<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Listen to five and a half hours of excruciating boredom, including a brief temper tantrum on the MCN listservs!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 5:40 PM Marco McClean <<a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org">memo@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Subject: Keeper of the purple twilight.<br>
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/"Human intelligent agency depends more on the intricate sphere of ideas <br>
and the cultural intellect that we have grown over thousands of years <br>
than on the quirks of our biological brains. The minds of modern humans <br>
have more in common with ChatGPT than with humans 10,000 years ago." <br>
-Joscha Bach (via Cliff Pickover)/<br>
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Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-01-12) eight-hour-long <br>
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg <br>
(CA) and KNYO.org (and, for the first hour, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0575" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0575</a><br>
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I'd like to read your writing on the radio. Just email it to me. Or send <br>
me a link to your writing project and I'll take it from there. But if <br>
people in your story swear like a muleteer I have to wait till after <br>
10pm local time to read it, to protect other people's children from <br>
getting their mouths washed out with soap. That is literally the FCC's <br>
rationale for the Safe Harbor Rule.<br>
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Besides all that, at <a href="https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com</a> you'll find a <br>
fresh batch of dozens of links to worthwhile items I set aside for you <br>
while gathering the show together, such as:<br>
<br>
Rolling Stones – Play With Fire (remixed, remastered, clear as a bell) <br>
(1965).<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71msF1p5XI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71msF1p5XI</a><br>
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Most of this is pure negligence and excessive speed. Some is <br>
sleep-driving. Much of this trouble could have been avoided or made less <br>
traumatic/expensive by drivers just leaving more space around <br>
themselves; of course that can't protect you from someone running a <br>
light and ramming you, but so? None of these are the self-driving cars <br>
techno-Luddites have been bitching about lately, which aren't even a <br>
ten-thousandth of the problem. From this video I take that, in America, <br>
the common thing to say when you see someone crash is, "Oh, my God!" Or, <br>
like the guy at 19:40, "Oh, [muted swear]! Oh, my God! OH, my God! OH, <br>
my God! Oh my God oh my God ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygawwd. /HOLY/ <br>
[muted swear]!" In Russia it's different; they're rarely shocked, much <br>
less horrified, but rather gently, ruefully amused. A smiling-sad gruff <br>
vocal-fry grumbled /bozhe moi, oy yayoi/ is on the other end of the <br>
scale from a shrieked /WTF! Shit! Oh, my Gawd!/ Look up Russian dashcam <br>
crashes, you'll see.<br>
<a href="https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-crash-cam-videos-of-2023.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-crash-cam-videos-of-2023.html</a><br>
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And lovely AI-designed KitchenAide mixers. (Arrow through the set of eight.)<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3665063487147193&set=pcb.1459365404759951" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3665063487147193&set=pcb.1459365404759951</a><br>
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Marco McClean, <a href="mailto:memo@mcn.org" target="_blank">memo@mcn.org</a><br>
<a href="https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com</a><br>
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