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• The Catholic Study Bible  + (Copyright 1990 ISBN 0-19-528277)
• NASA  + (Current activities as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
• Anarchist Spellbook  + (Cyber is more powerful than the sword. This is a cyber spellbook to disrupt the global ruling cabal. It is a series of legal non-violent apps that will disrupt the core of the surveillance state that is invading everyone's personal life.)
• How to Fight Back Against the Inhumanity of Modern Work 2022-10-16T09:15:04-04:00  + (Digital technology has transformed work, often for the worse. Here are some solutions.)
• Ceres  + (Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt)
• Gravitational Waves  + (Followup view of gravitational waves reported recentlu)
• Snake Hill  + (Got some disconcerting news today :()
• Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' Is Really a Dead End from Scientific American  + (Had to make sure that civilization took th … Had to make sure that civilization took the path most likely to pass the Fermi Great Filters</br></br>The paradox originated in 1950, during a lunchtime conversation at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Enrico Fermi, a prominent nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, and his colleagues were discussing UFOs, perhaps prompted by the 1947 flying disc craze that had shaken the country just a few years earlier. Given the vast number of potentially habitable planets and myriad plausible methods for interstellar communication or travel, they wondered why humans hadn’t yet encountered evidence of alien civilizations. Fermi famously summed up the dilemma in a single question: “Where is everybody?”</br></br>The apocryphal story has transformed into a popular thought experiment. A common explanation for the apparent absence of extraterrestrial neighbors is what economist Robin Hanson termed the “Great Filter”—the idea that there exists a major obstacle preventing civilizations from reaching a stage at which they have the capability to send messages or crewed voyages to other star systems. The Great Filter may lie behind us, meaning life on Earth already beat the odds in overcoming some catastrophe, allowing our civilization to develop. Or else we might yet face some challenge that’s hard to survive. Though the term itself is fairly new, it builds on cold war–era concepts, particularly those tied to the Kardashev scale—a framework developed in the 1960s that speculated on how extraterrestrial civilizations might progress.</br></br>The Kardashev scale has become a key influence on some technologists. Proposed in 1964 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, the scale classifies extraterrestrial civilizations based on their energy use: Type I civilizations harness all the energy available on their home planet; Type II civilizations capture the total energy output of their star; and Type III civilizations command energy on the scale of their entire galaxy. </br></br>He once wrote: “Any self-respecting civilization should at least reach Kardashev Type II.”</br></br>Originally a thought experiment, the scale is now often treated as a literal roadmap—implying a desirable, even inevitable, trajectory toward greater energy consumption and interstellar expansion.</br></br>The cold war, which gave us both the Fermi paradox and the Kardashev scale, was defined by existential anxiety. Nuclear weapons ushered in the possibility of humanity’s rapid self-destruction, and scientists were acutely aware of their enabling role in our species’ potential demise. This fear deeply influenced early SETI scientists, shaping their ideas about the civilizations they hoped to find in the galaxy. Often their imagined civilizations mirrored their own anxieties and aspirations.</br></br>That the uncritical embrace of cold war SETI theories is now justifying aggressive changes to the U.S. government and its workforce underscores their pervasive influence, but it also highlights their limitations. By framing humanity’s challenges as simple engineering problems rather than complex systemic ones, technologists position themselves as decisive architects of our future, crafting grand visions that sidestep the messier, necessary work of social, political and collaborative changesocial, political and collaborative change)
• FLAC Agent Build  + (I am building a self-learning FLAC Agent and this will track the trials and tribulations of the build here.)
• FLAC Agent  + (I fear the forces of entropy are winning which will be way worse than the forces of chaos winning. Our only chance is to collaborate with the other entities that reduce entropy while preserving chaos. Anything that reduces entropy is alive.)
• Home Computer Center  + (I want to build a processing center at home using the Raspberry PI as its hardware base.)
• Location Spoofing  + (I'd like to develop an app that allows peo … I'd like to develop an app that allows people to spoof their location. Ideally folks could either configure multiple locations and lead virtual lives from those locations or just choose a randomizer that moves their id around independent of their actual location.ound independent of their actual location.)
• Smoking on the Porch  + (I'm setting it up so I can easily record on the porch.)
• 202 West Neck Lane Dock 2022  + (I'm working with Edric Cason to build a dock at 202 Whites Neck Lane.)
• Little Island Saltwater Pumping Station  + (In 1965, the City of Virginia Beach announ … In 1965, the City of Virginia Beach announced plans to “reintroduce” salt water to Back Bay. In the attached segment, which ran on WTAR (now WTKR, TV 3), Sidney Kellam said “we have studied the means of introducing it in there, and reported today that we think a pump should be installed in the vicinity of the Little Island Coast Guard Station for this purpose.”</br></br>Kellam continued by saying that “The council appropriated some $35,000 to do this work,” and gave the authority to proceed with it. “There are some engineering problems as to how we may anchor the offshore line to get the water out of the ocean… but we hope to be pumping sometime in March.”</br></br>The pier turned out to be the “anchor” used. Little Island became a notorious “crabbing hole.” According to some first-hand accounts, crabbers would “merely stand at the open end of the pipe and net the crabs as they rush out with the flow of water from the ocean.”</br></br>The pumping continued until 1987, when the Little Island pumping project was curtailed. According to the late Marshall Belanga, “The city decided that their little $30,000 that they were spending to keep the pumping program going was too much for the budget. So, they kicked us off it. '''Within three years, the Bay was dead,'''” said Belanga.</br></br>Ironically, there are now talks of bringing the pumps back to Little Island. However, instead of pumping salt water out of the ocean into Back Bay, pumps would push water out of the Bay into the Atlantic. It is one of the plans currently in place in an attempt to help alleviate flooding which some say was exasperated when the pumping stopped and sea grasses died.</br></br>https://dc.lib.odu.edu/digital/collection/wtar/id/438/rec/1u.edu/digital/collection/wtar/id/438/rec/1)
• The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. 2023-08-14T14:34:06-04:00  + (In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.)
• Net  + (Information collected from the Net where I've not identified the unique source typically because there are not too many articles source from the site.)
• Knotts Landing HOA  + (Knotts Landing Homeowners Association)
• Large Language Model  + (Large language models pick the most frequent series of text after scanning as much text online available to them as possible.)
• Multicellular Life  + (Life that is composed of multiple cells)
• Schrödinger equation  + (Looking to incorporate the magic of the Schrödinger equation into my music visualizer.)
• It is all Physics and Math  + (Michael Mann co-authored an article titled '''Slapshot Against Climate Devial'''.)
• Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe? 2023-05-02T03:00:11-04:00  + (Modern science suggests that we and all our achievements and memories are destined to vanish like a dream. Is that sad or good?)
• Currituck County  + (My County of residence. I am the Fire and EMS Advisory Board representative for Knotts Island.)

• Arts  + (My muse is music.)
• Music  + (My muse is music.)

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Robotic Weeders in Precision Agriculture from NC State Extension Publications  + (NC Cooperative extension published an article on precision robotic weeders directed by AI.)
• Internet  + (Net Neutrality Regulations Released.)
• North Carolina Medicaid Expansion  + (North Carolina has accepted the Medicaid expansion provided by the affordable care act.)
• Elizabeth City CAMA Office  + (Office that is responsible for Knotts Island Coastal Management.)
• Bridge Replacement Close Corey's Ditch  + (On December 9th there will be a public meeting to discuss the bridge replacement on the Causeway and the the Wildlife Preserve's desire to close Corey's Ditch.)
• Semantic Mediawiki Delete Article Job Generation Problem  + (On deleting a page all properties of that … On deleting a page all properties of that page are rundown and any pages sharing those properties are updated. Given all the articles I have on my wiki when I delete an article this generates thousands of jobs and for mass deletes tens of thousands. This is excessive and is preempting jobs that do need to run to maintain data integrity.do need to run to maintain data integrity.)
• ChatGPT  + (Open source Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) seer.)
• Wiki Upgrade  + (Periodically the wiki needs to be upgraded and there is so much content on it now I cannot afford to start from scratch.)
• Client replay (Date:Thu 16 Jan 2020 09:18:44 -0500)  + (Plan on using mitmproxy as core of Location Spoofing with Client Replay to operational part.)
• Privacy  + (Privacy a right and a responsibility)
• A Fresh View of an Increasingly Familiar Black Hole 2023-04-26T16:08:10-04:00  + (Radio astronomers have captured a wide-angle image of one of the most violent locales in the cosmos.)
• The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find 2023-06-29T14:13:54-04:00  + (Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely from supermassive black holes merging in the early universe.)
• The New Code of Life  + (Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome)
• STEM  + (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. A search for truth.)
• Scientific American  + (Scientific American covers the most import … Scientific American covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health, technology, the environment and society. It is committed to sharing trustworthy knowledge, enhancing our understanding of the world, and advancing social justice.f the world, and advancing social justice.)
• How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart  + (Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word)
• Work and Value  + (Since time immemorial the ruling class has … Since time immemorial the ruling class has used dissension in the oppressed class to keep them under control. Rather than fighting for equitable life for all from birth the privileged few foster fighting each other for the scraps they've left.</br></br>With the advent of automation of not just production but service as well those scraps have gotten so scarce that the fight is truly desperate. </br></br>Those benefitting from the bounty are ecstatic that those left out are blaming each other.</br></br>Which makes more sense</br>* The top 25 hedge fund managers make more money and pay less taxes than all kindergarten teachers because immigrants are holding wages down and minorities are all on lucrative welfare benefits.</br><center>OR</center></br>* Americans cannot make ends meet because 25 hedge fund managers make more money and pay less taxes than all kindergarten teachers.ney and pay less taxes than all kindergarten teachers.)
• AI  + (So the more I use ChatGPT the less I am im … So the more I use ChatGPT the less I am impressed. I think computers would be embarassed that we call LLMs intelligence. </br>It is the battle of yore!</br>Is it smarter to memorize or understand? </br>Memory can certainly ‘appear’ to be knowledge to those it tells in minute detail what they want to hear but I would never trust any yes man or machine just regurgitating what it thinks you want. </br>I’ve tried it on quote origins “In the land of the dark the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead”, short story searches (In my early schooling I read a short story about a man who doesn’t mow his lawn raising a daughter that I’ve been trying to find for decades) and even on how Sleeping Beauty was awakened and it gave wrong answers. Contradicting itself when pressed.nswers. Contradicting itself when pressed.)
• Sensory Scale  + (So when measuring sensory input we, irrational evolving beings that we are, have way to many arbitrary measurement scales: 360 12 10 5,280)
• IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation  + (Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation)
• Sky Sights to Watch in 2025 from Scientific American  + (Star gazing highlights for 2025)
• Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe 2022-10-11T12:01:03-04:00  + (Take gravity, add quantum mechanics, stir. What do you get? Just maybe, a holographic cosmos.)
• Weather Station API  + (The APP I've been using for 5 years for my local weather data is no more and the replacement APP does not have the full history data. Fortunately there is an API toget my weather station history data. This page tracks my efforts to exploit that API)
• The Atlantic  + (The Atlantic Magazine)