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 This came through one of my inboxes today: I couldn't help but think of people being manipulated and duped by algorithms and of a little game from the 90s that me and my friends used to try to break and confuse. Having pushed the boundaries and finding the parameters of the cage so to speak, it was easy to stump. Modern LLMs may be more challenging, but I feel similarly about them. 

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Hotter and more extreme weather could also create conditions for new disease outbreaks as habitats for both people and wildlife shift and shrink. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/climateendgame

Transient and fleeting, mono no aware (物の哀れ, もののあはれ) a subject that I have been dancing around and attempting to elaborate and pinpoint for some time now.  It began with a daily haiku reflection practice that I slowed down to a halt. I guess you could say this reading and concept stopped the continued reflections. I should pick those back up and continue on this thread: https://notasencantado.tumblr.com/post/635872436148158464/transient-and-fleeting  The   mono no aware   entry on wikipedia   suggests:  Mono no aware (物の哀れ, もののあはれ), literally “the pathos of things”, and also translated as “an empathy toward things”, or “a sensitivity to ephemera”, is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life. “Mono-no aware: the ephemeral nature of beauty – the quietly elated,...

The recent world wide flooding is striking. "We are in the middle of an international water crisis, even though it hasn’t been declared. We’re living through an emergency that demands radical action." https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7UKOAuXrP/ 20220831 Southwest US https://youtu.be/_inWCpdYaqQ Deadly flooding and hurricane force winds in Europe https://youtu.be/lXnPYZeh0Ic Sheep Springs https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChXQ4eqDiuq/ London https://youtu.be/bBOIDq-2O7k Ft Wingate over pass https://www.facebook.com/matthew.gray.984/videos/1502087836929085 Paris https://youtu.be/Q5UbqkLM4gQ Moscow https://youtu.be/GF0Gx95Ne0w St. Louis https://youtu.be/hMMDtjAa5Pc Fujairah https://youtu.be/QmeMLcnCC7g Arizona https://youtu.be/pTd_01BvCYk Corpus Christi, TX https://youtu.be/WYO_PupOecM Laramie Wyoming https://youtu.be/XSkC45GSSSI Las Vegas https://youtu.be/yCwJ3wF3Z0Q Washington DC and Maryland https://youtu.be/RINPSnLWoZI Sonora, near Mexico US border https://youtu.be/nDbGKZ7mX3c C...

A truck drives along flooded Wolverine Road in Breathitt County, Ky., on Thursday. Ryan C. Hermens / Lexington Herald-Leader via AP Campania https://youtu.be/RojXzmavIwo Seoul https://youtu.be/LweniDuZwaE Denver https://youtu.be/0QqHf50UHC0 Second round in Kentucky https://youtu.be/TgUNUuhl3sA Death Valley https://youtu.be/KCww02FxL8Q Austria https://youtu.be/6NqUVKmN_kU Senegal https://youtu.be/hL1yRx4pk5U Illinois https://youtu.be/DQV6zdqIj8A California https://youtu.be/B-u-ckAvUNM West Virginia https://youtu.be/FrjVdjtKUqM Arizona https://youtu.be/pTd_01BvCYk Las Vegas https://youtu.be/E9-NSEfzH1Q Kentucky https://youtu.be/7mzBrAOA03A Fujairah https://youtu.be/QmeMLcnCC7g St. Louis https://youtu.be/hMMDtjAa5Pc Moscow https://youtu.be/GF0Gx95Ne0w Sochi https://youtu.be/sRgfEqEvq24 Derry https://youtu.be/lRYdFYlml6Q Stubaital https://youtu.be/L_xv1AlsXg0 Austria https://youtu.be/UeVeVRume3g Bangkok https://youtu.be/7V0hSPep21A # flood # flood...

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McKay . . . that trick is wearing out though. Let me guess, 10:30pm on the next message? 

Working in public health and in messaging in particular, I have been watching this push in messaging from "we" to "me." I've been watching as the left adopts Trump's strategy to stop testing so the numbers go down. I watched how they shifted the daily trackers from cases to hospitalizations so the maps turn green and everything is fine. I'd like to start taking this serious. I am tired of it too. Pretending it is over and engaging in "public health apartheid" is just prolonging it.  I began seeing a strong shift in January:  https://notesencantos.blogspot.com/2022/01/flattening-cure.html I remember soon after this started and relief efforts were underway, we began to talk about not "returning to normal" because normal was the problem to begin with:  https://notesencantos.blogspot.com/2020/06/now-is-time-to-imagine-better-world.html Are we selling out to corporations and the politician henchmen?