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I did a lot of walking yesterday. Worldo was front running my every move from almost as soon as I woke up. Presumably remenants of it’s exponangry thing from a few days ago. As I was walking to the next place, I would literally think about what shop cafe I wabted to go to abd inmediately, and I mean within seconds, the hive mind would fibd a way to order me to go to whatever place I pretty much already decided on. This happened about 4-5 times in rapid succession, and so I just decided not to bother with somewhere indoors and went to a place along the canal I hadn’t been to in a while.

It was also happening at a more granular level with interactions with people in shops along the way. The staff in literally every shop were front running my every move. It got very weird in one place with 3 food vendors all front running ontop of each other, creating this strange layered ecosystem thing. I don’t know how to describe it. It was like in the sea when there is sn ecosystem feeding frenzy, with successively bigger fish eating each other all the way up the food chain. It was very odd, you almost don’t have time to think. Bam bam bam bam! Ond after the other. It just feels like the whole universe is getting more exponangry.

Anyhow I got through it, but did a lot of walking. Did quite a bit of coding, around improving the HTML structure. There are some issues with how posts are displaying in RSS clients, so I’m trying to tidy up and simplify what HTML tags are used. Also listenned to some pretty rad podcasts, and prepared today’s newsletter.

Today I need to schedule the newsletter, and maybe test somd of the code I wrote, but it’s currently raining so not sure how easy that’s going to be. Feeling alright today as I had some decent food yesterday, a reasonable night’s sleep. Though my neck is in pain, as I slept in a strange position the night before last. #

cat << EOF > Censorship, AI Memecoins, 100K BTC, Time & the Ruliad (Issue #193)

This week’s newsletter is out!

In this week’s edition:

Bitcoin & geopolitics, money history, India shorting USD, etherium 3 way war, Apple AI, censorship industrial complex, Irish elections, Saylor & Elon, AI memecoins trending, $100K BTC

Issue details:

• Title: Censorship, AI Memecoins, 100K BTC, Time & the Ruliad
• Issue: 193
• Page: issue webpage

Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #

Impossible to get anything done today. Got women mobed again this afternoon. They are like digiridos or bag pipes. The have sone sort of circular breathing thing going on so they talk continuously.

Here are ny escallation notes from this morning:

• Public toilets shoes incident where the attended woman got annoyed at me for not using the flip flops. She actually got a bit violent, pocking me. I haven’t used them for over a year, not since one I used turned out to have human poop on it. I use the public toilets so often that that is bound to happen often, and without my glasses I can’t see if they have poop on them. Last time it happened I started getting all the leg infections that lasted for 7 months. Btw yesterday in the shop cafe I went to, there was a bloke typing on a laptop that kept standing up every 5 minutes and doing some weird exercise routine where he paced up and down in front of me, kicking his pointy shoes in the air like he was doing football keepiuppies. Oh and guess what, I was gifted some chocolate filled sweat breads last night. What are the chances?
• The no sandwich for you bloke is back at the sandwich shop. He always acts weird and has previously blocked me from buying a sandwich previously for no reason, apart from he was angry that I asked for cheese, which he had forgotten, in my pork cheese sandwich.
• Strange situation while paying at the shop cafe, man with boy in front of me in the queue paid and immediately got out of the way like there was some emergency. There wasn’t. I was just chilling, no rush at all. The man kept motioning me to put my things on the counter. I nodded and just waited for the staff woman to give them their change. The weird thing was that as she gave the kid his change she simultaneously with the same hand pointed down at the ground, like ‘you, here’. It was very odd. That doesn’t normally happen. It wasn’t busy at all in the store. Really felt like they were anger goading.
• The same shop staffer then came up the stairs and locked the hot water dispenser. There was an incident a couple of weeks back when fir no reason the women shop staff tried to block me from using the hot water dispenser downstairs. Btw the upstairs hot water dispenser is next to the bathroom, which for a few days now has had a new matt outside to dry your shoes. What a coincidence that a matt gets added, then at the public toilet there is an incident involving using flip flops. It’s been raining all morning. Why is everything five for a year then suddenly it’s an avalanche of coincidences. People trying to fix things that aren’t broken. People clearly trying to frame me, to trap me. Bet I get blamed later, and blocked, and mutilated. Worldo clearly still exponangry.
• An unusual amount of chocolate based jokes in todays podcasts.
• Looks like the toilet in the shop cafe has been locked shut. Gosh, escalating much exponangry worldo?
• The toilet turned out to not be permanently locked, however the young women that was in there was in there for a very long time, and the blokes outside sitting near me said ‘you’ as I went after her. I found in the toilet that there was a used baby wipe in the toilet bowl. I used the toilet, just a number 1, and found that when I flushed the toilet, bizarrely the baby wipe was stuck to the toilet bowl. Thinking not much of it I left the toilet and sat back down on my seat in the shop cafe seating area, where I have been sitting quietly for several hours. It’s 20 minutes later, and guess what, on my right thigh, on the underside, just where the skin is exposed where the shorts finish and the leg begins, I now have a very itchy, swollen, bite-like skin thing going on. What an unbelievable coincidence. And remember yesterday there was that whole incident where the bloke down by the canal said he had some shorts, disappeared motioning to wait, but never returned. One additional thing that happened that I didn’t write about because it didn’t seem relevant was that there was a woman near the canal that passed by and she was making a very strained face as she smiled and looked at me. I remember thinking at the time it looked like she was constipated. What are the chances that all these coincidences occur? I’ll tell you. It’s ZERO. These situations are all linked. Once again, for the millionth time I got physically mutilated. Actual bodily harm. I bet it won’t be long until somebody says ‘we learn’ to justify it all. Because ‘we learn’ in their heads excuses any behaviour.
• On the way to another shop cafe many many people randomly saying 'No!' for no reason. Looks like another 'No!' war.

At least I got the newsletter sent out. Hopefully worldo will be less angry tomorrow. #

cat << EOF > Questions for Wolfram about time

The following is just a ramble list of questions I jotted down while listenning to Stephen Wolfram on the Into the Impossible podcast talking about his theories about the nature of time. I sort of wish I had enough time to turn these into a fabulously worded blog post, but realistically given how the world is for me the past few days, that’s not going to happen, so the next best thing is just to publish these questions.

• Why are black holes called black holes? Isn’t that a stupid name for it implying that they are empty? They are actually more like black super concentrated sometimes utterly enormous solid things.
• The notion that matter uses different atoms of space as it moves through space, similar to how a wave uses different water molecules as it moves through the water, is a very strange notion. How is a solid thing like a wave? And isn’t a wave which moves through water ultimately also made up of matter, even if it’s lots of different water molecules? And so aren’t waves also then made of atoms of space?
• So if the previous notion is weird, that means that the notion that matter moving through space takes a fixed amount of computation to move must also be very strange, since it’s based on that idea. But it seems less strange to me for some reason.
• Could there exist a liquid based life form? In fact could waves in water actually be a life form? Could you think of heat currents in water as being consciously moving around?
• We have to believe that we are persistent in time. Do water waves believe they are persistent in time? Even though they are made of different water atoms which are made of different atoms of space. Is the difference that waves don’t seem to have a component that aggregates the observations of all the movements?
• Water waves are in fact persistent in time. We know this. Why does the wave need to believe this?
• Maybe we only believe we are the same us as we move through space, because we can see that waves are the same wave as they move through the water. Maybe without waves, we wouldn’t even have this belief about being the same us as we move through space. Could that belief be limiting our ability to compute?
• The nation that we are just a rewriting of a hyper graph is strange. Isn’t that confusing the model / map with the territory?
• I can’t get over the bizareness of the idea of ‘atoms of space’. So atoms are made up of a different sort of atom?
• Is there a danger as complexity of the things we learn increases that there comes a point or many points where we forget what it’s like to be young, what it’s like to see the world without all this knowledge, and then generations become detached from each other? They are too far apart on the ruliad. Do we need to hold hands so to speak with known good brains all the way back to the initial birth brain, so we can ensure we grow up and don’t loose each other in rulial space?
• What’s the difference between atoms of space and sub atomic particles? Haven’t you just invented yet another level of indirection to explain the previous level of indirection? Will the atoms of space be made up of atoms of money or love or some other human invented popular abstract idea?

Sorry I wish I had more...err...time to formulate all this in a better structured and polished way. Yeah kind of ironic I guess. Perhaps the irony is made up of consciousness atoms. It’s all just a sketch and the back of a virtual napkin.

I also wrote about this in today’s newsletter.

PS - I hope none of this comes across as me being belittleing about the theories, though I am using sarcasm, I do find this all extremely interesting and valuable. There are some parts of these theories that seem inately funny to me. I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps it’s the fact that it’s at such a low level that any mistakes would have unbelievably strange effects on basically everything, so there’s an odd outrageousness to it all, but of course it’s all so serious, because it’s science, which makes it all the more funny. #

Based on past experience, I’ll be getting the fortnightly cold anytime in the next 1-5 days. It’s been happening every 10-15 days for many months now. Felt a slight tingle in my nasal cavity just a few minutes ago. I had just checked the calendar about an hour ago. It akasys starts with a tingle. That then usually escallates and turns into the cold / alergy attack, with runny nose and sneezing and then blocked nose and I can’t hardly do anything for 2-3 days. It’s the worste. #