesn’t recognize your name, face and voice.” Machine is good when it narrows down choices. Machine is not good when it skews the results with inherently- bias recommendations. Which coders wouldn’t carry around his/her grandfather’s and father’s built-in bias or side comments at dinner…
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How can one bridge a 4 1/2-decades gap? A lot went under and if anything survived, it would be unrecognizable or undesirable ( with the exception of Jane Fonda, once a sex-symbol, then Hanoi Jane, then 80’s aerobics actress marrying Ted Turner, and now every Friday- per her vow, a Climate Change activist). Back in…
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Ever since “Me Too” went viral, people who were squeezed, groped, raped etc…started to come out. At recent all-boys re-union (definitely not Penn State – Sandusky was already in jail), I was told it’s the other way: it had been our head-master – the Evil one – that was groped (our class-room’s wall got plenty…
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et les filles, de mon age….. Before going to the Re-union of my all-boys school, I made sure everything was set for the long weekend: foods in fritz and floor vacuumed. Whatever happened at Re-union stayed at Re-union, I thought. I just gonna press Reset and back to my routine: kid off to school, bills…
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The Beatles once gave an impromptu concert on a London roof-top: Don’t Let Me Down. If it were today, they would have drones deliver lunches. Katrina could have used some too ( GeorgeW. Bush “observed” ‘Help Us’ signs from his Air Force One Heli, but Presidentially distant himself). De Palma could now extend his 360-degree…
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Our night sky is no longer the same i.e. a constellation of stars and planets from afar and air traffic, LEO’s, UPS drones near below I stopped by a Frys Electronics and was amazed at how hollow the sight was: it were as if invaded and looted by aliens on a Black Friday. There were…
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What if AI could barely get there but Climate Change beat them to it? What if we are doomed before the Machine can save us? Moore’s Law and Computational Speed can only regulate and reduce power inefficiency somewhat, but not when Homo sapiens keep finding creative ways to increase electric consumption e.g. checking how many…
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Birds flock in formation, wolves hunt in pack yet human want to go alone, cause “greed is good”. I was just out of college, with a few thousand bucks in student loan to start my first job at Children’s TV (Sesame Street – CPBS/ITV). Out of the Penn State bubble, I was confused and dazzled:…
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I hope “the System” doesn’t destroy Greta. (with slogans like “Make America Greta Again” etc…). Or, for this edit, TIME person of the year. Don’t kill the messenger, since we’re all Gretas. Can’t kill us all. The message is: we’re at the tipping point (of “abusing what surround us”, including people) in Bolivia (forest fire),…
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