Gordon's Notes

Earlier today I had a string of fraudulent "vinted" purchases against my AppleCard.

A prediction to return to in 2029 When we develop quantitative tests for consciousness and propensity to psychosis we will find: Consciousness varies a lot across humans.

My favorite question about social structures and moral values is "What do the strong owe the weak?".

Just a moment in the chaos times of the "technological singularity".

I thought I'd published this list a while back!

Ok, I lied about the Nobel.

Since at least 2008, in various settings including this blog and the long forgotten social network known as "app.net", I have explored the topic I called Mass Disability.

Over the past year or two I have taken 3 classes at the University of Minnesota through their state mandated Senior Citizen Education Program (SCEP).

This is the first of what may be a few excerpts from a fun personal essay I wrote as part of an undergraduate course.

From a Bluesky thread of mine (lightly edited); Josh Marshall comments on widespread hostility to ai in polls despite heavy ai use: I think the polls are correctly capturing the zeitgeist.

I've been posting about mass disability since at least 2008.

Let us assume that the ai project "fails".

I don't know how long the program will survive, but I have enjoyed MN's educational benefit for 62+.

If there are humans left in 50 years all of the chaos of this moment may be reduced to a single bullet point about the rise of ai.

Over the years I've done periodic personal medical and exercise posts.

It's been over 12 years since I started CrossFit at 53 and three years since I wrote my previous Geriatric CrossFit tips.

The GOP/MAGA opposition to science is based on theocracy, class resentment, future shock, social and economic despair, and on not understanding how to use a 2025 phone (which is a bigger problem than you think).

In a solid interview with the esteemed Jonathon Gruber K proposes a mitigation for the GOP's reduction of medicaid access through bureaucratic barriers only the most resourceful can overcome: "... is it possible for a few wealthy, decent people to fund a…

This past weekend, over two days with a night in Virginia, a friend and I road Minnesota's newest old trail - The Mesabi Trail across the northern Minnesota Iron Range.

I hope AGI is decades away.

Historians will debate when America derailed and why.

TeslaTakedown (#TeslaTakedown) events occur nationwide.

nokings.kateva.org lists Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) metro region events supporting American constitutional democracy and governance against the Musk-Trump assault.

I've long wondered what the MAGA mean by "woke" and why they hate it so much.

I don't have the patience to dig through Project 2025.

I expect it will be transiently reversed, but the Jan 21, 2025 federal informer program was a historic marker.