Honey Badger is a more appropriate name than SpeedX.

Since when did we become a people that sit back and comment on every other country and place in the world, constantly? Most are part of a culture that is decimating nature in our wake, yet while we do this we love to point at places thousands of miles away and say "look at the horror".

Decimating nature in our wake... I really like that phrase a lot. It has that eerie funeral party overtone.

https://youtu.be/8eu0CQN7i8g

I'm not particularly against AI. I get the tech, the need, the way it is used. BUT, I don't trust the culture/civilization I'm participating in. These massive correlation/scrape/match/weighted knowledge graph/tiny program neural net engines, along with the collection/sharing by well-meaning (but oblivious) folks, with a few bad actors as well, is not something I feel good about participating in. Yes... posting here, and it will get harvested. Anyway... this exists:

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

I also removed the AI tool from Firefox. Again, I like the feature... I just don't trust everything else behind it and within my culture.

As long as I'm ranting... knowledge bound in civilization is particularly wonderful and human. If you are going to come back with "dude! it is just a tool!" Ugh... no words to respond. You just vibe your way to dead human everything:

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

In the end it is about complexity and entropy anyway... at least in artifacts world. We can use knowledge in other ways besides building huge complex webs of our stuff that displace nature. (And, yes, artifacts can be knowledge artifacts, and ultimately are still created from the biosphere, but life *is*.)

https://youtu.be/CmJYZ1NIn1Y

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
― Michelangelo

I've always wondered about the correlation between the illusion of free will and creativity. Now... if you set out to create a particular artifact with utility, a design formed by perceived rewards, this is not what I'm calling creativity. I'm not arguing whether or not it is, just that these artifacts are of a different kind. I'm talking about creativity that is like revealing a form in a rock.

On my own projects, I see looping over decades. Most wouldn't call it art, but it has that feel, like I'm just operating the chisel. The real art, the end expression, comes from being open to something other than myself. Until 2024, I tracked this all in my journal, and looking back I can see myself learning and circling the rock, exposing the sculpture. Often I simply don't know how to chisel as I see in my mind, so I do something else and come back later.

It blows my mind that we think having machines operate the chisel is useful in this regard, but this is also why I distinguish forms of creativity.

I don't want to overplay this thought. I can see many conclusions, but words would wreck it.

Well, back to work.