[Nostr/Bitcoin folks: the interviewer has a wee bit of the "bitcoin is the solution" slant.]

I used to think Nate Hagens hit peak with his Norrsken deck in 2023. This interview shows he is still building nuance and remaining relevant to quick change. The only add I have for him would be some Tom Murphy / Daniel Quinn human supremacy checks and Gaia self-correction.

https://youtu.be/ucBSohkzBWw

I've always wondered why it was called pound cake, then I saw this recipe from 1774:

https://archive.org/details/TheArtOfCookery/page/n237/mode/2up

I'm a lazy cook, and thought I could cut corners with modern equipment. I put a dough hook in a stand mixer, mixed up 1 pound of butter and 12 eggs until creamy-ish, added 1 pound of sugar, mixed more, then 1 pound of white flour and mixed, pushing down the sides a bit with a spatula. Baked at 350 for 45 minutes, then turned it down to 325 for another 45, and it turned out great (a pic of my loaf at bottom).

I'm reading about the "AI pays for their own power" news, and thinking about how thousands of years of collaborative knowledge we have built together, which the Internet, WWW and computers accelerated and provided access to, was hoovered up, repackaged, and sold back to us as a correlation service.

Drinking juice. Minding my own business. Then, BAM! You know what else happened in 1842?



Ada Lovelace wrote this:

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. For, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formula of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated.”

The world is full of folks that go IT viking during the day and in their spare time play with retro tech. It's looters, all the way down. (It's a fun life... been there myself.)