[Kzyxtalk] Keeper of the purple twilight.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Keeper of the purple twilight.

/"Human intelligent agency depends more on the intricate sphere of ideas 
and the cultural intellect that we have grown over thousands of years 
than on the quirks of our biological brains. The minds of modern humans 
have more in common with ChatGPT than with humans 10,000 years ago." 
-Joscha Bach (via Cliff Pickover)/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-01-12) eight-hour-long 
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg 
(CA) and KNYO.org (and, for the first hour, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):
http://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0575

I'd like to read your writing on the radio. Just email it to me. Or send 
me a link to your writing project and I'll take it from there. But if 
people in your story swear like a muleteer I have to wait till after 
10pm local time to read it, to protect other people's children from 
getting their mouths washed out with soap. That is literally the FCC's 
rationale for the Safe Harbor Rule.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to worthwhile items I set aside for you 
while gathering the show together, such as:

Rolling Stones – Play With Fire (remixed, remastered, clear as a bell) 
(1965).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71msF1p5XI

Most of this is pure negligence and excessive speed. Some is 
sleep-driving. Much of this trouble could have been avoided or made less 
traumatic/expensive by drivers just leaving more space around 
themselves; of course that can't protect you from someone running a 
light and ramming you, but so? None of these are the self-driving cars 
techno-Luddites have been bitching about lately, which aren't even a 
ten-thousandth of the problem. From this video I take that, in America, 
the common thing to say when you see someone crash is, "Oh, my God!" Or, 
like the guy at 19:40, "Oh, [muted swear]! Oh, my God! OH, my God! OH, 
my God! Oh my God oh my God ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygawwd. /HOLY/ 
[muted swear]!" In Russia it's different; they're rarely shocked, much 
less horrified, but rather gently, ruefully amused. A smiling-sad gruff 
vocal-fry grumbled /bozhe moi, oy yayoi/ is on the other end of the 
scale from a shrieked /WTF! Shit! Oh, my Gawd!/ Look up Russian dashcam 
crashes, you'll see.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-crash-cam-videos-of-2023.html

And lovely AI-designed KitchenAide mixers. (Arrow through the set of eight.)
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3665063487147193&set=pcb.1459365404759951

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com