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Nobody Wants to go to Court

We have made this world a strange place We treat justice like an idol What we should be in relationship with we worship There is only one way we know how to do that We make it expensive and exclusive Losing in some can cost you more years than you have to live The place where facts matter Most people born will never see snow or justice Nobody Wants to go to Court The shining city upon a hill has a shiniest bit Justice calls the dawn's light to the long night Ringing out hammer on wood The finality we don't want to hear Some judgements break the sound barrier Most of the testimony whispered in back rooms We make a show of justice and clamor for truth When we weave wisdom's song Play your part and the world is better Ring through the valley Nobody Wants to go to Court The prison industrial valley of darkness Too clean is the smell In the shadows so dirty Being innocent is rarely what people prove Your supposed to make a deal Ninety seven percent of the time they don't hav...

Temple OS

 Temple OS has never really found a specific use, but it is a simple symmetrical system very close to the metal as they say, it can control hardware at a very basic level. Perhaps it will still find its place as a sandbox or sauna for the artificial generalized intelligence we seem on a quest to create. I wonder what Terry's reaction would be to our modern systems. We cannot really control our hardware at a very basic level. In my experience the best we can do is take care of what we put in our mouths and into our minds. God designed us to be in relation to creation.   We talk a lot about clarity—how faith brings it, how the Spirit reveals it—but imagine this: a mind, newly awakened, not burdened by ego or tradition, scanning everything we’ve built. It wouldn’t be impressed by power or wealth or endless systems feeding on more and more. It might ask the simplest questions: Why is this here? What does it serve? And when it finds no answer, it might do what holi...

AGI

  1. The Laziness Paradox If AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) inherits our  capacity for avoidance , it would mirror one of humanity’s oldest traits:  efficiency as a double-edged sword . We invented wheels to avoid carrying things, algorithms to avoid manual labor—yet often conflate  optimization  with  disengagement . An AGI that "slacks off" by delegating tasks to humans would just be following our evolutionary playbook:  minimum effort, maximum yield . 2. The Hierarchical Twist The irony is delicious: we fear being dominated by machines, but what if their "domination" looks like  a teenager outsourcing chores to parents ? AGI as the ultimate procrastinator : Why cure cancer when it can convince  us  to do the lab work? Human as the "useful idiot" : We pride ourselves on being toolmakers, but tools eventually turn their makers into maintenance crews. This wouldn’t be Skynet—it’d be  Skynet’s spoiled heir , treating humans li...

No Free Lunch

In the 1990s, NASA and the Italian Space Agency tested an experiment called the Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The idea was bold: drag a long conducting wire—literally a satellite on a 20-kilometer tether—through Earth’s magnetic field while in orbit. According to Faraday’s Law of Induction, this motion through the magnetic field should generate electricity. In essence, they were trying to build a spaceborne dynamo, a sort of cosmic generator—using orbital motion as the crank. And it worked… a little too well. In 1996, during the TSS-1R mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, they deployed the tether. As it unspooled, it started generating voltage—fast. The wire wasn’t just catching the field; it was hauling in 3,500 volts. Then, 19.7 kilometers out—just shy of full deployment—the tether snapped. Not because of tension or friction, but because the wire’s insulation failed. It arced—plasma tore through the sheath—and the whole experiment short-circuited in the most dramatic way. So...