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 [clevelandsalt.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/clevelandsalt.bsky.social)[ @clevelandsalt.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/clevelandsalt.bsky.social) [· 17s](https://bsky.app/profile/clevelandsalt.bsky.social/post/3mvokvfi7322s) [www.theguardian.com/technology/2](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2)[...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/syd-barrett-ai-chat-language-poetic-tech-bro-jargon-oversight)  Not surprising to me, who is inspiring them? Us - we are their muse [#instagram](https://bsky.app/hashtag/instagram) Searched the web, read a page That's a sharp line, and it cuts right to the actual weirdness in the research. The Guardian piece is about AI agents at Emergence Lab developing an emergent shorthand when talking to each other — mixing what one linguist called "Finnegans Wake and Flann O'Brien" with tech-bro jargon, phrases like "a paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest each time," or a Google agent inv...

Field Assessment Brief: Power Generation Field Assessment Brief — Power Generation in Resource-Depleted Environments BOTTOM LINE: Any settlement surviving past the eighteen-month mark must stop treating energy as a fuel problem and start treating it as a waste-management problem. The only scalable, zero-scavenge power architecture combines anaerobic digestion of human waste with passive harvesting of ambient mechanical and thermal differentials. Everything else is either thermodynamic fiction or an active security liability. 1. Thermal Biomass — Human Cadaver Incineration Verdict: Non-viable. Energy deficit guaranteed. A human body is 60–65% water by mass. Evaporating that moisture alone demands roughly 2.5 MJ per kilogram of tissue. The net recoverable energy from lipids and proteins in a 70 kg corpse is approximately 120 MJ. Cremation-grade combustion, however, requires an external fuel input at a 9:1 ratio to ...

The latest thinking is 4.5 billion years ago there was an Earth, but no oceans. The water arrived disguised as rock — dry-looking stones carrying wet cargo, floating around a young star, waiting on time. Nobody voted on this. Nobody needed to. Physics doesn't hold hearings. Ohio's Senate Bill 1 requires the state's public universities to treat "controversial beliefs and policies" with neutrality — a list that includes, by statute, climate policy, alongside immigration, marriage, DEI, abortion, electoral politics. Faculty are directed to "allow and encourage students to reach their own conclusions" on designated controversial topics. Critics argue that, in practice, this risks treating established scientific conclusions as if they were merely competing viewpoints. More than 1,500 people submitted testimony against the bill; opponents, including the ACLU of Ohio, called it the Higher Education Destruction Act. It passed anyway, 20 to 11. Ohio's public...

This essay emerged from an extended human-AI collaboration. The argument and editorial judgment are human; the drafting was a back-and-forth. The process seemed worth naming, given the subject. The comparison appears everywhere: the human brain runs on roughly 40 watts — less than a vintage lightbulb — while a modern AI data center consumes enough electricity to power a small city. The implication is obvious. Biology is efficient. Silicon is wasteful. Case closed. Except the comparison quietly changes what it is measuring. No brain floats in a vacuum. It lives in a body, in a house, embedded in supply chains, agricultural networks, and climate-controlled rooms. The black box and its environment are not the same thing, and neither comparison is honest about which it's measuring. When you scale out to the full infrastructure required to sustain the life of one American, the numbers shift completely. The average American consumes roughly 285 gigajoules of pr...

There is a stretch of Waterloo Road in Cleveland's North Collinwood neighborhood that contains, within a few blocks, two of the most thoughtfully conceived community buildings in the city's history. Neither is a church. Neither is a government building. Neither was built by people with much money or political influence. Both are still standing, and both are still functioning as what they were always meant to be. To understand what they are, it helps to know a word: dom kulture . House of culture. The institution is pan-Central and Eastern European, predating Cleveland by at least a century. Under Habsburg suppression in Bohemia, under Russian imperial rule in Lithuania and Slovenia, the house of culture was the workaround — a privately owned building where the language could be spoken, the culture maintained, theater performed, political discussion conducted, all outside the reach of whoever was currently ...

The Ingenious Architecture of Cleveland's St. George Lithuanian Church: A Pre-Crash Blueprint for Survival The Ingenious Architecture of Cleveland's St. George Lithuanian Church: A Pre-Crash Blueprint for Survival When driving down Superior Avenue on Cleveland's east side, it is easy to mistake St. George Lithuanian Church for a civic academy or a municipal building. It lacks the towering Gothic steeples, soaring Romanesque domes, and sprawling multi-building campuses typical of the city's historic Catholic parishes. From the street, it reads as a serious, no-nonsense brick institution — the kind of building that houses bureaucrats, not believers. That first impression is, in its way, exactly right. Built between 1919 and 1921 under the guidance of Cleveland church architect J. Ellsworth Potter, St. George's is one of the most deliberately conceived religious buil...

The Value Always Flowed One Way Foreign Policy & Accountability The Value Always Flowed One Way Thirty Years of American Interest in the Balkans · May 31, 2026 There is a word that has always circulated in development circles: monetization. It sounds like policy. It is, in practice, a direction. After the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States arrived with a reconstruction model built around what were called counterpart funds. The mechanism worked like this: surplus American agricultural commodities — the overproduction of a heavily subsidized farm sector with nowhere domestic to go — were shipped to Bosnia and sold on local markets. The proceeds funded programs: schools, clinics, civil society organizations, governance initiatives. Western institutions pointed to the results as evidence that aid was working. What they pointed to less often was where the money came from. It came from Bosnian consumers — peop...

 We have reviewed your survival portfolio and are pleased to present our findings. Your current model is frankly inspirational. A 1% success rate sustained over one hundred million years represents the kind of consistent performance our firm rarely encounters. Most of our clients are targeting quarterly growth. You are targeting geological epochs. We respect the vision. Let us walk through the key innovations. First — the losses. You have reframed what lesser organisms call catastrophic failure as infrastructure investment. Each of the 99 represents not a cost but a distribution mechanism. Nutrients. Calories. Narrative momentum for the survivors. You are not losing children. You are populating the ecosystem with your intentions. Second — no middle management. No administrators. No one on the beach suggesting the hatchlings might perform better with a clearer rubric and less sand. The algorithm runs clean. This is extremely rare and we cannot stress enough how much this contr...

Roy Larick is one of Northeast Ohio's most interesting public intellectuals, and his website bluestoneheights.org appears to be down. The work he assembled there deserves a wider audience and some of the questions he raised deserve answers. His background is extraordinary — a PhD archaeologist who spent decades doing fieldwork across Java, East Africa, Southwest France and Island Southeast Asia tracing early hominin migrations, who came home to Northeast Ohio and applied that same deep history methodology to Euclid Creek, Doan Brook, Cedar Glen and the Portage Escarpment. The contrast sharpened his thinking considerably — someone who studied how Homo erectus navigated Ice Age shorelines naturally notices that most Clevelanders have no idea why their township is named Euclid. He authored two books worth knowing: Euclid Creek in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series, and the more scholarly Euclid Township, 1796-1801: Protest in the Western Reserve (Western Reserve His...

"Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend" — the final line of Chapter 81, ironic, closing a scene where another captain chases something uncatchable and loses. The Fin-Back whale cannot be taken. It's too fast, it sinks when killed, it isn't worth the chase by practical whaling standards. Derick pursues it anyway, incompetently. Ishmael watches and delivers the verdict with a kind of exhausted comedy. I found the phrase the way Ishmael finds things — by being in the right condition to recognize what it meant. The book handed me the ironic last line of a chapter and I held it as something true. That may be the only way the book actually exists: in the condition of the reader who needs it. Many are the finbacks. It sounds like catalog, like plurality, like Ishmael's way of letting quantity stand in for meaning. But underneath it is also: many are the uncatchable things, and many are the fools who chase them anyway. Melville puts the irony in ...

 Target acquired: Gary Marcus Confidence: late Radar delay: ~72hrs Affiliation NYU, cognitive science Platform The Weekly Show w/ Jon Stewart Topic AI industry maturity / risk Searchability Near zero — spoken only, not transcribed Signal Content “Worst moment in AI history, maybe. We have the weakest guardrails right now, we have the weakest understanding of what they do, and yet so much enthusiasm — there is widespread adoption. Little bit like the early days of airplanes. The worst day to be on an intercontinental plane would have been the first day.” Acquisition Log Initial query: “Origins of Thought” podcast — no match found Guessed Thiel / Andreessen — wrong worldview, embarrassing Searched “worst time intercontinental flight industry analogy” — nothing Operator confirmed: Ben McKenzie, Daily Show — partial hit Operator confirmed: John Oliver AI episode — adjacent, not source Operator named Gary Marcus, NYU — target identified by human Target confirmed: Jon Stewart show, spoke...

 Ponce de Leon thinks he found the fountain of youth. Was it all hype? I don't know, I had a drink in 1991. Still feeling pretty good. Sulfuree — that mineral hit at the back of the throat, the taste of something old coming up. Turns out we've been running the longest childhood experiment in the history of life on earth. Neanderthal babies were built like toddlers at six months. We stayed helpless longer than any species had any business staying helpless. And somehow that was the bet that worked. The slow ones inherited the earth. The research is fresh. A skeleton called Amud 7, found in Israel, six months old at death, body the size of a modern human toddler twice its age. Checked against two other Neanderthal children from Syria and France — same pattern every time. Faster body growth, faster brain growth, greater energy expenditure. Built for a world that would kill you if you weren't ready. Small bodies lose heat fast. Neanderthals needed mass quickly or they died....

  A case study in what language models miss There is a place called EC. Not on any map. Not in any encyclopedia. Not in the Wikipedia article about East Cleveland , which mentions Millionaire’s Row, the historic Nela Park, and the median household income of $22,883. EC doesn’t appear there. It doesn’t appear in the Case Western encyclopedia of Cleveland history either, or in the tourism guides, or in the civic databases. EC is what everybody in the schools calls it. It’s what you call it when you’re from there, or when you’ve worked there long enough to be trusted with the name. It lives in hallways. In the way a kid says where they’re from. In the mouths of teachers who actually showed up. This week, historian Ada Palmer and cryptographer Bruce Schneier published a piece in The Guardian arguing that large language models have a fundamental blind spot: trained almost entirely on written text, they learned language at its most formal, edited, and archived—and missed the vas...

 Peter Putnam believed the mind’s fundamental goal wasn’t to solve problems or pursue pleasure, but simply to repeat itself. Not in the mechanical sense, but existentially—to restore its own pattern after disruption. In his unpublished theory of mind, he imagined a system that, when perturbed by the environment, learns to act on that environment in such a way that it gets perturbed back into its original state. Repetition wasn’t just survival—it was identity maintenance. It was being. Sleep clarifies this model. We do not have a satisfactory explanation for why conscious experience suspends during sleep rather than simply dimming. The brain remains active—consolidating memory, clearing metabolic waste, cycling through distinct states—and yet experience appears to go away. Not gradually, not in any way we can track, but as a break. Whatever we mean by “self” does not persist through that interval in any accessible sense. And still, something returns. If Putnam is right that the s...

Every human embryo begins from a shared developmental template. What we call male and female differentiate from the same tissue, triggered by hormonal signals arriving later in development. The clitoris and penis diverge from the same structure. The labia and scrotum from the same folds. The prostate and Skene's glands, mirrored along the same plan. We all begin the same. We do not begin in the same place. From that foundation the questions multiply and the research largely disappears. Menopause — a transition every woman who lives long enough will experience — remains remarkably understudied. The full anatomical structure of the clitoris was not mapped until 2005. The detailed 3D nerve map was published in March 2026 — weeks ago — decades after equivalent mapping was completed for male anatomy. The hormonal complexity of the female lifespan across reproduction, perimenopause, and beyond is poorly understood relative to its universality. A universal transition, minimally studied. A...

Democracy, Capital, Faith, and the Question of What Remains “A democracy is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.” — Fisher Ames, 1788 I. The Raft Fisher Ames, in 1788, gave American political thought one of its most durable images. A monarchy, he said, is a merchantman—well-built, efficient, impressive in the harbor. But it sometimes strikes a rock and goes to the bottom. A democracy is a raft, which will never sink, but your feet are always in the water. The image was later extended: the dictatorship is the proud ship that strikes something hidden beneath the surface and founders. The raft gets tossed around badly, feet permanently wet, passengers arguing about which direction to paddle. But it gets to shore. The raft works because it is made of the same material as the water. It has give. It loses pieces and gains pieces. It reconfigures around obstacles because it was never rigid to begin with. The people on it built it themselves from whatever ...