Saturday 18th May, 2024 - Black Death (Issue #164)
Utopian futures & AI, open source crossroads, Deno & Ryan Dahl, attacks on Bitcoin & entrepreneurs, metabolism fundamentals and core metrics, current Bitcoin environment
Hello and welcome to my newsletter!
Another season 2 instalment…
I’m not sure what exactly I’ve done, but clearly I’m to blame for everything bad in the universe again this week, big time. My water has been completely cut off, electricity completely cut off, food completely cut off, drinking water completely cut off. Basically everything has been cut off. As I write this, I literally have no idea what I will do.
Consequently I’m putting together this issue early. It’s Thursday evening. I need to conserve basically everything. It’s going to be quite a short issue. Sorry I wish things were better. No show descriptions this week.
I haven’t been publishing on the website or developing my static site generator because I ran out of Github build minutes. I’m still blogging on my local git repo, but won’t be able to publish the new content until the end of the month. I have been copy pasting some of the posts to Twitter threads, so maybe check that out:
https://twitter.com/markjgsmith
It’s been a really tough week. Hardly any food, got attacked by a gang of youths brandishing sticks and rocks in the middle of the night, my cough is still rather bad with lots of phlegm, harassment pretty much constantly, literally everywhere I go. This week’s title is because for some reason the bullies have taken to the color black this week. Everything is black, everything is death.
Wish I could be more upbeat, but I just can’t. The world is exceedingly evil this week, and it’s just too much for me.
I hope some of you at least find a podcast episode you like from the selection.
Podcasts
Nick Bostrom: Will Artificial Intelligence Lead Us to a Utopian Future (Into the Impossible Podcast) https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vaW50b3RoZWltcG9zc2libGU/episode/MWRhZGUzNDYtMGQwOC0xMWVmLWFhMDItODM4YWYxYTJlMjJi?sa=X&ved=0CAYQkfYCahcKEwio_7W98ZOGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQOQ
Smarter Dumb Terminal - Nvidia Surprises, RHEL Offers AI, And Open Source Crossroads (Untitled Linux Show Podcast) https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show/episodes/151?autostart=false
Ryan Dahl - Node, Deno and JSR The Modern Javascript Registry (Devtools.fm Podcast) https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzcyOTkyLnJzcw/episode/ZDYwNzM5YmItZTM0My00ODE0LTg3ODMtZWZiZjM1YTYyODI4?sa=X&ved=0CAQQ8qgGahgKEwio_7W98ZOGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQ7wI
How Bitcoin Changes the World With NVK (What Bitcoin Did Podcast) https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-bitcoin-changes-the-world-with-nvk
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health(Kevin Rose Podcast) https://www.kevinrose.com/good-energy-the-surprising-connection-between-metabolism-and-limitless-health-dr-casey-means-57
Bitcoin Mastermind Q2 2024 Ep#182 (We Study Billionaires - Bitcoin Fundamentals Podcast) https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bitcoin-fundamentals/bitcoin-mastermind-2q-2024
Update: It’s Friday lunch time now. I had a bit of good fortune earlier but the world is quite clearly still on the war path. All to say that I might get a chance to add some show descriptions. I think I’ll likely keep to the somewhat somber tone though, unless something absolutely incredible happens. That’s the most honest thing I can do. This week until now has been absolutely horrendous and I don’t want to paper over that.
Update: It’s Saturday morning. I’m not going to get the show descriptions done. Yesterday was a bit of a washout, turns out not eating for the most part of a week takes a while to recover from. Utterly exhausted all yesterday.
That’s all from me…
Best reguards,
Mark
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