[Kzyxtalk] Keeper of the purple twilight.

[David Gurney]

Listen to five and a half hours of excruciating boredom, including a brief
temper tantrum on the MCN listservs!

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 5:40 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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