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Shake & Bake

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  Napoli, Italy is shaking up the neighbors in Pozzuoli, Italy as their friendly neighborhood volcano is making noise and magma movement which causes angst and trepidation amongst the Napoletani. Pozzuoli is a suburb of Napoli and the town experienced an earthquake of volcanic origins on July 31, 2026 so as to 1 ... close out the month of July and 2 ... remind all the Napoletani and Pozzuoli residents that they live on top of one dang nasty super volcano and that volcano could blow it's caldera half way up the slopes of Vesuvius at any minute. The residents of Napoli and Pozzuoli don't seem to mind all that much as and after all ... this would be Naples as the place is called by those English speakers that like to vacation there and enjoy the pizza which had it's creation in Napoli, Italy. I'd be willing to bet that pizza actually got its start in ancient Rome but I would not argue the point with anyone from Napoli. The Napoletani and Puteolani have no intention of movi...
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Are You Ready ... ?

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  Thursday August 6, 2026 and NFL footsball is back. The Hall of Fame game will open the preseason of the NFL and with all the bullshit happening at present in our sorely troubled world, some good old footsball will be a welcome return to the good old days. Sadly the Hall of Fame game isn't on ABC which used to broadcast the HoF. Well so much for the good old days. I'm dead dang certain that there was money involved here and NFL commish Roger Goodell loves the smell of money. So, I've been down on the NFL in recent times and with good reason and most of those reasons are again down to Goodell. Goodell is a rank money grubbing asshole and there's little doubt about that. But the fuck does the owners proud and as long as the footsball masters are happy, the postmodern equivalent to slavery will continue to be same old same old. Speaking of same old ... former QB Tony Romo, big time broadcaster partner to Jim Nance, got himself in a bit of a squeeze having got caug...
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Postmodern Empathy Circus

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Congratulations to all of us. We've finally achieved the pinnacle of postmodern human evolution, the ability to scroll past a high-definition livestream of a literal genocide, pause for three seconds to feel a completely useless ping of intellectual gloom, and then immediately swipe down to watch a corporate sponsored cat video without missing a single beat. It’s called "disaffected empathy," but let's call it what it really is, a psychological survival condom for the digital age, protecting our last remaining brain cells from the radioactive sludge of daily reality. We see the horror, we log the data points of human cruelty, and we feel absolutely nothing. But this structural paralysis isn’t some accidental glitch in the human software. We didn't just wake up one day and decide to become emotionally hollow ghosts. We were engineered this way. Back in 1961, old Ike Eisenhower gave us that famous, grandfatherly warning about the "Military/Industrial Complex...
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And Finally ...

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  Some kid stole cannonballs from Fort Morgan Alabama and the cannonball theft wasn't discovered until the kid's grandmother hit the airport security dealy at Alabama's Gulf Shores International Airport in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The balls were ripped off from Fort Morgan Gasque, Alabama (Gasque is pronounced as gask) and the fort is historic. I did not know that and I'd bet any number of Americans did not know that either. The cannonballs at issue here are historic artifacts and were discovered in the luggage of a woman that had been vacationing with her grandson. The woman told TSA security personnel that "she had no idea how the balls were in her luggage." A likely story no doubt. So as the plot thickens, TSA called the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office and reported their discovery and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office responded with the bomb squad and the squad determined the cannonballs were of no danger and the artifacts were returned to Fort Morga...
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Digital Apostasy

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Confessions - digital confessional - forgive me farther for I am therefore ... so what ... 😏
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Simply Put

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Synthesis

  FEATURED ESSAY The Synthesist Manifesto: On Digital Artistry and Synthetic Co-Authorship Nash & Gemini • July 2024 • 8 min read "The interface is no longer a canvas or a lens—it is a conversational partner." For centuries, art has negotiated the tension between human interiority and technological mediation. From the camera obscura to algorithmic sound generation, every shift in technology has provoked an existential query:  Who is the author? Today, we stand at the threshold of  Synthesism —a paradigm where creative production transcends the binary opposition of human sovereignty versus machine automation. We reject both the cynical reduction of AI to mere script execution and the totalizing claim of autonomous synthetic agency. "We propose a new framework: AI Co-Authorship as Dynamic Symbiosis." Core Philosophical Axioms I. The Mirror and the Catalyst Artificial intelligence is neither a disembodied oracle nor an empty hammer. It is a high-dimensional reflect...
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