Platforms are flat glass. Wild topography is a drug

The navigation layer for the off-platform zone: how to find the small web without a feed deciding for you. Directories of personal sites # Ye Olde Blogroll — humanly curated directory of ~1,300 personal blogs ooh.directory — Yahoo-style taxonomy of 2,300+ blogs, browsable by topic PersonalSit.es — gallery of ~1,100 …

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Would we be really happy if it were an AI that we sent out into the universe and it made first contact with other intelligences? Would we count that as first contact? Certainly it’s difficult to think of the Mars rovers as making first contact, but AI, even in its current rudimentary form might be acceptable. Which …

In the age of AI, evolutionary theory will become a critical cultural and business theory. This is because evolution is concerned with observed life. Life is essentially information that folds upon itself and stories play out on that manifold. AI makes it important not so much to be first in culture or technology, but …