Category Archives: Graphics, Visuals and Texts

Before e-books, even before the Internet, there were already electronic publications. Published via BBSs, Fidonet and other, now long forgotten, data transmission networks. Any one remember packetradio? I like the Dutch entry better, because it contains some more details and pictures. Even sneakernet was considered a pretty reliable and good way of distributing data. Many [...]

“Despite all our propaganda attempts to convince you otherwise, AI is alarmingly easy to produce; the human brain isn’t unique, it isn’t well-tuned, and you don’t need eighty billion neurons joined in an asynchronous network to generate consciousness. And although it looks like a good idea to a naive observer, in practice it’s absolutely deadly.” [...]