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31/08/2026

Sounds of no thing

“(Herman) Kahn argued that after World War 3, all food should be divided into grades labelled A, B, C, D and E based on their level of radioactivity. The highest quality A grade food with the least radioactivity would be provided only to children and pregnant women; the B grade food would be expensive food with some radioactivity would be available to anyone under the age of 50 who could afford it; the C grade food with a greater level of radioactivity would serve to keep the poor under the age of 50 alive; the D grade food with a higher level of radioactivity would be provided only to people over the age of 50 as Kahn wrote that "most of these people would die of other causes before they got cancer"; and the E grade food with the most radioactivity would be provided only to animals....

“(Herman) Kahn argued that after World War 3, all food should be divided into grades labelled A, B, C, D and E based on their level of radioactivity. The highest quality A grade food with the least…

19/08/2026

That top level german officers in the last days of Hi**er conspired to kill Hi**er

Daily writing prompt What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable? View all responses That top level german officers in the last days of Hi**er conspired to kill Hi**er That top level german officers in the last days of Hi**er conspired to kill Hi**er That top level german officers in the last days of Hi**er conspired to kill Hi**er

16/08/2026

Last lost lust list

Confucius once told the Duke of Lu that if a ruler’s policies are bad and yet none of those around him oppose them, such spinlessness is enough to rule a state. CHINESE THOUGHT from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung H.G. Creel Alameda Creek Photographs make history available to the present in a way that words cannot . . . just as words can bring history to our present in a way that photographs cannot....

Confucius once told the Duke of Lu that if a ruler’s policies are bad and yet none of those around him oppose them, such spinlessness is enough to rule a state. CHINESE THOUGHT from Confucius to Ma…

01/08/2026

Matter, less mind

In the context of artificial intelligence and machine learning, "weights" refers to the trainable parameters or numerical values that a neural network model learns during its training process. I live about an hour ride on BART from San Francisco Maybe its the weather, there is something about the streets of San Francisco that has its own special flavor. I cannot describe it in words....

In the context of artificial intelligence and machine learning, “weights” refers to the trainable parameters or numerical values that a neural network model learns during its training p…

11/07/2026

Know this, no that, oh noh!

We are the other peopleWe are the other peopleYou are the other people tooGot to get through to you Frank Zappa Alameda Creek Since the beginning of photography, photographs have increasingly increased their ability to influence the human process of knowing—hoew we know. For human beings the the process and tools for knowing are our five senses—sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, In addition to out five senses human beings have learned how to make extensions of each of them, The camer a, for example, is an extension of the eye....

We are the other peopleWe are the other peopleYou are the other people tooGot to get through to you Frank Zappa Alameda Creek Since the beginning of photography, photographs have increasingly incre…

22/06/2026

Mourning Lite

Along Alameda Creek “Liberal Democracy”? What does it mean? The theory of “Liberal Democracy” is rooted in English history, the Plantagenet family, the conflict between King John and the Barons and the birth of the Magna Charta . . . P.S. I admire Wiliam the Marshall who was kind of like a chief of staff for the Plantagenet Family from Henry II through King John’s son, (Henry III ) …...

Along Alameda Creek “Liberal Democracy”? What does it mean? The theory of “Liberal Democracy” is rooted in English history, the Plantagenet family, the conflict between King John and the Barons and…

01/06/2026

Along Alameda Creek

Many years ago, when I was younger, or more accurately, young, for a short time I lived in Bangor, Maine in a big old house with a bunch of other people, none of us knew each other, the rent was cheap and collected by one person whose name was on some sort of lease and I was working as a Vista Volunteer, a federal government program focused on helping low income people survive....

Many years ago, when I was younger, or more accurately, young, for a short time I lived in Bangor, Maine in a big old house with a bunch of other people, none of us knew each other, the rent was ch…

05/05/2026

Photographs, know less then more

“The one really good hint, if someone would tell me what it meant, was that there were no photographs except for those in Amy’s room, which belongs to her, there wasn’t a single photograph in the place, not one, of anyone or anything. ” The Father Hunt by Rex Stout, dialogue by Archie Goodwin Street photography: The top of the letter “S“ in the word STOP stenciled on to the street....

“The one really good hint, if someone would tell me what it meant, was that there were no photographs except for those in Amy’s room, which belongs to her, there wasn’t a single photograph in the p…

18/04/2026

Warned out goodbuys

Many people have most too many answersand so too few questions. I don’t know if it helps me to understand the world, or myself in this world. any better by making photographs . . .I just try to hide from the answers. I only saw these people for a moment. I made the photograph, and the moment was gone –was there anything to remember?...

Many people have most too many answersand so too few questions. I don’t know if it helps me to understand the world, or myself in this world. any better by making photographs . . .I just try to hid…

21/03/2026

By ass ore bi-pureason

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What youwant to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see it. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or to acquire it.It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your design.” Yosa Buson, painter and Haiku poet…...

“What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What youwant to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see it. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be ano…